The first table below looks at the demand for the Windows 8 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 Windows 8 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows 8 Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Windows 8 Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £500 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
247 247 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 93.56% 95.37% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 134 152
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 £165 £175 £223
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 30 18 33
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -16.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £10.25
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%
Windows 8 Developer
Yorkshire

Windows 8 Developer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited Windows 8 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 Windows 8 Developer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8

Windows 8 Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region that cited Windows 8 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 Windows 8 Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 8
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL