West Midlands Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hornchurch Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Louth Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	2
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	656	682
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.874 %	0.690 %
As % of the category below	22.13 %	21.58 %
Daily rates quoted	132	123
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£288
Average daily rate	£319	£301
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£332
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.39	£29.42
Average hourly rate	£30.27	£31.60
% change on same period last year	-4.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.14	£33.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.12	£33.31
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	2964	3161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.951 %	3.198 %
Daily rates quoted	714	687
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£330
Average daily rate	£345	£347
% change on same period last year	-0.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	272	428
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.48	£22.43
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£24.24
% change on same period last year	-13.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.47	£26.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Developer England

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 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 Developer across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 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 Developer across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Birmingham	0	142	£334	+0.36 %
Coventry	0	82	£298	+0.73 %
Staffordshire	+5	79	£336	-1.06 %
Warwickshire	-1	57	£276	-1.60 %
Wolverhampton	+5	23	£332	-
Shropshire	-14	21	£314	-
Herefordshire	+17	18	£213	-8.23 %
Worcestershire	-3	13	£217	-18.23 %
Solihull	+1	12	£200	-28.57 %
Walsall	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 568 (42.77 %) .NET 2 481 (36.22 %) SQL Server 3 395 (29.74 %) SQL 4 333 (25.08 %) ASP.NET 5 321 (24.17 %) C# 6 266 (20.03 %) XML 7 223 (16.79 %) SQL Server 2005 8 220 (16.57 %) HTML 9 215 (16.19 %) JavaScript 10 214 (16.11 %) Java 11 197 (14.83 %) VB.NET 12 187 (14.08 %) CSS 13 186 (14.01 %) Oracle 14 152 (11.45 %) VB 15 148 (11.14 %) WebServices

16 122 (9.187 %) SQL Server 2000 17 118 (8.886 %) OO 18 115 (8.660 %) J2EE 19 114 (8.584 %) Microsoft 20 108 (8.133 %) Web Development 21 100 (7.530 %) Visual Studio 21 100 (7.530 %) XHTML 22 94 (7.078 %) Windows 23 92 (6.928 %) AJAX 24 88 (6.627 %) Migration 25 87 (6.551 %) WebSphere 26 83 (6.250 %) UML 27 81 (6.099 %) ASP 28 80 (6.024 %) SharePoint 29 78 (5.873 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 568 (42.77 %) .NET 2 333 (25.08 %) ASP.NET 3 266 (20.03 %) XML 4 220 (16.57 %) HTML 5 187 (14.08 %) CSS 6 148 (11.14 %) WebServices 7 115 (8.660 %) J2EE 8 100 (7.530 %) XHTML 9 92 (6.928 %) AJAX 10 87 (6.551 %) WebSphere 11 81 (6.099 %) ASP 12 70 (5.271 %) SOAP 13 69 (5.196 %) .NET Framework 14 62 (4.669 %) XSLT 15 58 (4.367 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 51 (3.840 %) JSP 17 45 (3.389 %) Spring 18 41 (3.087 %) Hibernate 19 40 (3.012 %) JMS 20 34 (2.560 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 80 (6.024 %) SharePoint 2 47 (3.539 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 37 (2.786 %) Apache 3 37 (2.786 %) BizTalk Server 4 30 (2.259 %) CMS 4 30 (2.259 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 26 (1.958 %) IIS 6 21 (1.581 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 19 (1.431 %) MQSeries 8 16 (1.205 %) ColdFusion 8 16 (1.205 %) Tomcat 9 15 (1.130 %) WebSphere MQ 10 14 (1.054 %) ESB 11 8 (0.602 %) Office Project Server 11 8 (0.602 %) WebLogic 12 7 (0.527 %) Lotus Notes 12 7 (0.527 %) Lotus Domino 13 5 (0.377 %) Oracle Workflow 14 4 (0.301 %) MQSI 14 4 (0.301 %) OpenEdge
Applications 1 49 (3.690 %) MS Excel 2 21 (1.581 %) Photoshop 3 13 (0.979 %) InfoPath 4 12 (0.904 %) MS Office 5 5 (0.377 %) Fireworks 5 5 (0.377 %) 3ds Max 6 2 (0.151 %) Spreadsheet 7 1 (0.075 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 9 (0.678 %) Remedy AR System 2 2 (0.151 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 2 (0.151 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.075 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.075 %) Axapta 3 1 (0.075 %) Navision 3 1 (0.075 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (0.075 %) MFGPRO 3 1 (0.075 %) Applix TM1 3 1 (0.075 %) Dynamics NAV 3 1 (0.075 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 39 (2.937 %) Internet 2 38 (2.861 %) Intranet 3 31 (2.334 %) HTTP 4 5 (0.377 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (0.377 %) FTP 5 3 (0.226 %) DNS 5 3 (0.226 %) SSL 5 3 (0.226 %) Wireless 6 2 (0.151 %) Firewall 6 2 (0.151 %) Extranet 6 2 (0.151 %) 3G 6 2 (0.151 %) VoIP 6 2 (0.151 %) Bluetooth 6 2 (0.151 %) GPRS 7 1 (0.075 %) GSM 7 1 (0.075 %) ISDN 7 1 (0.075 %) UMTS 7 1 (0.075 %) Ethernet 7 1 (0.075 %) LDAP 7 1 (0.075 %) SS7	Database & Business Intelligence 1 481 (36.22 %) SQL Server 2 223 (16.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 122 (9.187 %) SQL Server 2000 4 78 (5.873 %) MySQL 5 53 (3.991 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 47 (3.539 %) Oracle 10g 6 47 (3.539 %) Datawarehouse 7 36 (2.711 %) SQL Server 7 8 35 (2.636 %) Crystal Reports 8 35 (2.636 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 30 (2.259 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 30 (2.259 %) BusinessObjects 10 23 (1.732 %) MS Access 11 19 (1.431 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 18 (1.355 %) Oracle Reports 13 14 (1.054 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 14 (1.054 %) OLAP 13 14 (1.054 %) ETL 13 14 (1.054 %) BusinessObjects XI 14 13 (0.979 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 100 (7.530 %) Visual Studio 2 59 (4.443 %) Flash 3 33 (2.485 %) Dreamweaver 4 24 (1.807 %) Paros 4 24 (1.807 %) Fiddler 5 19 (1.431 %) Ant 6 17 (1.280 %) JUnit 6 17 (1.280 %) Eclipse 7 15 (1.130 %) Subversion 8 13 (0.979 %) Oracle Forms 9 11 (0.828 %) Rational Rose 10 6 (0.452 %) NUnit 11 5 (0.377 %) CruiseControl 11 5 (0.377 %) Zend Studio 11 5 (0.377 %) ClearQuest 11 5 (0.377 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 4 (0.301 %) PowerBuilder 13 3 (0.226 %) ClearCase 13 3 (0.226 %) WinRunner 13 3 (0.226 %) LoadRunner	General 1 72 (5.422 %) Finance 2 55 (4.142 %) Pensions 3 36 (2.711 %) Government 4 24 (1.807 %) Health 4 24 (1.807 %) Auditing 5 23 (1.732 %) Manufacturing 6 21 (1.581 %) Retail 7 20 (1.506 %) Insurance 8 17 (1.280 %) Telecoms 9 16 (1.205 %) Automotive 10 13 (0.979 %) Back Office 11 9 (0.678 %) Banking 12 8 (0.602 %) Financial Institution 12 8 (0.602 %) Construction 12 8 (0.602 %) Local Government 12 8 (0.602 %) Marketing 13 7 (0.527 %) Education 14 6 (0.452 %) Games 15 5 (0.377 %) Graphic Design 16 4 (0.301 %) Advertising
Miscellaneous 1 56 (4.217 %) NHS 1 56 (4.217 %) W3C 2 21 (1.581 %) N-Tier 3 20 (1.506 %) Web 2.0 4 11 (0.828 %) E-Learning 4 11 (0.828 %) Client/Server 5 10 (0.753 %) AS400 6 7 (0.527 %) Replication 7 6 (0.452 %) Mainframe 8 5 (0.377 %) Computer Science 9 4 (0.301 %) PDA 9 4 (0.301 %) Social Network 10 3 (0.226 %) Data Integration 10 3 (0.226 %) EPoS 11 2 (0.151 %) Management Information System 11 2 (0.151 %) Blackberry 11 2 (0.151 %) Device Driver 11 2 (0.151 %) Arabic Language 11 2 (0.151 %) Wiki 12 1 (0.075 %) Blog	Operating Systems 1 94 (7.078 %) Windows 2 47 (3.539 %) Linux 3 30 (2.259 %) UNIX 4 26 (1.958 %) Solaris 5 10 (0.753 %) AIX 5 10 (0.753 %) zOS 6 6 (0.452 %) SUSE 6 6 (0.452 %) Windows Mobile 7 5 (0.377 %) HPUX 7 5 (0.377 %) Windows NT 8 4 (0.301 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (0.301 %) Windows CE 9 3 (0.226 %) Windows Server 2003 10 2 (0.151 %) Mac OS X 10 2 (0.151 %) Ubuntu 11 1 (0.075 %) VxWorks 11 1 (0.075 %) MVS 11 1 (0.075 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 118 (8.886 %) OO 2 108 (8.133 %) Web Development 3 88 (6.627 %) Migration 4 83 (6.250 %) UML 5 74 (5.572 %) Agile Software Development 6 53 (3.991 %) E-Commerce 7 43 (3.238 %) Web Design 8 42 (3.163 %) Data Migration 9 40 (3.012 %) Content Management 10 32 (2.410 %) Workflow 11 28 (2.108 %) Business Intelligence 12 25 (1.883 %) Scrum 13 24 (1.807 %) Information Security 13 24 (1.807 %) OOP 13 24 (1.807 %) SOA 14 22 (1.657 %) CRM 14 22 (1.657 %) Unit Testing 15 19 (1.431 %) OOD 15 19 (1.431 %) RAD 16 17 (1.280 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 395 (29.74 %) SQL 2 321 (24.17 %) C# 3 215 (16.19 %) JavaScript 4 214 (16.11 %) Java 5 197 (14.83 %) VB.NET 6 152 (11.45 %) VB 7 75 (5.648 %) PL/SQL 8 70 (5.271 %) PHP 9 58 (4.367 %) Transact-SQL 10 54 (4.066 %) VB6 11 38 (2.861 %) C++ 12 32 (2.410 %) ActionScript 13 25 (1.883 %) COBOL 14 24 (1.807 %) C 15 22 (1.657 %) VBA 16 18 (1.355 %) VBScript 17 12 (0.904 %) Delphi 17 12 (0.904 %) PHP5 18 8 (0.602 %) VC++ 19 7 (0.527 %) LotusScript
Qualifications 1 16 (1.205 %) Degree 2 9 (0.678 %) Sun Certification 3 8 (0.602 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (0.301 %) MCAD 5 3 (0.226 %) MCSD 5 3 (0.226 %) ISEB 5 3 (0.226 %) SCJP 5 3 (0.226 %) SCJA 6 1 (0.075 %) MCDST 6 1 (0.075 %) MCTS 6 1 (0.075 %) MCPD 6 1 (0.075 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 16 (1.205 %) HL7 2 13 (0.979 %) WAI 3 2 (0.151 %) SLA 4 1 (0.075 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.075 %) WCAG 4 1 (0.075 %) QA 4 1 (0.075 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 15 (1.130 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.452 %) Oracle RAC 3 5 (0.377 %) MSMQ 3 5 (0.377 %) AquaLogic 4 2 (0.151 %) Samba 5 1 (0.075 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 3 (0.226 %) MIIS 2 1 (0.075 %) AllFusion Endevor
Vendors 1 186 (14.01 %) Oracle 2 114 (8.584 %) Microsoft 3 30 (2.259 %) Business Objects 4 29 (2.184 %) Cognos 5 19 (1.431 %) Sun 6 16 (1.205 %) SAP 7 13 (0.979 %) Adobe 8 11 (0.828 %) Remedy 9 10 (0.753 %) Progress 9 10 (0.753 %) Sybase 10 9 (0.678 %) BEA 10 9 (0.678 %) ESRI 10 9 (0.678 %) Red Hat 10 9 (0.678 %) Lotus 11 7 (0.527 %) IBM 11 7 (0.527 %) ProClarity 12 6 (0.452 %) Northgate 12 6 (0.452 %) HP 13 5 (0.377 %) VERITAS 13 5 (0.377 %) Mercator