The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 50 83 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 19.01% 31.80% 32.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.49% 33.47% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 45 62
Average daily rate £278 £275 £304
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% -9.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 10
Average hourly rate £24.75 £27.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -23.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £25.40 £28.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.95 £28.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
244 248 283
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 92.78% 95.02% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 131 168
Average daily rate £306 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.43% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £166 £165 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 31
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.09% -26.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South Yorkshire Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Developer
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 24 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
Sheffield -6 21 £296 +11.79%
Doncaster - 6 £275 -
Rotherham +3 2 £225 -
Barnsley -1 1 £300 +9.09%
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 38 (33.93%) JavaScript
2 36 (32.14%) CSS
3 35 (31.25%) SQL Server
4 33 (29.46%) .NET
5 31 (27.68%) SQL
6 29 (25.89%) PHP
7 27 (24.11%) HTML
8 23 (20.54%) Java
8 23 (20.54%) C#
9 21 (18.75%) ASP.NET
10 20 (17.86%) OO
10 20 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
11 17 (15.18%) Symfony
11 17 (15.18%) PHPUnit
12 15 (13.39%) CRM
13 14 (12.50%) XML
13 14 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 13 (11.61%) TDD
14 13 (11.61%) J2EE
14 13 (11.61%) MySQL
14 13 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
14 13 (11.61%) HTML5
14 13 (11.61%) jQuery
15 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
15 12 (10.71%) Spring
15 12 (10.71%) MVC
15 12 (10.71%) Hibernate
16 11 (9.821%) ETL
16 11 (9.821%) Oracle
16 11 (9.821%) Struts

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 36 (32.14%) CSS
2 33 (29.46%) .NET
3 27 (24.11%) HTML
4 21 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 17 (15.18%) Symfony
6 14 (12.50%) XML
7 13 (11.61%) J2EE
7 13 (11.61%) HTML5
7 13 (11.61%) jQuery
8 12 (10.71%) Spring
8 12 (10.71%) Hibernate
9 11 (9.821%) Struts
10 9 (8.036%) CSS3
11 8 (7.143%) WCF
11 8 (7.143%) Ajax
12 6 (5.357%) JSP
12 6 (5.357%) XHTML
13 5 (4.464%) Web Services
13 5 (4.464%) Silverlight
14 4 (3.571%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 9 (8.036%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.464%) Alfresco
2 5 (4.464%) Liferay
3 4 (3.571%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (2.679%) Apache
4 3 (2.679%) CMS
4 3 (2.679%) WordPress
5 2 (1.786%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (1.786%) GlassFish
5 2 (1.786%) DotNetNuke
5 2 (1.786%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.786%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.893%) MSMQ
6 1 (0.893%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.893%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.893%) Drupal
6 1 (0.893%) Magento
Applications
1 4 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (8.929%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.786%) LDAP
1 2 (1.786%) SSL
2 1 (0.893%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 13 (11.61%) MySQL
3 13 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (9.821%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (8.036%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
7 7 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (5.357%) SQL Server 2012
9 5 (4.464%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (2.679%) OLAP
11 2 (1.786%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.786%) Oracle 9i
11 2 (1.786%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (1.786%) Oracle Discoverer
11 2 (1.786%) Oracle 10g
12 1 (0.893%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.893%) BODI
12 1 (0.893%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 17 (15.18%) PHPUnit
2 6 (5.357%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.464%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.679%) JUnit
4 3 (2.679%) Subversion
4 3 (2.679%) Maven
4 3 (2.679%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (2.679%) Selenium
4 3 (2.679%) FitNesse
4 3 (2.679%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.786%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.786%) NetBeans
5 2 (1.786%) PVCS
5 2 (1.786%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.893%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (3.571%) Finance
2 3 (2.679%) Advertising
3 2 (1.786%) Back Office
3 2 (1.786%) Banking
4 1 (0.893%) Retail
4 1 (0.893%) Publishing
4 1 (0.893%) Local Government
4 1 (0.893%) Interactive Media
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.679%) NHS
1 3 (2.679%) W3C
1 3 (2.679%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.786%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.786%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.786%) E-Learning
2 2 (1.786%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.893%) SCORM
3 1 (0.893%) Blackberry
3 1 (0.893%) Data Integration
3 1 (0.893%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.357%) Android
1 6 (5.357%) Windows
2 5 (4.464%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.679%) Linux
4 2 (1.786%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.893%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.86%) OO
1 20 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (13.39%) CRM
3 13 (11.61%) TDD
4 12 (10.71%) MVC
5 11 (9.821%) ETL
6 5 (4.464%) E-Commerce
6 5 (4.464%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (4.464%) Content Management
6 5 (4.464%) Workflow
7 4 (3.571%) Software Architecture
7 4 (3.571%) Migration
7 4 (3.571%) ERP
7 4 (3.571%) Data Modelling
7 4 (3.571%) OOP
8 3 (2.679%) ITIL
8 3 (2.679%) Web Development
9 2 (1.786%) Waterfall
9 2 (1.786%) Resource Management
9 2 (1.786%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (33.93%) JavaScript
2 31 (27.68%) SQL
3 29 (25.89%) PHP
4 23 (20.54%) Java
4 23 (20.54%) C#
5 10 (8.929%) VB.NET
6 8 (7.143%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.571%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.786%) PHP5
8 2 (1.786%) XPath
9 1 (0.893%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.893%) VB
9 1 (0.893%) Delphi
9 1 (0.893%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.893%) Groovy
9 1 (0.893%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.893%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 1 (0.893%) Degree
1 1 (0.893%) MCTS
1 1 (0.893%) SC Cleared
1 1 (0.893%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.679%) SLA
2 2 (1.786%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (1.786%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.821%) Oracle
3 3 (2.679%) Lagan
4 2 (1.786%) Twitter
4 2 (1.786%) Sun
5 1 (0.893%) Adobe
5 1 (0.893%) Siebel
5 1 (0.893%) SAP
5 1 (0.893%) Business Objects
5 1 (0.893%) Telerik
5 1 (0.893%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.893%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.893%) Zend
5 1 (0.893%) Sitecore
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