The first table below looks at the demand for CIPD 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 CIPD over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Rank 196 216 243
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +27
Contract jobs citing CIPD 7 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.110% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.745% 0.186% 0.165%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
Average daily rate £325 £351 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.27% -11.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £205 £205 £225
% change year-on-year
- -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £145.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - £16.50
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
940 1076 1209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.68% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 646 767
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.30% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
CIPD
London

CIPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London CIPD Jobs Demand Trend

CIPD
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London CIPD Daily Rate Trend

CIPD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London CIPD Hourly Rate Trend

CIPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CIPD 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 CIPD.

1 6 (60.00%) XQuery
1 6 (60.00%) JMS
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) J2EE
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) JSP
1 6 (60.00%) Struts
1 6 (60.00%) Web Services
1 6 (60.00%) XSLT
1 6 (60.00%) Apache
1 6 (60.00%) MVC
1 6 (60.00%) Publishing
1 6 (60.00%) TDD
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) Squid
1 6 (60.00%) JSTL
1 6 (60.00%) Spring MVC
1 6 (60.00%) jQuery
1 6 (60.00%) Semantic Web
1 6 (60.00%) RESTful
1 6 (60.00%) MarkLogic
2 3 (30.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Cognos

CIPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing CIPD 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 CIPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) JMS
1 6 (60.00%) HTML
1 6 (60.00%) J2EE
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
1 6 (60.00%) JSP
1 6 (60.00%) Struts
1 6 (60.00%) Web Services
1 6 (60.00%) XSLT
1 6 (60.00%) Spring
1 6 (60.00%) JSTL
1 6 (60.00%) Spring MVC
1 6 (60.00%) jQuery
1 6 (60.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (60.00%) MarkLogic
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (30.00%) OLAP
2 3 (30.00%) OLTP
General
1 6 (60.00%) Publishing
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Cognos Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Cognos Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Cognos Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Semantic Web
2 3 (30.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (20.00%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) MVC
1 6 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) XQuery
1 6 (60.00%) Java
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Squid
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cognos