Yorkshire Applications Developer Contracts

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

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Location Barnsley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	110
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	12	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	0.504 %	0.857 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£332
Average daily rate	£300	£361
% change on same period last year	-16.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£291	£314
% change on same period last year	-7.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.50
Average hourly rate	-	£25.88
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£27.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.68	£35.31
% change on same period last year	-18.77 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2380	3502
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.843 %	3.820 %
Daily rates quoted	534	816
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£340
% change on same period last year	+5.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	274	309
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.37	£20.91
Average hourly rate	£20.61	£22.24
% change on same period last year	-7.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.85	£23.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Applications 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 Applications Developer across the 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 Applications Developer within the Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire	+8	9	£300	-16.95 %
South Yorkshire	+18	2	-	-
East Yorkshire	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 22 (66.67 %) .NET 2 18 (54.55 %) SQL Server 3 11 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 11 (33.33 %) Microsoft 4 10 (30.30 %) XML 5 9 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 5 9 (27.27 %) SQL 6 8 (24.24 %) C# 6 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 2005 7 7 (21.21 %) Visual Studio 8 6 (18.18 %) Oracle 8 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 6 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 9 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft Analysis Services

9 5 (15.15 %) Finance 9 5 (15.15 %) MS Excel 9 5 (15.15 %) ADO.NET 9 5 (15.15 %) VB 9 5 (15.15 %) VB.NET 9 5 (15.15 %) DHTML 9 5 (15.15 %) PHP 10 4 (12.12 %) VBA 10 4 (12.12 %) ITIL 10 4 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 10 4 (12.12 %) CSS 10 4 (12.12 %) Windows 10 4 (12.12 %) Project Management 10 4 (12.12 %) Silverlight 11 3 (9.091 %) AJAX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 22 (66.67 %) .NET 2 10 (30.30 %) XML 3 9 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 5 5 (15.15 %) ADO.NET 6 4 (12.12 %) CSS 6 4 (12.12 %) Silverlight 7 3 (9.091 %) HTML 7 3 (9.091 %) AJAX 7 3 (9.091 %) ASP 8 2 (6.061 %) XHTML 9 1 (3.030 %) WinForms 9 1 (3.030 %) JSP 9 1 (3.030 %) J2EE 9 1 (3.030 %) MFC 9 1 (3.030 %) WCF 9 1 (3.030 %) WPF 9 1 (3.030 %) WF	Application Platforms 1 3 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 1 3 (9.091 %) ColdFusion 2 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.030 %) InfoPath 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) Internet 2 1 (3.030 %) Extranet 2 1 (3.030 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (54.55 %) SQL Server 2 8 (24.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 5 (15.15 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 5 (15.15 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (9.091 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (9.091 %) MS Access 6 2 (6.061 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (3.030 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.030 %) NUnit	General 1 5 (15.15 %) Finance 2 3 (9.091 %) Marketing 3 2 (6.061 %) Government 3 2 (6.061 %) Health 4 1 (3.030 %) Legal 4 1 (3.030 %) FMCG
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) NHS 1 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe 1 2 (6.061 %) iPhone 2 1 (3.030 %) Client/Server 2 1 (3.030 %) PDA 2 1 (3.030 %) Multithreading 2 1 (3.030 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2 2 (6.061 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.030 %) Linux 3 1 (3.030 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.12 %) Project Management 1 4 (12.12 %) ITIL 1 4 (12.12 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (9.091 %) OO 2 3 (9.091 %) Migration 3 1 (3.030 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Software Testing 3 1 (3.030 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (3.030 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (3.030 %) Time Management 3 1 (3.030 %) RAD 3 1 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (3.030 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 11 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 9 (27.27 %) SQL 3 8 (24.24 %) C# 4 5 (15.15 %) DHTML 4 5 (15.15 %) PHP 4 5 (15.15 %) VB 4 5 (15.15 %) VB.NET 5 4 (12.12 %) VBA 6 2 (6.061 %) VB6 6 2 (6.061 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (6.061 %) Java 7 1 (3.030 %) C++ 7 1 (3.030 %) Delphi 7 1 (3.030 %) RPG 7 1 (3.030 %) PHP5 7 1 (3.030 %) PHP4 7 1 (3.030 %) Progress 4GL 7 1 (3.030 %) Pascal
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) SLA	Vendors 1 11 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (18.18 %) Oracle 3 3 (9.091 %) Business Objects 3 3 (9.091 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.030 %) telerik 4 1 (3.030 %) Dundas 4 1 (3.030 %) Progress