The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Developer
Rank 475 523 516
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Developer 59 63 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.125% 0.106% 0.116%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.136% 0.115% 0.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 38
Average daily rate £418 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.46% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £250 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 5
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £18.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.81 - £16.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 - £110.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - £17.27
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Systems Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Systems Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Developer Daily Rate Trend

Systems Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Systems Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Systems Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems Developer
Top 29 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +48 52 £400 +23.07%
South East +22 23 £360 +15.20%
London +24 21 £500 +60.00%
West Sussex - 10 £360 -
Berkshire - 10 £400 -
Crawley - 8 £360 -
Bracknell - 4 £450 -
Surrey +19 2 £320 +6.66%
East Midlands +1 2 £245 -
Yorkshire +1 2 £300 -
Scotland -15 2 £450 -
Guildford - 2 £320 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £245 -
South West +27 1 £435 -
North East +13 1 - -
Wales +11 1 - -
Wiltshire +9 1 £435 -
North West +7 1 £300 -
Swindon +1 1 £435 -
Oxfordshire -8 1 - -
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
South Wales - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £463 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Sunderland - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 £300 -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Cardiff - 1 - -

Systems Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Developer in their job title.

1 73 (61.34%) SQL
2 61 (51.26%) .NET
3 48 (40.34%) XML
4 47 (39.50%) Oracle
5 44 (36.97%) Windows
6 42 (35.29%) C#
7 35 (29.41%) SQL Server
8 32 (26.89%) Microsoft
9 31 (26.05%) ASP.NET
10 26 (21.85%) Oracle 8/8i
10 26 (21.85%) Retail
11 25 (21.01%) Java
12 22 (18.49%) Fixed Income
12 22 (18.49%) Derivative
12 22 (18.49%) MS Excel
13 21 (17.65%) C++
13 21 (17.65%) Windows 7
14 19 (15.97%) Analytics
14 19 (15.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 19 (15.97%) CMS
15 18 (15.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 18 (15.13%) Swaptions
15 18 (15.13%) Risk Analysis
15 18 (15.13%) Spreadsheet
15 18 (15.13%) Windows XP
15 18 (15.13%) Python
15 18 (15.13%) Oracle Forms
15 18 (15.13%) STL
15 18 (15.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 16 (13.45%) Web Services

Systems Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 61 (51.26%) .NET
2 48 (40.34%) XML
3 31 (26.05%) ASP.NET
4 18 (15.13%) STL
4 18 (15.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 16 (13.45%) Web Services
5 16 (13.45%) HTML
6 13 (10.92%) Ajax
7 12 (10.08%) CSS
8 10 (8.403%) WebSphere
8 10 (8.403%) JMS
8 10 (8.403%) J2EE
9 9 (7.563%) .NET Framework
10 8 (6.723%) XSLT
11 7 (5.882%) JSP
11 7 (5.882%) EJB
11 7 (5.882%) JSTL
12 6 (5.042%) WCF
13 5 (4.202%) ASP
13 5 (4.202%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 19 (15.97%) CMS
2 7 (5.882%) ESB
3 6 (5.042%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (4.202%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.521%) SAS
5 3 (2.521%) Apache
6 2 (1.681%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.681%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.681%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.840%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.840%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (18.49%) MS Excel
2 18 (15.13%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (6.723%) MS Office
4 1 (0.840%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.840%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (4.202%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.840%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.361%) WAN
1 4 (3.361%) LAN
2 3 (2.521%) SSL
2 3 (2.521%) Wireless
3 2 (1.681%) HTTP
3 2 (1.681%) Intranet
4 1 (0.840%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.840%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.840%) Internet
4 1 (0.840%) VPN
4 1 (0.840%) SMS
4 1 (0.840%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 26 (21.85%) Oracle 8/8i
3 15 (12.61%) DB2
4 9 (7.563%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (6.723%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (5.042%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.202%) MS Access
8 4 (3.361%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (2.521%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.521%) Oracle 9i
9 3 (2.521%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (2.521%) Base SAS
10 2 (1.681%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.681%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (1.681%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.840%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2000
11 1 (0.840%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.840%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.840%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Oracle Forms
2 11 (9.244%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.882%) JUnit
4 2 (1.681%) WebLogic Workshop
5 1 (0.840%) MSI
5 1 (0.840%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.840%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.840%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.840%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (0.840%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.840%) InterDev
5 1 (0.840%) Maven
5 1 (0.840%) Subversion
General
1 26 (21.85%) Retail
2 11 (9.244%) Finance
3 4 (3.361%) Back Office
3 4 (3.361%) Banking
4 2 (1.681%) Billing
4 2 (1.681%) Legal
4 2 (1.681%) Advertising
5 1 (0.840%) Norwegian Language
5 1 (0.840%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.840%) Front Office
5 1 (0.840%) Local Government
5 1 (0.840%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.49%) Fixed Income
1 22 (18.49%) Derivative
2 19 (15.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (15.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 18 (15.13%) Swaptions
4 8 (6.723%) Mainframe
5 6 (5.042%) SaaS
6 5 (4.202%) Kindle
6 5 (4.202%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.202%) EPoS
6 5 (4.202%) NHS
7 4 (3.361%) Smart Meter
8 3 (2.521%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (1.681%) Handset
9 2 (1.681%) iPhone
9 2 (1.681%) Computer Science
9 2 (1.681%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.681%) Mobile Payment
10 1 (0.840%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.840%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 44 (36.97%) Windows
2 21 (17.65%) Windows 7
3 18 (15.13%) Windows XP
4 13 (10.92%) UNIX
5 5 (4.202%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (4.202%) Linux
5 5 (4.202%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.681%) Android
6 2 (1.681%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.840%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.840%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.97%) Analytics
2 18 (15.13%) Risk Analysis
3 15 (12.61%) ETL
4 13 (10.92%) Migration
5 12 (10.08%) PRINCE2
6 11 (9.244%) E-Commerce
7 7 (5.882%) CRM
7 7 (5.882%) Software Testing
8 6 (5.042%) MVC
8 6 (5.042%) Workflow
8 6 (5.042%) RAD
8 6 (5.042%) UML
9 5 (4.202%) Investment Management
9 5 (4.202%) Data Migration
9 5 (4.202%) Scrum
10 4 (3.361%) Asset Management
10 4 (3.361%) Fund Management
10 4 (3.361%) OO
11 3 (2.521%) Portfolio Management
11 3 (2.521%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 73 (61.34%) SQL
2 42 (35.29%) C#
3 25 (21.01%) Java
4 21 (17.65%) C++
5 18 (15.13%) Python
6 15 (12.61%) VB.NET
7 14 (11.76%) JavaScript
8 12 (10.08%) VB
9 11 (9.244%) PL/SQL
10 7 (5.882%) T-SQL
10 7 (5.882%) VB6
11 4 (3.361%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.361%) VBA
11 4 (3.361%) Perl
11 4 (3.361%) MATLAB
12 3 (2.521%) PHP
12 3 (2.521%) COBOL
13 2 (1.681%) XPath
13 2 (1.681%) C
13 2 (1.681%) JCL
Qualifications
1 8 (6.723%) Degree
2 1 (0.840%) OCP
2 1 (0.840%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (0.840%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (0.840%) Sun Certification
2 1 (0.840%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.202%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.681%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.723%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.723%) SCCM
2 4 (3.361%) SCOM
2 4 (3.361%) Control-M
3 2 (1.681%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 47 (39.50%) Oracle
2 32 (26.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.882%) webMethods
3 7 (5.882%) IBM
4 5 (4.202%) Citrix
4 5 (4.202%) SAP
5 4 (3.361%) thinkFolio
5 4 (3.361%) Cadis
6 3 (2.521%) Adobe
7 2 (1.681%) Sybase
7 2 (1.681%) Informatica
8 1 (0.840%) Talend
8 1 (0.840%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.840%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.840%) Software AG
8 1 (0.840%) Sun
8 1 (0.840%) JBoss
8 1 (0.840%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (0.840%) Business Objects
8 1 (0.840%) ICL
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