The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 22 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 West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 252 332 227
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 19.80% 20.52% 20.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.90% 21.71% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 220 112
Average daily rate £280 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £374 £386 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 6
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -53.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.30 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £17.40 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1206 1529 1042
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.74% 94.50% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 849 482
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 70 75
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.64 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds +1 174 £275 -15.38%
Bradford +6 29 £258 +66.12%
Huddersfield 0 8 £313 +4.16%
Halifax -6 5 £313 +16.82%
Wakefield -4 3 £338 -3.57%
Cleckheaton - 2 £263 -
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 262 (47.46%) .NET
2 214 (38.77%) C#
3 196 (35.51%) SQL Server
4 173 (31.34%) SQL
5 162 (29.35%) ASP.NET
6 154 (27.90%) JavaScript
7 142 (25.72%) CSS
8 114 (20.65%) Oracle
9 108 (19.57%) HTML
10 93 (16.85%) SQL Server 2008
11 88 (15.94%) Web Services
11 88 (15.94%) Agile Software Development
12 83 (15.04%) MVC
13 82 (14.86%) Java
13 82 (14.86%) jQuery
14 77 (13.95%) .NET Framework
15 66 (11.96%) ASP.NET MVC
16 64 (11.59%) XML
17 57 (10.33%) Data Warehouse
18 56 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
19 54 (9.783%) Visual Studio
19 54 (9.783%) WCF
20 53 (9.601%) T-SQL
21 50 (9.058%) Scrum
22 48 (8.696%) TDD
22 48 (8.696%) J2EE
22 48 (8.696%) SOAP
22 48 (8.696%) Microsoft
22 48 (8.696%) SharePoint
22 48 (8.696%) Web Development

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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
1 262 (47.46%) .NET
2 162 (29.35%) ASP.NET
3 142 (25.72%) CSS
4 108 (19.57%) HTML
5 88 (15.94%) Web Services
6 82 (14.86%) jQuery
7 77 (13.95%) .NET Framework
8 66 (11.96%) ASP.NET MVC
9 64 (11.59%) XML
10 54 (9.783%) WCF
11 48 (8.696%) J2EE
11 48 (8.696%) SOAP
12 42 (7.609%) HTML5
13 39 (7.065%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 31 (5.616%) REST
15 29 (5.254%) Ajax
16 28 (5.072%) Hibernate
16 28 (5.072%) WPF
17 27 (4.891%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 25 (4.529%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 48 (8.696%) SharePoint
2 36 (6.522%) CMS
3 22 (3.986%) SharePoint 2010
3 22 (3.986%) Amazon AWS
4 20 (3.623%) Apache
5 19 (3.442%) Adobe CQ
6 18 (3.261%) Route 53
6 18 (3.261%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (3.261%) Amazon S3
7 14 (2.536%) EPiServer CMS
8 13 (2.355%) BizTalk Server
9 10 (1.812%) Tomcat
10 9 (1.630%) Apache Solr
11 8 (1.449%) nginx
12 6 (1.087%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.906%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.906%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.906%) IIS
13 5 (0.906%) MTS
13 5 (0.906%) MSMQ
Applications
1 24 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 5 (0.906%) PowerPivot
2 5 (0.906%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.362%) MS Project
3 2 (0.362%) MS Office
3 2 (0.362%) DOC1
4 1 (0.181%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.181%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.181%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.181%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (3.442%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (1.812%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.268%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.725%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.362%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.362%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.362%) SAP LE
5 2 (0.362%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.181%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.181%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.181%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.181%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.181%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.181%) SiteCatalyst
6 1 (0.181%) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.167%) Internet
2 16 (2.899%) HTTP
3 7 (1.268%) DNS
4 2 (0.362%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.181%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.181%) Extranet
5 1 (0.181%) IPsec
5 1 (0.181%) VPN
5 1 (0.181%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (35.51%) SQL Server
2 93 (16.85%) SQL Server 2008
3 57 (10.33%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 39 (7.065%) MySQL
6 33 (5.978%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 32 (5.797%) Oracle OWB
8 31 (5.616%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 29 (5.254%) SQL Server 2005
10 27 (4.891%) Oracle BI EE
11 26 (4.710%) Oracle 11g
12 23 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
13 22 (3.986%) MongoDB
14 18 (3.261%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (3.261%) Redis
15 15 (2.717%) RDBMS
16 14 (2.536%) Oracle 10g
17 12 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
18 11 (1.993%) SQL Server 2000
18 11 (1.993%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 54 (9.783%) Visual Studio
2 25 (4.529%) Git (software)
3 19 (3.442%) Jenkins
4 16 (2.899%) Maven
5 12 (2.174%) Subversion
5 12 (2.174%) JIRA
6 9 (1.630%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (1.630%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (1.630%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 8 (1.449%) NUnit
8 6 (1.087%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
9 5 (0.906%) Selenium
9 5 (0.906%) Xcode
9 5 (0.906%) JUnit
9 5 (0.906%) JDeveloper
10 4 (0.725%) Hudson
11 3 (0.543%) PHPUnit
11 3 (0.543%) ClearCase
12 2 (0.362%) Dreamweaver
12 2 (0.362%) Capistrano
General
1 42 (7.609%) Finance
2 21 (3.804%) Telecoms
3 19 (3.442%) Banking
4 10 (1.812%) Retail
5 9 (1.630%) Investment Banking
6 7 (1.268%) Manufacturing
7 4 (0.725%) Marketing
8 3 (0.543%) Retail Banking
8 3 (0.543%) Games
8 3 (0.543%) Publishing
9 2 (0.362%) Advertising
9 2 (0.362%) Law
9 2 (0.362%) Legal
10 1 (0.181%) German Language
10 1 (0.181%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.181%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.181%) Back Office
10 1 (0.181%) Electronics
10 1 (0.181%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.254%) Data Integration
2 24 (4.348%) NHS
3 16 (2.899%) Client/Server
4 11 (1.993%) iPhone
4 11 (1.993%) Open Source
4 11 (1.993%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.630%) Computer Science
6 7 (1.268%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.268%) N-Tier
7 6 (1.087%) W3C
7 6 (1.087%) iPad
8 5 (0.906%) Mathematics
8 5 (0.906%) RIA
9 3 (0.543%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.362%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.362%) IVR
10 2 (0.362%) Heroku
10 2 (0.362%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.362%) VAX
11 1 (0.181%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.159%) Linux
2 28 (5.072%) Windows
3 16 (2.899%) UNIX
4 13 (2.355%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.355%) Android
5 4 (0.725%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.725%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (0.543%) Windows CE
7 2 (0.362%) VMS
7 2 (0.362%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.181%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (15.94%) Agile Software Development
2 83 (15.04%) MVC
3 56 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (9.058%) Scrum
5 48 (8.696%) TDD
5 48 (8.696%) Web Development
6 43 (7.790%) ETL
7 38 (6.884%) OO
8 27 (4.891%) SOA
9 26 (4.710%) Data Modelling
9 26 (4.710%) E-Commerce
9 26 (4.710%) Migration
10 23 (4.167%) Unit Testing
11 21 (3.804%) BDD
12 20 (3.623%) Kanban
13 18 (3.261%) Security Testing
13 18 (3.261%) Software Engineering
14 17 (3.080%) Automated Testing
14 17 (3.080%) CRM
15 15 (2.717%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 214 (38.77%) C#
2 173 (31.34%) SQL
3 154 (27.90%) JavaScript
4 82 (14.86%) Java
5 53 (9.601%) T-SQL
6 47 (8.514%) PL/SQL
7 45 (8.152%) PHP
8 44 (7.971%) VB.NET
9 19 (3.442%) C++
10 17 (3.080%) VBA
11 15 (2.717%) Ruby
11 15 (2.717%) VB
12 14 (2.536%) Perl
12 14 (2.536%) XAML
13 13 (2.355%) Python
14 11 (1.993%) VB6
15 9 (1.630%) Groovy
15 9 (1.630%) Bash shell
16 8 (1.449%) Objective-C
17 6 (1.087%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 24 (4.348%) Degree
2 17 (3.080%) Security Cleared
3 10 (1.812%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.362%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.906%) QA
2 2 (0.362%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.181%) WAI
3 1 (0.181%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (0.181%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 2 (0.362%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.181%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.181%) Puppet
2 1 (0.181%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
2 1 (0.181%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 114 (20.65%) Oracle
2 48 (8.696%) Microsoft
3 25 (4.529%) EPiServer
4 24 (4.348%) Informatica
5 21 (3.804%) Adobe
6 17 (3.080%) Percona
7 14 (2.536%) hybris
8 10 (1.812%) SAP
9 9 (1.630%) Zend
10 8 (1.449%) Perforce
11 7 (1.268%) RedDot
12 6 (1.087%) IBM
13 5 (0.906%) Business Objects
14 4 (0.725%) HP
14 4 (0.725%) Sitecore
15 3 (0.543%) JBoss
15 3 (0.543%) PeopleSoft
15 3 (0.543%) Sybase
15 3 (0.543%) Siebel
15 3 (0.543%) Progress
Leeds, West Yorkshire
An experienced .Net Developer with strong C#, SQL Server skills is required to work for a large organisation on the support and maintenance of the existing systems... As...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Yorkshire
The successful .Net Developer is required to have a strong development experiance and customisation experience with C# and SQL server. Desirable skills include Umbraco/Sitecore... No terminology in...
Amoria Bond
Posted: 16 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You need to be an experienced developer with front-end user interface development with the following must haves: - 3+ years Java - HTML - CSS - JavaScript - JQuery - GUI/UI relevant...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £325 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Computer Futures
Rate: £275 - £325 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
The required skills for this position: - 4+ years Java experience - Groovy and Grails - Experience building large scale applications on multiple platforms - JavaScript - full stack - Agile methodologies Desirable skills: -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Computer Futures
Rate: £275 - £325 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Rate: £220 - £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Progressive Recruitment
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Contract Sharepoint Developer to join a leading utilities company based West Yorkshire for 2months+.Daily rate: £330Skills required:*SharePoint 2010 development experience*Experience of FAST Search 2010*SharePoint...
Posted: 26 April 2013
West Yorkshire
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Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
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Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You will be working alongside the team of software developers as a SQL BI Developer using the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS/SSRS/SSAS) Key Skills: SSIS/SSRS/SSAS...
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Rate: £275 - £325 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Unspecified NEG
Posted: 16 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
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IQ Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Real Staffing
Posted: 15 May 2013
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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a leading retail bank for SQL Server Data warehouse developer to join a growing bank wide Treasury team as a SQL Server...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Car Allowance, Beneifts, Pension
Posted: 20 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
The company is currently enjoying a very successful period and as a result needs some additional development resource on the Magento platform... You will be required to add...
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £220 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Rate: £275 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Posted: 14 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Rate: £275 - £400 per day
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