The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 185 201 175
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -26
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 35 44 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.442% 0.433% 0.760%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.477% 0.468% 0.821%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 32
Average daily rate £325 £320 £389
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -17.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £270 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £381 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.36% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £39.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.10% -8.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -8.23%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 21 May 2013.

South East Applications Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
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 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +11 14 £394 +32.35%
Hampshire -12 11 £315 -3.23%
Buckinghamshire +4 8 £525 +68.26%
Surrey +17 2 - -
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 39 (52.70%) .NET
2 28 (37.84%) SQL
2 28 (37.84%) C#
3 25 (33.78%) SQL Server
4 20 (27.03%) Java
5 17 (22.97%) WCF
6 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
6 13 (17.57%) Oracle
6 13 (17.57%) Windows
6 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
7 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
8 10 (13.51%) T-SQL
8 10 (13.51%) VB
8 10 (13.51%) Workflow
9 9 (12.16%) MVC
9 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
9 9 (12.16%) ASP.NET
10 8 (10.81%) Visual Studio
10 8 (10.81%) Finance
10 8 (10.81%) TDD
10 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2005
10 8 (10.81%) WebSphere
11 7 (9.459%) WF
11 7 (9.459%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (9.459%) Web Services
11 7 (9.459%) XML
11 7 (9.459%) HTML
11 7 (9.459%) VB.NET
11 7 (9.459%) J2EE
11 7 (9.459%) OO

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 39 (52.70%) .NET
2 17 (22.97%) WCF
3 9 (12.16%) ASP.NET
4 8 (10.81%) WebSphere
5 7 (9.459%) WF
5 7 (9.459%) Web Services
5 7 (9.459%) XML
5 7 (9.459%) HTML
5 7 (9.459%) J2EE
6 6 (8.108%) .NET Framework
6 6 (8.108%) jQuery
6 6 (8.108%) Spring
7 5 (6.757%) Ajax
7 5 (6.757%) ASP
7 5 (6.757%) CSS
8 4 (5.405%) Hibernate
8 4 (5.405%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (4.054%) BPEL4WS
9 3 (4.054%) NHibernate
9 3 (4.054%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.757%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (5.405%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.703%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (2.703%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.703%) CMS
3 2 (2.703%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.703%) Windows Azure
3 2 (2.703%) Oracle BPEL
4 1 (1.351%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.351%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.351%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.351%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.351%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.054%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.703%) MS Office
3 1 (1.351%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (1.351%) Apache OFBiz
1 1 (1.351%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.351%) Maximo
1 1 (1.351%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.351%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.351%) FTP
1 1 (1.351%) DNS
1 1 (1.351%) 2G
1 1 (1.351%) 3G
1 1 (1.351%) Firewall
1 1 (1.351%) Wireless
1 1 (1.351%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (33.78%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (9.459%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (6.757%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.405%) DB2
6 3 (4.054%) TOAD
6 3 (4.054%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (2.703%) DataStage
7 2 (2.703%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.703%) MS Access
7 2 (2.703%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.351%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.351%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.351%) MySQL
8 1 (1.351%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.351%) GIS
8 1 (1.351%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.703%) ERwin
2 2 (2.703%) Ant
2 2 (2.703%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.703%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.703%) Subversion
3 1 (1.351%) Maven
3 1 (1.351%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (1.351%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (1.351%) Wise Package Studio
3 1 (1.351%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.351%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (1.351%) MSI
General
1 8 (10.81%) Finance
2 3 (4.054%) Retail
2 3 (4.054%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.703%) Billing
4 1 (1.351%) General Ledger
4 1 (1.351%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.351%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.405%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.703%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.703%) Blackberry
2 2 (2.703%) iSeries
2 2 (2.703%) Flash Lite
2 2 (2.703%) PKI
2 2 (2.703%) Smartphone
2 2 (2.703%) STB
3 1 (1.351%) Statistics
3 1 (1.351%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.351%) Streaming Video
3 1 (1.351%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Windows
2 6 (8.108%) UNIX
3 3 (4.054%) Android
3 3 (4.054%) AIX
3 3 (4.054%) Linux
4 2 (2.703%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.351%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.351%) Windows Phone 8
5 1 (1.351%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.351%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.351%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.351%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (13.51%) Workflow
2 9 (12.16%) MVC
3 8 (10.81%) TDD
4 7 (9.459%) OO
5 6 (8.108%) UML
5 6 (8.108%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (8.108%) Web Application Development
6 5 (6.757%) Unit Testing
6 5 (6.757%) Project Management
7 4 (5.405%) Scrum
7 4 (5.405%) ITIL
7 4 (5.405%) OOP
7 4 (5.405%) Data Modelling
7 4 (5.405%) E-Commerce
7 4 (5.405%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (4.054%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (4.054%) BPEL
8 3 (4.054%) Web Development
8 3 (4.054%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (2.703%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 28 (37.84%) SQL
1 28 (37.84%) C#
2 20 (27.03%) Java
3 10 (13.51%) T-SQL
3 10 (13.51%) VB
4 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.459%) VB.NET
6 5 (6.757%) VBA
6 5 (6.757%) Perl
6 5 (6.757%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.405%) C++
8 2 (2.703%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.703%) C
8 2 (2.703%) RPG
8 2 (2.703%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.703%) Python
8 2 (2.703%) ActionScript 2.0
8 2 (2.703%) RPG IV
9 1 (1.351%) VB6
9 1 (1.351%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.703%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.703%) MCP
3 2 (2.703%) Degree
4 1 (1.351%) MCITP
4 1 (1.351%) MCPD
4 1 (1.351%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.351%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.351%) QA
1 1 (1.351%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.703%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.351%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.351%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle
2 5 (6.757%) IBM
3 3 (4.054%) SAP
3 3 (4.054%) Adobe
4 2 (2.703%) JBoss
5 1 (1.351%) Sencha
5 1 (1.351%) Elastic Path
5 1 (1.351%) hybris
5 1 (1.351%) Cramer
5 1 (1.351%) Nokia
5 1 (1.351%) Intel
Berkshire, Thames Valley
My well established, Berkshire based Client is urgently recruiting for a Developer to work with them and develop an Application for the Samsung Smart TV. This is likely...
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Rate: £300.00 - £500.00 per day + Please quote
Posted: 1 May 2013
Hampshire, South East
net Developer(C#.net developer, NHS, developer, programmer, appliction developer, SQL, VB, C#, VB.net, C#.net, Visual Basic)Create an application which allows customers to text to...
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Rate: £250 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
My large berkshire based blue chip Client is urgently recruiting for a TV Flash Application Designer / Developer to be responsible for the architecture and development of Flash applications...
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Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day + Please quote
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