The first table below looks at the demand for Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Benchmarking
Rank 185 211 234
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +23
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 14 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.220% 0.102% 0.110%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.301% 0.142% 0.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 8
Average daily rate £575 £394 £498
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.03% -20.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £189 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £690 £491 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £245 £283
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.46 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £16.31 -
% change year-on-year
+160.53% -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Benchmarking
London

Benchmarking
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Benchmarking across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Benchmarking Jobs Demand Trend

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Benchmarking Daily Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Benchmarking across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Benchmarking Daily Rate Histogram

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Benchmarking Hourly Rate Trend

Benchmarking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking.

1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Linux
3 7 (38.89%) HTML
3 7 (38.89%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) XML
3 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 7 (38.89%) Finance
4 6 (33.33%) RMDS
4 6 (33.33%) Solaris
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco
4 6 (33.33%) XSLT
4 6 (33.33%) WebLogic
4 6 (33.33%) IIS
4 6 (33.33%) EMC
4 6 (33.33%) SAN
4 6 (33.33%) NetApp
4 6 (33.33%) Middleware
4 6 (33.33%) Oracle
4 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 6 (33.33%) Sybase
4 6 (33.33%) Apache
4 6 (33.33%) DataSynapse
4 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 6 (33.33%) NAS
4 6 (33.33%) Complex Event Processing
4 6 (33.33%) 29West
5 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 4 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
6 3 (16.67%) Back Office

Benchmarking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Benchmarking 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 Benchmarking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (38.89%) HTML
1 7 (38.89%) XML
2 6 (33.33%) XSLT
2 6 (33.33%) Middleware
2 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.556%) J2EE
3 1 (5.556%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 6 (33.33%) IIS
1 6 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (5.556%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) RMDS
2 2 (11.11%) LatentZero
2 2 (11.11%) Capstone
2 2 (11.11%) Tesseract
2 2 (11.11%) Minerva
2 2 (11.11%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) SAN
1 6 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (11.11%) Internet
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Back Office
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (5.556%) Portuguese Language
4 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.556%) Banking
4 1 (5.556%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) MI Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Reporting Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Content Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) Derivative
4 1 (5.556%) Streaming Media
4 1 (5.556%) Statistics
4 1 (5.556%) Online Games
4 1 (5.556%) Social Media
4 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 6 (33.33%) Solaris
4 2 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Complex Event Processing
2 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) Scrum
3 2 (11.11%) Workflow
3 2 (11.11%) Use Case
3 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Business Development
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.556%) Customer Insight
4 1 (5.556%) B2B
4 1 (5.556%) B2C
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL
4 1 (5.556%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.556%) Balanced Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.556%) R
5 1 (5.556%) Jython
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) ACCA
2 1 (5.556%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco
1 6 (33.33%) EMC
1 6 (33.33%) NetApp
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
1 6 (33.33%) Sybase
1 6 (33.33%) DataSynapse
1 6 (33.33%) 29West
2 2 (11.11%) Calypso
2 2 (11.11%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.556%) Business Objects
3 1 (5.556%) Adobe
3 1 (5.556%) Perforce
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