Surrey Senior Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Developer role in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Senior Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Developer
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Louth Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	77
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	36	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	1.862 %	1.281 %
Daily rates quoted	25	8
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£361
Average daily rate	£319	£397
% change on same period last year	-19.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£385
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£38.00
Average hourly rate	£46.00	£41.50
% change on same period last year	+10.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£52.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.68	£42.25
% change on same period last year	-6.08 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1933	2185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.549 %	2.318 %
Daily rates quoted	549	538
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£331
Average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	270	266
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£22.84
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Senior Developer South East

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 Senior Developer across the Surrey 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 Senior Developer across the Surrey region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Senior Developer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 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
Farnham	-	4	£325	-
Guildford	+11	4	£381	-
Camberley	-	2	£220	-
Woking	0	1	-	-
Weybridge	-	1	-	-

Senior Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 37 (48.05 %) .NET 2 31 (40.26 %) C# 3 25 (32.47 %) Agile Software Development 4 21 (27.27 %) Scrum 5 19 (24.68 %) MVC 5 19 (24.68 %) TDD 5 19 (24.68 %) NUnit 6 15 (19.48 %) VB.NET 6 15 (19.48 %) SQL 7 12 (15.58 %) PHP 7 12 (15.58 %) Visual Studio 7 12 (15.58 %) ASP.NET 8 11 (14.29 %) Hibernate 8 11 (14.29 %) PHP5 9 10 (12.99 %) Marketing

9 10 (12.99 %) Spring 9 10 (12.99 %) Oracle 9 10 (12.99 %) XML 9 10 (12.99 %) OO 10 9 (11.69 %) WebServices 10 9 (11.69 %) SQL Server 10 9 (11.69 %) MonoRail 11 8 (10.39 %) JavaScript 12 7 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 12 7 (9.091 %) MySQL 13 6 (7.792 %) SAP 13 6 (7.792 %) ABAP 13 6 (7.792 %) Windows 13 6 (7.792 %) SAPscript 13 6 (7.792 %) SAP Smart Forms

Senior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 37 (48.05 %) .NET 2 12 (15.58 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (14.29 %) Hibernate 4 10 (12.99 %) XML 4 10 (12.99 %) Spring 5 9 (11.69 %) MonoRail 5 9 (11.69 %) WebServices 6 6 (7.792 %) SAP Smart Forms 6 6 (7.792 %) BAPI 6 6 (7.792 %) SAP ALE 7 5 (6.494 %) AJAX 7 5 (6.494 %) XHTML 8 4 (5.195 %) WinForms 8 4 (5.195 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (3.896 %) CSS 9 3 (3.896 %) J2EE 10 2 (2.597 %) EJB 10 2 (2.597 %) HTML 10 2 (2.597 %) LAMP 10 2 (2.597 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.896 %) Apache 2 2 (2.597 %) IIS 2 2 (2.597 %) ColdFusion 2 2 (2.597 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.299 %) CMS 3 1 (1.299 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (1.299 %) ESB 3 1 (1.299 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.299 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (1.299 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.299 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 6 (7.792 %) SAP Retail 2 2 (2.597 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (1.299 %) Great Plains 3 1 (1.299 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.597 %) HTTP 1 2 (2.597 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (2.597 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.299 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (11.69 %) SQL Server 2 7 (9.091 %) MySQL 3 4 (5.195 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (5.195 %) Datawarehouse 3 4 (5.195 %) DTS 4 3 (3.896 %) BODI 4 3 (3.896 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (2.597 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (2.597 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (1.299 %) DataStage 6 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (1.299 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (1.299 %) Data Mining 6 1 (1.299 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.299 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 19 (24.68 %) NUnit 2 12 (15.58 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (3.896 %) ClearCase 3 3 (3.896 %) Subversion 4 1 (1.299 %) JUnit 4 1 (1.299 %) LSMW 4 1 (1.299 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (1.299 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 10 (12.99 %) Marketing 2 6 (7.792 %) Retail 3 3 (3.896 %) Insurance 3 3 (3.896 %) Finance 4 1 (1.299 %) Publishing 4 1 (1.299 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.299 %) Front Office 4 1 (1.299 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.597 %) Client/Server 1 2 (2.597 %) N-Tier 1 2 (2.597 %) DTV 1 2 (2.597 %) STB 1 2 (2.597 %) PDA 1 2 (2.597 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.299 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 6 (7.792 %) Windows 2 3 (3.896 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (32.47 %) Agile Software Development 2 21 (27.27 %) Scrum 3 19 (24.68 %) MVC 3 19 (24.68 %) TDD 4 10 (12.99 %) OO 5 3 (3.896 %) RUP 6 2 (2.597 %) CRM 6 2 (2.597 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (2.597 %) SOA 6 2 (2.597 %) B2B 6 2 (2.597 %) Service Management 6 2 (2.597 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (2.597 %) UML 6 2 (2.597 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.299 %) Time Management 7 1 (1.299 %) Performance Management 7 1 (1.299 %) OOP 7 1 (1.299 %) Project Planning 7 1 (1.299 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.299 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 31 (40.26 %) C# 2 15 (19.48 %) SQL 2 15 (19.48 %) VB.NET 3 12 (15.58 %) PHP 4 11 (14.29 %) PHP5 5 8 (10.39 %) JavaScript 6 7 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (7.792 %) PHP4 7 6 (7.792 %) SAPscript 7 6 (7.792 %) ABAP 8 3 (3.896 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (3.896 %) Perl 8 3 (3.896 %) DHTML 8 3 (3.896 %) Java 9 2 (2.597 %) C++ 9 2 (2.597 %) ActionScript 9 2 (2.597 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (2.597 %) Degree 2 1 (1.299 %) MCAD 2 1 (1.299 %) MCSD 2 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.597 %) QA
Vendors 1 10 (12.99 %) Oracle 2 6 (7.792 %) SAP 3 3 (3.896 %) Microsoft 4 2 (2.597 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.299 %) IBM 5 1 (1.299 %) salesforce.com