The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 27 36 23
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 1 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.690% 2.016% 5.263%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.725% 2.075% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
Average daily rate £275 £288 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% -5.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.75 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -17.64%
All Job Titles
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
138 241 180
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 95.17% 97.18% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 127 83
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £258 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 12
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.88 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.42% +22.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 £35.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk Senior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk Senior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Suffolk 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
Ipswich 0 1 £275 -4.34%
Senior Developer
East of England

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region that cited Senior 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 Senior Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XHTML
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) SOA
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) SEO
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft