South East GUI Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the GUI 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 GUI Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

GUI Developer
Location Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Guildford Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Leeds London Midlands Norfolk Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire South East South West Surrey UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	218	264
Rank change on same period last year	+46
Matching contract IT job ads	13	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	0.134 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	3	9
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£306
Average daily rate	£268	£325
% change on same period last year	-17.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£325
% change on same period last year	-13.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.50
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.00	£37.50
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	9723	14405
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.78 %	15.72 %
Daily rates quoted	2450	3547
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£332
Average daily rate	£350	£350
% change on same period last year	-0.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	1191	1989
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.13	£23.37
Average hourly rate	£23.63	£24.93
% change on same period last year	-5.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.12	£26.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
GUI 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 GUI 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 GUI 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 GUI Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 December 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 GUI Developer across the South East region.

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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 GUI Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 December 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
Buckinghamshire	-	9	£269	-
Surrey	+17	1	£265	-18.46 %
Oxfordshire	-	1	-	-
Home Counties	-	1	-	-

GUI Developer England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited GUI 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 GUI Developer in their job title.

1 11 (78.57 %) C++ 1 11 (78.57 %) Java 2 8 (57.14 %) MFC 3 7 (50.00 %) Construction 4 6 (42.86 %) Wireless 5 4 (28.57 %) C 6 3 (21.43 %) Ant 7 2 (14.29 %) Windows 7 2 (14.29 %) Assembly Language 7 2 (14.29 %) Swing 7 2 (14.29 %) VHDL 7 2 (14.29 %) Verilog 7 2 (14.29 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 7 2 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (14.29 %) EDA

8 1 (7.143 %) SWT 8 1 (7.143 %) Degree 8 1 (7.143 %) Computer Science 8 1 (7.143 %) WPF 8 1 (7.143 %) Subversion 8 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms 8 1 (7.143 %) Softphone 8 1 (7.143 %) OOD 8 1 (7.143 %) SOA 8 1 (7.143 %) Eclipse 8 1 (7.143 %) Genesys 8 1 (7.143 %) CTI 8 1 (7.143 %) UML 8 1 (7.143 %) OO 8 1 (7.143 %) C#

GUI Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited GUI 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 GUI Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (57.14 %) MFC 2 2 (14.29 %) Swing 3 1 (7.143 %) SWT 3 1 (7.143 %) WPF 3 1 (7.143 %) WebServices	Communications & Networking 1 6 (42.86 %) Wireless 2 1 (7.143 %) Softphone 2 1 (7.143 %) CTI
Development Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) Ant 2 1 (7.143 %) JUnit 2 1 (7.143 %) Eclipse 2 1 (7.143 %) Subversion	General 1 7 (50.00 %) Construction 2 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) VHDL 1 2 (14.29 %) Verilog 1 2 (14.29 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (7.143 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (14.29 %) EDA 2 1 (7.143 %) UML 2 1 (7.143 %) OO 2 1 (7.143 %) OOD 2 1 (7.143 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 11 (78.57 %) C++ 1 11 (78.57 %) Java 2 4 (28.57 %) C 3 2 (14.29 %) Assembly Language 4 1 (7.143 %) C#
Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (7.143 %) Genesys