The first table below looks at the demand for Alfresco skills 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 Alfresco over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Alfresco
Rank 197 209 225
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +16
Contract jobs citing Alfresco 4 4 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.064% 0.051% 0.213%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.366% 0.341% 1.451%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
Average daily rate £575 £413 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.30% +32.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £390 £300
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £47.50
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1093 1173 1447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.36% 15.08% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 788 1031
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 35 63
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -3.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Alfresco
London

Alfresco
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Alfresco Jobs Demand Trend

Alfresco
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Alfresco Daily Rate Trend

Alfresco
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Alfresco across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Alfresco Daily Rate Histogram

Alfresco
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Alfresco 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 Alfresco.

1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) .NET
3 6 (60.00%) J2EE
3 6 (60.00%) MySQL
3 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (60.00%) Document Management
4 5 (50.00%) Middleware
4 5 (50.00%) Apache
5 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
5 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
5 4 (40.00%) MS Access
5 4 (40.00%) ASP
5 4 (40.00%) JSP
5 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
5 4 (40.00%) WSDL
5 4 (40.00%) IBM
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (40.00%) Oracle
5 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 4 (40.00%) SQL
5 4 (40.00%) VBScript
5 4 (40.00%) IIS
5 4 (40.00%) MS Office
5 4 (40.00%) XML
5 4 (40.00%) XSL
5 4 (40.00%) ODBC
5 4 (40.00%) Windows
5 4 (40.00%) FIXML
5 4 (40.00%) OLE DB

Alfresco
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Alfresco 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 Alfresco. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) J2EE
2 5 (50.00%) Middleware
3 4 (40.00%) FIXML
3 4 (40.00%) OLE DB
3 4 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (40.00%) ASP
3 4 (40.00%) JSP
3 4 (40.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) XSL
3 4 (40.00%) ODBC
3 4 (40.00%) WSDL
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (10.00%) Grails
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) OpenSocial
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (50.00%) Apache
3 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (40.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (40.00%) IIS
4 3 (30.00%) Liferay
5 2 (20.00%) CMS
5 2 (20.00%) Drupal
5 2 (20.00%) Umbraco
5 2 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (20.00%) Documentum
5 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
6 1 (10.00%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) WinDbg
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (20.00%) CruiseControl
2 2 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
General
1 2 (20.00%) Back Office
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Applications Support
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
1 4 (40.00%) SWIFT
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Document Management
2 3 (30.00%) Web Development
3 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) ERP
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) VBScript
4 2 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) JBoss
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (40.00%) Plumtree
1 4 (40.00%) Lotus
2 2 (20.00%) ATG
2 2 (20.00%) Sitecore
2 2 (20.00%) Sun
2 2 (20.00%) Unisys
3 1 (10.00%) F5