The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Buckinghamshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
N-Tier
Rank 56 61 75
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +14
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 11 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.356% 1.216% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.586% 5.021% 0.461%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 1
Average daily rate £375 £315 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% +14.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
145 239 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 17.88% 24.21% 19.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 84 72
Average daily rate £350 £330 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £481 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 25
Average hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.20% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.21 £10.53 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
N-Tier
South East

N-Tier
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Buckinghamshire N-Tier Jobs Demand Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire N-Tier Daily Rate Trend

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing N-Tier across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire N-Tier Hourly Rate Trend

N-Tier
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Milton Keynes +5 10 £375 +12.78%
N-Tier
South East

N-Tier
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 9 (75.00%) C#
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
1 9 (75.00%) OO
1 9 (75.00%) MVC
2 8 (66.67%) WCF
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (41.67%) NHibernate
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
4 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) Web Development
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) jQuery
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle
5 3 (25.00%) UNIX
5 3 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (25.00%) OLTP
5 3 (25.00%) Intel
5 3 (25.00%) Banking
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) VMware

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) .NET
2 8 (66.67%) WCF
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (41.67%) NHibernate
4 4 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (25.00%) jQuery
6 2 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (8.333%) Ajax
7 1 (8.333%) LINQ
7 1 (8.333%) XHTML
7 1 (8.333%) CSS
7 1 (8.333%) Web Services
7 1 (8.333%) XML
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) OLTP
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
1 9 (75.00%) .NET Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Agile .NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Programmer
4 3 (25.00%) Programmer
5 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Architect
5 1 (8.333%) Designer
5 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Architect
5 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) Design Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) OO
1 9 (75.00%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Web Development
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Intel
1 3 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) NetApp
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