Senior Developer Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer 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 Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 64 78 79
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 6 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.719% 0.538% 0.576%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.789% 0.584% 0.654%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £350 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -17.64%
Search 7 Senior Developer jobs in Reading
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 760 1028 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.20% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 347 409
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
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 42 61 42
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.58 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.56% +24.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.60 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Developer
Berkshire

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Senior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) Perl
3 11 (42.31%) Oracle
3 11 (42.31%) UNIX
4 10 (38.46%) Web Development
5 9 (34.62%) .NET
5 9 (34.62%) C#
5 9 (34.62%) Java
6 8 (30.77%) Ericsson
6 8 (30.77%) Telecoms
6 8 (30.77%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 7 (26.92%) PL/SQL
7 7 (26.92%) Linux
7 7 (26.92%) XML
8 6 (23.08%) C++
8 6 (23.08%) J2EE
8 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (23.08%) 2G
8 6 (23.08%) Validation
8 6 (23.08%) 3G
8 6 (23.08%) Greenplum
9 5 (19.23%) Subversion
9 5 (19.23%) Radio Access Network
9 5 (19.23%) TELNET
9 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (19.23%) Nortel
9 5 (19.23%) Migration
10 4 (15.38%) MVC
10 4 (15.38%) Finance
10 4 (15.38%) Red Hat

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 7 (26.92%) XML
3 6 (23.08%) J2EE
4 4 (15.38%) HTML
4 4 (15.38%) Spring
4 4 (15.38%) jQuery
5 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
5 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
5 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
6 2 (7.692%) XML Schema
6 2 (7.692%) CSS
6 2 (7.692%) J2SE
6 2 (7.692%) XSL
6 2 (7.692%) Web Services
6 2 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (7.692%) Apache CXF
6 2 (7.692%) Ajax
7 1 (3.846%) WCF
7 1 (3.846%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.692%) Apache
3 1 (3.846%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) 2G
1 6 (23.08%) 3G
2 5 (19.23%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (19.23%) TELNET
3 1 (3.846%) LTE
3 1 (3.846%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (19.23%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (15.38%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (3.846%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Subversion
2 3 (11.54%) Maven
2 3 (11.54%) JUnit
2 3 (11.54%) Eclipse
3 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.846%) Selenium
4 1 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.846%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (3.846%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.846%) IntelliJ
General
1 8 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (7.692%) Banking
4 1 (3.846%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.846%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Wiki
2 2 (7.692%) Derivative
3 1 (3.846%) iPhone
3 1 (3.846%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.846%) iPad
3 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) UNIX
2 7 (26.92%) Linux
3 1 (3.846%) Android
3 1 (3.846%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.846%) Windows
3 1 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Web Development
2 6 (23.08%) Validation
3 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 4 (15.38%) MVC
4 4 (15.38%) OO
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Management
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (11.54%) TDD
5 3 (11.54%) BDD
5 3 (11.54%) Scrum
6 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2
6 2 (7.692%) RUP
6 2 (7.692%) UML
6 2 (7.692%) Waterfall
7 1 (3.846%) Kanban
7 1 (3.846%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.846%) Software Architecture
7 1 (3.846%) CQRS
7 1 (3.846%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 15 (57.69%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) Perl
3 9 (34.62%) C#
3 9 (34.62%) Java
4 7 (26.92%) PL/SQL
5 6 (23.08%) C++
6 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
8 2 (7.692%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle
2 8 (30.77%) Ericsson
2 8 (30.77%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 6 (23.08%) Greenplum
4 5 (19.23%) Nortel
5 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
6 3 (11.54%) Huawei
7 1 (3.846%) Twitter
7 1 (3.846%) Business Objects
7 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
Senior C# .NET Developer
Reading, Thames Valley
KEY SKILLS - ASP MVC - Very strong - SQL Server - Entity Framework - Very strong - Auto mapper - Design patterns & practises - Agile (Scrum, Kanban) - Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)/Test Driven Developement(TDD) -...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Find IT Jobs| About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Friday 24 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.