The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Manager role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Development Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Manager
Rank 382 424 416
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Development Manager 150 161 169
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.323% 0.276% 0.277%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.351% 0.298% 0.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 77 85
Average daily rate £475 £500 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £356 £355 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £700 £635
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £378 £438
% change year-on-year
+12.58% -13.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £37.63 £32.50 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.76% -35.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.63 £32.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year
+15.76% -35.00%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Development Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Development Manager within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Development Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Development Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Development Manager Daily Rate Trend

Development Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Development Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Development Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Development Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Development Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Development Manager
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 Development Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +28 134 £475 -8.21%
London +30 65 £550 -8.33%
City of London +8 29 £525 -19.23%
South East +6 25 £500 +17.64%
South West +32 11 £415 +9.93%
North West +18 10 £475 +40.74%
Hampshire -2 10 £500 +11.11%
East of England +23 8 £425 +41.66%
Berkshire +17 8 £525 +82.60%
Scotland -9 7 £375 -16.66%
Yorkshire -3 6 £325 -8.45%
Southampton +2 5 £500 +11.11%
Surrey - 5 £350 -
Bristol +17 4 £415 -
West Midlands -1 4 £351 -25.62%
West Yorkshire -4 4 £325 -8.45%
Glasgow -11 4 £370 -7.50%
Devon - 4 £375 -
Essex - 4 - -
Hertfordshire - 4 £425 -
Wales - 4 £500 -
Reading +16 3 £420 -
East Midlands -3 3 £400 +28.00%
Exeter - 3 £375 -
Reigate - 3 £275 -
Manchester +7 2 £500 +48.14%
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £500 -
Somerset +7 2 £458 -
Merseyside +5 2 £325 -35.00%
Cheshire 0 2 £475 +58.33%

Development Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Development Manager 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 Development Manager in their job title.

1 103 (38.01%) Java
2 70 (25.83%) .NET
3 61 (22.51%) Project Management
4 60 (22.14%) Finance
5 50 (18.45%) Scrum
6 49 (18.08%) C#
7 48 (17.71%) SQL
8 47 (17.34%) PRINCE2
9 41 (15.13%) Agile Software Development
10 39 (14.39%) Banking
11 37 (13.65%) ASP.NET
12 36 (13.28%) Oracle
13 33 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (10.70%) E-Commerce
15 28 (10.33%) JavaScript
16 26 (9.594%) SQL Server
17 25 (9.225%) Web Services
17 25 (9.225%) Waterfall
18 24 (8.856%) QA
18 24 (8.856%) HTML5
18 24 (8.856%) MS Excel
19 23 (8.487%) Retail
19 23 (8.487%) Degree
20 22 (8.118%) C++
20 22 (8.118%) Microsoft
21 21 (7.749%) SOA
21 21 (7.749%) J2EE
22 20 (7.380%) Web Development
23 19 (7.011%) MS Office
23 19 (7.011%) UML

Development Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Development Manager 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 Development Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 70 (25.83%) .NET
2 37 (13.65%) ASP.NET
3 25 (9.225%) Web Services
4 24 (8.856%) HTML5
5 21 (7.749%) J2EE
6 15 (5.535%) CSS
7 12 (4.428%) jQuery
8 8 (2.952%) HTML
8 8 (2.952%) JSP
8 8 (2.952%) REST
9 7 (2.583%) WebSphere
9 7 (2.583%) CSS3
9 7 (2.583%) Spring
9 7 (2.583%) Hibernate
10 6 (2.214%) XHTML
10 6 (2.214%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (2.214%) RESTful
10 6 (2.214%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.845%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 5 (1.845%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 6 (2.214%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.845%) FileNet
3 4 (1.476%) CMS
3 4 (1.476%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (1.476%) ESB
4 3 (1.107%) Confluence
5 2 (0.738%) Lotus Domino
5 2 (0.738%) IIS
5 2 (0.738%) Drupal
6 1 (0.369%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.369%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.369%) Magento
6 1 (0.369%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.369%) WordPress
6 1 (0.369%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.369%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.369%) Facebook Platform
6 1 (0.369%) Apache
6 1 (0.369%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.369%) Documentum
Applications
1 24 (8.856%) MS Excel
2 19 (7.011%) MS Office
3 12 (4.428%) MS PowerPoint
4 7 (2.583%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.476%) MS Project
6 3 (1.107%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.107%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 3 (1.107%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.107%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.369%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.369%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.369%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.952%) Internet
2 7 (2.583%) HTTP
3 4 (1.476%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.107%) DNS
5 1 (0.369%) ATM
5 1 (0.369%) SMS
5 1 (0.369%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.594%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.583%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (1.845%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (1.476%) MS Access
4 4 (1.476%) SSDT
5 3 (1.107%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (1.107%) MySQL
5 3 (1.107%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.738%) Oracle OWB
6 2 (0.738%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.738%) OLAP
6 2 (0.738%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.738%) MarkLogic
7 1 (0.369%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.369%) KDB
7 1 (0.369%) QlikView
7 1 (0.369%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.369%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.369%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.369%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (5.166%) Subversion
2 11 (4.059%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.952%) JIRA
4 6 (2.214%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.476%) Maven
5 4 (1.476%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.738%) NUnit
6 2 (0.738%) Rhino Mocks
6 2 (0.738%) Moq
6 2 (0.738%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.369%) WinDbg
7 1 (0.369%) DbUnit
7 1 (0.369%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.369%) Ant
7 1 (0.369%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.369%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.369%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.369%) Xcode
General
1 60 (22.14%) Finance
2 39 (14.39%) Banking
3 23 (8.487%) Retail
4 18 (6.642%) Marketing
5 16 (5.904%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.428%) Front Office
7 6 (2.214%) Publishing
8 5 (1.845%) Legal
8 5 (1.845%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.476%) Back Office
10 3 (1.107%) Automotive
11 2 (0.738%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.738%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.369%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.369%) French Language
12 1 (0.369%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.369%) Interactive Media
12 1 (0.369%) Online Betting
12 1 (0.369%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.369%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.535%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (4.797%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.214%) Derivative
3 6 (2.214%) N-Tier
3 6 (2.214%) Digital Media
4 5 (1.845%) Computer Science
4 5 (1.845%) iPhone
4 5 (1.845%) iPad
4 5 (1.845%) PMI
5 4 (1.476%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.476%) Smartphone
5 4 (1.476%) NHS
5 4 (1.476%) Chemistry
6 3 (1.107%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.107%) Statistics
6 3 (1.107%) E-Learning
7 2 (0.738%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.738%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.738%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (0.738%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.904%) Windows
2 15 (5.535%) Apple iOS
3 14 (5.166%) Android
4 8 (2.952%) Windows Mobile
5 7 (2.583%) Linux
6 3 (1.107%) UNIX
7 2 (0.738%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.738%) Solaris
7 2 (0.738%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.738%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.369%) CentOS
8 1 (0.369%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.369%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.369%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (22.51%) Project Management
2 50 (18.45%) Scrum
3 47 (17.34%) PRINCE2
4 41 (15.13%) Agile Software Development
5 33 (12.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (10.70%) E-Commerce
7 25 (9.225%) Waterfall
8 21 (7.749%) SOA
9 20 (7.380%) Web Development
10 19 (7.011%) UML
11 18 (6.642%) TDD
12 17 (6.273%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (5.904%) Business Analysis
13 16 (5.904%) OO
14 13 (4.797%) ITIL
15 12 (4.428%) Business Development
16 11 (4.059%) Configuration Management
17 10 (3.690%) Business Intelligence
17 10 (3.690%) Resource Management
18 9 (3.321%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.01%) Java
2 49 (18.08%) C#
3 48 (17.71%) SQL
4 28 (10.33%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.118%) C++
6 16 (5.904%) Objective-C
7 12 (4.428%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.690%) T-SQL
9 8 (2.952%) PHP
10 6 (2.214%) C
11 5 (1.845%) Ruby
12 3 (1.107%) Python
13 2 (0.738%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.738%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.738%) VBA
13 2 (0.738%) Scala
13 2 (0.738%) Groovy
14 1 (0.369%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.369%) ABAP
14 1 (0.369%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 23 (8.487%) Degree
2 16 (5.904%) Security Cleared
3 13 (4.797%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.690%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 7 (2.583%) PMI Certification
6 5 (1.845%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.738%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.738%) PMP
7 2 (0.738%) MCSD
7 2 (0.738%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.369%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.369%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.369%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.369%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.369%) APMP
8 1 (0.369%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.369%) MCSE
8 1 (0.369%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.369%) ISEB
8 1 (0.369%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.856%) QA
2 7 (2.583%) TickIT
3 6 (2.214%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.369%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.369%) COBIT
4 1 (0.369%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.369%) SLA
4 1 (0.369%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 1 (0.369%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.369%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.369%) BladeLogic
1 1 (0.369%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 1 (0.369%) Puppet
1 1 (0.369%) Splunk
1 1 (0.369%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 36 (13.28%) Oracle
2 22 (8.118%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.952%) TIBCO
3 8 (2.952%) Sencha
4 7 (2.583%) IBM
5 5 (1.845%) Adobe
6 4 (1.476%) ILOG
6 4 (1.476%) SAP
7 3 (1.107%) UC4
7 3 (1.107%) Business Objects
7 3 (1.107%) DataSynapse
7 3 (1.107%) Informatica
7 3 (1.107%) TOWER Software
7 3 (1.107%) InterSystems
8 2 (0.738%) VMware
8 2 (0.738%) Lotus
8 2 (0.738%) AccuRev
8 2 (0.738%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.738%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.369%) Pega
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