The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DevExpress 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 DevExpress over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Developer Express.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DevExpress
Rank 202 208 230
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +22
Contract jobs citing DevExpress 8 4 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.118% 0.052% 0.210%
As % of the Vendors category 0.258% 0.121% 0.494%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 20
Average daily rate £610 £578 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.62% +0.43%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £250 £288
% change year-on-year
+18.00% -13.04%
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
3100 3301 4255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.72% 42.64% 42.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2194 2259 2970
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £648
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 97 139
Average hourly rate £22.25 £21.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.95% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £12.50 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £39.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
DevExpress
London

DevExpress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London DevExpress Jobs Demand Trend

DevExpress
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London DevExpress Daily Rate Trend

DevExpress
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DevExpress across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London DevExpress Daily Rate Histogram

DevExpress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DevExpress 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 DevExpress.

1 36 (100.00%) C#
2 31 (86.11%) .NET
2 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
2 31 (86.11%) Finance
3 29 (80.56%) WinForms
4 27 (75.00%) Multithreading
5 26 (72.22%) Syncfusion
5 26 (72.22%) SQL
6 24 (66.67%) OO
7 14 (38.89%) Derivative
8 9 (25.00%) Banking
8 9 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (22.22%) WPF
10 7 (19.44%) Electronic Trading
10 7 (19.44%) Infragistics
11 6 (16.67%) Fixed Income
12 5 (13.89%) WCF
12 5 (13.89%) Front Office
12 5 (13.89%) Windows
13 4 (11.11%) UML
13 4 (11.11%) XML
13 4 (11.11%) MVC
13 4 (11.11%) TIBCO
13 4 (11.11%) Rendezvous
13 4 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
13 4 (11.11%) TDD
13 4 (11.11%) Subversion
13 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
14 3 (8.333%) Reactive Extensions
14 3 (8.333%) Managed Extensibility Framework

DevExpress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DevExpress 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 DevExpress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (86.11%) .NET
2 29 (80.56%) WinForms
3 8 (22.22%) WPF
4 5 (13.89%) WCF
5 4 (11.11%) XML
5 4 (11.11%) Rendezvous
6 3 (8.333%) Reactive Extensions
6 3 (8.333%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 3 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (8.333%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.778%) QuickFIX
7 1 (2.778%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.778%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.333%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (5.556%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.778%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (86.11%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Front Office
4 4 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.556%) Back Office
6 1 (2.778%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 29 (80.56%) Developer
2 25 (69.44%) C# Developer
3 15 (41.67%) Senior Developer
4 13 (36.11%) Senior C# Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Real Time Software Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Real Time Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) WPF Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Technical Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.556%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (2.778%) C++ Developer
8 1 (2.778%) WinForms Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Derivative
2 9 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (16.67%) Fixed Income
4 3 (8.333%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (8.333%) Grid Computing
5 2 (5.556%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.778%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.778%) CUDA
6 1 (2.778%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 24 (66.67%) OO
3 7 (19.44%) Electronic Trading
4 4 (11.11%) UML
4 4 (11.11%) MVC
4 4 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (11.11%) TDD
5 3 (8.333%) MVVM
5 3 (8.333%) Software Engineering
5 3 (8.333%) Web Development
5 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (8.333%) Risk Management
6 2 (5.556%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (72.22%) SQL
3 2 (5.556%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.556%) QA
Vendors
1 26 (72.22%) Syncfusion
2 7 (19.44%) Infragistics
3 4 (11.11%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.778%) Sophis
4 1 (2.778%) Reuters
4 1 (2.778%) IBM
4 1 (2.778%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.778%) Oracle