Worcestershire Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts within the Worcestershire 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bletchley Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Clydebank Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fleetwood Flintshire Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grampian Gravesend Guernsey Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Lyndhurst Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Morecambe Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Queensferry Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Strathclyde Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teddington Teesside Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	4
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	12	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	18.18 %	18.46 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£200
Average daily rate	£370	£250
% change on same period last year	+48.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£330
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£31.67
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£33.33
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.65	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Job Titles Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	66	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	13	11
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£179
Average daily rate	£428	£206
% change on same period last year	+108.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£477	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.58	£24.56
Average hourly rate	£17.28	£25.43
% change on same period last year	-32.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.99	£26.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Developer West Midlands

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 Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire 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 Developer across the Worcestershire region.

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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 Developer within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 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
Worcester	-1	3	-	-

Developer West Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 10 (58.82 %) JavaScript 2 8 (47.06 %) CSS 3 6 (35.29 %) XHTML 4 5 (29.41 %) Flash 4 5 (29.41 %) ActionScript 4 5 (29.41 %) .NET 4 5 (29.41 %) HTML 5 4 (23.53 %) Java 5 4 (23.53 %) OOP 5 4 (23.53 %) Health 5 4 (23.53 %) E-Learning 5 4 (23.53 %) Pharmaceutical 6 3 (17.65 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (17.65 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (17.65 %) Business Objects

6 3 (17.65 %) SQL 6 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 7 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 2 (11.76 %) C# 7 2 (11.76 %) XML 7 2 (11.76 %) N-Tier 7 2 (11.76 %) Government 7 2 (11.76 %) Spring 7 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere 7 2 (11.76 %) Web Development 8 1 (5.882 %) PHP5 8 1 (5.882 %) PHP4 8 1 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 1 (5.882 %) Data Integration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 (47.06 %) CSS 2 6 (35.29 %) XHTML 3 5 (29.41 %) HTML 3 5 (29.41 %) .NET 4 3 (17.65 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere 5 2 (11.76 %) Spring 5 2 (11.76 %) XML 6 1 (5.882 %) Swing 6 1 (5.882 %) ASP 6 1 (5.882 %) JSP 6 1 (5.882 %) Servlets 6 1 (5.882 %) Struts 6 1 (5.882 %) WebServices 6 1 (5.882 %) JSF 6 1 (5.882 %) AJAX 6 1 (5.882 %) MVC 6 1 (5.882 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (5.882 %) TeamSite 2 1 (5.882 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) LDAP 1 1 (5.882 %) Intranet 1 1 (5.882 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (17.65 %) SQL Server 1 3 (17.65 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (5.882 %) BusinessObjects XI 3 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (5.882 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 5 (29.41 %) Flash 2 1 (5.882 %) JUnit 2 1 (5.882 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (23.53 %) Health 1 4 (23.53 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (11.76 %) Government 3 1 (5.882 %) Finance 3 1 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (5.882 %) Retail 3 1 (5.882 %) Insurance 3 1 (5.882 %) Local Government	Miscellaneous 1 4 (23.53 %) E-Learning 2 2 (11.76 %) N-Tier 3 1 (5.882 %) W3C 3 1 (5.882 %) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (23.53 %) OOP 2 2 (11.76 %) Web Development 3 1 (5.882 %) UML 3 1 (5.882 %) OO 3 1 (5.882 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (5.882 %) Quality Management	Programming Languages 1 10 (58.82 %) JavaScript 2 5 (29.41 %) ActionScript 3 4 (23.53 %) Java 4 3 (17.65 %) SQL 5 2 (11.76 %) C# 6 1 (5.882 %) C++ 6 1 (5.882 %) C 6 1 (5.882 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (5.882 %) VB 6 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 6 1 (5.882 %) Embedded C 6 1 (5.882 %) PHP5 6 1 (5.882 %) PHP4 6 1 (5.882 %) PHP
System Software 1 1 (5.882 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (17.65 %) Business Objects 2 1 (5.882 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.882 %) Google