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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the North East region.

 Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank222
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching contract IT job ads5482172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East17.20 %17.34 %20.80 %
As % of the Job Titles category19.93 %19.90 %23.69 %
Daily rates quoted182233
Average daily rate£290£261£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.00 %-34.68 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£167£196£293
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£398£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted111122
Average hourly rate£26.50£24.00£33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.41 %-27.81 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£15.00£25.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£30.00£41.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
--15.38 %
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
271412726
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East86.31 %87.10 %87.79 %
Daily rates quoted86124137
Average daily rate£325£320£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.560 %-14.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£105£165£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£405£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted5463138
Average hourly rate£13.00£15.00£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %-31.81 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£8.50£9.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.50£30.00£36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Developer EnglandDeveloper
England

Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North East Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Developer across the North East region.

North East Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the North East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North East Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the North East region.

North East Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the North East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North East Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the North East region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and WearUp+126£193-23.00 %
DurhamUp+616£305-23.75 %
Developer EnglandDeveloper
England

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Developer in their job title.

150 (46.73 %).NET
234 (31.78 %)C#
331 (28.97 %)SQL Server
430 (28.04 %)JavaScript
527 (25.23 %)SQL
527 (25.23 %)ASP.NET
624 (22.43 %)CSS
723 (21.50 %)Oracle
820 (18.69 %)HTML
918 (16.82 %)XML
918 (16.82 %)SQL Server 2005
918 (16.82 %)Web Development
1016 (14.95 %)PHP
1114 (13.08 %)NUnit
1213 (12.15 %)T-SQL
1311 (10.28 %)VB.NET
1311 (10.28 %)MySQL
1410 (9.346 %)VB
1410 (9.346 %)PL/SQL
1410 (9.346 %)Java
1410 (9.346 %)Agile Software Development
159 (8.411 %)Team Foundation Server
159 (8.411 %)WebLogic
159 (8.411 %)IIS
159 (8.411 %)Web Services
159 (8.411 %)OO
159 (8.411 %)E-Commerce
159 (8.411 %)ETL
167 (6.542 %)BPEL
167 (6.542 %)Zend

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Developer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

North East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
150 (46.73 %).NET
227 (25.23 %)ASP.NET
324 (22.43 %)CSS
420 (18.69 %)HTML
518 (16.82 %)XML
69 (8.411 %)Web Services
77 (6.542 %)MooTools
77 (6.542 %)RESTful
77 (6.542 %)XHTML
86 (5.607 %)AJAX
95 (4.673 %).NET Framework
95 (4.673 %)XSLT
104 (3.738 %)J2EE
113 (2.804 %)ASP
113 (2.804 %)Hibernate
122 (1.869 %)Middleware
122 (1.869 %)LAMP
122 (1.869 %)DOM
122 (1.869 %)SOAP
122 (1.869 %)JMS
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
19 (8.411 %)WebLogic
19 (8.411 %)IIS
26 (5.607 %)Apache
26 (5.607 %)Oracle BPEL
34 (3.738 %)SharePoint
43 (2.804 %)SharePoint Server 2007
43 (2.804 %)Oracle Workflow
52 (1.869 %)CMS
52 (1.869 %)ColdFusion
52 (1.869 %)Lotus Notes
52 (1.869 %)MS Exchange
52 (1.869 %)Drupal
61 (0.935 %)AquaLogic
61 (0.935 %)WebSphere Process Server
61 (0.935 %)SAP Portal
61 (0.935 %)Liferay
61 (0.935 %)GlassFish
61 (0.935 %)WebLogic Portal
61 (0.935 %)BizTalk Server
61 (0.935 %)PowerExchange
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (1.869 %)MS Excel
12 (1.869 %)MS Office
21 (0.935 %)InfoPath
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (2.804 %)Oracle BPM
13 (2.804 %)Oracle Applications
22 (1.869 %)Oracle EBS R12
31 (0.935 %)Oracle iProcurement
31 (0.935 %)Oracle 11i
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (1.869 %)Internet
12 (1.869 %)GPRS
12 (1.869 %)SMS
21 (0.935 %)FTP
21 (0.935 %)Intranet
21 (0.935 %)SAN
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
131 (28.97 %)SQL Server
218 (16.82 %)SQL Server 2005
311 (10.28 %)MySQL
49 (8.411 %)ETL
57 (6.542 %)BusinessObjects
66 (5.607 %)Datawarehouse
66 (5.607 %)BODI
75 (4.673 %)Oracle Reports
75 (4.673 %)Oracle 10g
84 (3.738 %)Oracle 8/8i
93 (2.804 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
102 (1.869 %)DataStage
102 (1.869 %)RDBMS
102 (1.869 %)MS Access
102 (1.869 %)OLAP
102 (1.869 %)SQL Server 2008
102 (1.869 %)Data Mart
102 (1.869 %)Oracle OLAP
102 (1.869 %)Oracle 11g
102 (1.869 %)SQL Server Integration Services
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
114 (13.08 %)NUnit
29 (8.411 %)Team Foundation Server
37 (6.542 %)JDeveloper
46 (5.607 %)Visual Studio
53 (2.804 %)JUnit
62 (1.869 %)Subversion
71 (0.935 %)Ant
71 (0.935 %)Oracle Forms
71 (0.935 %)Eclipse
71 (0.935 %)ProC
North East IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (4.673 %)Telecoms
15 (4.673 %)Government
24 (3.738 %)Marketing
33 (2.804 %)Animation
33 (2.804 %)Finance
42 (1.869 %)Back Office
42 (1.869 %)Health
51 (0.935 %)Graphic Design
51 (0.935 %)Billing
51 (0.935 %)Banking
51 (0.935 %)Social Media
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (4.673 %)NHS
21 (0.935 %)Data Extraction
21 (0.935 %)Multithreading
21 (0.935 %)RIA
21 (0.935 %)N-Tier
21 (0.935 %)Streaming Video
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15 (4.673 %)UNIX
24 (3.738 %)Linux
33 (2.804 %)Windows
42 (1.869 %)Solaris
51 (0.935 %)Windows Server 2003
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
118 (16.82 %)Web Development
210 (9.346 %)Agile Software Development
39 (8.411 %)OO
39 (8.411 %)E-Commerce
47 (6.542 %)BPEL
47 (6.542 %)Migration
56 (5.607 %)UML
65 (4.673 %)SOA
74 (3.738 %)Workflow
74 (3.738 %)OOP
83 (2.804 %)Data Migration
92 (1.869 %)Service Delivery
92 (1.869 %)Configuration Management
92 (1.869 %)Project Management
92 (1.869 %)SEO
92 (1.869 %)ITIL
92 (1.869 %)Content Management
101 (0.935 %)Requirements Analysis
101 (0.935 %)Technical Architecture
101 (0.935 %)Data Management
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
134 (31.78 %)C#
230 (28.04 %)JavaScript
327 (25.23 %)SQL
416 (14.95 %)PHP
513 (12.15 %)T-SQL
611 (10.28 %)VB.NET
710 (9.346 %)VB
710 (9.346 %)PL/SQL
710 (9.346 %)Java
86 (5.607 %)C
95 (4.673 %)VB6
104 (3.738 %)Embedded C
104 (3.738 %)Assembly Language
104 (3.738 %)VBA
112 (1.869 %)C++
121 (0.935 %)Korn
121 (0.935 %)Ruby
121 (0.935 %)Delphi
121 (0.935 %)VBScript
121 (0.935 %)Progress 4GL
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
16 (5.607 %)SC Cleared
16 (5.607 %)Security Cleared
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (1.869 %)SLA
North East IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (1.869 %)Oracle RAC
North East IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
123 (21.50 %)Oracle
27 (6.542 %)Zend
27 (6.542 %)Business Objects
35 (4.673 %)MicroStrategy
42 (1.869 %)Lotus
42 (1.869 %)Informatica
42 (1.869 %)Sun
42 (1.869 %)Microsoft
42 (1.869 %)SAP
51 (0.935 %)Google
51 (0.935 %)Progress
51 (0.935 %)IBM
51 (0.935 %)HP
51 (0.935 %)Ascential