North West Senior Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Developer
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	105
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	31	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	0.929 %	1.012 %
Daily rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£367
Average daily rate	£387	£387
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£361
% change on same period last year	+6.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£29.00	£16.00
% change on same period last year	+81.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.42	£38.27
% change on same period last year	-10.05 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3337	4053
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.719 %	4.103 %
Daily rates quoted	775	824
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	472	453
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£20.29
Average hourly rate	£23.36	£21.91
% change on same period last year	+6.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.14	£23.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Senior 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.

Senior Developer
Demand Trend

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

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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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 Senior Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Manchester	-7	12	£300	-23.07 %
Cheshire	+8	6	£370	-
Merseyside	+4	6	£417	-
Lancashire	+1	1	-	-

Senior Developer England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 21 (36.84 %) .NET 2 16 (28.07 %) C# 2 16 (28.07 %) SQL Server 3 13 (22.81 %) ASP.NET 4 12 (21.05 %) Java 4 12 (21.05 %) J2EE 5 11 (19.30 %) JavaScript 5 11 (19.30 %) XML 5 11 (19.30 %) SQL Server 2005 6 10 (17.54 %) WebServices 6 10 (17.54 %) PHP 7 9 (15.79 %) MySQL 7 9 (15.79 %) OO 8 8 (14.04 %) SQL 8 8 (14.04 %) AJAX

9 6 (10.53 %) Spring 9 6 (10.53 %) Oracle 9 6 (10.53 %) CSS 9 6 (10.53 %) SOAP 10 5 (8.772 %) Linux 10 5 (8.772 %) Microsoft 10 5 (8.772 %) Hibernate 10 5 (8.772 %) Finance 11 4 (7.018 %) LAMP 11 4 (7.018 %) NHS 11 4 (7.018 %) Retail 11 4 (7.018 %) Eclipse 11 4 (7.018 %) Struts 11 4 (7.018 %) Apache 11 4 (7.018 %) Web 2.0

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 21 (36.84 %) .NET 2 13 (22.81 %) ASP.NET 3 12 (21.05 %) J2EE 4 11 (19.30 %) XML 5 10 (17.54 %) WebServices 6 8 (14.04 %) AJAX 7 6 (10.53 %) Spring 7 6 (10.53 %) SOAP 7 6 (10.53 %) CSS 8 5 (8.772 %) Hibernate 9 4 (7.018 %) jQuery 9 4 (7.018 %) LAMP 9 4 (7.018 %) Struts 10 3 (5.263 %) HTML 10 3 (5.263 %) XHTML 10 3 (5.263 %) MVC 11 2 (3.509 %) WebSphere 11 2 (3.509 %) Spring MVC 11 2 (3.509 %) JSP 11 2 (3.509 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 4 (7.018 %) Apache 2 2 (3.509 %) Tomcat 2 2 (3.509 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (3.509 %) SAS 3 1 (1.754 %) CMS 3 1 (1.754 %) Immediacy CMS 3 1 (1.754 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.754 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.754 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (1.754 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.754 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.754 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.754 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (1.754 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.263 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.754 %) Internet 2 1 (1.754 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (28.07 %) SQL Server 2 11 (19.30 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (15.79 %) MySQL 4 3 (5.263 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 3 (5.263 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (3.509 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (3.509 %) ETL 5 2 (3.509 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (3.509 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 1 (1.754 %) SQLPlus 6 1 (1.754 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (1.754 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (1.754 %) Base SAS 6 1 (1.754 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.754 %) MS Access 6 1 (1.754 %) DB2 6 1 (1.754 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.754 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 4 (7.018 %) Eclipse 2 2 (3.509 %) Ant 2 2 (3.509 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.509 %) Log4j 3 1 (1.754 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.754 %) HttpUnit 3 1 (1.754 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (1.754 %) Flash 3 1 (1.754 %) JUnit 3 1 (1.754 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.754 %) PowerBuilder 3 1 (1.754 %) WebLogic Workshop	General 1 5 (8.772 %) Finance 2 4 (7.018 %) Retail 3 2 (3.509 %) Insurance 3 2 (3.509 %) Government 3 2 (3.509 %) Banking 4 1 (1.754 %) Health 4 1 (1.754 %) Legal 4 1 (1.754 %) Education 4 1 (1.754 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.754 %) Marketing
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.018 %) NHS 1 4 (7.018 %) Web 2.0 1 4 (7.018 %) Dutch Language 1 4 (7.018 %) German Language 1 4 (7.018 %) Social Network 2 2 (3.509 %) PDA 3 1 (1.754 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.754 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 5 (8.772 %) Linux 2 2 (3.509 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.754 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (15.79 %) OO 2 3 (5.263 %) UML 2 3 (5.263 %) OOD 2 3 (5.263 %) Unit Testing 2 3 (5.263 %) Migration 3 2 (3.509 %) Logistics 3 2 (3.509 %) SOA 3 2 (3.509 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (3.509 %) OOP 3 2 (3.509 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (3.509 %) Data Modelling 4 1 (1.754 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (1.754 %) Workflow 4 1 (1.754 %) Statistical Analysis 4 1 (1.754 %) Web Development 4 1 (1.754 %) Digital Marketing 4 1 (1.754 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (1.754 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 1 (1.754 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.754 %) Scrum	Programming Languages 1 16 (28.07 %) C# 2 12 (21.05 %) Java 3 11 (19.30 %) JavaScript 4 10 (17.54 %) PHP 5 8 (14.04 %) SQL 6 4 (7.018 %) PHP5 7 3 (5.263 %) VB.NET 8 2 (3.509 %) C 8 2 (3.509 %) PL/SQL 9 1 (1.754 %) VB 9 1 (1.754 %) C++ 9 1 (1.754 %) DHTML 9 1 (1.754 %) ActionScript 9 1 (1.754 %) SAS Macro
Qualifications 1 2 (3.509 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.754 %) QA
Vendors 1 6 (10.53 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.772 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.509 %) Ab Initio 4 1 (1.754 %) Teradata 4 1 (1.754 %) Dundas 4 1 (1.754 %) Tridion 4 1 (1.754 %) RedDot 4 1 (1.754 %) Chordiant