City of London DirectX Contracts

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

Microsoft DirectX
Location Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East of England East Sussex England Hampshire London North West Oxfordshire South East UK Warrington West Sussex	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	177	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.066 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1510	1614
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.378 %	1.729 %
Daily rates quoted	802	762
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£445
Average daily rate	£407	£465
% change on same period last year	-12.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£439	£486
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.84	£32.17
Average hourly rate	£30.11	£33.92
% change on same period last year	-11.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.38	£35.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
DirectX 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.

DirectX
Demand Trend

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

DirectX
Daily Rate Trend

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

DirectX
Top 9 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00 %) C++ 2 2 (66.67 %) Games 3 1 (33.33 %) 3D Graphics 3 1 (33.33 %) COM+ 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) VC++ 3 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server 3 1 (33.33 %) OpenGL

DirectX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) COM+ 1 1 (33.33 %) OpenGL	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Games 2 1 (33.33 %) 3D Graphics
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) C++ Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C++ Software Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) GUI Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) VC++