The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 23 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 Slough 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 2 6 1
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 69 30 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 28.63% 14.56% 29.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 30.67% 16.04% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 43
Average daily rate £350 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £294 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 33
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
225 187 304
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 93.36% 90.78% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 95 151
Average daily rate £315 £450 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +40.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £265 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 41
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+141.37% -65.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Berkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough 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 Slough region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 65 (66.33%) JavaScript
2 61 (62.24%) HTML
3 58 (59.18%) CSS
4 54 (55.10%) jQuery
5 50 (51.02%) XML
6 36 (36.73%) XSLT
6 36 (36.73%) CSS3
7 35 (35.71%) HTML5
8 32 (32.65%) Photoshop
9 27 (27.55%) SQL
10 26 (26.53%) .NET
11 22 (22.45%) SQL Server
12 21 (21.43%) ASP.NET
12 21 (21.43%) C#
13 15 (15.31%) VB.NET
14 14 (14.29%) MVC
14 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
15 13 (13.27%) Finance
15 13 (13.27%) XHTML
16 12 (12.24%) T-SQL
16 12 (12.24%) Ajax
17 11 (11.22%) Agile Software Development
17 11 (11.22%) Web Development
17 11 (11.22%) Project Management
18 10 (10.20%) Java
18 10 (10.20%) PHP
18 10 (10.20%) MySQL
18 10 (10.20%) Oracle
19 9 (9.184%) MS Excel
19 9 (9.184%) Data Warehouse

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 61 (62.24%) HTML
2 58 (59.18%) CSS
3 54 (55.10%) jQuery
4 50 (51.02%) XML
5 36 (36.73%) XSLT
5 36 (36.73%) CSS3
6 35 (35.71%) HTML5
7 26 (26.53%) .NET
8 21 (21.43%) ASP.NET
9 13 (13.27%) XHTML
10 12 (12.24%) Ajax
11 7 (7.143%) .NET Framework
11 7 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 6 (6.122%) ASP
12 6 (6.122%) LINQ
13 5 (5.102%) COM+
13 5 (5.102%) XSL
14 4 (4.082%) Ruby on Rails
14 4 (4.082%) WebSphere
15 3 (3.061%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.102%) Apache
2 4 (4.082%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (3.061%) CMS
3 3 (3.061%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.061%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.020%) LiveCycle
4 1 (1.020%) Liferay
4 1 (1.020%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.020%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.020%) Drupal
4 1 (1.020%) IIS
4 1 (1.020%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (32.65%) Photoshop
2 9 (9.184%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.020%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.020%) InDesign
3 1 (1.020%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.020%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.020%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.020%) Intranet
1 1 (1.020%) Internet
1 1 (1.020%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.45%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.20%) MySQL
3 9 (9.184%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.143%) DataStage
5 5 (5.102%) DTS
6 4 (4.082%) TOAD
6 4 (4.082%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (3.061%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (3.061%) DB2
8 2 (2.041%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (2.041%) Data Mart
8 2 (2.041%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (1.020%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.020%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (1.020%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 1 (1.020%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (1.020%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.020%) Essbase
9 1 (1.020%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (5.102%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.082%) ERwin
2 4 (4.082%) Subversion
3 3 (3.061%) Maven
3 3 (3.061%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.041%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.020%) GitHub
5 1 (1.020%) NetBeans
5 1 (1.020%) Ant
5 1 (1.020%) IntelliJ
General
1 13 (13.27%) Finance
2 5 (5.102%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.061%) Automotive
4 2 (2.041%) Marketing
5 1 (1.020%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.082%) Computer Science
1 4 (4.082%) iSeries
2 2 (2.041%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.041%) Mathematics
2 2 (2.041%) Digital Media
2 2 (2.041%) Open Source
3 1 (1.020%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.143%) Linux
2 5 (5.102%) UNIX
3 1 (1.020%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (14.29%) MVC
2 11 (11.22%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (11.22%) Web Development
2 11 (11.22%) Project Management
3 8 (8.163%) PRINCE2
4 6 (6.122%) OOP
4 6 (6.122%) OO
4 6 (6.122%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (5.102%) Scrum
5 5 (5.102%) Workflow
5 5 (5.102%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (5.102%) E-Commerce
5 5 (5.102%) ETL
6 4 (4.082%) Data Modelling
6 4 (4.082%) OOD
6 4 (4.082%) Analytics
6 4 (4.082%) System Testing
7 3 (3.061%) Time Management
7 3 (3.061%) Data Protection
7 3 (3.061%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (66.33%) JavaScript
2 27 (27.55%) SQL
3 21 (21.43%) C#
4 15 (15.31%) VB.NET
5 12 (12.24%) T-SQL
6 10 (10.20%) Java
6 10 (10.20%) PHP
7 5 (5.102%) VB6
7 5 (5.102%) VBScript
7 5 (5.102%) VB
8 4 (4.082%) RPG
8 4 (4.082%) Ruby
8 4 (4.082%) PHP5
8 4 (4.082%) RPG IV
9 3 (3.061%) VBA
9 3 (3.061%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.020%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.020%) Scala
10 1 (1.020%) Groovy
10 1 (1.020%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 8 (8.163%) Degree
2 1 (1.020%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.020%) PMP
2 1 (1.020%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.020%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.020%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.20%) Oracle
3 6 (6.122%) IBM
4 4 (4.082%) Cognos
4 4 (4.082%) SAP
4 4 (4.082%) Teradata
4 4 (4.082%) Zend
5 3 (3.061%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.041%) Informatica
6 2 (2.041%) Adobe
7 1 (1.020%) GigaSpaces
7 1 (1.020%) Telerik
7 1 (1.020%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (1.020%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.020%) JBoss
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