City of London ATL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Active Template Library (ATL) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ATL over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Active Template Library (ATL)
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford City of London Coventry East of England Edinburgh England Essex London Manchester Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Reading Scotland South East Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	222	184
Rank change on same period last year	-38
Matching contract IT job ads	1	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.047 %	0.893 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£600	£614
Average daily rate	£600	£630
% change on same period last year	-4.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£600	£647
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£306
% change on same period last year	+24.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£46.00	£41.25
% change on same period last year	+11.51 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2125	1679
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.822 %	1.723 %
Daily rates quoted	1233	741
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£455
Average daily rate	£436	£491
% change on same period last year	-11.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£473	£526
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.51	£25.73
Average hourly rate	£32.70	£29.12
% change on same period last year	+12.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.88	£32.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
ATL London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ATL across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ATL
Daily Rate Trend

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

ATL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ATL across the City of London region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ATL 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 ATL.

1 3 (100.00 %) C++ 1 3 (100.00 %) MFC 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) Retail 2 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) STL 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) VC++ 3 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET 3 1 (33.33 %) Insurance

3 1 (33.33 %) Retail Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Front Office 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) C#

ATL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ATL 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 ATL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) MFC 2 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (33.33 %) STL 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) Retail 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Retail Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Banking 2 1 (33.33 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) C++ Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) VB Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Front Office Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) VC++ 2 1 (33.33 %) C#