The first table below looks at the demand for the GUI 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 GUI Developer 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
GUI Developer
Rank 512 541 454
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -87
Contract jobs requiring a GUI Developer 21 32 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.055% 0.224%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.059% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 110
Average daily rate £563 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £389 £468
10% offered a daily rate of more than £603 £608 £628
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £355 £325
% change year-on-year
+12.67% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £56.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £56.50
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%

GUI Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GUI Developer Jobs Demand Trend

GUI Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

GUI Developer Daily Rate Trend

GUI Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

GUI Developer Daily Rate Histogram

GUI Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

GUI Developer Hourly Rate Trend

GUI Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GUI Developer 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
England +52 21 £563 +2.27%
London +9 14 £575 -
South West +26 5 - -
City of London +15 5 £550 -4.34%
Wiltshire - 3 - -
Gloucestershire +31 2 - -
South East +22 2 £400 -
Oxfordshire - 2 £400 -
Abingdon - 1 £400 -

GUI Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 20 (68.97%) C#
2 18 (62.07%) WPF
3 14 (48.28%) Multithreading
4 12 (41.38%) Front Office
5 11 (37.93%) Java
6 9 (31.03%) .NET
7 8 (27.59%) SQL
8 7 (24.14%) Finance
9 6 (20.69%) Hedge funds
9 6 (20.69%) MDX
9 6 (20.69%) Banking
9 6 (20.69%) Oracle
9 6 (20.69%) Windows
10 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
10 5 (17.24%) C
10 5 (17.24%) C++
10 5 (17.24%) OO
10 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
10 5 (17.24%) WinForms
11 4 (13.79%) N-Tier
11 4 (13.79%) Qt
12 3 (10.34%) HTML5
12 3 (10.34%) Investment Management
12 3 (10.34%) JTAG
12 3 (10.34%) Android
12 3 (10.34%) DevExpress
12 3 (10.34%) Java SE
12 3 (10.34%) Derivative
12 3 (10.34%) Silverlight
12 3 (10.34%) WCF

GUI Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 18 (62.07%) WPF
2 9 (31.03%) .NET
3 6 (20.69%) MDX
4 5 (17.24%) WinForms
5 4 (13.79%) Qt
6 3 (10.34%) HTML5
6 3 (10.34%) OpenGL
6 3 (10.34%) CSS
6 3 (10.34%) WCF
6 3 (10.34%) Silverlight
6 3 (10.34%) Spring
6 3 (10.34%) Java SE
7 2 (6.897%) JSON
7 2 (6.897%) Hibernate
7 2 (6.897%) CSS3
7 2 (6.897%) Ext JS
8 1 (3.448%) HTML
8 1 (3.448%) Task Parallel Library
8 1 (3.448%) Lucene
8 1 (3.448%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) Apache
1 1 (3.448%) Rendezvous
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.34%) OLAP
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (6.897%) MySQL
4 1 (3.448%) KDB
4 1 (3.448%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Eclipse
1 2 (6.897%) Subversion
2 1 (3.448%) JProfiler
2 1 (3.448%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.448%) NUnit
2 1 (3.448%) JUnit
2 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (41.38%) Front Office
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Banking
4 1 (3.448%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.448%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Hedge funds
2 4 (13.79%) N-Tier
3 3 (10.34%) Derivative
3 3 (10.34%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (6.897%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (3.448%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.448%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Android
2 3 (10.34%) Apple iOS
3 2 (6.897%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Multithreading
2 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
2 5 (17.24%) OO
3 3 (10.34%) OOD
3 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
3 3 (10.34%) Investment Management
4 2 (6.897%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (6.897%) MVVM
4 2 (6.897%) Analytics
4 2 (6.897%) Migration
4 2 (6.897%) Scrum
4 2 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (6.897%) UML
5 1 (3.448%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
5 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.448%) Code Coverage
5 1 (3.448%) Multidimensional Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) C#
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 8 (27.59%) SQL
4 5 (17.24%) C++
4 5 (17.24%) C
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.448%) Perl
6 1 (3.448%) Groovy
6 1 (3.448%) C-shell
6 1 (3.448%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (6.897%) DV Cleared
1 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) JTAG
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Syncfusion
2 3 (10.34%) DevExpress
3 2 (6.897%) Google
4 1 (3.448%) Cognizant
4 1 (3.448%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.448%) Sybase
City of London
Qualification and Experience 2+ years industry experience using the .Net Framework (Windows Forms, WPF). WPF is strongly preferred (E)... 2+ years industry experience of using the .Net framework...
Rate: MarketRate
Posted: 3 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You need to be an experienced developer with the following skills: - 3+ years Java - JavaScript/JQuery - Html - CSS - Relevant GUI experience - Further relevant front-end development experience: JSP,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £360 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate's main skills will be: * Knowledge of both Java and C# and very strong in one of them* Strong front end web development in HTML,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013