The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of 29West products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 29West over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors for the City of London 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within 29West Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
29West
Rank 191 190 230
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +40
Contract jobs citing 29West 12 27 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.187% 0.343% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category 0.413% 0.816% 0.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 27 3
Average daily rate £600 £700 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £738 £765 £605
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2903 3310 4065
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.18% 42.10% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2048 2260 2803
Average daily rate £430 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 101 126
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
29West
London

29West
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 29West across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

City of London 29West Jobs Demand Trend

29West
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 29West across the City of London region.

City of London 29West Daily Rate Trend

29West
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 29West across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London 29West Daily Rate Histogram

29West
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing 29West 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 29West.

1 21 (95.45%) Java
2 17 (77.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (54.55%) TIBCO
3 12 (54.55%) JMS
4 10 (45.45%) Front Office
4 10 (45.45%) Multithreading
5 8 (36.36%) TIBCO EMS
5 8 (36.36%) Electronic Trading
5 8 (36.36%) Rendezvous
5 8 (36.36%) Middleware
6 7 (31.82%) Oracle
6 7 (31.82%) Sybase
6 7 (31.82%) UNIX
7 6 (27.27%) NAS
7 6 (27.27%) Complex Event Processing
7 6 (27.27%) Windows
7 6 (27.27%) Solaris
7 6 (27.27%) Linux
7 6 (27.27%) WebLogic
7 6 (27.27%) IIS
7 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
7 6 (27.27%) SQL
7 6 (27.27%) Benchmarking
7 6 (27.27%) XML
7 6 (27.27%) XSLT
7 6 (27.27%) Apache
7 6 (27.27%) Cisco
7 6 (27.27%) EMC
7 6 (27.27%) SAN
7 6 (27.27%) NetApp

29West
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing 29West 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 29West. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (54.55%) JMS
2 8 (36.36%) Middleware
3 6 (27.27%) XML
3 6 (27.27%) XSLT
3 6 (27.27%) WebSphere
3 6 (27.27%) HTML
4 2 (9.091%) Spring
5 1 (4.545%) .NET
5 1 (4.545%) Web Services
5 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.545%) WinForms
5 1 (4.545%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (4.545%) WPF
5 1 (4.545%) Silverlight
5 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) TIBCO EMS
1 8 (36.36%) Rendezvous
2 6 (27.27%) WebLogic
2 6 (27.27%) IIS
2 6 (27.27%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (27.27%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) NAS
1 6 (27.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Subversion
1 2 (9.091%) Maven
2 1 (4.545%) FishEye
2 1 (4.545%) Mockito
2 1 (4.545%) Ant
2 1 (4.545%) JUnit
2 1 (4.545%) Selenium
2 1 (4.545%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.545%) EasyMock
2 1 (4.545%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Front Office
2 2 (9.091%) Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 9 (40.91%) Lead Java Developer
3 9 (40.91%) Lead Developer
4 7 (31.82%) Technical Leader
5 6 (27.27%) Architect
5 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (22.73%) Technical Developer
7 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 4 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (9.091%) Lead Architect
8 2 (9.091%) Senior Developer
8 2 (9.091%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (77.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.545%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) UNIX
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Solaris
2 6 (27.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Multithreading
2 8 (36.36%) Electronic Trading
3 6 (27.27%) Complex Event Processing
3 6 (27.27%) Benchmarking
4 5 (22.73%) E-Commerce
5 2 (9.091%) TDD
5 2 (9.091%) Algorithmic Trading
5 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.545%) BDD
6 1 (4.545%) OO
6 1 (4.545%) OOD
6 1 (4.545%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.545%) Scrum
6 1 (4.545%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.091%) C#
5 1 (4.545%) Scala
5 1 (4.545%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) TIBCO
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) Sybase
3 6 (27.27%) Cisco
3 6 (27.27%) EMC
3 6 (27.27%) NetApp
3 6 (27.27%) DataSynapse
4 1 (4.545%) StreamBase
4 1 (4.545%) Bloomberg
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