The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 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 Southampton 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
Developer
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 50 40 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 16.95% 17.54% 18.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.79% 18.43% 19.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 7
Average daily rate £300 £301 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.16% -7.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £264 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £595 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
281 217 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 95.25% 95.18% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 114 74
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 52 29
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -15.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £41.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Hampshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 30 (30.30%) JavaScript
2 29 (29.29%) CSS
3 27 (27.27%) Java
4 25 (25.25%) PHP
5 24 (24.24%) SQL Server
6 20 (20.20%) MVC
6 20 (20.20%) Agile Software Development
6 20 (20.20%) jQuery
7 19 (19.19%) XML
8 18 (18.18%) .NET
8 18 (18.18%) HTML
9 16 (16.16%) MySQL
10 15 (15.15%) SQL
11 14 (14.14%) C#
11 14 (14.14%) HTML5
12 13 (13.13%) OO
13 12 (12.12%) Oracle
13 12 (12.12%) TDD
13 12 (12.12%) Subversion
14 11 (11.11%) JSON
14 11 (11.11%) CSS3
15 10 (10.10%) Web Services
15 10 (10.10%) UNIX
16 9 (9.091%) OOP
16 9 (9.091%) Apache
16 9 (9.091%) Tomcat
16 9 (9.091%) CMS
16 9 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
16 9 (9.091%) Spring
17 8 (8.081%) Java EE

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 29 (29.29%) CSS
2 20 (20.20%) jQuery
3 19 (19.19%) XML
4 18 (18.18%) HTML
4 18 (18.18%) .NET
5 14 (14.14%) HTML5
6 11 (11.11%) CSS3
6 11 (11.11%) JSON
7 10 (10.10%) Web Services
8 9 (9.091%) Spring
9 8 (8.081%) Java EE
10 7 (7.071%) ASP.NET
11 6 (6.061%) XHTML
11 6 (6.061%) Ajax
11 6 (6.061%) Hibernate
11 6 (6.061%) REST
12 5 (5.051%) SOAP
13 4 (4.040%) JDBC
13 4 (4.040%) JSP
13 4 (4.040%) Cocoa
Application Platforms
1 9 (9.091%) Apache
1 9 (9.091%) Tomcat
1 9 (9.091%) CMS
2 8 (8.081%) Magento
3 6 (6.061%) Drupal
3 6 (6.061%) WordPress
4 5 (5.051%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (4.040%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.030%) WebLogic
6 3 (3.030%) Windows Azure
6 3 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.010%) EPiServer CMS
7 1 (1.010%) CMS400.NET
7 1 (1.010%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.010%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (1.010%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (1.010%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (1.010%) TeamSite
7 1 (1.010%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.010%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (1.010%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.010%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.010%) Fireworks
1 1 (1.010%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (3.030%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.020%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.010%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.010%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.030%) HTTP
2 2 (2.020%) Intranet
3 1 (1.010%) Modbus
3 1 (1.010%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.010%) SSL
3 1 (1.010%) Broadband
3 1 (1.010%) GPRS
3 1 (1.010%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.24%) SQL Server
2 16 (16.16%) MySQL
3 6 (6.061%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (5.051%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (5.051%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.040%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.020%) SAP BW
7 2 (2.020%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.020%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (2.020%) GIS
8 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (1.010%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.010%) SAP BI
8 1 (1.010%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (12.12%) Subversion
2 8 (8.081%) FitNesse
3 5 (5.051%) Selenium
3 5 (5.051%) Jasmine
4 3 (3.030%) Git (software)
4 3 (3.030%) JUnit
4 3 (3.030%) Log4j
4 3 (3.030%) Xcode
5 2 (2.020%) Hudson
5 2 (2.020%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.010%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.010%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (3.030%) Finance
2 2 (2.020%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.010%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.010%) Games
3 1 (1.010%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.051%) iPhone
1 5 (5.051%) Kindle
2 3 (3.030%) Client/Server
2 3 (3.030%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.020%) iPad
3 2 (2.020%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.010%) DataPower
4 1 (1.010%) Open Source
4 1 (1.010%) EPoS
4 1 (1.010%) NHS
4 1 (1.010%) W3C
4 1 (1.010%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) UNIX
2 7 (7.071%) Windows
2 7 (7.071%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (5.051%) Android
3 5 (5.051%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (3.030%) Linux
5 1 (1.010%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.010%) CentOS
5 1 (1.010%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (20.20%) MVC
1 20 (20.20%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (13.13%) OO
3 12 (12.12%) TDD
4 9 (9.091%) OOP
4 9 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (6.061%) Test Automation
5 6 (6.061%) Scrum
5 6 (6.061%) Automated Testing
6 4 (4.040%) Web Development
6 4 (4.040%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (3.030%) Memory Management
7 3 (3.030%) Multithreading
8 2 (2.020%) Business Analysis
8 2 (2.020%) Refactoring
8 2 (2.020%) UML
8 2 (2.020%) E-Commerce
8 2 (2.020%) ERP
8 2 (2.020%) OOD
8 2 (2.020%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.30%) JavaScript
2 27 (27.27%) Java
3 25 (25.25%) PHP
4 15 (15.15%) SQL
5 14 (14.14%) C#
6 8 (8.081%) PL/SQL
6 8 (8.081%) PHP5
7 6 (6.061%) Objective-C
7 6 (6.061%) C
8 4 (4.040%) VBA
8 4 (4.040%) Python
9 3 (3.030%) Delphi
10 2 (2.020%) C++
10 2 (2.020%) ABAP
10 2 (2.020%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.010%) Jython
11 1 (1.010%) LotusScript
11 1 (1.010%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.010%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.010%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 7 (7.071%) Degree
2 4 (4.040%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.030%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.020%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.020%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.071%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.010%) WCAG
2 1 (1.010%) QA
2 1 (1.010%) HL7
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) Oracle
2 8 (8.081%) SAP
3 6 (6.061%) Twitter
4 4 (4.040%) Facebook
4 4 (4.040%) Zend
4 4 (4.040%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.040%) Apple
5 2 (2.020%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.020%) Borland
6 1 (1.010%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.010%) Interwoven
6 1 (1.010%) Lotus
6 1 (1.010%) IBM
6 1 (1.010%) EPiServer
6 1 (1.010%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.010%) Ektron
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