North West Applications Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	133
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	17	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	0.561 %	0.246 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£280
Average daily rate	£308	£283
% change on same period last year	+8.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£313
% change on same period last year	-6.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£38.00
Average hourly rate	£14.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-63.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.87	£35.04
% change on same period last year	-20.47 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3033	4058
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.873 %	4.358 %
Daily rates quoted	676	805
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£326
Average daily rate	£339	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	437	479
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.06	£19.41
Average hourly rate	£21.74	£21.18
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.43	£22.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Applications Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Merseyside	+1	5	£321	-
Cheshire	0	4	£350	+40.00 %
Manchester	+1	4	-	-
Lancashire	+9	2	£225	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 26 (63.41 %) SQL 2 19 (46.34 %) Oracle 3 16 (39.02 %) PL/SQL 3 16 (39.02 %) .NET 4 13 (31.71 %) Oracle Reports 5 12 (29.27 %) Oracle Applications 5 12 (29.27 %) Security Cleared 5 12 (29.27 %) Oracle Forms 6 11 (26.83 %) CRM 6 11 (26.83 %) C# 6 11 (26.83 %) JavaScript 6 11 (26.83 %) BC Cleared 6 11 (26.83 %) QA 7 10 (24.39 %) XML 8 9 (21.95 %) Java

8 9 (21.95 %) ASP.NET 8 9 (21.95 %) Oracle Application Server 9 8 (19.51 %) SQL Server 9 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 11i 10 7 (17.07 %) Oracle 9i 10 7 (17.07 %) .NET Framework 11 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2005 11 6 (14.63 %) HTML 11 6 (14.63 %) VB.NET 12 5 (12.20 %) Windows 12 5 (12.20 %) Workflow 13 4 (9.756 %) WinForms 13 4 (9.756 %) GIS 13 4 (9.756 %) ArcGIS 13 4 (9.756 %) ArcIMS

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 16 (39.02 %) .NET 2 10 (24.39 %) XML 3 9 (21.95 %) ASP.NET 4 7 (17.07 %) .NET Framework 5 6 (14.63 %) HTML 6 4 (9.756 %) WinForms 6 4 (9.756 %) ADO.NET 7 3 (7.317 %) CSS 7 3 (7.317 %) XSLT 7 3 (7.317 %) XHTML 7 3 (7.317 %) Silverlight 8 2 (4.878 %) Adobe Flex 8 2 (4.878 %) JSP 9 1 (2.439 %) Struts 9 1 (2.439 %) COM 9 1 (2.439 %) ASP 9 1 (2.439 %) J2EE 9 1 (2.439 %) WebSphere 9 1 (2.439 %) LAMP 9 1 (2.439 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 9 (21.95 %) Oracle Application Server 2 4 (9.756 %) ArcGIS 2 4 (9.756 %) ArcIMS 3 3 (7.317 %) Oracle Workflow 3 3 (7.317 %) WebLogic 4 1 (2.439 %) Apache 4 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 9iAS 4 1 (2.439 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 3 (7.317 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.439 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (2.439 %) Photoshop 2 1 (2.439 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 12 (29.27 %) Oracle Applications 2 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 11i 3 2 (4.878 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (7.317 %) Internet 2 1 (2.439 %) GPRS 2 1 (2.439 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (31.71 %) Oracle Reports 2 8 (19.51 %) SQL Server 3 7 (17.07 %) Oracle 9i 4 6 (14.63 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (9.756 %) GIS 5 4 (9.756 %) MySQL 5 4 (9.756 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 3 (7.317 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (4.878 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (2.439 %) MS Access 8 1 (2.439 %) Oracle 10g 8 1 (2.439 %) Crystal Reports 8 1 (2.439 %) Informix
Development Applications 1 12 (29.27 %) Oracle Forms 2 4 (9.756 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (4.878 %) WebLogic Workshop 4 1 (2.439 %) InterDev	General 1 1 (2.439 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (2.439 %) Finance 1 1 (2.439 %) Government 1 1 (2.439 %) Health 1 1 (2.439 %) Local Government 1 1 (2.439 %) Marketing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.878 %) N-Tier 1 2 (4.878 %) NHS 1 2 (4.878 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.439 %) Informatics 2 1 (2.439 %) Chemistry	Operating Systems 1 5 (12.20 %) Windows 2 4 (9.756 %) Linux 2 4 (9.756 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.439 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (29.27 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (26.83 %) BC Cleared 2 11 (26.83 %) CRM 3 5 (12.20 %) Workflow 4 3 (7.317 %) UML 5 2 (4.878 %) OO 5 2 (4.878 %) Load Balancing 5 2 (4.878 %) SOA 6 1 (2.439 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (2.439 %) e-GIF 6 1 (2.439 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (2.439 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (2.439 %) Web Development 6 1 (2.439 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 26 (63.41 %) SQL 2 16 (39.02 %) PL/SQL 3 11 (26.83 %) JavaScript 3 11 (26.83 %) C# 4 9 (21.95 %) Java 5 6 (14.63 %) VB.NET 6 4 (9.756 %) PHP 7 3 (7.317 %) C 7 3 (7.317 %) C++ 7 3 (7.317 %) DHTML 7 3 (7.317 %) VB 8 1 (2.439 %) VB6 8 1 (2.439 %) XPath 8 1 (2.439 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (2.439 %) VBScript 8 1 (2.439 %) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (26.83 %) QA	Vendors 1 19 (46.34 %) Oracle 2 3 (7.317 %) Microsoft 3 2 (4.878 %) CODA