South East Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 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 job ads that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	2279	3583
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.005 %	3.801 %
As % of the category below	18.82 %	22.59 %
Daily rates quoted	575	786
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£307
Average daily rate	£337	£326
% change on same period last year	+3.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	232	372
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.70	£33.73
Average hourly rate	£35.25	£35.29
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.81	£36.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.47	£33.20
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	12108	15860
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.97 %	16.82 %
Daily rates quoted	2922	3672
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£332
Average daily rate	£359	£350
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1596	1854
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.92	£26.64
Average hourly rate	£23.55	£27.93
% change on same period last year	-15.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.17	£29.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 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 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 Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 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 Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Surrey	-1	477	£318	-3.08 %
Berkshire	-2	469	£333	+0.53 %
Hampshire	0	442	£366	+10.83 %
Buckinghamshire	-4	224	£350	+10.83 %
Oxfordshire	0	187	£321	+0.40 %
Thames Valley	0	95	£410	+20.82 %
Middlesex	+8	91	£332	+9.85 %
Kent	-2	89	£305	+3.91 %
West Sussex	-6	54	£370	+14.05 %
East Sussex	-1	50	£299	-1.56 %
Home Counties	0	17	£541	+44.33 %
Sussex	-2	14	-	-
M4 Corridor	-9	9	-	-
Isle of Wight	-2	1	£450	+87.50 %

Developer England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1915 (36.08 %) .NET 2 1574 (29.65 %) C# 3 1409 (26.54 %) SQL 4 1289 (24.28 %) SQL Server 5 1086 (20.46 %) ASP.NET 6 1049 (19.76 %) Java 7 971 (18.29 %) XML 8 952 (17.94 %) Oracle 9 837 (15.77 %) HTML 10 781 (14.71 %) JavaScript 11 685 (12.91 %) CSS 12 588 (11.08 %) J2EE 13 572 (10.78 %) Windows 14 538 (10.14 %) Security Cleared 15 511 (9.627 %) SQL Server 2005

16 493 (9.288 %) WebServices 17 445 (8.384 %) OO 18 441 (8.308 %) C++ 19 438 (8.252 %) VB.NET 20 432 (8.139 %) PHP 21 410 (7.724 %) Microsoft 22 405 (7.630 %) Finance 23 386 (7.272 %) PL/SQL 24 363 (6.839 %) MySQL 25 356 (6.707 %) SC Cleared 26 352 (6.631 %) VB 27 347 (6.537 %) ASP 28 343 (6.462 %) AJAX 29 335 (6.311 %) XHTML 30 321 (6.047 %) Unix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1915 (36.08 %) .NET 2 1086 (20.46 %) ASP.NET 3 971 (18.29 %) XML 4 837 (15.77 %) HTML 5 685 (12.91 %) CSS 6 588 (11.08 %) J2EE 7 493 (9.288 %) WebServices 8 347 (6.537 %) ASP 9 343 (6.462 %) AJAX 10 335 (6.311 %) XHTML 11 281 (5.294 %) JSP 12 268 (5.049 %) Hibernate 13 226 (4.258 %) WebSphere 14 221 (4.164 %) Spring 15 213 (4.013 %) .NET Framework 16 209 (3.937 %) WinForms 17 206 (3.881 %) Struts 18 201 (3.787 %) XSLT 19 116 (2.185 %) SOAP 20 105 (1.978 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 230 (4.333 %) SharePoint 2 142 (2.675 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 125 (2.355 %) Apache 4 118 (2.223 %) WebLogic 5 112 (2.110 %) CMS 6 88 (1.658 %) BizTalk Server 7 80 (1.507 %) ColdFusion 8 79 (1.488 %) IIS 9 55 (1.036 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 38 (0.716 %) Tomcat 11 33 (0.622 %) WebSphere MQ 12 31 (0.584 %) MQSeries 13 28 (0.528 %) ESB 14 26 (0.490 %) ArcSDE 15 25 (0.471 %) Oracle Spatial 16 24 (0.452 %) SAS 16 24 (0.452 %) ColdFusion MX 16 24 (0.452 %) JBoss 16 24 (0.452 %) ArcGIS 17 22 (0.414 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 126 (2.374 %) MS Excel 2 94 (1.771 %) Photoshop 3 84 (1.583 %) MS Office 4 21 (0.396 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 17 (0.320 %) MS Visio 6 16 (0.301 %) InfoPath 7 15 (0.283 %) MS PowerPoint 7 15 (0.283 %) Quicktime 7 15 (0.283 %) Fireworks 8 5 (0.094 %) ImageReady 8 5 (0.094 %) 3ds Max 9 4 (0.075 %) Shockwave 9 4 (0.075 %) FreeHand 10 3 (0.057 %) Acrobat 10 3 (0.057 %) MS Project 10 3 (0.057 %) FrameMaker 11 2 (0.038 %) S-PLUS 11 2 (0.038 %) MATLAB 12 1 (0.019 %) Simulink 12 1 (0.019 %) Stateflow	Business Applications 1 45 (0.848 %) Microsoft CRM 2 13 (0.245 %) Dynamics CRM 2 13 (0.245 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 12 (0.226 %) SAP CRM 4 10 (0.188 %) Oracle Financials 5 9 (0.170 %) AWD 5 9 (0.170 %) Remedy ITSM 6 8 (0.151 %) SAP IS-U 6 8 (0.151 %) Oracle 11i 6 8 (0.151 %) SAP Retail 7 7 (0.132 %) Oracle Applications 8 6 (0.113 %) Oracle EBS 8 6 (0.113 %) BusinessWorks 8 6 (0.113 %) SAP R/3 8 6 (0.113 %) Summit 9 3 (0.057 %) BASE24 9 3 (0.057 %) Great Plains 9 3 (0.057 %) SAP HR 9 3 (0.057 %) SAP APO 9 3 (0.057 %) Cognos Planning
Communications & Networking 1 153 (2.882 %) Internet 2 85 (1.601 %) Intranet 3 55 (1.036 %) HTTP 4 45 (0.848 %) TCP/IP 5 42 (0.791 %) Extranet 6 33 (0.622 %) LDAP 7 17 (0.320 %) 3G 7 17 (0.320 %) Firewall 8 15 (0.283 %) Wireless 9 13 (0.245 %) GSM 10 12 (0.226 %) GPRS 11 10 (0.188 %) SMS 11 10 (0.188 %) SMTP 11 10 (0.188 %) UTRAN 12 9 (0.170 %) Bluetooth 12 9 (0.170 %) HSDPA 12 9 (0.170 %) X.500 13 8 (0.151 %) HSUPA 13 8 (0.151 %) UMTS 14 7 (0.132 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1289 (24.28 %) SQL Server 2 511 (9.627 %) SQL Server 2005 3 363 (6.839 %) MySQL 4 229 (4.314 %) SQL Server 2000 5 227 (4.277 %) Oracle 10g 6 149 (2.807 %) Oracle Reports 7 145 (2.732 %) DB2 8 144 (2.713 %) Datawarehouse 9 122 (2.298 %) SQL Server 7 10 118 (2.223 %) BusinessObjects 11 114 (2.148 %) Crystal Reports 12 106 (1.997 %) Oracle 9i 13 93 (1.752 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 88 (1.658 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 79 (1.488 %) GIS 16 74 (1.394 %) RDBMS 17 68 (1.281 %) ETL 18 67 (1.262 %) DTS 19 53 (0.998 %) Oracle 8/8i 20 42 (0.791 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 272 (5.124 %) Visual Studio 2 193 (3.636 %) Flash 3 179 (3.372 %) Eclipse 4 86 (1.620 %) Oracle Forms 5 85 (1.601 %) JUnit 6 83 (1.564 %) NUnit 7 70 (1.319 %) Ant 8 67 (1.262 %) Subversion 9 51 (0.961 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 49 (0.923 %) ClearCase 10 49 (0.923 %) Dreamweaver 11 29 (0.546 %) JDeveloper 12 26 (0.490 %) InterDev 13 24 (0.452 %) Rational Rose 14 23 (0.433 %) ClearQuest 15 22 (0.414 %) ProC 16 18 (0.339 %) Synon 17 12 (0.226 %) COOL2E 18 11 (0.207 %) PowerBuilder 19 10 (0.188 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 405 (7.630 %) Finance 2 233 (4.390 %) Government 3 144 (2.713 %) Insurance 4 140 (2.638 %) Marketing 5 136 (2.562 %) Telecoms 6 121 (2.280 %) Banking 7 105 (1.978 %) Retail 8 76 (1.432 %) Pensions 9 69 (1.300 %) Games 10 44 (0.829 %) Publishing 10 44 (0.829 %) Education 11 43 (0.810 %) Military 12 42 (0.791 %) Financial Institution 13 36 (0.678 %) Back Office 13 36 (0.678 %) Health 14 35 (0.659 %) Multimedia 15 33 (0.622 %) Manufacturing 16 23 (0.433 %) Investment Banking 17 22 (0.414 %) Retail Banking 18 21 (0.396 %) Automotive
Miscellaneous 1 60 (1.130 %) N-Tier 2 46 (0.867 %) W3C 3 36 (0.678 %) Web 2.0 4 35 (0.659 %) Replication 5 31 (0.584 %) PDA 6 28 (0.528 %) Mainframe 7 27 (0.509 %) Computer Science 8 23 (0.433 %) Device Driver 9 21 (0.396 %) Clustering 10 20 (0.377 %) E-Learning 10 20 (0.377 %) IBM Mainframe 11 19 (0.358 %) Client/Server 12 17 (0.320 %) Streaming Video 13 15 (0.283 %) Handset 13 15 (0.283 %) NHS 13 15 (0.283 %) Multithreading 14 13 (0.245 %) Management Information System 14 13 (0.245 %) STB 15 11 (0.207 %) AS400 15 11 (0.207 %) MPEG	Operating Systems 1 572 (10.78 %) Windows 2 321 (6.047 %) Unix 3 308 (5.803 %) Linux 4 62 (1.168 %) Windows Mobile 5 39 (0.735 %) Windows NT 6 30 (0.565 %) Windows CE 7 29 (0.546 %) Windows Server 2003 8 25 (0.471 %) Solaris 9 23 (0.433 %) Debian 10 18 (0.339 %) AIX 10 18 (0.339 %) Windows XP 10 18 (0.339 %) Mac OS X 11 15 (0.283 %) SUSE 12 12 (0.226 %) HPUX 13 9 (0.170 %) MVS 14 6 (0.113 %) Embedded Linux 15 4 (0.075 %) VMS 15 4 (0.075 %) Windows 2000 15 4 (0.075 %) FreeBSD 16 3 (0.057 %) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies 1 538 (10.14 %) Security Cleared 2 445 (8.384 %) OO 3 356 (6.707 %) SC Cleared 4 300 (5.652 %) UML 5 194 (3.655 %) Migration 6 189 (3.561 %) Web Development 7 143 (2.694 %) Agile Software Development 8 135 (2.543 %) E-Commerce 9 129 (2.430 %) CRM 10 128 (2.411 %) Unit Testing 11 127 (2.393 %) MVC 12 121 (2.280 %) OOP 13 98 (1.846 %) OOD 14 93 (1.752 %) Workflow 15 92 (1.733 %) DV Cleared 16 91 (1.714 %) TDD 16 91 (1.714 %) Content Management 17 89 (1.677 %) Business Intelligence 18 80 (1.507 %) RUP 19 71 (1.338 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 1574 (29.65 %) C# 2 1409 (26.54 %) SQL 3 1049 (19.76 %) Java 4 781 (14.71 %) JavaScript 5 441 (8.308 %) C++ 6 438 (8.252 %) VB.NET 7 432 (8.139 %) PHP 8 386 (7.272 %) PL/SQL 9 352 (6.631 %) VB 10 277 (5.219 %) C 11 211 (3.975 %) Transact-SQL 12 155 (2.920 %) VB6 13 140 (2.638 %) PHP5 14 139 (2.619 %) ActionScript 15 128 (2.411 %) Perl 16 97 (1.827 %) Shell Script 17 94 (1.771 %) DHTML 18 63 (1.187 %) ABAP 19 60 (1.130 %) VBScript 19 60 (1.130 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 108 (2.035 %) Degree 2 59 (1.112 %) Microsoft Certification 3 15 (0.283 %) MCSD 4 13 (0.245 %) MCAD 5 10 (0.188 %) Sun Certification 6 8 (0.151 %) MCP 7 7 (0.132 %) MCSE 7 7 (0.132 %) MCSA 8 6 (0.113 %) MCDBA 9 4 (0.075 %) SAP Certification 10 3 (0.057 %) HNC 11 2 (0.038 %) MCTS 11 2 (0.038 %) MCPD 12 1 (0.019 %) ISEB 12 1 (0.019 %) Citrix Certification 12 1 (0.019 %) CISSP 12 1 (0.019 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 1 (0.019 %) OCP 12 1 (0.019 %) Oracle Certification 12 1 (0.019 %) IBM Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 38 (0.716 %) QA 2 8 (0.151 %) SLA 3 7 (0.132 %) WCAG 4 6 (0.113 %) ISO9001 5 5 (0.094 %) WAI 6 4 (0.075 %) Basel II 7 3 (0.057 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 3 (0.057 %) HL7 7 3 (0.057 %) ISO27001 8 1 (0.019 %) BS7799 8 1 (0.019 %) TickIT
System Software 1 18 (0.339 %) Active Directory 2 10 (0.188 %) AquaLogic 3 6 (0.113 %) MSMQ 4 2 (0.038 %) NFS 5 1 (0.019 %) NDS 5 1 (0.019 %) Samba 5 1 (0.019 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.019 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 19 (0.358 %) Tivoli 2 11 (0.207 %) MIIS 3 5 (0.094 %) CONTROL-M 4 3 (0.057 %) Nagios 5 2 (0.038 %) CA SiteMinder 5 2 (0.038 %) Unicenter 5 2 (0.038 %) SCOM 6 1 (0.019 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 952 (17.94 %) Oracle 2 410 (7.724 %) Microsoft 3 141 (2.656 %) SAP 4 120 (2.261 %) IBM 5 118 (2.223 %) Business Objects 6 49 (0.923 %) Cognos 7 46 (0.867 %) BEA 8 44 (0.829 %) Adobe 9 43 (0.810 %) ESRI 10 33 (0.622 %) Siebel 10 33 (0.622 %) Zend 11 30 (0.565 %) Motorola 12 26 (0.490 %) Sony 12 26 (0.490 %) Ab Initio 13 25 (0.471 %) Lotus 13 25 (0.471 %) CA 14 21 (0.396 %) HP 15 20 (0.377 %) Sun 16 19 (0.358 %) Hyperion 16 19 (0.358 %) Red Hat