The first table below looks at the demand for Lisp skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lisp 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 Programming Languages category for the Cambridge 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
Lisp
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Lisp 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £263
% change year-on-year
- +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.00 -
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
174 268 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 52.89% 63.21% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 139 73
Average daily rate £300 £305 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% +1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £201 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £34.25 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Lisp
Cambridgeshire

Lisp
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lisp across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cambridge Lisp Jobs Demand Trend

Lisp
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Lisp Daily Rate Trend

Lisp
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
3 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 4 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
3 4 (66.67%) J2EE
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Apache
3 4 (66.67%) Swing
3 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
3 4 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) PhD
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Subversion
3 4 (66.67%) Information Management
3 4 (66.67%) Spring
3 4 (66.67%) Maven

Lisp
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) J2EE
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
1 4 (66.67%) Swing
1 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (66.67%) Apache
1 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (16.67%) Mathematica
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 4 (66.67%) Subversion
1 4 (66.67%) Maven
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Informatics
3 2 (33.33%) Biology
3 2 (33.33%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 4 (66.67%) MVC
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) TDD
1 4 (66.67%) Information Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Parallel Computing
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Ruby
4 2 (33.33%) Haskell
4 2 (33.33%) Erlang
5 1 (16.67%) F#
5 1 (16.67%) R
5 1 (16.67%) C
5 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) PhD
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft