South East Applications Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the South East 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 Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Application Developer
Location Alderley Edge Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Cleckheaton Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nuneaton Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	165	194
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	88	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.108 %
As % of the category below	0.771 %	0.681 %
Daily rates quoted	29	27
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£297
Average daily rate	£333	£311
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£327
% change on same period last year	+6.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.73	£25.83
Average hourly rate	£37.55	£29.58
% change on same period last year	+26.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.36	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	£30.63
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	11411	16150
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.42 %	15.93 %
Daily rates quoted	2943	4160
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£339
Average daily rate	£356	£357
% change on same period last year	-0.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	1352	2039
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.46	£25.59
Average hourly rate	£23.96	£27.04
% change on same period last year	-11.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.47	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Applications Developer England

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.

Applications Developer
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Developer across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+41	38	£270	-9.31 %
Hampshire	+40	23	£371	+17.23 %
Surrey	+4	9	£395	+2.00 %
Kent	+4	5	-	-
Middlesex	-5	3	£250	-8.59 %
Buckinghamshire	-5	2	-	-
Oxfordshire	+2	1	-	-
West Sussex	+5	1	-	-
Thames Valley	+14	1	-	-
Sussex	-	1	£400	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 73 (48.34 %) .NET 2 66 (43.71 %) SQL 3 55 (36.42 %) XML 4 53 (35.10 %) SQL Server 5 52 (34.44 %) ASP.NET 6 45 (29.80 %) HTML 7 43 (28.48 %) VB.NET 8 40 (26.49 %) ASP 9 37 (24.50 %) Windows 9 37 (24.50 %) VB 10 36 (23.84 %) Security Cleared 11 34 (22.52 %) JavaScript 11 34 (22.52 %) Microsoft 12 28 (18.54 %) C# 12 28 (18.54 %) Transact-SQL

13 27 (17.88 %) Java 13 27 (17.88 %) SC Cleared 14 26 (17.22 %) XSL 15 25 (16.56 %) DHTML 16 24 (15.89 %) Oracle 16 24 (15.89 %) WebServices 16 24 (15.89 %) COM+ 16 24 (15.89 %) UNIX 17 22 (14.57 %) N-Tier 17 22 (14.57 %) InterDev 18 21 (13.91 %) Government 19 18 (11.92 %) WebSphere 19 18 (11.92 %) VB6 20 17 (11.26 %) WebSphere Application Server 20 17 (11.26 %) C++

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 73 (48.34 %) .NET 2 55 (36.42 %) XML 3 52 (34.44 %) ASP.NET 4 45 (29.80 %) HTML 5 40 (26.49 %) ASP 6 26 (17.22 %) XSL 7 24 (15.89 %) WebServices 7 24 (15.89 %) COM+ 8 18 (11.92 %) WebSphere 9 16 (10.60 %) J2EE 9 16 (10.60 %) AJAX 10 7 (4.636 %) ArcObjects 10 7 (4.636 %) Struts 10 7 (4.636 %) CSS 10 7 (4.636 %) JSP 11 6 (3.974 %) Spring 11 6 (3.974 %) Hibernate 12 5 (3.311 %) WinForms 12 5 (3.311 %) Middleware 12 5 (3.311 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 17 (11.26 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 8 (5.298 %) IIS 3 7 (4.636 %) ArcIMS 4 6 (3.974 %) Oracle Workflow 5 4 (2.649 %) MQSeries 6 2 (1.325 %) ArcSDE 6 2 (1.325 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (1.325 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 2 (1.325 %) WebLogic 7 1 (0.662 %) TPMS 7 1 (0.662 %) ArcGIS 7 1 (0.662 %) ESB 7 1 (0.662 %) SharePoint 7 1 (0.662 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (0.662 %) ColdFusion 7 1 (0.662 %) WebSphere MQ 7 1 (0.662 %) Tomcat 7 1 (0.662 %) ColdFusion MX
Applications 1 8 (5.298 %) MS Office 2 7 (4.636 %) MS Excel 3 5 (3.311 %) MS PowerPoint 4 3 (1.987 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.662 %) AutoCAD 5 1 (0.662 %) Photoshop 5 1 (0.662 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (2.649 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (1.987 %) Oracle Applications 2 3 (1.987 %) Summit 3 2 (1.325 %) Oracle 11i 4 1 (0.662 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 12 (7.947 %) Internet 2 6 (3.974 %) SMTP 2 6 (3.974 %) Intranet 3 4 (2.649 %) HTTP 4 3 (1.987 %) IMAP 5 1 (0.662 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (0.662 %) GPRS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (35.10 %) SQL Server 2 10 (6.623 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (5.960 %) DB2 3 9 (5.960 %) GIS 4 5 (3.311 %) TOAD 5 4 (2.649 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (2.649 %) Oracle Reports 5 4 (2.649 %) Oracle 9i 5 4 (2.649 %) MySQL 5 4 (2.649 %) DB2 UDB 6 3 (1.987 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (1.987 %) Datawarehouse 6 3 (1.987 %) DTS 6 3 (1.987 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 2 (1.325 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (1.325 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (1.325 %) SQLPlus 7 2 (1.325 %) BODI 8 1 (0.662 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (0.662 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 22 (14.57 %) InterDev 2 5 (3.311 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (2.649 %) Oracle Forms 3 4 (2.649 %) JUnit 3 4 (2.649 %) Oracle APEX 4 3 (1.987 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.662 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (0.662 %) Eclipse 5 1 (0.662 %) ClearQuest 5 1 (0.662 %) MSI 5 1 (0.662 %) Flash 5 1 (0.662 %) PVCS 5 1 (0.662 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.662 %) StarTeam	General 1 21 (13.91 %) Government 2 11 (7.285 %) Finance 3 6 (3.974 %) Publishing 4 5 (3.311 %) Telecoms 5 4 (2.649 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (1.987 %) Automotive 6 3 (1.987 %) Banking 7 2 (1.325 %) Health 8 1 (0.662 %) Legal 8 1 (0.662 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.662 %) Construction 8 1 (0.662 %) Education 8 1 (0.662 %) Retail 8 1 (0.662 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.662 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.662 %) Pensions 8 1 (0.662 %) Retail Banking 8 1 (0.662 %) Marketing 8 1 (0.662 %) Auditing 8 1 (0.662 %) Animation
Miscellaneous 1 22 (14.57 %) N-Tier 2 4 (2.649 %) Blackberry 3 1 (0.662 %) DTV 3 1 (0.662 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.662 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.662 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 37 (24.50 %) Windows 2 24 (15.89 %) UNIX 3 8 (5.298 %) AIX 4 6 (3.974 %) Linux 4 6 (3.974 %) Windows XP 5 5 (3.311 %) Windows NT 6 4 (2.649 %) Solaris 6 4 (2.649 %) Windows Mobile 7 2 (1.325 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (1.325 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.662 %) SUSE 8 1 (0.662 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (23.84 %) Security Cleared 2 27 (17.88 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (7.947 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 11 (7.285 %) System Testing 5 9 (5.960 %) Workflow 5 9 (5.960 %) Migration 6 8 (5.298 %) OO 7 6 (3.974 %) SSADM 7 6 (3.974 %) Requirements Analysis 7 6 (3.974 %) BC Cleared 8 5 (3.311 %) Project Management 9 4 (2.649 %) UML 9 4 (2.649 %) CRM 10 3 (1.987 %) SOA 10 3 (1.987 %) OOP 10 3 (1.987 %) RAD 10 3 (1.987 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (1.987 %) DSDM 10 3 (1.987 %) Agile Software Development 10 3 (1.987 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 66 (43.71 %) SQL 2 43 (28.48 %) VB.NET 3 37 (24.50 %) VB 4 34 (22.52 %) JavaScript 5 28 (18.54 %) C# 5 28 (18.54 %) Transact-SQL 6 27 (17.88 %) Java 7 25 (16.56 %) DHTML 8 18 (11.92 %) VB6 9 17 (11.26 %) C++ 10 12 (7.947 %) PL/SQL 11 10 (6.623 %) C 12 7 (4.636 %) Perl 13 5 (3.311 %) Shell Script 14 4 (2.649 %) PHP 15 3 (1.987 %) VBScript 15 3 (1.987 %) VBA 16 2 (1.325 %) Delphi 17 1 (0.662 %) COBOL 17 1 (0.662 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 4 (2.649 %) Degree 2 1 (0.662 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.662 %) SLA 1 1 (0.662 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (0.662 %) Active Directory 1 1 (0.662 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 4 (2.649 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 34 (22.52 %) Microsoft 2 24 (15.89 %) Oracle 3 7 (4.636 %) ESRI 4 4 (2.649 %) IBM 5 2 (1.325 %) SAP 5 2 (1.325 %) Symbian 5 2 (1.325 %) TIBCO 6 1 (0.662 %) Symantec 6 1 (0.662 %) Micro Focus 6 1 (0.662 %) Sony 6 1 (0.662 %) Business Objects 6 1 (0.662 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (0.662 %) Sun 6 1 (0.662 %) Intel 6 1 (0.662 %) BEA 6 1 (0.662 %) Actuate 6 1 (0.662 %) Ericsson 6 1 (0.662 %) Nokia 6 1 (0.662 %) VERITAS 6 1 (0.662 %) Borland