The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DataSynapse products and/or services 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 DataSynapse 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within DataSynapse Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DataSynapse
Rank 181 207 182
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -25
Contract jobs citing DataSynapse 22 11 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.345% 0.140% 0.643%
As % of the Vendors category 0.760% 0.331% 1.528%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 61
Average daily rate £588 £600 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.08% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2893 3319 4124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.35% 42.20% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2051 2268 2847
Average daily rate £431 £425 £489
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 101 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
DataSynapse
London

DataSynapse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London DataSynapse Jobs Demand Trend

DataSynapse
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London DataSynapse Daily Rate Trend

DataSynapse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DataSynapse across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London DataSynapse Daily Rate Histogram

DataSynapse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (61.90%) Banking
2 25 (59.52%) Java
3 24 (57.14%) Grid Computing
4 23 (54.76%) Investment Banking
5 14 (33.33%) C#
6 12 (28.57%) Front Office
7 11 (26.19%) SQL
7 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
7 11 (26.19%) Windows
8 10 (23.81%) XML
8 10 (23.81%) Middleware
8 10 (23.81%) Oracle
9 9 (21.43%) C++
9 9 (21.43%) Oracle Coherence
10 8 (19.05%) Finance
10 8 (19.05%) Linux
11 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (16.67%) .NET
11 7 (16.67%) WPF
12 6 (14.29%) WCF
12 6 (14.29%) NAS
12 6 (14.29%) Complex Event Processing
12 6 (14.29%) 29West
12 6 (14.29%) Fixed Income
12 6 (14.29%) Derivative
12 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
12 6 (14.29%) RMDS
12 6 (14.29%) Sybase
12 6 (14.29%) WebLogic
12 6 (14.29%) IIS

DataSynapse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (23.81%) XML
1 10 (23.81%) Middleware
2 7 (16.67%) .NET
2 7 (16.67%) WPF
3 6 (14.29%) WCF
3 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 6 (14.29%) HTML
3 6 (14.29%) XSLT
4 4 (9.524%) Spring
5 3 (7.143%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.143%) STL
6 2 (4.762%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (2.381%) OpenCL
7 1 (2.381%) Web Services
7 1 (2.381%) COM
Application Platforms
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle Coherence
2 6 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 6 (14.29%) IIS
2 6 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.762%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) NAS
1 6 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (2.381%) Maven
1 1 (2.381%) Subversion
1 1 (2.381%) Eclipse
General
1 26 (61.90%) Banking
2 23 (54.76%) Investment Banking
3 12 (28.57%) Front Office
4 8 (19.05%) Finance
5 1 (2.381%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) Developer
2 18 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 9 (21.43%) C# Developer
4 7 (16.67%) C++ Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
5 6 (14.29%) Architect
6 4 (9.524%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.524%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.524%) SQL Developer
6 4 (9.524%) C++/C# Developer
7 2 (4.762%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.762%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.381%) C# Programmer
8 1 (2.381%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.381%) .NET Programmer
8 1 (2.381%) C Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (57.14%) Grid Computing
2 7 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (14.29%) Fixed Income
3 6 (14.29%) Derivative
4 3 (7.143%) Open Source
4 3 (7.143%) Equities
5 2 (4.762%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.381%) GPGPU
6 1 (2.381%) CUDA
6 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.381%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.19%) Windows
2 8 (19.05%) Linux
3 6 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (2.381%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (14.29%) Complex Event Processing
1 6 (14.29%) Benchmarking
2 3 (7.143%) Multithreading
2 3 (7.143%) SOA
3 2 (4.762%) Analytics
4 1 (2.381%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.381%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Java
2 14 (33.33%) C#
3 11 (26.19%) SQL
4 9 (21.43%) C++
5 4 (9.524%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.762%) VBA
7 1 (2.381%) C++/CLI
7 1 (2.381%) C
7 1 (2.381%) VB
7 1 (2.381%) Perl
7 1 (2.381%) Python
Vendors
1 10 (23.81%) Oracle
2 6 (14.29%) 29West
2 6 (14.29%) Sybase
2 6 (14.29%) Cisco
2 6 (14.29%) EMC
2 6 (14.29%) NetApp
3 3 (7.143%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.381%) GigaSpaces