The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Mercator products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mercator 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 Vendors for the Bedfordshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Mercator Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercator
Rank 27 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing Mercator 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.047% 1.434% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.703% 3.478% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
74 115 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 38.74% 41.22% 52.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 54 63
Average daily rate £325 £375 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +59.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
Average hourly rate £17.50 £29.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.65% +163.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Mercator
East of England

Mercator
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mercator across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Bedfordshire Mercator Jobs Demand Trend

Mercator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator within the Bedfordshire 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
Dunstable +4 2 - -
Mercator
East of England

Mercator
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Mercator also 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 that cited Mercator.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Nortel
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) IVR
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) Nortel Meridian
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7

Mercator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Mercator also 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 that cited Mercator. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Nortel Meridian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Nortel
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware