The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Grid Computing 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 Canary Wharf 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
Grid Computing
Rank 46 48 57
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +9
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 4 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.028% 0.262% 0.777%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.235% 0.641% 1.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £650 £500 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £275 £533
% change year-on-year
+40.90% -48.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
179 156 370
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 46.02% 40.84% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 100 295
Average daily rate £600 £550 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Grid Computing
London

Grid Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Grid Computing across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Canary Wharf Grid Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Grid Computing across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Grid Computing Daily Rate Trend

Grid Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing.

1 5 (100.00%) Front Office
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
1 5 (100.00%) DataSynapse
2 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (80.00%) Hudson
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Maven
2 4 (80.00%) JMS
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) GemFire
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server

Grid Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) JMS
1 4 (80.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (20.00%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) Hudson
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bash shell
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) DataSynapse
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft