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 16 May 2012 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.

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.

Developer
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank221
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-1
Matching contract IT job ads126811482014371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK21.43 %24.15 %26.10 %
As % of the Job Titles category23.15 %26.05 %28.39 %
Number of daily rates quoted792988597796
Average daily rate£375£413£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %-8.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£258£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted246388376
Average hourly rate£32.50£35.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14 %+16.66 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£18.30£17.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.90£45.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.50£35.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+27.27 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012. 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 change011895£375-11.76 %
LondonUp+16394£425-15.00 %
South EastNo change01822£325-
City of LondonNo change01670£450-17.43 %
South WestUp+1732£350+12.44 %
East of EnglandUp+1727£325+4.00 %
North WestUp+2707£305-6.15 %
YorkshireNo change0530£325+8.33 %
West MidlandsNo change0519£313-3.84 %
ScotlandNo change0407£305-12.85 %
BerkshireNo change0392£325-
SurreyNo change0381£350-2.77 %
ManchesterUp+1352£300+9.09 %
West YorkshireNo change0345£325+8.33 %
HampshireDown-1323£325-
East MidlandsDown-1291£275-8.33 %
CambridgeshireNo change0225£325-1.51 %
HertfordshireUp+2223£325+8.33 %
LeedsUp+2219£325+8.33 %
GloucestershireDown-1178£400+33.33 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1171£300-3.61 %
OxfordshireDown-1171£325+8.33 %
BristolNo change0165£300-
BirminghamNo change0160£300+3.44 %
CambridgeNo change0156£310-4.61 %
GlasgowDown-3153£300-14.28 %
EdinburghUp+3136£313+3.30 %
CheshireUp+2129£305-12.85 %
East SussexUp+1124£338+12.50 %
WalesUp+1123£325-

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

17546 (31.03 %).NET
27142 (29.37 %)C#
37078 (29.11 %)SQL
45983 (24.61 %)Java
55831 (23.98 %)SQL Server
65373 (22.10 %)JavaScript
74889 (20.11 %)CSS
84741 (19.50 %)HTML
93982 (16.38 %)Oracle
103925 (16.14 %)Finance
113917 (16.11 %)ASP.NET
123541 (14.56 %)XML
133111 (12.79 %)jQuery
142870 (11.80 %)Banking
152716 (11.17 %)OO
162544 (10.46 %)Web Services
172455 (10.10 %)Agile Software Development
182438 (10.03 %)Microsoft
192342 (9.632 %)MVC
202175 (8.945 %)PHP
212161 (8.887 %)TDD
222017 (8.295 %)Ajax
232004 (8.241 %)Spring
241807 (7.431 %)C++
251796 (7.386 %)SQL Server 2008
261614 (6.638 %)Windows
271601 (6.584 %)Linux
281584 (6.514 %)MySQL
291553 (6.387 %)Investment Banking
301550 (6.374 %)HTML5

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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
17546 (31.03 %).NET
24889 (20.11 %)CSS
34741 (19.50 %)HTML
43917 (16.11 %)ASP.NET
53541 (14.56 %)XML
63111 (12.79 %)jQuery
72544 (10.46 %)Web Services
82017 (8.295 %)Ajax
92004 (8.241 %)Spring
101550 (6.374 %)HTML5
111538 (6.325 %)J2EE
121462 (6.013 %).NET Framework
131448 (5.955 %)WCF
141322 (5.437 %)WPF
151255 (5.161 %)Hibernate
161070 (4.400 %)XHTML
17911 (3.747 %)ASP.NET MVC
18886 (3.644 %)CSS3
19883 (3.631 %)XSLT
20701 (2.883 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11449 (5.959 %)SharePoint
2917 (3.771 %)CMS
3688 (2.829 %)SharePoint 2010
4669 (2.751 %)Apache
5565 (2.324 %)Tomcat
6515 (2.118 %)IIS
7479 (1.970 %)Drupal
8354 (1.456 %)BizTalk Server
9346 (1.423 %)WebLogic
10316 (1.300 %)SharePoint Server
11251 (1.032 %)WordPress
12209 (0.860 %)Magento
13204 (0.839 %)ESB
14179 (0.736 %)SAS
15146 (0.600 %)Umbraco
16125 (0.514 %)Rendezvous
17110 (0.452 %)WebSphere MQ
18106 (0.436 %)Joomla!
19102 (0.419 %)TIBCO EMS
2099 (0.407 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11004 (4.129 %)MS Excel
2461 (1.896 %)Photoshop
3262 (1.077 %)MS Office
4173 (0.711 %)MS Visio
5115 (0.473 %)InfoPath
6102 (0.419 %)Adobe Illustrator
776 (0.313 %)Spreadsheet
846 (0.189 %)MS PowerPoint
945 (0.185 %)Fireworks
1039 (0.160 %)MATLAB
1130 (0.123 %)MS Project
1229 (0.119 %)DOC1
1314 (0.058 %)Mingle
1412 (0.049 %)Acrobat
1511 (0.045 %)Office 365
1511 (0.045 %)PowerPivot
1511 (0.045 %)GIMP
1610 (0.041 %)Doxygen
179 (0.037 %)FreeHand
188 (0.033 %)Adobe Captivate
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1368 (1.513 %)Dynamics CRM
2126 (0.518 %)Dynamics AX
3116 (0.477 %)Oracle EBS
4103 (0.424 %)Oracle EBS R12
572 (0.296 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
670 (0.288 %)Oracle Applications
762 (0.255 %)Endur
856 (0.230 %)Oracle BPM
940 (0.165 %)Oracle 11i
1038 (0.156 %)Tridion
1134 (0.140 %)SAP ERP
1232 (0.132 %)Oracle Financials
1232 (0.132 %)BusinessWorks
1331 (0.127 %)Summit
1429 (0.119 %)Google Analytics
1528 (0.115 %)HFM
1627 (0.111 %)TIBCO iProcess
1724 (0.099 %)Hyperion Planning
1823 (0.095 %)Visualfiles
1921 (0.086 %)Oracle ERP
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1437 (1.797 %)Internet
2323 (1.328 %)Intranet
3281 (1.156 %)HTTP
4183 (0.753 %)TCP/IP
5101 (0.415 %)LDAP
687 (0.358 %)FTP
758 (0.239 %)Extranet
758 (0.239 %)SSL
855 (0.226 %)DNS
950 (0.206 %)Firewall
1034 (0.140 %)Wireless
1130 (0.123 %)Ethernet
1228 (0.115 %)3G
1327 (0.111 %)LAN
1425 (0.103 %)WAN
1521 (0.086 %)DAB
1620 (0.082 %)SAN
1719 (0.078 %)VoIP
1818 (0.074 %)Broadband
1917 (0.070 %)DHCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15831 (23.98 %)SQL Server
21796 (7.386 %)SQL Server 2008
31584 (6.514 %)MySQL
41383 (5.688 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51277 (5.252 %)SQL Server 2005
61209 (4.972 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
71031 (4.240 %)ETL
8978 (4.022 %)Data Warehouse
9651 (2.677 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
10570 (2.344 %)Oracle 11g
11529 (2.176 %)Oracle 10g
12457 (1.879 %)RDBMS
13363 (1.493 %)Oracle Reports
14329 (1.353 %)Oracle BI EE
15327 (1.345 %)Oracle 8/8i
16315 (1.295 %)OLAP
17289 (1.189 %)DB2
18242 (0.995 %)Crystal Reports
19235 (0.966 %)MS Access
20230 (0.946 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11313 (5.400 %)Visual Studio
21106 (4.548 %)Subversion
3698 (2.871 %)Maven
4627 (2.579 %)JUnit
5523 (2.151 %)Eclipse
6487 (2.003 %)Team Foundation Server
7383 (1.575 %)Ant
8337 (1.386 %)NUnit
9285 (1.172 %)Hudson
10280 (1.152 %)Git (software)
11238 (0.979 %)Selenium
12211 (0.868 %)JIRA
13210 (0.864 %)Oracle Forms
14194 (0.798 %)TeamCity
15131 (0.539 %)ClearCase
16128 (0.526 %)Cucumber
17125 (0.514 %)Xcode
18113 (0.465 %)VSS/SourceSafe
19102 (0.419 %)Rhino Mocks
2091 (0.374 %)Oracle APEX
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13925 (16.14 %)Finance
22870 (11.80 %)Banking
31553 (6.387 %)Investment Banking
41356 (5.577 %)Front Office
5560 (2.303 %)Telecoms
6491 (2.019 %)Retail
7348 (1.431 %)Marketing
8345 (1.419 %)Games
9263 (1.082 %)Back Office
10227 (0.934 %)Publishing
11168 (0.691 %)Advertising
12164 (0.674 %)Financial Institution
13116 (0.477 %)Legal
14110 (0.452 %)Music
1583 (0.341 %)Pharmaceutical
1659 (0.243 %)Multimedia
1757 (0.234 %)Automotive
1853 (0.218 %)Billing
1853 (0.218 %)Electronics
1853 (0.218 %)Law
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1824 (3.389 %)Derivative
2791 (3.253 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3559 (2.299 %)Fixed Income
4517 (2.126 %)iPhone
5499 (2.052 %)Open Source
6480 (1.974 %)Computer Science
7340 (1.398 %)iPad
8315 (1.295 %)Credit Risk
9312 (1.283 %)Digital Media
10290 (1.193 %)Mathematics
11280 (1.152 %)Equities
12276 (1.135 %)N-Tier
13255 (1.049 %)Market Risk
14236 (0.971 %)Blackberry
15212 (0.872 %)Hedge funds
16192 (0.790 %)Interest Rate Derivative
17180 (0.740 %)Equity Derivative
18179 (0.736 %)W3C
19159 (0.654 %)NHS
20150 (0.617 %)Client/Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11614 (6.638 %)Windows
21601 (6.584 %)Linux
31474 (6.062 %)UNIX
4712 (2.928 %)Android
5672 (2.764 %)Apple iOS
6188 (0.773 %)Solaris
7128 (0.526 %)Windows Server 2003
8121 (0.498 %)Windows Server 2008
9105 (0.432 %)Windows 7
10100 (0.411 %)Windows Mobile
1176 (0.313 %)Windows Phone 7
1273 (0.300 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1357 (0.234 %)Mac OS X
1456 (0.230 %)AIX
1544 (0.181 %)Windows XP
1635 (0.144 %)Windows CE
1729 (0.119 %)Embedded Linux
1828 (0.115 %)Ubuntu
1927 (0.111 %)CentOS
2020 (0.082 %)BlackBerry OS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12716 (11.17 %)OO
22455 (10.10 %)Agile Software Development
32342 (9.632 %)MVC
42161 (8.887 %)TDD
51487 (6.115 %)E-Commerce
61453 (5.975 %)Scrum
71427 (5.869 %)Multithreading
81296 (5.330 %)Business Intelligence
91045 (4.298 %)Web Development
101024 (4.211 %)Unit Testing
11728 (2.994 %)Migration
12719 (2.957 %)OOP
13684 (2.813 %)Continuous Integration
14672 (2.764 %)CRM
15610 (2.509 %)SOA
16597 (2.455 %)UML
17584 (2.402 %)Data Modelling
18570 (2.344 %)Workflow
19503 (2.069 %)Risk Management
20450 (1.851 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17142 (29.37 %)C#
27078 (29.11 %)SQL
35983 (24.61 %)Java
45373 (22.10 %)JavaScript
52175 (8.945 %)PHP
61807 (7.431 %)C++
71467 (6.033 %)PL/SQL
81247 (5.128 %)T-SQL
91123 (4.618 %)VB.NET
10722 (2.969 %)VB
11685 (2.817 %)VBA
12680 (2.797 %)C
13656 (2.698 %)Python
14478 (1.966 %)Perl
15432 (1.777 %)Ruby
16395 (1.624 %)PHP5
17381 (1.567 %)Objective-C
18350 (1.439 %)Shell Script
19339 (1.394 %)ActionScript
20260 (1.069 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11072 (4.409 %)Degree
21071 (4.405 %)Security Cleared
3702 (2.887 %)SC Cleared
4280 (1.152 %)Microsoft Certification
5251 (1.032 %)DV Cleared
659 (0.243 %)MCP
741 (0.169 %)PhD
838 (0.156 %)MCTS
936 (0.148 %)BC Cleared
1034 (0.140 %)MCSD
1132 (0.132 %)Sun Certification
1221 (0.086 %)MCAD
1221 (0.086 %)MCPD
1318 (0.074 %)SAS Certification
1417 (0.070 %)CTC Cleared
1514 (0.058 %)PMI Certification
1613 (0.053 %)ITIL Certification
1712 (0.049 %)Oracle Certification
1811 (0.045 %)ISEB
1811 (0.045 %)HND
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1446 (1.834 %)QA
270 (0.288 %)ISO 9001
355 (0.226 %)SLA
444 (0.181 %)WCAG
541 (0.169 %)Solvency II
638 (0.156 %)Data Quality
730 (0.123 %)HL7
828 (0.115 %)WAI
927 (0.111 %)Basel III
1020 (0.082 %)Basel II
1111 (0.045 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
1111 (0.045 %)PCI DSS
129 (0.037 %)TickIT
136 (0.025 %)DO-178B
144 (0.016 %)IAS 39
153 (0.012 %)21 CFR Part 11
162 (0.008 %)Dublin Core
162 (0.008 %)ISO 8583
162 (0.008 %)GAMP
171 (0.004 %)ISO 9000
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1189 (0.777 %)Active Directory
224 (0.099 %)VMware Infrastructure
319 (0.078 %)VMware ESX
417 (0.070 %)Oracle RAC
516 (0.066 %)ISA Server
613 (0.053 %)XenDesktop
613 (0.053 %)vSphere
712 (0.049 %)Shibboleth
810 (0.041 %)Varnish
99 (0.037 %)Apache Flume
108 (0.033 %)OpenSSO
115 (0.021 %)Oracle RMAN
115 (0.021 %)Hyper-V
123 (0.012 %)FreeRADIUS
123 (0.012 %)Orbix
123 (0.012 %)Postfix
123 (0.012 %)Sendmail
123 (0.012 %)Squid
123 (0.012 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
132 (0.008 %)UAG
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
128 (0.115 %)Tivoli
225 (0.103 %)Control-M
323 (0.095 %)HP Quality Center
419 (0.078 %)Puppet
515 (0.062 %)Oracle Identity Management
611 (0.045 %)OpenView
611 (0.045 %)SCCM
710 (0.041 %)OVSD
88 (0.033 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
88 (0.033 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
97 (0.029 %)MIIS
97 (0.029 %)Nagios
97 (0.029 %)Ganglia
105 (0.021 %)vCenter
105 (0.021 %)CA SiteMinder
105 (0.021 %)BladeLogic
114 (0.016 %)Netcool/Webtop
114 (0.016 %)Netcool
114 (0.016 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
123 (0.012 %)OpenView Configuration Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13982 (16.38 %)Oracle
22438 (10.03 %)Microsoft
3539 (2.217 %)Business Objects
4522 (2.147 %)Sybase
5483 (1.986 %)Zend
6414 (1.703 %)SAP
7378 (1.555 %)IBM
8335 (1.378 %)Informatica
9329 (1.353 %)TIBCO
10316 (1.300 %)JBoss
10316 (1.300 %)Adobe
11275 (1.131 %)Cognos
12215 (0.884 %)Facebook
13211 (0.868 %)Salesforce.com
14205 (0.843 %)Google
15145 (0.596 %)Siebel
16136 (0.559 %)Apple
17111 (0.456 %)Red Hat
18101 (0.415 %)Sitecore
1989 (0.366 %)BEA