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This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Sheffield 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Developer
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank18
Rank change on same period last yearUp+7
Matching contract IT job ads6234
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.083 %0.034 %
As % of the category below25.83 %12.10 %
Daily rates quoted180
Average minimum daily rate£268-
Average daily rate£286-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£305-
UK excluding London average daily rate£329£332
% change on same period last year-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted52
Average minimum hourly rate£30.00£25.00
Average hourly rate£35.00£27.50
% change on same period last year+27.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate£40.00£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.12£33.31
% change on same period last year-3.57 %
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads240281
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.320 %0.284 %
Daily rates quoted5535
Average minimum daily rate£299£302
Average daily rate£312£317
% change on same period last year-1.65 %
Average maximum daily rate£326£333
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£353
% change on same period last year+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted5770
Average minimum hourly rate£24.22£23.44
Average hourly rate£25.10£24.32
% change on same period last year+3.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.98£25.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.51£25.99
% change on same period last year-9.54 %
Developer South YorkshireDeveloper
South Yorkshire

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.

Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Sheffield Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Sheffield Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Sheffield Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

144 (33.08 %)Java
232 (24.06 %).NET
330 (22.56 %)SQL
429 (21.80 %)Eclipse
528 (21.05 %)Finance
528 (21.05 %)XML
626 (19.55 %)Banking
725 (18.80 %)RAD
725 (18.80 %)Financial Institution
725 (18.80 %)IBM
824 (18.05 %)C#
923 (17.29 %)ASP.NET
1021 (15.79 %)Oracle
1021 (15.79 %)SQL Server
1120 (15.04 %)HTML
1218 (13.53 %)J2EE
1317 (12.78 %)CSS
1415 (11.28 %)Struts
1514 (10.53 %)AJAX
1613 (9.774 %)Hibernate
1712 (9.023 %)Internet
1712 (9.023 %)JSP
1712 (9.023 %)JUnit
1712 (9.023 %)JavaScript
1712 (9.023 %)Spring
1811 (8.271 %)Content Management
1910 (7.519 %)SQL Server 2005
1910 (7.519 %)UNIX
1910 (7.519 %)UML
209 (6.767 %)RSS

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
132 (24.06 %).NET
228 (21.05 %)XML
323 (17.29 %)ASP.NET
420 (15.04 %)HTML
518 (13.53 %)J2EE
617 (12.78 %)CSS
715 (11.28 %)Struts
814 (10.53 %)AJAX
913 (9.774 %)Hibernate
1012 (9.023 %)Spring
1012 (9.023 %)JSP
119 (6.767 %)JSTL
119 (6.767 %)RSS
119 (6.767 %)Lucene
128 (6.015 %)WebServices
136 (4.511 %)SOAP
145 (3.759 %)Middleware
154 (3.008 %)WPF
154 (3.008 %)LINQ
154 (3.008 %)XHTML
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
15 (3.759 %)Tuxedo
15 (3.759 %)OpenROAD
24 (3.008 %)Lotus Notes
24 (3.008 %)Lotus Domino
24 (3.008 %)Oracle Application Server
33 (2.256 %)JBoss
42 (1.504 %)Tomcat
42 (1.504 %)PowerExchange
42 (1.504 %)TIBCO EMS
51 (0.752 %)SharePoint Server 2007
51 (0.752 %)Morello
51 (0.752 %)CMS
51 (0.752 %)SharePoint
51 (0.752 %)BizTalk Server
51 (0.752 %)Apache
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
13 (2.256 %)Photoshop
13 (2.256 %)MS Excel
22 (1.504 %)Spreadsheet
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (1.504 %)Navision
12 (1.504 %)BusinessWorks
21 (0.752 %)Oracle EBS
21 (0.752 %)Axapta
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
112 (9.023 %)Internet
23 (2.256 %)LDAP
23 (2.256 %)SAN
32 (1.504 %)HTTP
32 (1.504 %)TCP/IP
32 (1.504 %)SSH
41 (0.752 %)Intranet
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
121 (15.79 %)SQL Server
210 (7.519 %)SQL Server 2005
36 (4.511 %)ETL
36 (4.511 %)PowerCenter
45 (3.759 %)RDBMS
45 (3.759 %)Oracle 10g
54 (3.008 %)OLAP
54 (3.008 %)Oracle 8/8i
54 (3.008 %)SQL Server Integration Services
54 (3.008 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
54 (3.008 %)MySQL
63 (2.256 %)Oracle 9i
63 (2.256 %)SQL Server 2000
72 (1.504 %)SQL Server 7
72 (1.504 %)Datawarehouse
72 (1.504 %)Ingres
72 (1.504 %)Crystal Reports
81 (0.752 %)Crystal Enterprise
81 (0.752 %)Data Mining
81 (0.752 %)GIS
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
129 (21.80 %)Eclipse
212 (9.023 %)JUnit
38 (6.015 %)Flash
38 (6.015 %)HttpUnit
42 (1.504 %)Ant
51 (0.752 %)Oracle Forms
51 (0.752 %)Dreamweaver
51 (0.752 %)NUnit
51 (0.752 %)CruiseControl
51 (0.752 %)Subversion
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
128 (21.05 %)Finance
226 (19.55 %)Banking
325 (18.80 %)Financial Institution
47 (5.263 %)Government
54 (3.008 %)Marketing
63 (2.256 %)Education
71 (0.752 %)Telecoms
71 (0.752 %)Health
71 (0.752 %)Publishing
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
17 (5.263 %)E-Learning
24 (3.008 %)SCORM
24 (3.008 %)RIA
32 (1.504 %)Client/Server
41 (0.752 %)NHS
41 (0.752 %)Web 2.0
41 (0.752 %)PDA
41 (0.752 %)Social Network
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
110 (7.519 %)UNIX
26 (4.511 %)Windows
35 (3.759 %)Linux
42 (1.504 %)Solaris
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
125 (18.80 %)RAD
211 (8.271 %)Content Management
310 (7.519 %)UML
49 (6.767 %)Business Intelligence
55 (3.759 %)Use Case
64 (3.008 %)Business Analysis
73 (2.256 %)Resource Management
73 (2.256 %)Security Cleared
73 (2.256 %)OO
73 (2.256 %)Identity Management
82 (1.504 %)Data Analysis
82 (1.504 %)Migration
82 (1.504 %)EAI
82 (1.504 %)SOA
82 (1.504 %)Data Migration
82 (1.504 %)Requirements Analysis
91 (0.752 %)Technical Architecture
91 (0.752 %)Web Development
91 (0.752 %)Internet Marketing
91 (0.752 %)Unit Testing
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
144 (33.08 %)Java
230 (22.56 %)SQL
324 (18.05 %)C#
412 (9.023 %)JavaScript
58 (6.015 %)VB
66 (4.511 %)VB.NET
66 (4.511 %)Transact-SQL
66 (4.511 %)PHP
66 (4.511 %)PL/SQL
75 (3.759 %)Korn
84 (3.008 %)XAML
84 (3.008 %)ActionScript
92 (1.504 %)C
92 (1.504 %)DHTML
92 (1.504 %)PHP5
101 (0.752 %)C++
101 (0.752 %)VBA
101 (0.752 %)VB6
101 (0.752 %)Ruby
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
13 (2.256 %)Degree
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
13 (2.256 %)Oracle RMAN
13 (2.256 %)Oracle RAC
22 (1.504 %)NFS
Sheffield IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
125 (18.80 %)IBM
221 (15.79 %)Oracle
36 (4.511 %)Informatica
45 (3.759 %)Cognos
54 (3.008 %)Lotus
63 (2.256 %)Microsoft
72 (1.504 %)TIBCO
81 (0.752 %)ESRI
81 (0.752 %)Mediasurface
81 (0.752 %)Macromedia
81 (0.752 %)Sun
81 (0.752 %)Borland
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