South Yorkshire Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Beverley Bexhill-On-Sea Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bletchley Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dover Dudley Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	1
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	90	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.122 %	0.101 %
As % of the category below	22.33 %	19.17 %
Daily rates quoted	19	16
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£322
Average daily rate	£300	£328
% change on same period last year	-8.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£330
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.95	£25.40
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£28.85
% change on same period last year	+12.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.05	£32.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.88	£33.20
% change on same period last year	-4.00 %
Job Titles South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	403	532
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.546 %	0.527 %
Daily rates quoted	83	98
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£319
Average daily rate	£302	£335
% change on same period last year	-9.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£356
% change on same period last year	-0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.97	£22.60
Average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.23	£25.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.78	£25.65
% change on same period last year	-7.28 %
Developer Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 Developer across the South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 8 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 Developer within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Sheffield	+3	50	£270	-0.51 %
Doncaster	0	8	-	-
Rotherham	+1	6	£318	-
Barnsley	0	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 53 (27.04 %) .NET 2 49 (25.00 %) SQL Server 3 46 (23.47 %) C# 3 46 (23.47 %) XML 4 44 (22.45 %) Java 5 36 (18.37 %) Oracle 6 35 (17.86 %) SQL 7 26 (13.27 %) J2EE 7 26 (13.27 %) HTML 7 26 (13.27 %) ASP.NET 8 24 (12.24 %) JavaScript 8 24 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 9 22 (11.22 %) AJAX 9 22 (11.22 %) Struts 10 21 (10.71 %) Finance

10 21 (10.71 %) Spring 11 20 (10.20 %) Eclipse 11 20 (10.20 %) CSS 12 17 (8.673 %) Microsoft 12 17 (8.673 %) Hibernate 12 17 (8.673 %) Banking 13 16 (8.163 %) IBM 13 16 (8.163 %) Financial Institution 13 16 (8.163 %) RAD 13 16 (8.163 %) ASP 14 15 (7.653 %) WebServices 15 14 (7.143 %) JSP 15 14 (7.143 %) Flash 15 14 (7.143 %) JUnit 15 14 (7.143 %) PHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 53 (27.04 %) .NET 2 46 (23.47 %) XML 3 26 (13.27 %) J2EE 3 26 (13.27 %) HTML 3 26 (13.27 %) ASP.NET 4 22 (11.22 %) Struts 4 22 (11.22 %) AJAX 5 21 (10.71 %) Spring 6 20 (10.20 %) CSS 7 17 (8.673 %) Hibernate 8 16 (8.163 %) ASP 9 15 (7.653 %) WebServices 10 14 (7.143 %) JSP 11 11 (5.612 %) RSS 11 11 (5.612 %) JSTL 12 9 (4.592 %) Lucene 13 8 (4.082 %) LAMP 14 6 (3.061 %) SOAP 14 6 (3.061 %) XHTML 15 5 (2.551 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (4.592 %) SharePoint 2 5 (2.551 %) Tuxedo 2 5 (2.551 %) Lotus Domino 2 5 (2.551 %) OpenROAD 3 4 (2.041 %) Oracle Application Server 3 4 (2.041 %) JBoss 3 4 (2.041 %) Lotus Notes 3 4 (2.041 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (1.531 %) Apache 4 3 (1.531 %) CMS 5 2 (1.020 %) PowerExchange 5 2 (1.020 %) TIBCO EMS 5 2 (1.020 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 2 (1.020 %) Commerce Server 2007 5 2 (1.020 %) Tomcat 5 2 (1.020 %) Commerce Server 6 1 (0.510 %) IIS 6 1 (0.510 %) Morello
Applications 1 5 (2.551 %) Photoshop 1 5 (2.551 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.531 %) InfoPath 3 2 (1.020 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.510 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.020 %) BusinessWorks 1 2 (1.020 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 12 (6.122 %) Internet 2 4 (2.041 %) SAN 3 3 (1.531 %) LDAP 4 2 (1.020 %) HTTP 4 2 (1.020 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (1.020 %) SSH 5 1 (0.510 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 49 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 24 (12.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (5.102 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (4.082 %) MySQL 4 8 (4.082 %) Oracle 10g 5 7 (3.571 %) RDBMS 5 7 (3.571 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 6 (3.061 %) PowerCenter 6 6 (3.061 %) ETL 6 6 (3.061 %) Crystal Reports 7 5 (2.551 %) MS Access 7 5 (2.551 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 4 (2.041 %) OLAP 8 4 (2.041 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 3 (1.531 %) Oracle Reports 9 3 (1.531 %) Oracle 9i 9 3 (1.531 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (1.020 %) Datawarehouse 10 2 (1.020 %) Ingres 11 1 (0.510 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 20 (10.20 %) Eclipse 2 14 (7.143 %) JUnit 2 14 (7.143 %) Flash 3 13 (6.633 %) Visual Studio 4 8 (4.082 %) HttpUnit 5 4 (2.041 %) Oracle Forms 6 3 (1.531 %) NUnit 7 2 (1.020 %) CruiseControl 7 2 (1.020 %) Subversion 7 2 (1.020 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (1.020 %) Ant 8 1 (0.510 %) JDeveloper 8 1 (0.510 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 21 (10.71 %) Finance 2 17 (8.673 %) Banking 3 16 (8.163 %) Financial Institution 4 12 (6.122 %) Marketing 5 8 (4.082 %) Government 6 3 (1.531 %) Education 7 1 (0.510 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.510 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.510 %) Health 7 1 (0.510 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.510 %) Games 7 1 (0.510 %) Online Games 7 1 (0.510 %) Online Gambling
Miscellaneous 1 8 (4.082 %) E-Learning 2 4 (2.041 %) SCORM 2 4 (2.041 %) RIA 3 2 (1.020 %) PDA 3 2 (1.020 %) EPoS 4 1 (0.510 %) NHS 4 1 (0.510 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.510 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.510 %) Social Network 4 1 (0.510 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (0.510 %) iPhone	Operating Systems 1 13 (6.633 %) UNIX 1 13 (6.633 %) Windows 2 9 (4.592 %) Linux 3 3 (1.531 %) Solaris 4 2 (1.020 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (0.510 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (0.510 %) VMS 5 1 (0.510 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (8.163 %) RAD 2 13 (6.633 %) UML 3 11 (5.612 %) Content Management 4 7 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 4 7 (3.571 %) Security Cleared 5 6 (3.061 %) OO 5 6 (3.061 %) Migration 6 5 (2.551 %) Identity Management 6 5 (2.551 %) Use Case 7 4 (2.041 %) Unit Testing 7 4 (2.041 %) Business Analysis 7 4 (2.041 %) Web Development 7 4 (2.041 %) Project Management 7 4 (2.041 %) E-Commerce 8 3 (1.531 %) ITIL 8 3 (1.531 %) PRINCE2 8 3 (1.531 %) SOA 8 3 (1.531 %) Resource Management 8 3 (1.531 %) Requirements Analysis 8 3 (1.531 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 46 (23.47 %) C# 2 44 (22.45 %) Java 3 35 (17.86 %) SQL 4 24 (12.24 %) JavaScript 5 14 (7.143 %) PHP 6 13 (6.633 %) VB 6 13 (6.633 %) C 7 11 (5.612 %) VB.NET 8 10 (5.102 %) ActionScript 8 10 (5.102 %) PL/SQL 9 9 (4.592 %) Transact-SQL 10 7 (3.571 %) VB6 11 5 (2.551 %) Korn 11 5 (2.551 %) C++ 12 4 (2.041 %) XAML 12 4 (2.041 %) MUMPS 13 3 (1.531 %) DHTML 13 3 (1.531 %) Ruby 14 2 (1.020 %) PHP5 14 2 (1.020 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 3 (1.531 %) Degree 2 1 (0.510 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.510 %) HIPAA
System Software 1 4 (2.041 %) Oracle RMAN 1 4 (2.041 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (1.020 %) NFS 3 1 (0.510 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 36 (18.37 %) Oracle 2 17 (8.673 %) Microsoft 3 16 (8.163 %) IBM 4 6 (3.061 %) Informatica 5 4 (2.041 %) Lotus 6 3 (1.531 %) Sun 6 3 (1.531 %) Business Objects 6 3 (1.531 %) Cognos 7 2 (1.020 %) TIBCO 8 1 (0.510 %) ESRI 8 1 (0.510 %) Anite 8 1 (0.510 %) Mediasurface 8 1 (0.510 %) Borland 8 1 (0.510 %) Red Hat 8 1 (0.510 %) Progress 8 1 (0.510 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.510 %) Macromedia