The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 17 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 Surrey 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Developer
Rank 53 57 51
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 24 43 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.107% 2.612% 2.827%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.247% 2.812% 3.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 29
Average daily rate £400 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £444 £600 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.64%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1068 1529 1761
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.77% 92.89% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 809 867
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £538 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 125 81
Average hourly rate £17.00 £24.00 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% +1.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Senior Developer
South East

Senior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Senior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey Senior Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Staines - 5 - -
Reigate +8 3 £425 -29.16%
Woking +4 3 £375 -6.25%
Guildford -17 2 £425 -
Camberley - 1 - -
Epsom - 1 £400 -
Senior Developer
South East

Senior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 17 (42.50%) Oracle
2 16 (40.00%) .NET
2 16 (40.00%) Java
3 15 (37.50%) C#
4 13 (32.50%) SQL Server
5 12 (30.00%) Spring
6 11 (27.50%) TDD
7 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
7 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
7 9 (22.50%) CSS
7 9 (22.50%) E-Commerce
8 8 (20.00%) OO
8 8 (20.00%) XML
8 8 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (17.50%) CMS
9 7 (17.50%) MVC
9 7 (17.50%) UML
10 6 (15.00%) PHP
10 6 (15.00%) Scrum
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (12.50%) GWT
11 5 (12.50%) Google
11 5 (12.50%) NHibernate
11 5 (12.50%) Finance
11 5 (12.50%) MySQL
11 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
11 5 (12.50%) OOD
11 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
11 5 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
11 5 (12.50%) Web Application Development

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 16 (40.00%) .NET
2 12 (30.00%) Spring
3 9 (22.50%) CSS
3 9 (22.50%) Hibernate
4 8 (20.00%) XML
5 5 (12.50%) NHibernate
5 5 (12.50%) GWT
6 4 (10.00%) WCF
6 4 (10.00%) Middleware
7 3 (7.500%) WPF
7 3 (7.500%) jQuery
7 3 (7.500%) HTML
7 3 (7.500%) Web Services
7 3 (7.500%) Flash
7 3 (7.500%) XHTML
8 2 (5.000%) J2EE
8 2 (5.000%) Guice
8 2 (5.000%) HTML5
8 2 (5.000%) Silverlight
8 2 (5.000%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) CMS
2 4 (10.00%) ESB
2 4 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (10.00%) Adobe CQ
3 3 (7.500%) WordPress
3 3 (7.500%) Apache
3 3 (7.500%) Joomla!
3 3 (7.500%) Drupal
4 2 (5.000%) Mule
5 1 (2.500%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.500%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.500%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.000%) BSS
3 1 (2.500%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.500%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.500%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.500%) NUnit
1 3 (7.500%) TestNG
1 3 (7.500%) Moq
2 2 (5.000%) Mockito
2 2 (5.000%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.000%) Git (software)
2 2 (5.000%) DbUnit
2 2 (5.000%) Subversion
2 2 (5.000%) Maven
2 2 (5.000%) JUnit
2 2 (5.000%) Xcode
3 1 (2.500%) Ant
3 1 (2.500%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.500%) ReSharper
General
1 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.000%) Law
4 1 (2.500%) Games
4 1 (2.500%) Billing
4 1 (2.500%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.500%) iPhone
2 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.000%) Data Extraction
3 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Android
1 4 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.500%) Linux
3 1 (2.500%) UNIX
3 1 (2.500%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) TDD
2 9 (22.50%) E-Commerce
3 8 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (20.00%) OO
4 7 (17.50%) UML
4 7 (17.50%) MVC
5 6 (15.00%) Scrum
5 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (12.50%) Web Application Development
6 5 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 5 (12.50%) OOD
7 4 (10.00%) Content Management
7 4 (10.00%) Memory Management
7 4 (10.00%) Multithreading
7 4 (10.00%) Project Management
8 3 (7.500%) Migration
8 3 (7.500%) SOA
9 2 (5.000%) ETL
9 2 (5.000%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (40.00%) Java
2 15 (37.50%) C#
3 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) PHP
5 4 (10.00%) Objective-C
6 3 (7.500%) SQL
7 2 (5.000%) Perl
7 2 (5.000%) AWK
7 2 (5.000%) C
7 2 (5.000%) Groovy
8 1 (2.500%) Ruby
8 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.500%) C++
8 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.500%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.500%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (5.000%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.500%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (10.00%) Adobe
4 2 (5.000%) Progress
4 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.500%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.500%) SAP
5 1 (2.500%) JBoss