The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Development Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Manager
Rank 67 80 78
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Development Manager 3 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.361% 0.094% 0.189%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.393% 0.103% 0.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £420 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £380 £425
% change year-on-year
+11.84% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.63 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year
+15.76% -35.00%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
763 974 932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.93% 91.54% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 323 416
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 39
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.40 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Development Manager
Berkshire

Development Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Development Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Development Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Development Manager across the Reading region.

Reading Development Manager Daily Rate Trend

Development Manager
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Development Manager 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 Development Manager in their job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) J2EE
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
5 2 (22.22%) Chemistry
5 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 2 (22.22%) UML
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 2 (22.22%) XML
5 2 (22.22%) XSLT
6 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 1 (11.11%) Windows
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 1 (11.11%) ATM
6 1 (11.11%) Niku
6 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 1 (11.11%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Workflow
6 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Marketing
6 1 (11.11%) C#
6 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 1 (11.11%) Product Management

Development Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Development Manager 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 Development Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) J2EE
2 2 (22.22%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) ATM
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 2 (22.22%) UML
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
4 1 (11.11%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Product Management
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Niku