The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Oxfordshire region.

Note that 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank - 44 46
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 0 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 1.272% 0.667%
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.331% 0.693%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
Average daily rate - £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.64%
All Job Titles
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
416 601 433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 94.12% 95.55% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 290 201
Average daily rate £340 £350 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +18.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £488 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 81 61
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +11.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.90 £30.00 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Developer
South East

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Developer across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxfordshire Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire Senior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 10 (76.92%) ASP.NET
3 7 (53.85%) Sitecore
4 4 (30.77%) CSS
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) Salesforce.com
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
4 4 (30.77%) jQuery
4 4 (30.77%) Visualforce
4 4 (30.77%) Apex Code
5 3 (23.08%) Umbraco
5 3 (23.08%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (23.08%) XHTML
5 3 (23.08%) MVC
5 3 (23.08%) CMS
6 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
6 2 (15.38%) Web Development
6 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
6 2 (15.38%) Degree
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Finance
6 2 (15.38%) PRINCE
6 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
6 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 2 (15.38%) CSS3

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 10 (76.92%) ASP.NET
3 4 (30.77%) CSS
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) jQuery
3 4 (30.77%) Visualforce
4 3 (23.08%) XHTML
5 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 2 (15.38%) CSS3
5 2 (15.38%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (7.692%) J2EE
6 1 (7.692%) JSP
6 1 (7.692%) Servlets
6 1 (7.692%) Struts
6 1 (7.692%) Web Services
6 1 (7.692%) XML
6 1 (7.692%) XSLT
6 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
6 1 (7.692%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Umbraco
1 3 (23.08%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (23.08%) CMS
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
1 1 (7.692%) JUnit
1 1 (7.692%) Subversion
1 1 (7.692%) Maven
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
2 2 (15.38%) PRINCE
2 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
2 2 (15.38%) Web Application Development
3 1 (7.692%) BDD
3 1 (7.692%) Scrum
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 4 (30.77%) Apex Code
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.692%) VB
4 1 (7.692%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Sitecore
2 4 (30.77%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (7.692%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle
3 1 (7.692%) JBoss