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The table below looks at the demand for Jakarta Cactus skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Cactus over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkJakarta Cactus
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank-184
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads02
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.000 %0.002 %
As % of the category below0.000 %0.362 %
Daily rates quoted00
Average minimum daily rate--
Average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate--
UK excluding London average daily rate--
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
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City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads577553
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.909 %0.593 %
Daily rates quoted270241
Average minimum daily rate£361£412
Average daily rate£393£437
% change on same period last year-9.88 %
Average maximum daily rate£426£461
UK excluding London average daily rate£311£326
% change on same period last year-4.49 %
Hourly rates quoted195
Average minimum hourly rate£23.21£29.67
Average hourly rate£25.24£30.33
% change on same period last year-16.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.27£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.68£31.31
% change on same period last year-2.00 %
Cactus LondonCactus
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.

Cactus
Demand Trend

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

City of London Cactus Demand Trend

Cactus
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Cactus Daily Rate Trend

Cactus
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cactus 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 Cactus.

13 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
13 (100.00 %)JSP
13 (100.00 %)Servlets
13 (100.00 %)XML
13 (100.00 %)XSLT
13 (100.00 %)UML
13 (100.00 %)OO
13 (100.00 %)SOA
13 (100.00 %)Thin Client
13 (100.00 %)Middleware
13 (100.00 %)HTML
13 (100.00 %)Java
13 (100.00 %).NET
13 (100.00 %)Infragistics
13 (100.00 %)Fixed Income
13 (100.00 %)WebSphere
13 (100.00 %)Fat Client
22 (66.67 %)C#
22 (66.67 %)Construction
22 (66.67 %)JUnit
31 (33.33 %)Equities
31 (33.33 %)NUnit
31 (33.33 %)Derivative

Cactus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Cactus 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 Cactus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
13 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
13 (100.00 %)JSP
13 (100.00 %)Servlets
13 (100.00 %)XML
13 (100.00 %)XSLT
13 (100.00 %)Middleware
13 (100.00 %)HTML
13 (100.00 %).NET
13 (100.00 %)WebSphere
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (66.67 %)JUnit
21 (33.33 %)NUnit
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (66.67 %)Construction
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (66.67 %)C# Developer
12 (66.67 %)Senior C# Developer
12 (66.67 %)Developer
12 (66.67 %)Senior Developer
21 (33.33 %).NET Team Leader
21 (33.33 %)Team Leader
21 (33.33 %)Development Team Leader
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
13 (100.00 %)Thin Client
13 (100.00 %)Fixed Income
13 (100.00 %)Fat Client
21 (33.33 %)Equities
21 (33.33 %)Derivative
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
13 (100.00 %)UML
13 (100.00 %)OO
13 (100.00 %)SOA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (100.00 %)Java
22 (66.67 %)C#
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
13 (100.00 %)Infragistics