The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 advertised for the Wales region.

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
Developer
Rank 4 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 70 118 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 16.43% 20.70% 22.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.59% 22.18% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 63
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £193 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £440 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
Average hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.50% -37.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £18.10 £37.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £31.30 £71.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
398 532 608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 93.43% 93.33% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 257 279
Average daily rate £350 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 31
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -34.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £10.75 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £59.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
UK

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Developer across the Wales region.

Wales Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Wales Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Wales region.

Wales Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the Wales region 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
South Wales -1 53 £338 +17.39%
West Wales 0 8 £298 -29.58%
North Wales 0 2 £300 +20.00%
Mid Wales +2 1 - -
Developer
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Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited 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 Developer in their job title.

1 54 (32.73%) .NET
2 52 (31.52%) SQL Server
3 51 (30.91%) SQL
4 43 (26.06%) Java
4 43 (26.06%) Finance
5 35 (21.21%) CSS
5 35 (21.21%) XML
6 33 (20.00%) Windows
6 33 (20.00%) HTML
6 33 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (19.39%) Security Cleared
8 29 (17.58%) SQL Server 2008
8 29 (17.58%) VB.NET
8 29 (17.58%) Oracle
9 28 (16.97%) .NET Framework
10 26 (15.76%) SAP
11 25 (15.15%) JavaScript
12 24 (14.55%) Spring
12 24 (14.55%) SQL Server 2005
12 24 (14.55%) Web Services
13 23 (13.94%) XSLT
13 23 (13.94%) PL/SQL
13 23 (13.94%) C#
14 22 (13.33%) SAP BW
15 21 (12.73%) Visual Studio
15 21 (12.73%) Agile Software Development
16 20 (12.12%) ClearCase
16 20 (12.12%) ERP
16 20 (12.12%) ClearQuest
17 19 (11.52%) UML

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 54 (32.73%) .NET
2 35 (21.21%) CSS
2 35 (21.21%) XML
3 33 (20.00%) HTML
4 28 (16.97%) .NET Framework
5 24 (14.55%) Spring
5 24 (14.55%) Web Services
6 23 (13.94%) XSLT
7 17 (10.30%) XSD
7 17 (10.30%) jQuery
8 16 (9.697%) J2EE
9 15 (9.091%) ASP.NET
9 15 (9.091%) JSF
9 15 (9.091%) Hibernate
10 13 (7.879%) SAX
10 13 (7.879%) DOM
10 13 (7.879%) Ajax
11 12 (7.273%) JAXP
12 10 (6.061%) HTML5
13 9 (5.455%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 19 (11.52%) WebLogic
2 11 (6.667%) Liferay
3 10 (6.061%) WebLogic Portal
4 8 (4.848%) SharePoint
5 5 (3.030%) CMS
6 4 (2.424%) SAS
6 4 (2.424%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (1.818%) Apache
7 3 (1.818%) IIS
8 2 (1.212%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.606%) Kentico
9 1 (0.606%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
9 1 (0.606%) WordPress
9 1 (0.606%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.606%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (0.606%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.606%) ESB
9 1 (0.606%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.606%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 6 (3.636%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.030%) MS Office
3 3 (1.818%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.212%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (2.424%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 2 (1.212%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.606%) SalesLogix
3 1 (0.606%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.606%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.606%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.606%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.030%) Intranet
2 2 (1.212%) SSL
2 2 (1.212%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (31.52%) SQL Server
2 29 (17.58%) SQL Server 2008
3 24 (14.55%) SQL Server 2005
4 22 (13.33%) SAP BW
5 18 (10.91%) BusinessObjects
6 16 (9.697%) SAP Data Services
7 15 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (7.879%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.455%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (5.455%) MySQL
10 8 (4.848%) RDBMS
11 7 (4.242%) BusinessObjects XI
11 7 (4.242%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (3.636%) Data Mart
13 5 (3.030%) Firebird
14 4 (2.424%) InterBase
14 4 (2.424%) OLAP
14 4 (2.424%) Base SAS
15 3 (1.818%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (1.818%) DB2
Development Applications
1 21 (12.73%) Visual Studio
2 20 (12.12%) ClearCase
2 20 (12.12%) ClearQuest
3 17 (10.30%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 16 (9.697%) Eclipse
5 13 (7.879%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (2.424%) Maven
7 3 (1.818%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.818%) Ant
8 1 (0.606%) Mockito
8 1 (0.606%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.606%) Capybara
8 1 (0.606%) TestNG
8 1 (0.606%) Talend Open Studio
8 1 (0.606%) WATIR
8 1 (0.606%) Selenium
8 1 (0.606%) COOL:Gen
8 1 (0.606%) JUnit
8 1 (0.606%) Dreamweaver
General
1 43 (26.06%) Finance
2 7 (4.242%) Telecoms
3 5 (3.030%) Banking
4 2 (1.212%) Publishing
5 1 (0.606%) Retail
5 1 (0.606%) Billing
5 1 (0.606%) General Ledger
5 1 (0.606%) Welsh Language
5 1 (0.606%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.848%) Data Extraction
2 5 (3.030%) NHS
3 4 (2.424%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.424%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.212%) AS400
4 2 (1.212%) Clustering
4 2 (1.212%) DataPower
4 2 (1.212%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.606%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.606%) Social Media
5 1 (0.606%) iSeries
5 1 (0.606%) Replication
5 1 (0.606%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.606%) Graphic Design
5 1 (0.606%) Animation
5 1 (0.606%) Statistics
5 1 (0.606%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.606%) EPoS
5 1 (0.606%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.606%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (2.424%) UNIX
3 2 (1.212%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (1.212%) AIX
3 2 (1.212%) Linux
3 2 (1.212%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.212%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.606%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.606%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (12.73%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (12.12%) ERP
4 19 (11.52%) UML
5 17 (10.30%) Performance Management
6 16 (9.697%) Data Modelling
7 14 (8.485%) ETL
8 13 (7.879%) Scrum
9 10 (6.061%) MVC
10 9 (5.455%) TDD
11 8 (4.848%) OO
12 7 (4.242%) Web Development
13 6 (3.636%) Unit Testing
13 6 (3.636%) Data Analysis
13 6 (3.636%) Data Management
13 6 (3.636%) Kimball Methodology
14 4 (2.424%) Workflow
14 4 (2.424%) Migration
14 4 (2.424%) MVVM
15 3 (1.818%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (30.91%) SQL
2 43 (26.06%) Java
3 29 (17.58%) VB.NET
4 25 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 23 (13.94%) PL/SQL
5 23 (13.94%) C#
6 19 (11.52%) VB
7 17 (10.30%) VB6
8 14 (8.485%) ABAP
9 13 (7.879%) XPath
10 8 (4.848%) T-SQL
11 7 (4.242%) PHP
12 5 (3.030%) PHP5
12 5 (3.030%) Delphi
13 3 (1.818%) RPG
14 2 (1.212%) XAML
14 2 (1.212%) Perl
14 2 (1.212%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.212%) VBA
14 2 (1.212%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.879%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.030%) Degree
4 3 (1.818%) HND
5 1 (0.606%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 2 (1.212%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 29 (17.58%) Oracle
2 26 (15.76%) SAP
3 19 (11.52%) Business Objects
4 15 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.242%) Cognos
6 2 (1.212%) CA
7 1 (0.606%) Talend
7 1 (0.606%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (0.606%) IBM
7 1 (0.606%) Mercator
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South Wales
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Posted: 19 May 2013
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Posted: 22 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
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Rate: GBP450 to GBP500 per day
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