The first table below looks at the demand for AppFabric skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AppFabric over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Development category for the Berkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft AppFabric
Rank 116 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Contract jobs citing AppFabric 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.167% 0.064% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.771% 0.370% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £425 £413 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £413 -
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
519 541 731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.67% 17.20% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 247 310
Average daily rate £388 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
AppFabric
South East

AppFabric
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AppFabric across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire AppFabric Jobs Demand Trend

AppFabric
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire AppFabric Daily Rate Trend

AppFabric
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing AppFabric 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 AppFabric.

1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) WCF
1 11 (100.00%) WF
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 10 (90.91%) BizTalk Server
3 9 (81.82%) C#
4 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (54.55%) SOA
5 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
5 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
5 6 (54.55%) XML
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (45.45%) SQL
7 4 (36.36%) MS Project
7 4 (36.36%) MS Office
7 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 4 (36.36%) MS Visio
7 4 (36.36%) Requirements Management
7 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
7 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
7 4 (36.36%) Use Case
8 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
8 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
9 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
10 1 (9.091%) Windows Identity Foundation
10 1 (9.091%) MVC
10 1 (9.091%) Workflow
10 1 (9.091%) T-SQL

AppFabric
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing AppFabric 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 AppFabric. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) WCF
1 11 (100.00%) WF
2 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET
2 6 (54.55%) XML
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Identity Foundation
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 10 (90.91%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Project
1 4 (36.36%) MS Office
1 4 (36.36%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) BizTalk Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Consultant
3 4 (36.36%) BizTalk Consultant
3 4 (36.36%) Business Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) SOA
2 4 (36.36%) Requirements Management
2 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
2 4 (36.36%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft