The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior 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 Junior Developer 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
Junior Developer
Rank 463 488 490
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Developer 66 96 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.142% 0.165% 0.154%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.154% 0.178% 0.166%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 51 58
Average daily rate £203 £225 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £116 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £325 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £150 £138
% change year-on-year
+33.33% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 7
Average hourly rate £13.50 £13.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.81% -14.06%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £12.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+8.00% -16.66%
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%

Junior Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Junior Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Junior Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Junior Developer Daily Rate Trend

Junior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Junior Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Junior Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Junior Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Junior 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 Junior Developer 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 +9 59 £200 -11.11%
London +11 33 £225 -18.18%
City of London +18 16 £273 -0.90%
South East +8 9 £205 +2.50%
North West +17 8 £165 +43.47%
Scotland - 7 £263 -
Manchester +11 5 £168 +45.65%
Berkshire - 5 £281 -
Glasgow - 5 £300 -
West Midlands +11 4 - -
Coventry +1 3 - -
Oldham - 3 £168 -
East of England +18 2 £200 -
Cheshire +1 2 £125 -
West Yorkshire +1 2 £175 +16.66%
Yorkshire 0 2 £175 +16.66%
Hampshire -14 2 - -
South West +25 1 £275 +66.66%
Surrey +13 1 £205 -25.45%
Buckinghamshire +6 1 - -
Leeds -8 1 £175 +16.66%
Canary Wharf - 1 £100 -
Worcestershire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £200 -
Dorset - 1 £275 -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Poole - 1 £275 -
Maidenhead - 1 £188 -
Lancaster - 1 - -

Junior Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 43 (36.13%) .NET
2 39 (32.77%) SQL
3 35 (29.41%) C#
4 32 (26.89%) SQL Server
5 30 (25.21%) JavaScript
6 29 (24.37%) ASP.NET
6 29 (24.37%) CSS
7 28 (23.53%) HTML
8 21 (17.65%) XML
9 20 (16.81%) Finance
10 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
10 15 (12.61%) Java
11 14 (11.76%) PHP
11 14 (11.76%) Banking
11 14 (11.76%) jQuery
12 13 (10.92%) Computer Science
13 12 (10.08%) Web Development
13 12 (10.08%) Degree
13 12 (10.08%) Windows
13 12 (10.08%) OO
13 12 (10.08%) SQL Server 2008
14 11 (9.244%) Visual Studio
14 11 (9.244%) MVC
15 10 (8.403%) Web Services
16 9 (7.563%) Agile Software Development
16 9 (7.563%) TDD
16 9 (7.563%) SharePoint
16 9 (7.563%) MySQL
17 8 (6.723%) Linux
17 8 (6.723%) MS Excel

Junior Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 43 (36.13%) .NET
2 29 (24.37%) ASP.NET
2 29 (24.37%) CSS
3 28 (23.53%) HTML
4 21 (17.65%) XML
5 14 (11.76%) jQuery
6 10 (8.403%) Web Services
7 8 (6.723%) HTML5
8 7 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (5.042%) SOAP
9 6 (5.042%) Ajax
9 6 (5.042%) CSS3
10 5 (4.202%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.202%) ASP
10 5 (4.202%) XSL
11 4 (3.361%) Spring
11 4 (3.361%) Silverlight
11 4 (3.361%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 3 (2.521%) WCF
12 3 (2.521%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.563%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.042%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (4.202%) CMS
4 3 (2.521%) Windows Azure
5 2 (1.681%) IIS
6 1 (0.840%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.840%) Kentico
6 1 (0.840%) Drupal
6 1 (0.840%) WordPress
6 1 (0.840%) OpenCms
6 1 (0.840%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (6.723%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.202%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.681%) MS Office
3 2 (1.681%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.681%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.840%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.840%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.840%) SiteCatalyst
1 1 (0.840%) Google Analytics
1 1 (0.840%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.840%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.840%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.840%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.840%) SAP WM
1 1 (0.840%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.840%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.202%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.521%) Intranet
3 2 (1.681%) Internet
3 2 (1.681%) HTTP
4 1 (0.840%) LAN
4 1 (0.840%) WAN
4 1 (0.840%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (26.89%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.08%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (7.563%) MySQL
4 8 (6.723%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (5.042%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.202%) MS Access
8 3 (2.521%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.681%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (1.681%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.681%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.840%) SAP Data Services
10 1 (0.840%) QlikView
10 1 (0.840%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (0.840%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.840%) OLAP
10 1 (0.840%) DataStage
10 1 (0.840%) SAP BI
10 1 (0.840%) GIS
Development Applications
1 11 (9.244%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.202%) Subversion
3 1 (0.840%) GitHub
3 1 (0.840%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.840%) Hudson
3 1 (0.840%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.840%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.840%) GCC
3 1 (0.840%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.840%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.840%) Maven
3 1 (0.840%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (0.840%) JUnit
General
1 20 (16.81%) Finance
2 14 (11.76%) Banking
3 7 (5.882%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.361%) Front Office
5 3 (2.521%) Marketing
5 3 (2.521%) Games
6 2 (1.681%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.681%) Retail
7 1 (0.840%) Polish Language
7 1 (0.840%) Music
7 1 (0.840%) Interactive Media
7 1 (0.840%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.840%) Legal
7 1 (0.840%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.92%) Computer Science
2 6 (5.042%) Mathematics
3 3 (2.521%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.521%) iPad
3 3 (2.521%) iPhone
3 3 (2.521%) Derivative
4 2 (1.681%) W3C
5 1 (0.840%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.840%) Kindle
5 1 (0.840%) Open Source
5 1 (0.840%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.840%) Social Media
5 1 (0.840%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.840%) Data Conversion
5 1 (0.840%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.840%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.840%) Physics
5 1 (0.840%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.840%) NHS
5 1 (0.840%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.08%) Windows
2 8 (6.723%) Linux
3 4 (3.361%) Android
3 4 (3.361%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.521%) Windows Mobile
4 3 (2.521%) UNIX
5 2 (1.681%) CentOS
6 1 (0.840%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (10.08%) Web Development
1 12 (10.08%) OO
2 11 (9.244%) MVC
3 9 (7.563%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (7.563%) TDD
4 6 (5.042%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (4.202%) BDD
5 5 (4.202%) Multithreading
5 5 (4.202%) Data Management
6 4 (3.361%) OOP
6 4 (3.361%) E-Commerce
6 4 (3.361%) Data Analysis
7 3 (2.521%) Content Management
7 3 (2.521%) ETL
7 3 (2.521%) Migration
7 3 (2.521%) Web Design
8 2 (1.681%) Scrum
8 2 (1.681%) SEO
8 2 (1.681%) UML
8 2 (1.681%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 39 (32.77%) SQL
2 35 (29.41%) C#
3 30 (25.21%) JavaScript
4 15 (12.61%) Java
5 14 (11.76%) PHP
6 7 (5.882%) Python
6 7 (5.882%) VBA
7 6 (5.042%) Perl
8 5 (4.202%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.202%) VB
8 5 (4.202%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.521%) XPath
9 3 (2.521%) XQuery
10 2 (1.681%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.681%) Ruby
11 1 (0.840%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (0.840%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.840%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.840%) VBScript
11 1 (0.840%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.08%) Degree
2 1 (0.840%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.840%) BC Cleared
2 1 (0.840%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.361%) SLA
2 3 (2.521%) QA
3 1 (0.840%) Basel III
3 1 (0.840%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.840%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.202%) Oracle
3 3 (2.521%) SAP
4 2 (1.681%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.681%) hybris
5 1 (0.840%) Zend
5 1 (0.840%) Unica
5 1 (0.840%) Google
5 1 (0.840%) Sybase
5 1 (0.840%) Remedy
5 1 (0.840%) Calypso
5 1 (0.840%) HP
5 1 (0.840%) IBM
5 1 (0.840%) Adobe
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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