West Midlands Applications Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Cleckheaton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	107
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	13	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	0.455 %	0.599 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£249
Average daily rate	£260	£295
% change on same period last year	-11.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£289
% change on same period last year	+21.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.28	£30.90
% change on same period last year	-2.03 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2857	3503
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.991 %	3.519 %
Daily rates quoted	747	804
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£324
Average daily rate	£342	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	322	515
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.96	£20.22
Average hourly rate	£21.29	£21.95
% change on same period last year	-2.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.62	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Developer across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwickshire	+15	3	£260	-25.71 %
Birmingham	+10	3	-	-
Coventry	+4	1	-	-
Dudley	-	1	-	-
Solihull	-	1	-	-
Shropshire	-4	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 21 (75.00 %) .NET 2 14 (50.00 %) SQL Server 3 12 (42.86 %) SQL 4 8 (28.57 %) XML 5 7 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 5 7 (25.00 %) C# 6 6 (21.43 %) VB.NET 6 6 (21.43 %) Windows 6 6 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (17.86 %) .NET Framework 7 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 7 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2000 8 4 (14.29 %) WebServices 8 4 (14.29 %) OO 8 4 (14.29 %) XSLT

8 4 (14.29 %) ASP 8 4 (14.29 %) VB 8 4 (14.29 %) HTML 8 4 (14.29 %) Java 9 3 (10.71 %) C++ 9 3 (10.71 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (10.71 %) MySQL 9 3 (10.71 %) Oracle 9 3 (10.71 %) SOAP 9 3 (10.71 %) XSD 9 3 (10.71 %) Configuration Management 9 3 (10.71 %) OLTP 9 3 (10.71 %) WinForms 9 3 (10.71 %) Back Office 9 3 (10.71 %) Games

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region that cited Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 21 (75.00 %) .NET 2 8 (28.57 %) XML 3 7 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 4 5 (17.86 %) .NET Framework 5 4 (14.29 %) HTML 5 4 (14.29 %) ASP 5 4 (14.29 %) WebServices 5 4 (14.29 %) XSLT 6 3 (10.71 %) SOAP 6 3 (10.71 %) XSD 6 3 (10.71 %) WPF 6 3 (10.71 %) Silverlight 6 3 (10.71 %) WinForms 6 3 (10.71 %) AJAX 7 2 (7.143 %) J2ME 7 2 (7.143 %) CSS 8 1 (3.571 %) J2EE 8 1 (3.571 %) ADO 8 1 (3.571 %) ADO.NET 8 1 (3.571 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.143 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.571 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (3.571 %) ArcIMS 2 1 (3.571 %) Gentran 2 1 (3.571 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.571 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (3.571 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.571 %) SSL 1 1 (3.571 %) Intranet 1 1 (3.571 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 6 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (17.86 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (10.71 %) OLTP 4 3 (10.71 %) MySQL 5 2 (7.143 %) RDBMS 6 1 (3.571 %) GIS 6 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (3.571 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 1 1 (3.571 %) Eclipse
General 1 3 (10.71 %) Back Office 1 3 (10.71 %) Games 2 1 (3.571 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.571 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.71 %) Mathematics 1 3 (10.71 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.571 %) NHS 2 1 (3.571 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.571 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 6 (21.43 %) Windows 2 1 (3.571 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (14.29 %) OO 2 3 (10.71 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (10.71 %) TDD 2 3 (10.71 %) Unit Testing 2 3 (10.71 %) Continuous Integration 3 1 (3.571 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (3.571 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.571 %) Migration 3 1 (3.571 %) RAD 3 1 (3.571 %) OOD 3 1 (3.571 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 12 (42.86 %) SQL 2 7 (25.00 %) C# 3 6 (21.43 %) VB.NET 4 4 (14.29 %) Java 4 4 (14.29 %) VB 5 3 (10.71 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (10.71 %) C++ 5 3 (10.71 %) XAML 5 3 (10.71 %) C++/CLI 6 2 (7.143 %) VB6 6 2 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (3.571 %) Delphi 7 1 (3.571 %) JavaScript 7 1 (3.571 %) PHP 7 1 (3.571 %) Ruby 7 1 (3.571 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 3 (10.71 %) Degree
Vendors 1 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 2 3 (10.71 %) Oracle