The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Sheffield 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 6 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 22 50 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 14.97% 34.48% 43.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.42% 35.97% 45.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 37
Average daily rate £296 £265 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.79% -5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £175 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £460 £327
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
Average hourly rate £12.00 - £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
134 139 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 91.16% 95.86% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 73 72
Average daily rate £300 £281 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £165 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 20
Average hourly rate £12.44 £20.06 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.98% -45.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.79 £11.83 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
South Yorkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sheffield Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Sheffield Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sheffield Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

1 20 (29.41%) PHP
2 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (26.47%) .NET
3 18 (26.47%) SQL Server
3 18 (26.47%) SQL
3 18 (26.47%) Java
3 18 (26.47%) CSS
3 18 (26.47%) OO
3 18 (26.47%) Symfony
3 18 (26.47%) PHPUnit
4 17 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (22.06%) HTML
6 12 (17.65%) J2EE
7 11 (16.18%) Struts
7 11 (16.18%) Hibernate
7 11 (16.18%) Spring
8 10 (14.71%) MVC
8 10 (14.71%) TDD
8 10 (14.71%) C#
9 9 (13.24%) XML
9 9 (13.24%) ASP.NET
10 8 (11.76%) jQuery
10 8 (11.76%) Oracle
11 7 (10.29%) CRM
11 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
11 7 (10.29%) SQL Server 2008
12 6 (8.824%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (8.824%) JSP
12 6 (8.824%) MySQL
12 6 (8.824%) WCF

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region that cited 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 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (26.47%) .NET
1 18 (26.47%) CSS
1 18 (26.47%) Symfony
2 15 (22.06%) HTML
3 12 (17.65%) J2EE
4 11 (16.18%) Struts
4 11 (16.18%) Hibernate
4 11 (16.18%) Spring
5 9 (13.24%) XML
5 9 (13.24%) ASP.NET
6 8 (11.76%) jQuery
7 6 (8.824%) JSP
7 6 (8.824%) WCF
8 4 (5.882%) HTML5
8 4 (5.882%) Silverlight
8 4 (5.882%) CSS3
9 3 (4.412%) Struts2
10 2 (2.941%) SPML
10 2 (2.941%) Apache Cordova
10 2 (2.941%) Modernizr
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.353%) SharePoint
1 5 (7.353%) Alfresco
1 5 (7.353%) Liferay
2 3 (4.412%) CMS
3 2 (2.941%) Apache
3 2 (2.941%) GlassFish
3 2 (2.941%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.471%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (1.471%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.471%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.471%) Drupal
4 1 (1.471%) WordPress
4 1 (1.471%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (1.471%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.824%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.941%) LDAP
2 1 (1.471%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (8.824%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.824%) MySQL
4 5 (7.353%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (7.353%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (4.412%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.412%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.941%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.941%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (2.941%) Oracle Discoverer
7 2 (2.941%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (2.941%) Oracle 9i
7 2 (2.941%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.941%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) PHPUnit
2 5 (7.353%) Eclipse
3 3 (4.412%) Selenium
3 3 (4.412%) FitNesse
3 3 (4.412%) Subversion
3 3 (4.412%) Maven
3 3 (4.412%) JUnit
3 3 (4.412%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.941%) Git (software)
4 2 (2.941%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.941%) PVCS
4 2 (2.941%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (2.941%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.471%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.471%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (5.882%) Finance
2 3 (4.412%) Advertising
3 2 (2.941%) Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Publishing
4 1 (1.471%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.412%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.941%) W3C
2 2 (2.941%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.941%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.941%) E-Learning
3 1 (1.471%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.412%) Linux
1 3 (4.412%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.941%) Android
2 2 (2.941%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.47%) OO
2 17 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (14.71%) MVC
3 10 (14.71%) TDD
4 7 (10.29%) CRM
5 5 (7.353%) ETL
6 4 (5.882%) Software Architecture
7 3 (4.412%) Workflow
7 3 (4.412%) Content Management
7 3 (4.412%) ITIL
7 3 (4.412%) E-Commerce
8 2 (2.941%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (2.941%) ERP
8 2 (2.941%) Data Modelling
8 2 (2.941%) OOP
8 2 (2.941%) Web Development
8 2 (2.941%) Migration
8 2 (2.941%) Web Design
8 2 (2.941%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.941%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) PHP
2 19 (27.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (26.47%) SQL
3 18 (26.47%) Java
4 10 (14.71%) C#
5 5 (7.353%) VB.NET
6 4 (5.882%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.941%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.471%) Delphi
8 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.471%) Degree
1 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.471%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.412%) SLA
2 2 (2.941%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (2.941%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 8 (11.76%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.941%) Twitter
3 2 (2.941%) Sun
4 1 (1.471%) Telerik
4 1 (1.471%) Zend
4 1 (1.471%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.471%) Siebel
4 1 (1.471%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (1.471%) Adobe
4 1 (1.471%) Sitecore
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