The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Wales 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 30 43 37
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 7 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 1.950% 0.251% 2.824%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.115% 0.273% 3.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
Average daily rate £300 £350 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +20.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £350 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £350 £416
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £355
% change year-on-year
+0.68% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
All Job Titles
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
331 366 393
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 92.20% 91.96% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 200 207
Average daily rate £350 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
Average hourly rate £14.50 £14.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £11.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £25.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Developer
Wales

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Wales Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales Senior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cardiff +7 5 £304 -13.21% 1
Newport - - - -
Torfaen - - - -
Bridgend - - - -
Senior Developer
Wales

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 5 (62.50%) NHS
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (37.50%) Firebird
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Delphi
3 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) InterBase
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) Tcl
4 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (25.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
4 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (25.00%) SOAP
4 2 (25.00%) XSLT
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Solaris
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VB
4 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) XSLT
3 2 (25.00%) WCF
3 2 (25.00%) WF
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Firebird
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) InterBase
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (12.50%) ProC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) NHS
2 3 (37.50%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Solaris
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) TDD
1 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) OOD
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) Delphi
2 2 (25.00%) Tcl
2 2 (25.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VB
2 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (25.00%) VB6
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
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