The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 104 105 90
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -15
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 9 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.474% 0.305% 0.605%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.502% 0.322% 0.645%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
Average daily rate £340 £240 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.77% -26.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £240 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £268 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £314 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.50% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.75 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-18.58% -8.23%
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1792 2173 1705
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.42% 94.81% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1162 788
Average daily rate £320 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 104 127
Average hourly rate £14.00 £13.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -16.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £10.30 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.30 £30.50 £33.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Applications Developer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
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 17 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
West Yorkshire +4 5 £340 +23.72%
South Yorkshire -3 1 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Applications Developer
England

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 11 (61.11%) .NET
2 10 (55.56%) C#
3 9 (50.00%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (50.00%) Web Services
3 9 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (44.44%) CSS
4 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 8 (44.44%) MVC
4 8 (44.44%) XAML
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 8 (44.44%) WPF
4 8 (44.44%) Silverlight
4 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (38.89%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 7 (38.89%) .NET Framework
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle
7 4 (22.22%) Java
7 4 (22.22%) SQL
8 3 (16.67%) PHP
8 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
8 3 (16.67%) Finance
8 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
8 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
9 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
9 2 (11.11%) Banking
9 2 (11.11%) Document Management
9 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (11.11%) Android

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 11 (61.11%) .NET
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
2 9 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (50.00%) Web Services
3 8 (44.44%) CSS
3 8 (44.44%) WPF
3 8 (44.44%) Silverlight
3 8 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (38.89%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 7 (38.89%) .NET Framework
5 2 (11.11%) ASP
6 1 (5.556%) DHTML
6 1 (5.556%) LAMP
6 1 (5.556%) NHibernate
6 1 (5.556%) iOS SDK
6 1 (5.556%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Documentum
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) JDE OneWorld
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
2 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.556%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (44.44%) MVC
2 8 (44.44%) Scrum
3 2 (11.11%) Document Management
3 2 (11.11%) ETL
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
3 2 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (5.556%) Change Management
4 1 (5.556%) Migration
4 1 (5.556%) OOP
4 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.556%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 8 (44.44%) XAML
3 4 (22.22%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.556%) C++
5 1 (5.556%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Siebel
2 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 1 (5.556%) JD Edwards