The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Sussex 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 22 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 Sussex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 3 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 3 16 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sussex 16.67% 41.03% 26.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.65% 47.06% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 8
Average daily rate £325 £300 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
17 34 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sussex 94.44% 87.18% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 18
Average daily rate £450 £325 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% -27.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
South East

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sussex Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sussex 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 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Ant
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Talend
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) MUMPS
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Infobright
3 1 (16.67%) XPath
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (16.67%) Android
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sussex 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 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XSLT
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Ant
1 2 (33.33%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) DbUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) MUMPS
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) XPath
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) Infobright
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft