Tyne and Wear Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Tyne and Wear region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexhill-On-Sea Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dumbarton Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Grimsby Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	1
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	97	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.128 %	0.143 %
As % of the category below	28.96 %	27.80 %
Daily rates quoted	12	25
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£378
Average daily rate	£326	£391
% change on same period last year	-16.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.15	£33.35
Average hourly rate	£33.85	£36.12
% change on same period last year	-6.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.54	£38.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.01	£33.46
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Job Titles Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	335	518
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.442 %	0.516 %
Daily rates quoted	74	113
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£325
Average daily rate	£322	£342
% change on same period last year	-5.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.22	£22.77
Average hourly rate	£22.43	£24.22
% change on same period last year	-7.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.63	£25.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Developer North 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 Developer across the Tyne and Wear 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 Developer across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 Developer across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 jobs citing Developer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Newcastle	+1	48	£353	-4.56 %
Newcastle Upon Tyne	0	40	£300	-23.45 %
Sunderland	-	15	-	-
Gateshead	-	1	-	-

Developer North East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 83 (37.90 %) .NET 2 77 (35.16 %) C# 3 73 (33.33 %) SQL 4 48 (21.92 %) SQL Server 5 47 (21.46 %) ASP.NET 5 47 (21.46 %) PHP 6 42 (19.18 %) Linux 7 37 (16.89 %) Apache 8 35 (15.98 %) LAMP 9 34 (15.53 %) COBOL 10 33 (15.07 %) Oracle 10 33 (15.07 %) Dreamweaver 11 31 (14.16 %) SQL Server 2005 12 27 (12.33 %) PL/SQL 13 25 (11.42 %) Macromedia

14 24 (10.96 %) XML 15 22 (10.05 %) HTML 15 22 (10.05 %) Web Development 16 20 (9.132 %) VB.NET 17 19 (8.676 %) MySQL 17 19 (8.676 %) Visual Studio 18 17 (7.763 %) Microsoft 19 16 (7.306 %) C++ 20 15 (6.849 %) ETL 21 14 (6.393 %) CSS 21 14 (6.393 %) Windows 21 14 (6.393 %) .NET Framework 22 13 (5.936 %) Java 22 13 (5.936 %) Transact-SQL 22 13 (5.936 %) Datawarehouse

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 83 (37.90 %) .NET 2 47 (21.46 %) ASP.NET 3 35 (15.98 %) LAMP 4 24 (10.96 %) XML 5 22 (10.05 %) HTML 6 14 (6.393 %) CSS 6 14 (6.393 %) .NET Framework 7 12 (5.479 %) ASP 8 11 (5.023 %) XHTML 9 10 (4.566 %) J2EE 10 9 (4.110 %) AJAX 10 9 (4.110 %) ATL 11 6 (2.740 %) XSLT 11 6 (2.740 %) Struts 11 6 (2.740 %) WebServices 12 5 (2.283 %) Hibernate 12 5 (2.283 %) Spring 12 5 (2.283 %) XSL 13 3 (1.370 %) Java EE 13 3 (1.370 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 37 (16.89 %) Apache 2 9 (4.110 %) SharePoint 3 7 (3.196 %) WebLogic 4 5 (2.283 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 5 (2.283 %) PowerExchange 5 2 (0.913 %) SAS 5 2 (0.913 %) CMS 5 2 (0.913 %) Oracle Workflow 6 1 (0.457 %) Oracle Spatial 6 1 (0.457 %) Tomcat 6 1 (0.457 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (1.826 %) MS Office 2 2 (0.913 %) MS Excel 2 2 (0.913 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.457 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (0.457 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.457 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (0.913 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (0.913 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.370 %) Internet 2 1 (0.457 %) Extranet 2 1 (0.457 %) SSL 2 1 (0.457 %) FTP 2 1 (0.457 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 48 (21.92 %) SQL Server 2 31 (14.16 %) SQL Server 2005 3 19 (8.676 %) MySQL 4 15 (6.849 %) ETL 5 13 (5.936 %) Datawarehouse 6 11 (5.023 %) SQL Server 2000 6 11 (5.023 %) PowerCenter 7 10 (4.566 %) Oracle 10g 8 8 (3.653 %) BusinessObjects 9 7 (3.196 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 7 (3.196 %) Oracle 9i 9 7 (3.196 %) Oracle Reports 9 7 (3.196 %) RDBMS 10 6 (2.740 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 6 (2.740 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 5 (2.283 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 11 5 (2.283 %) OLAP 12 4 (1.826 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 4 (1.826 %) Oracle OWB 13 3 (1.370 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 33 (15.07 %) Dreamweaver 2 19 (8.676 %) Visual Studio 3 6 (2.740 %) Oracle Forms 4 5 (2.283 %) NUnit 4 5 (2.283 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 4 (1.826 %) JUnit 6 3 (1.370 %) Telon 7 2 (0.913 %) Rational Rose 7 2 (0.913 %) JDeveloper 7 2 (0.913 %) ProC 7 2 (0.913 %) Ant 7 2 (0.913 %) ClearCase 7 2 (0.913 %) COOL:Gen 8 1 (0.457 %) PVCS 8 1 (0.457 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (0.457 %) Eclipse	General 1 12 (5.479 %) Telecoms 2 9 (4.110 %) Government 3 6 (2.740 %) Finance 4 5 (2.283 %) Education 5 3 (1.370 %) Police 5 3 (1.370 %) Banking 5 3 (1.370 %) Health 6 2 (0.913 %) Automotive 6 2 (0.913 %) Local Government 6 2 (0.913 %) Games 6 2 (0.913 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.457 %) Retail 7 1 (0.457 %) Pensions 7 1 (0.457 %) Interactive Media 7 1 (0.457 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.457 %) Advertising
Miscellaneous 1 7 (3.196 %) Multithreading 2 3 (1.370 %) Blog 2 3 (1.370 %) N-Tier 3 2 (0.913 %) NHS 3 2 (0.913 %) Statistics 3 2 (0.913 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.457 %) VLE 4 1 (0.457 %) PDA 4 1 (0.457 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (0.457 %) Contract for Difference 4 1 (0.457 %) Spread Betting 4 1 (0.457 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 42 (19.18 %) Linux 2 14 (6.393 %) Windows 3 12 (5.479 %) UNIX 4 3 (1.370 %) Solaris 5 2 (0.913 %) MVS 6 1 (0.457 %) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (10.05 %) Web Development 2 8 (3.653 %) UML 3 7 (3.196 %) Migration 3 7 (3.196 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 6 (2.740 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (2.740 %) Business Analysis 5 5 (2.283 %) Business Intelligence 6 4 (1.826 %) OOA/OOD 6 4 (1.826 %) OO 6 4 (1.826 %) Data Migration 6 4 (1.826 %) Agile Software Development 6 4 (1.826 %) Data Management 7 3 (1.370 %) Unit Testing 8 2 (0.913 %) Workflow 8 2 (0.913 %) Project Management 8 2 (0.913 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (0.913 %) RUP 8 2 (0.913 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (0.913 %) Content Management 8 2 (0.913 %) Unified Process	Programming Languages 1 77 (35.16 %) C# 2 73 (33.33 %) SQL 3 47 (21.46 %) PHP 4 34 (15.53 %) COBOL 5 27 (12.33 %) PL/SQL 6 20 (9.132 %) VB.NET 7 16 (7.306 %) C++ 8 13 (5.936 %) Java 8 13 (5.936 %) Transact-SQL 9 11 (5.023 %) VB 10 9 (4.110 %) C 11 8 (3.653 %) JavaScript 11 8 (3.653 %) VB6 12 5 (2.283 %) Korn 13 4 (1.826 %) JCL 14 2 (0.913 %) PHP4 15 1 (0.457 %) PHP5 15 1 (0.457 %) RPG 15 1 (0.457 %) DHTML 15 1 (0.457 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 5 (2.283 %) Degree 2 3 (1.370 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.457 %) Oracle Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.457 %) QA 1 1 (0.457 %) HL7
System Software 1 2 (0.913 %) ISA Server 1 2 (0.913 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (0.913 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 33 (15.07 %) Oracle 2 25 (11.42 %) Macromedia 3 17 (7.763 %) Microsoft 4 12 (5.479 %) Informatica 5 8 (3.653 %) Business Objects 6 6 (2.740 %) BEA 7 3 (1.370 %) Sun 8 2 (0.913 %) Plumtree 8 2 (0.913 %) webMethods 9 1 (0.457 %) Metastorm 9 1 (0.457 %) Genesys 9 1 (0.457 %) Compuware