Suffolk Applications Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the Suffolk 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 Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Avon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.633 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£342
% change on same period last year	-3.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.63	£35.63
% change on same period last year	-11.20 %
Job Titles Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	158	253
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.211 %	0.256 %
Daily rates quoted	45	59
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£301
Average daily rate	£348	£316
% change on same period last year	+10.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	54
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.79	£19.94
Average hourly rate	£22.77	£20.77
% change on same period last year	+9.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.75	£21.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Applications Developer East of England

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 Applications Developer across the Suffolk 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 Applications Developer across the Suffolk region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the Suffolk region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Ipswich	-	1	-	-

Applications Developer East of England

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 1 (100.00 %) SOAP 1 1 (100.00 %) Struts 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) UML 1 1 (100.00 %) OOA/OOD 1 1 (100.00 %) OO 1 1 (100.00 %) SOA 1 1 (100.00 %) WSDL 1 1 (100.00 %) WebWork 1 1 (100.00 %) Use Case

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 1 (100.00 %) SOAP 1 1 (100.00 %) Struts 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) XML 1 1 (100.00 %) WSDL 1 1 (100.00 %) WebWork	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) UML 1 1 (100.00 %) OOA/OOD 1 1 (100.00 %) OO 1 1 (100.00 %) SOA 1 1 (100.00 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java