West Yorkshire Applications Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Barnsley Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Cleckheaton Corby County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nuneaton Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	86
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	12	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.688 %	0.676 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£570
Average daily rate	£312	£575
% change on same period last year	-45.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£580
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£327
% change on same period last year	+6.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£21.25	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-22.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	£30.63
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1745	1922
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.359 %	1.895 %
Daily rates quoted	417	328
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£335
Average daily rate	£345	£356
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	125	178
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.78	£23.40
Average hourly rate	£23.01	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-7.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.24	£26.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Applications Developer across the West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Leeds	-14	4	£294	-48.91 %
Cleckheaton	-	3	-	-
Bradford	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 9 (42.86 %) .NET 1 9 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 8 (38.10 %) SQL 3 5 (23.81 %) HTML 4 4 (19.05 %) Java 4 4 (19.05 %) C# 4 4 (19.05 %) VB 4 4 (19.05 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (19.05 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (19.05 %) Lotus 5 3 (14.29 %) VB6 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (14.29 %) Marketing 5 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (14.29 %) Oracle

5 3 (14.29 %) Finance 5 3 (14.29 %) CSS 5 3 (14.29 %) MS Excel 5 3 (14.29 %) MS Access 5 3 (14.29 %) SharePoint 5 3 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (14.29 %) JavaScript 5 3 (14.29 %) PHP 6 2 (9.524 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (9.524 %) Business Objects 6 2 (9.524 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (9.524 %) UNIX 6 2 (9.524 %) Windows 6 2 (9.524 %) GIS 6 2 (9.524 %) ESRI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 9 (42.86 %) .NET 2 5 (23.81 %) HTML 3 4 (19.05 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (14.29 %) CSS 5 2 (9.524 %) ASP 5 2 (9.524 %) JNI 5 2 (9.524 %) AJAX 5 2 (9.524 %) ActiveX 5 2 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (4.762 %) XHTML 6 1 (4.762 %) WF 6 1 (4.762 %) Silverlight 6 1 (4.762 %) J2EE 6 1 (4.762 %) JSP 6 1 (4.762 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (19.05 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (14.29 %) SharePoint 3 2 (9.524 %) ColdFusion 3 2 (9.524 %) Lotus Domino 3 2 (9.524 %) ArcGIS 3 2 (9.524 %) Oracle Spatial 4 1 (4.762 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 3 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.762 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.762 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 3 (14.29 %) MS Access 2 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 2 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (9.524 %) GIS 3 2 (9.524 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (9.524 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (9.524 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (14.29 %) Finance 1 3 (14.29 %) Marketing 2 1 (4.762 %) Government 2 1 (4.762 %) Health 2 1 (4.762 %) Legal	Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) Smartcard 2 1 (4.762 %) PDA 2 1 (4.762 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 2 (9.524 %) UNIX 1 2 (9.524 %) Windows 2 1 (4.762 %) Linux 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows Mobile 2 1 (4.762 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.524 %) Migration 1 2 (9.524 %) Web Development 2 1 (4.762 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (4.762 %) Performance Management 2 1 (4.762 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (4.762 %) Automated Testing 2 1 (4.762 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (4.762 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 8 (38.10 %) SQL 2 4 (19.05 %) VB 2 4 (19.05 %) C# 2 4 (19.05 %) Java 3 3 (14.29 %) JavaScript 3 3 (14.29 %) PHP 3 3 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 3 3 (14.29 %) VB6 4 2 (9.524 %) VBA 5 1 (4.762 %) Progress 4GL 5 1 (4.762 %) LotusScript 5 1 (4.762 %) C 5 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) SLA	Vendors 1 4 (19.05 %) Lotus 2 3 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 2 (9.524 %) Business Objects 3 2 (9.524 %) Autodesk 3 2 (9.524 %) ESRI 3 2 (9.524 %) Adobe 4 1 (4.762 %) Progress