The first table below looks at the demand for Delphi skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Delphi 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 of the Programming Languages category.

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
Embarcadero Delphi
Rank 513 529 530
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +1
Contract jobs citing Delphi 21 57 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.096% 0.093%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.120% 0.278% 0.248%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 39 15
Average daily rate £305 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £257 £245 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £408 £306
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £319 £250
% change year-on-year
-5.49% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £20.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -21.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -21.15%
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17528 20495 22548
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.19% 34.57% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10822 12098 13078
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £563 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 734 915
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%

Delphi
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Delphi within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Delphi Jobs Demand Trend

Delphi
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Delphi within the UK.

Delphi Daily Rate Trend

Delphi
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Delphi within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Delphi Daily Rate Histogram

Delphi
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Delphi within the UK.

Delphi Hourly Rate Trend

Delphi
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Delphi within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +18 15 £315 -3.07%
Wales +13 6 £298 +32.22%
London +17 4 £320 -17.41%
South East 0 3 £318 -6.27%
East of England +12 2 £360 +25.21%
Yorkshire +2 2 - -
Hampshire -3 2 £318 -5.92%
East Midlands -5 2 £260 +4.00%
West Wales - 2 £293 -
Carmarthenshire - 2 £293 -
South West +28 1 - -
Derbyshire +15 1 £255 +2.00%
West Midlands +11 1 - -
Hertfordshire +11 1 £360 +20.00%
Suffolk +8 1 - -
City of London +6 1 £288 -28.12%
South Wales +2 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Carmarthen - 1 £298 -
Birmingham - 1 - -

Delphi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Delphi also 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 that cited Delphi.

1 27 (50.00%) C#
2 22 (40.74%) SQL Server
3 20 (37.04%) SQL
4 19 (35.19%) .NET
5 18 (33.33%) Oracle
6 12 (22.22%) VB
6 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 11 (20.37%) OO
8 10 (18.52%) SQL Server 2008
9 9 (16.67%) VB6
9 9 (16.67%) .NET Framework
9 9 (16.67%) MS Excel
9 9 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
9 9 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
10 8 (14.81%) PL/SQL
10 8 (14.81%) Systems Analysis
11 7 (12.96%) SQL Server 2005
11 7 (12.96%) Subversion
11 7 (12.96%) Scrum
11 7 (12.96%) PHP
11 7 (12.96%) NHS
11 7 (12.96%) RDBMS
12 6 (11.11%) Borland
12 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET
12 6 (11.11%) Firebird
13 5 (9.259%) InterBase
13 5 (9.259%) TDD
13 5 (9.259%) QA
13 5 (9.259%) Oracle 11g
13 5 (9.259%) XML

Delphi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Delphi also 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 that cited Delphi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (35.19%) .NET
2 9 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 5 (9.259%) XML
5 4 (7.407%) WinForms
6 3 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (5.556%) KnockoutJS
6 3 (5.556%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.556%) Spring
6 3 (5.556%) jQuery
7 1 (1.852%) .NET Compact Framework
7 1 (1.852%) Ajax
7 1 (1.852%) WCF
7 1 (1.852%) WPF
7 1 (1.852%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (5.556%) IIS
1 3 (5.556%) Apache
1 3 (5.556%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.704%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.704%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (1.852%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.852%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.556%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.704%) MS Office
4 1 (1.852%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (3.704%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.852%) Intranet
1 1 (1.852%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.52%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
3 9 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (12.96%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (12.96%) RDBMS
5 6 (11.11%) Firebird
6 5 (9.259%) InterBase
6 5 (9.259%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (9.259%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (9.259%) MySQL
7 2 (3.704%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.852%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Subversion
2 4 (7.407%) WebSpeed
2 4 (7.407%) JIRA
3 3 (5.556%) Selenium
3 3 (5.556%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.556%) PVCS
3 3 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (3.704%) PowerBuilder
4 2 (3.704%) LabVIEW
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.852%) ProC
General
1 3 (5.556%) Legal
2 1 (1.852%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.852%) Finance
2 1 (1.852%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (77.78%) Developer
2 15 (27.78%) C# Developer
3 11 (20.37%) Delphi Developer
4 8 (14.81%) Analyst
5 7 (12.96%) .NET Developer
6 6 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (9.259%) Programmer
8 4 (7.407%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.407%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.407%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.407%) Delphi Programmer
9 3 (5.556%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.704%) Analyst Programmer
10 2 (3.704%) Systems Analyst
10 2 (3.704%) Delphi Analyst Programmer
10 2 (3.704%) WinForms Developer
10 2 (3.704%) Report Developer
10 2 (3.704%) Senior Software Developer
10 2 (3.704%) Progress Developer
10 2 (3.704%) Database Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) NHS
2 5 (9.259%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.704%) Physics
4 1 (1.852%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.852%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.852%) Pocket PC
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.407%) Windows
2 3 (5.556%) Linux
3 1 (1.852%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.37%) OO
2 8 (14.81%) Systems Analysis
3 7 (12.96%) Scrum
4 5 (9.259%) TDD
5 4 (7.407%) Project Management
5 4 (7.407%) Refactoring
5 4 (7.407%) Business Analysis
5 4 (7.407%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (7.407%) Unit Testing
6 3 (5.556%) MVC
6 3 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (3.704%) Data Modelling
7 2 (3.704%) ETL
7 2 (3.704%) CRM
7 2 (3.704%) UML
7 2 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (3.704%) Software Engineering
7 2 (3.704%) Migration
7 2 (3.704%) Signal Processing
7 2 (3.704%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) C#
2 20 (37.04%) SQL
3 12 (22.22%) VB
4 9 (16.67%) VB6
5 8 (14.81%) PL/SQL
6 7 (12.96%) PHP
7 5 (9.259%) Python
8 4 (7.407%) VB.NET
8 4 (7.407%) Java
9 3 (5.556%) C
10 2 (3.704%) Pascal
10 2 (3.704%) MATLAB
10 2 (3.704%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.852%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.852%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.556%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.704%) Degree
2 2 (3.704%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.852%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.852%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.259%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Oracle
2 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) Borland
4 4 (7.407%) Progress
5 3 (5.556%) Sculptor
6 2 (3.704%) Lotus
7 1 (1.852%) Brio
7 1 (1.852%) Civica
7 1 (1.852%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.852%) Sun
7 1 (1.852%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.852%) Pegasus
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You must have a good degree in a numerate discipline with knowledge and experience of programming in at least one language such as Perl, Java, Delphi, C# or...
University Hospital Birmingham
Rate: Excellent salary plus benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Somerset, South West
Delphi & C++ /Somerset/ 3 months / £25-£33 per hour Our client based in Somersetis currently looking to recruit several C++ and Delphisoftware engineers. The client requires software engineers...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013