The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City 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 23 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 Welwyn Garden City 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 4 4 9
Rank change year-on-year
0 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 5 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 15.15% 12.50% 16.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.86% 12.50% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £400 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
28 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 84.85% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
Average daily rate £400 £275 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -35.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
Average hourly rate £14.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.44% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Hertfordshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 7 (46.67%) Retail
3 6 (40.00%) C#
3 6 (40.00%) XML
3 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 5 (33.33%) CSS
4 5 (33.33%) HTML
5 4 (26.67%) XHTML
5 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (26.67%) Ajax
5 4 (26.67%) WCF
6 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (20.00%) Web Development
6 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (20.00%) XPath
6 3 (20.00%) Automated Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (20.00%) TDD
6 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (20.00%) XSLT
6 3 (20.00%) OO
6 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
6 3 (20.00%) SOA
6 3 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) MVC
6 3 (20.00%) Adobe
6 3 (20.00%) Apple

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 6 (40.00%) XML
3 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 5 (33.33%) CSS
3 5 (33.33%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) XHTML
4 4 (26.67%) Ajax
4 4 (26.67%) WCF
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (20.00%) XSLT
5 3 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (13.33%) HTML5
6 2 (13.33%) jQuery
7 1 (6.667%) Zend Framework
7 1 (6.667%) YUI
7 1 (6.667%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) WordPress
1 1 (6.667%) Magento
1 1 (6.667%) SAS
1 1 (6.667%) CMS
1 1 (6.667%) concrete5
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Fireworks
1 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) OLAP
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (46.67%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.667%) Online Games
2 1 (6.667%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Web Development
2 3 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (20.00%) TDD
2 3 (20.00%) OO
2 3 (20.00%) SOA
2 3 (20.00%) Scrum
2 3 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (6.667%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.667%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) XPath
4 2 (13.33%) PHP
5 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Adobe
2 3 (20.00%) Apple
3 1 (6.667%) Retalix
3 1 (6.667%) Zend