Development Specialist Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Development Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Development Specialist
Rank 506 567 569
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Development Specialist 27 6 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.010% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.011% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 11
Average daily rate £438 £437 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £387 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £487 £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £374 £356
% change year-on-year
+6.95% +4.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Development Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Development Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Development Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Development Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Development Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Development Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Development Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Development Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Development Specialist
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Development Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
Scotland - 16 £425 -
England +68 11 £450 +2.97%
London +27 9 £450 -10.00%
Paddington - 4 £450 -
South East +22 2 £150 -
Surrey - 2 £150 -
City of London +18 1 £438 -12.50%
Stirling - 1 £375 -

Development Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Development Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 15 (41.67%) Java
2 14 (38.89%) Degree
3 11 (30.56%) Multithreading
3 11 (30.56%) XML
3 11 (30.56%) Windows
3 11 (30.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (30.56%) TIBCO
4 8 (22.22%) Finance
5 7 (19.44%) IBM
5 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
6 6 (16.67%) HTML
6 6 (16.67%) .NET
6 6 (16.67%) UNIX
6 6 (16.67%) Banking
6 6 (16.67%) Investment Banking
7 5 (13.89%) SQL
7 5 (13.89%) C#
7 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
8 4 (11.11%) Solaris
8 4 (11.11%) Oracle
8 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 4 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (11.11%) E-Learning
8 4 (11.11%) QA
9 3 (8.333%) Cadis
9 3 (8.333%) Learning Management System
9 3 (8.333%) Windows 7
9 3 (8.333%) Spring
9 3 (8.333%) Ajax
9 3 (8.333%) SharePoint

Development Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (30.56%) XML
2 6 (16.67%) HTML
2 6 (16.67%) .NET
3 3 (8.333%) J2EE
3 3 (8.333%) CSS
3 3 (8.333%) JDBC
3 3 (8.333%) JSP
3 3 (8.333%) Spring
3 3 (8.333%) Ajax
3 3 (8.333%) XSLT
4 2 (5.556%) XSD
4 2 (5.556%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.556%) Servlets
5 1 (2.778%) Web Services
5 1 (2.778%) WebSphere
5 1 (2.778%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.778%) JSTL
5 1 (2.778%) Spring MVC
5 1 (2.778%) Silverlight
5 1 (2.778%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) MQSeries
1 3 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.778%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.778%) IIS
3 1 (2.778%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) Fireworks
2 1 (2.778%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Agresso
1 1 (2.778%) SalesLogix
1 1 (2.778%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.778%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) FTP
1 1 (2.778%) HTTP
1 1 (2.778%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.778%) SAN
1 1 (2.778%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.556%) SQLPlus
3 2 (5.556%) TOAD
4 1 (2.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.778%) Sybase ASE
4 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.778%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.778%) DataStage
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (2.778%) JUnit
1 1 (2.778%) ClearCase
1 1 (2.778%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.778%) ClearQuest
1 1 (2.778%) Firebug
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
2 6 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.333%) Advertising
4 1 (2.778%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (11.11%) E-Learning
3 3 (8.333%) Learning Management System
4 2 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.778%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) UNIX
3 4 (11.11%) Solaris
4 3 (8.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Multithreading
2 4 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (8.333%) Project Management
3 3 (8.333%) Migration
4 2 (5.556%) OO
4 2 (5.556%) Data Modelling
4 2 (5.556%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.778%) CRM
5 1 (2.778%) Asset Management
5 1 (2.778%) MVC
5 1 (2.778%) Logistics
5 1 (2.778%) Investment Management
5 1 (2.778%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Java
2 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.89%) C#
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
4 2 (5.556%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.778%) Perl
5 1 (2.778%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.778%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (8.333%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.778%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) TIBCO
2 7 (19.44%) IBM
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle
4 3 (8.333%) Cadis
5 2 (5.556%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (2.778%) Sybase
6 1 (2.778%) InterSystems
6 1 (2.778%) Advent
6 1 (2.778%) Sun
6 1 (2.778%) HP
6 1 (2.778%) Intel
6 1 (2.778%) Citrix
Java Development Specialist
Scotland
Oracle 10g and 11g, SQL Server 2000 and 2005.2. Java SE 5.x and above, and also web applications with Java 5 (e.g. Struts, JSP).3.
IT Human Resources
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
C++ Development Specialists Needed £650
City of London
We are looking for C++ Development Specialists with solid experience in either Windows or Unix. APPLY ASAP - further information will be provided for suitable applicants.Notice periods of...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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