The first table below looks at the demand for Mathematica 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 Mathematica 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 Platforms 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
Wolfram Research Mathematica
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mathematica 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
73 86 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.19% 20.28% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 14
Average daily rate £280 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £145 £175 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £35.00 £12.37
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.25 £19.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Mathematica
Cambridgeshire

Mathematica
Top 12 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
1 1 (100.00%) Haskell
1 1 (100.00%) Erlang
1 1 (100.00%) F#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) R

Mathematica
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
1 1 (100.00%) Haskell
1 1 (100.00%) Erlang
1 1 (100.00%) F#
1 1 (100.00%) R
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft