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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

LinkDeveloper
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank111
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching contract IT job ads11108912618956
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.37 %19.84 %23.16 %
As % of the Job Titles category27.80 %21.86 %24.92 %
Daily rates quoted559831456135
Average daily rate£425£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£615
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted301481926
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--7.690 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.50£16.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£46.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-7.690 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
399614174576056
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.29 %90.76 %92.92 %
Daily rates quoted178101304622755
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted245839516731
Average hourly rate£18.00£20.84£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.62 %-5.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.50£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.00£21.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-4.760 %

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.

Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Developer Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010.

Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandNo change010531£425+20.56 %
LondonNo change07072£500+25.00 %
City of LondonDown-12392£525+16.66 %
South EastUp+11270£301-
South WestUp+2485£310+3.33 %
North WestUp+1429£275-8.33 %
ScotlandNo change0350£300-9.09 %
YorkshireNo change0319£270-10.00 %
East of EnglandNo change0317£300+4.34 %
BerkshireUp+2315£310-11.42 %
West MidlandsUp+1296£300-11.11 %
SurreyNo change0229£300+7.14 %
ManchesterNo change0213£275-21.42 %
West YorkshireUp+1205£270-10.00 %
HampshireNo change0196£300-6.61 %
Canary WharfNo change0185£550+10.00 %
East MidlandsDown-1183£275+10.00 %
LeedsUp+2155£270-10.00 %
EdinburghDown-1141£275-15.38 %
Docklands, LondonNo change0129£500+11.11 %
GlasgowDown-1112£320-8.24 %
ReadingUp+1108£310-8.82 %
WiltshireUp+599£300-7.69 %
HertfordshireUp+196£275-11.29 %
BuckinghamshireUp+386£250-9.09 %
CambridgeshireNo change085£300+9.09 %
BirminghamNo change084£250-23.07 %
WalesDown-578£275-
BristolDown-175£238+5.55 %
CheshireDown-168£306-12.50 %

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

15985 (28.40 %)C#
25871 (27.86 %)Java
35761 (27.34 %).NET
45590 (26.53 %)SQL
54462 (21.18 %)Banking
64371 (20.74 %)SQL Server
73765 (17.87 %)Oracle
83084 (14.64 %)Finance
93080 (14.62 %)XML
103046 (14.46 %)Investment Banking
112836 (13.46 %)ASP.NET
122813 (13.35 %)JavaScript
132626 (12.46 %)CSS
142601 (12.34 %)Front Office
152556 (12.13 %)HTML
162272 (10.78 %)C++
172197 (10.43 %)Derivative
182180 (10.35 %)UNIX
192138 (10.15 %)OO
201681 (7.978 %)Web Services
211680 (7.973 %)SQL Server 2005
221602 (7.603 %)Spring
231563 (7.418 %)Agile Software Development
241454 (6.900 %)AJAX
251452 (6.891 %)Windows
261395 (6.620 %)Sybase
271379 (6.545 %)Microsoft
281369 (6.497 %)PHP
291359 (6.450 %)J2EE
301342 (6.369 %)Linux

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15761 (27.34 %).NET
23080 (14.62 %)XML
32836 (13.46 %)ASP.NET
42626 (12.46 %)CSS
52556 (12.13 %)HTML
61681 (7.978 %)Web Services
71602 (7.603 %)Spring
81454 (6.900 %)AJAX
91359 (6.450 %)J2EE
101119 (5.311 %)Hibernate
111082 (5.135 %)XHTML
12999 (4.741 %)WinForms
13774 (3.673 %)Flash
14694 (3.294 %)WPF
15690 (3.275 %)XSLT
16673 (3.194 %)jQuery
17629 (2.985 %)MVC
18624 (2.961 %).NET Framework
19613 (2.909 %)WCF
20585 (2.776 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11094 (5.192 %)SharePoint
2619 (2.938 %)CMS
3599 (2.843 %)SharePoint Server 2007
4501 (2.378 %)Apache
5395 (1.875 %)Tomcat
6313 (1.485 %)WebLogic
7271 (1.286 %)Drupal
8270 (1.281 %)IIS
9190 (0.902 %)Rendezvous
10179 (0.850 %)MQSeries
11130 (0.617 %)BizTalk Server
12128 (0.607 %)TIBCO EMS
13127 (0.603 %)SAS
14120 (0.570 %)ESB
15105 (0.498 %)Oracle Workflow
1698 (0.465 %)WebSphere MQ
1791 (0.432 %)ColdFusion
1885 (0.403 %)EPiServer
1977 (0.365 %)WebSphere Application Server
2071 (0.337 %)WebSphere Portal
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1569 (2.700 %)MS Excel
2285 (1.353 %)Photoshop
3252 (1.196 %)MS Office
4191 (0.906 %)Spreadsheet
5124 (0.588 %)InfoPath
669 (0.327 %)Adobe Illustrator
767 (0.318 %)MS Visio
859 (0.280 %)Fireworks
943 (0.204 %)MS PowerPoint
1028 (0.133 %)MS Project
1116 (0.076 %)MATLAB
1212 (0.057 %)CA Clarity
138 (0.038 %)Quicktime
146 (0.028 %)Acrobat
155 (0.024 %)InDesign
164 (0.019 %)Adobe Captivate
173 (0.014 %)Paint Shop Pro
173 (0.014 %)DOC1
182 (0.009 %)Shockwave
182 (0.009 %)ImageReady
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1129 (0.612 %)Endur
2101 (0.479 %)Dynamics CRM
389 (0.422 %)BusinessWorks
464 (0.304 %)Summit
562 (0.294 %)Oracle Applications
661 (0.289 %)Microsoft CRM
754 (0.256 %)Oracle EBS
850 (0.237 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
949 (0.233 %)TIBCO iProcess
949 (0.233 %)ION MarketView
1042 (0.199 %)Oracle 11i
1140 (0.190 %)Dynamics AX
1236 (0.171 %)Oracle EBS R12
1331 (0.147 %)Siebel Analytics
1331 (0.147 %)RMDS
1429 (0.138 %)Remedy ITSM
1429 (0.138 %)Axapta
1526 (0.123 %)Oracle Financials
1622 (0.104 %)Sophis RISQUE
1721 (0.100 %)SunGard Martini
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1387 (1.837 %)Internet
2271 (1.286 %)Intranet
3207 (0.982 %)HTTP
4107 (0.508 %)TCP/IP
577 (0.365 %)LDAP
652 (0.247 %)Extranet
744 (0.209 %)FTP
744 (0.209 %)Bluetooth
840 (0.190 %)Wireless
933 (0.157 %)SSL
1027 (0.128 %)DNS
1126 (0.123 %)SMS
1126 (0.123 %)3G
1221 (0.100 %)WAN
1221 (0.100 %)DVB
1319 (0.090 %)HTTPS
1418 (0.085 %)SNMP
1514 (0.066 %)LAN
1514 (0.066 %)Firewall
1514 (0.066 %)Network Security
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14371 (20.74 %)SQL Server
21680 (7.973 %)SQL Server 2005
3993 (4.713 %)MySQL
4878 (4.167 %)Datawarehouse
5774 (3.673 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6697 (3.308 %)Oracle 10g
7652 (3.094 %)ETL
8587 (2.786 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
9540 (2.563 %)BusinessObjects
10509 (2.416 %)SQL Server 2008
11477 (2.264 %)RDBMS
12448 (2.126 %)SQL Server 2000
12448 (2.126 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13357 (1.694 %)Oracle Reports
14304 (1.443 %)OLAP
15237 (1.125 %)Crystal Reports
16217 (1.030 %)Oracle 8/8i
17216 (1.025 %)Oracle 9i
18207 (0.982 %)MS Access
19206 (0.978 %)BusinessObjects XI
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1902 (4.281 %)Visual Studio
2706 (3.351 %)Subversion
3543 (2.577 %)JUnit
4401 (1.903 %)Eclipse
5332 (1.576 %)Ant
6310 (1.471 %)Maven
7302 (1.433 %)ClearCase
8297 (1.410 %)NUnit
9199 (0.944 %)Oracle Forms
10146 (0.693 %)Team Foundation Server
11141 (0.669 %)Dreamweaver
12128 (0.607 %)VSS/SourceSafe
13127 (0.603 %)TeamCity
14110 (0.522 %)FitNesse
15104 (0.494 %)Selenium
1680 (0.380 %)ClearQuest
1778 (0.370 %)JIRA
1863 (0.299 %)CruiseControl
1962 (0.294 %)ReSharper
2061 (0.289 %)Oracle APEX
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14462 (21.18 %)Banking
23084 (14.64 %)Finance
33046 (14.46 %)Investment Banking
42601 (12.34 %)Front Office
5554 (2.629 %)Government
6379 (1.799 %)Back Office
7259 (1.229 %)Telecoms
8255 (1.210 %)Retail
9241 (1.144 %)Insurance
10230 (1.092 %)Games
11222 (1.054 %)Marketing
12187 (0.887 %)Health
13144 (0.683 %)Education
13144 (0.683 %)Publishing
1497 (0.460 %)Financial Institution
1583 (0.394 %)Pensions
1672 (0.342 %)Graphic Design
1764 (0.304 %)Multimedia
1862 (0.294 %)Billing
1961 (0.289 %)Animation
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12197 (10.43 %)Derivative
21148 (5.448 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
31109 (5.263 %)Fixed Income
4753 (3.574 %)Multithreading
5673 (3.194 %)Equity Derivative
6635 (3.014 %)Equities
7465 (2.207 %)Credit Derivative
8352 (1.671 %)Credit Risk
9341 (1.618 %)NHS
10327 (1.552 %)Interest Rate Derivative
11278 (1.319 %)Open Source
12267 (1.267 %)Client/Server
13258 (1.224 %)N-Tier
14232 (1.101 %)W3C
15198 (0.940 %)Grid Computing
16189 (0.897 %)Computer Science
17187 (0.887 %)Market Risk
18182 (0.864 %)iPhone
19162 (0.769 %)Mathematics
2097 (0.460 %)E-Learning
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12180 (10.35 %)UNIX
21452 (6.891 %)Windows
31342 (6.369 %)Linux
4314 (1.490 %)Solaris
598 (0.465 %)Windows Server 2003
687 (0.413 %)Windows Mobile
784 (0.399 %)Windows XP
869 (0.327 %)Red Hat Linux
965 (0.308 %)Android
1045 (0.214 %)VMS
1142 (0.199 %)AIX
1234 (0.161 %)Windows 2000
1333 (0.157 %)Windows NT
1432 (0.152 %)Windows Server 2008
1525 (0.119 %)Windows CE
1617 (0.081 %)MVS
1716 (0.076 %)Mac OS X
1716 (0.076 %)Windows Vista
1815 (0.071 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1910 (0.047 %)CentOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12138 (10.15 %)OO
21563 (7.418 %)Agile Software Development
3845 (4.010 %)TDD
4838 (3.977 %)Business Intelligence
5754 (3.578 %)Web Development
6733 (3.479 %)Unit Testing
7720 (3.417 %)E-Commerce
8583 (2.767 %)Scrum
9562 (2.667 %)UML
10548 (2.601 %)Workflow
11542 (2.572 %)Risk Management
12513 (2.435 %)Migration
13484 (2.297 %)OOD
14398 (1.889 %)CRM
15397 (1.884 %)Content Management
16391 (1.856 %)SOA
17366 (1.737 %)Data Modelling
17366 (1.737 %)Continuous Integration
18349 (1.656 %)RAD
19269 (1.277 %)Electronic Trading
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15985 (28.40 %)C#
25871 (27.86 %)Java
35590 (26.53 %)SQL
42813 (13.35 %)JavaScript
52272 (10.78 %)C++
61369 (6.497 %)PHP
71197 (5.681 %)PL/SQL
81001 (4.751 %)C
9852 (4.043 %)T-SQL
10851 (4.039 %)VB.NET
11809 (3.839 %)VBA
12745 (3.536 %)VB
13735 (3.488 %)Perl
14560 (2.658 %)ActionScript
15413 (1.960 %)Shell Script
16373 (1.770 %)Python
17281 (1.334 %)ActionScript 3.0
18280 (1.329 %)VB6
19271 (1.286 %)PHP5
20248 (1.177 %)VC++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1921 (4.371 %)Security Cleared
2599 (2.843 %)SC Cleared
3566 (2.686 %)Degree
4133 (0.631 %)DV Cleared
5109 (0.517 %)Microsoft Certification
653 (0.252 %)CTC Cleared
745 (0.214 %)MCTS
745 (0.214 %)BC Cleared
842 (0.199 %)MCSD
937 (0.176 %)MCAD
1029 (0.138 %)Oracle Certification
1128 (0.133 %)MCP
1227 (0.128 %)PhD
1319 (0.090 %)Sun Certification
1417 (0.081 %)IBM Certification
1515 (0.071 %)MCPD
1613 (0.062 %)OCP
1712 (0.057 %)OCA
1811 (0.052 %)ITIL Certification
198 (0.038 %)MCSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1235 (1.115 %)QA
245 (0.214 %)WCAG
344 (0.209 %)SLA
426 (0.123 %)WAI
519 (0.090 %)Basel II
613 (0.062 %)HL7
613 (0.062 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
79 (0.043 %)PCI DSS
87 (0.033 %)GxP
96 (0.028 %)GAMP
96 (0.028 %)Dublin Core
104 (0.019 %)ISO9001
113 (0.014 %)TickIT
113 (0.014 %)ISO12207
122 (0.009 %)MiFID
131 (0.005 %)PAS 78
131 (0.005 %)ISO8583
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
161 (0.289 %)AquaLogic
260 (0.285 %)Active Directory
334 (0.161 %)Oracle RAC
428 (0.133 %)MSMQ
521 (0.100 %)VMware Infrastructure
68 (0.038 %)VMware ESX
68 (0.038 %)OpenSSO
73 (0.014 %)NFS
82 (0.009 %)Novell eDirectory
82 (0.009 %)Hyper-V
82 (0.009 %)Hadoop
91 (0.005 %)Xen
91 (0.005 %)SAP ITS
91 (0.005 %)Squid
91 (0.005 %)Shibboleth
91 (0.005 %)Postfix
91 (0.005 %)Sendmail
91 (0.005 %)VMware Server
91 (0.005 %)Samba
91 (0.005 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1108 (0.513 %)AutoSys
254 (0.256 %)Tivoli
350 (0.237 %)CONTROL-M
419 (0.090 %)Netcool
514 (0.066 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
514 (0.066 %)TIBCO Hawk
612 (0.057 %)OpenView
612 (0.057 %)Netcool/Webtop
711 (0.052 %)SCOM
89 (0.043 %)Data Guard
89 (0.043 %)ServiceCenter
98 (0.038 %)Nagios
107 (0.033 %)AssetCenter
107 (0.033 %)OVSD
116 (0.028 %)MSI
116 (0.028 %)Sun Identity Manager
124 (0.019 %)Ganglia
124 (0.019 %)Netcool/Proviso
133 (0.014 %)OVPI
133 (0.014 %)OpenView Configuration Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13765 (17.87 %)Oracle
21395 (6.620 %)Sybase
31379 (6.545 %)Microsoft
4582 (2.762 %)TIBCO
5540 (2.563 %)Business Objects
6442 (2.098 %)SAP
7297 (1.410 %)Cognos
8279 (1.324 %)Adobe
9254 (1.205 %)IBM
10196 (0.930 %)DataSynapse
11190 (0.902 %)Zend
12184 (0.873 %)Informatica
13175 (0.831 %)Siebel
14170 (0.807 %)JBoss
15140 (0.664 %)Bloomberg
16119 (0.565 %)OpenLink
17101 (0.479 %)Reuters
1898 (0.465 %)Calypso
1995 (0.451 %)Murex
2093 (0.441 %)Perforce