North West Systems Developer Contracts

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

System Developer
Location Barrow-in-Furness Bath Birmingham Bristol Canary Wharf City of London Cumbria Dorset East Midlands England Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Scotland Somerset South East South West Southport Strathclyde Surrey Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	136
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	13	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.390 %	0.247 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£140
Average daily rate	£275	£156
% change on same period last year	+76.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£173
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£340
% change on same period last year	+7.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.00	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£16.00
% change on same period last year	+78.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.60	£29.00
% change on same period last year	-15.17 %
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 %
Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Systems 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 Systems 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
Cumbria	-	4	£275	-
Manchester	+1	4	-	-
Merseyside	-2	3	-	-
Lancashire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (54.17 %) SQL 2 12 (50.00 %) .NET 2 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 7 (29.17 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (25.00 %) XML 4 6 (25.00 %) VB 4 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET 4 6 (25.00 %) C# 5 4 (16.67 %) Government 5 4 (16.67 %) MS Access 5 4 (16.67 %) C++ 5 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 5 4 (16.67 %) EDI 5 4 (16.67 %) ERP 5 4 (16.67 %) VB6

5 4 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (12.50 %) Wonderware 6 3 (12.50 %) SCADA 6 3 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 6 3 (12.50 %) CSS 6 3 (12.50 %) HTML 6 3 (12.50 %) Java 6 3 (12.50 %) PHP 6 3 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (8.333 %) Banking 7 2 (8.333 %) NATURAL 7 2 (8.333 %) Apache 7 2 (8.333 %) NHS

Systems 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 Systems 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 Systems Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (50.00 %) .NET 2 7 (29.17 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (25.00 %) XML 4 4 (16.67 %) EDI 5 3 (12.50 %) HTML 5 3 (12.50 %) CSS 6 2 (8.333 %) WebServices 6 2 (8.333 %) ASP 7 1 (4.167 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.333 %) Apache 2 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (16.67 %) MS Access 3 2 (8.333 %) Adabas 4 1 (4.167 %) Hyperion Essbase 4 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (4.167 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (4.167 %) OLAP 4 1 (4.167 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio	General 1 4 (16.67 %) Government 2 2 (8.333 %) Banking 2 2 (8.333 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) SCADA 2 2 (8.333 %) NHS 3 1 (4.167 %) Mainframe 3 1 (4.167 %) Management Information System 3 1 (4.167 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 3 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (8.333 %) Windows 3 1 (4.167 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (16.67 %) ERP 1 4 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 2 3 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (12.50 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (4.167 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) System Testing 3 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 13 (54.17 %) SQL 2 6 (25.00 %) C# 2 6 (25.00 %) VB 2 6 (25.00 %) VB.NET 3 4 (16.67 %) VB6 3 4 (16.67 %) C++ 4 3 (12.50 %) Java 4 3 (12.50 %) PHP 5 2 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 5 2 (8.333 %) NATURAL 6 1 (4.167 %) JCL 6 1 (4.167 %) C 6 1 (4.167 %) FoxPro (VFP) 6 1 (4.167 %) Shell Script 6 1 (4.167 %) COBOL 6 1 (4.167 %) VBScript
Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 3 (12.50 %) Wonderware 3 1 (4.167 %) Cognos 3 1 (4.167 %) IBM 3 1 (4.167 %) HP 3 1 (4.167 %) Hyperion 3 1 (4.167 %) Lotus 3 1 (4.167 %) Teradata