The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk 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 21 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 Suffolk 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 2 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 46 79 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 28.75% 31.23% 40.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 30.07% 32.11% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 63 33
Average daily rate £275 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £413 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
153 246 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 95.63% 97.23% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 132 76
Average daily rate £325 £325 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £258 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £425 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 10
Average hourly rate £12.50 £22.88 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.35% +30.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.71 £35.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
East of England

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Developer Hourly Rate Trend

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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 21 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
Ipswich -1 20 £350 +7.69%
Bury St Edmunds -3 3 £225 -30.76%
Developer
East of England

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 50 (71.43%) .NET
2 39 (55.71%) ASP.NET
3 36 (51.43%) SQL Server
4 35 (50.00%) C#
5 27 (38.57%) SQL Server 2008
6 23 (32.86%) WCF
6 23 (32.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (31.43%) SQL
8 20 (28.57%) HTML
8 20 (28.57%) CSS
9 19 (27.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
11 13 (18.57%) VB.NET
12 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
12 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (12.86%) .NET Framework
13 9 (12.86%) SharePoint
13 9 (12.86%) N-Tier
13 9 (12.86%) T-SQL
13 9 (12.86%) Windows
14 8 (11.43%) Web Services
14 8 (11.43%) E-Commerce
15 7 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
15 7 (10.00%) MVC
15 7 (10.00%) Graphic Design
15 7 (10.00%) LINQ
16 6 (8.571%) Hibernate
16 6 (8.571%) Validation
16 6 (8.571%) Java
16 6 (8.571%) SharePoint 2010

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 50 (71.43%) .NET
2 39 (55.71%) ASP.NET
3 23 (32.86%) WCF
4 20 (28.57%) HTML
4 20 (28.57%) CSS
5 9 (12.86%) .NET Framework
6 8 (11.43%) Web Services
7 7 (10.00%) LINQ
8 6 (8.571%) Hibernate
9 5 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (7.143%) Silverlight
10 4 (5.714%) jQuery
11 3 (4.286%) XML
11 3 (4.286%) LAMP
11 3 (4.286%) WPF
11 3 (4.286%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 2 (2.857%) Ajax
12 2 (2.857%) NHibernate
12 2 (2.857%) Spring
12 2 (2.857%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.86%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
3 6 (8.571%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.857%) Apache Pig
4 2 (2.857%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.857%) MSMQ
5 1 (1.429%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.429%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (1.429%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.429%) MS Office
1 1 (1.429%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.429%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (51.43%) SQL Server
2 27 (38.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (32.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 19 (27.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.143%) MySQL
8 3 (4.286%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.286%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.857%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.857%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.857%) CouchDB
9 2 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.429%) OLAP
10 1 (1.429%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.429%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (1.429%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (1.429%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.429%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.429%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.429%) ProC
2 1 (1.429%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 4 (5.714%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.86%) N-Tier
2 7 (10.00%) Graphic Design
3 3 (4.286%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.286%) NHS
4 2 (2.857%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.857%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.429%) iPhone
5 1 (1.429%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.429%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.86%) Windows
2 3 (4.286%) Android
2 3 (4.286%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (2.857%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.857%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (2.857%) Linux
4 1 (1.429%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (11.43%) E-Commerce
2 7 (10.00%) MVC
3 6 (8.571%) Validation
4 5 (7.143%) ETL
5 4 (5.714%) Project Management
6 3 (4.286%) SOA
6 3 (4.286%) Web Development
7 2 (2.857%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (2.857%) Software Engineering
7 2 (2.857%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (2.857%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (2.857%) CRM
8 1 (1.429%) SEO
8 1 (1.429%) TDD
8 1 (1.429%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) C#
2 22 (31.43%) SQL
3 13 (18.57%) VB.NET
4 9 (12.86%) T-SQL
5 6 (8.571%) Java
6 4 (5.714%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.714%) PHP
7 2 (2.857%) C++
8 1 (1.429%) Delphi
8 1 (1.429%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.429%) VBA
8 1 (1.429%) C
8 1 (1.429%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.429%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.429%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.429%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.857%) Twitter
2 2 (2.857%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (1.429%) Oracle
3 1 (1.429%) Hyperion
3 1 (1.429%) Brio
3 1 (1.429%) Talend
Suffolk, East Anglia
A good understanding of SSIS is also very important. The company is operating an Agile and Test Driven Design environment.This is an urgent project and the company...
TRG
Rate: 400 Per Day Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
Suffolk
Hibernate, Spring, JAVA, Web services... * Sharing knowledge and outcomes with project managers * Estimating time of completion on your direct area of expertise Skills the JAVA Developer will need: *...
TRG
Posted: 15 May 2013
Suffolk, East Anglia
An exciting contract opportunity for my Suffolk based client, My client a leading company within their sector has a new requirement for an experienced developer with strong skills...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013