The first table below looks at the demand for DOM skills 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 DOM over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Application Development category 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Document Object Model (DOM)
Rank 197 211 208
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -3
Contract jobs citing DOM 6 6 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.093% 0.076% 0.289%
As % of the Application Development category 0.326% 0.301% 1.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 24
Average daily rate £450 £525 £638
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £395 £391
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £550 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £659 £220
% change year-on-year
-44.97% +199.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £42.00 £50.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £19.26 -
% change year-on-year
+107.68% -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1841 1995 2685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.65% 25.38% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1452 1472 2083
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £44.75 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
DOM
London

DOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London DOM Jobs Demand Trend

DOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London DOM Daily Rate Trend

DOM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DOM across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London DOM Daily Rate Histogram

DOM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London DOM Hourly Rate Trend

DOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DOM 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 DOM.

1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (58.33%) HTML
1 7 (58.33%) CSS
1 7 (58.33%) XML
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) JAXB
3 4 (33.33%) Web Development
4 3 (25.00%) Ajax
4 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (25.00%) Workflow
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Spring
4 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (25.00%) Apache
4 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (25.00%) JDBC
4 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) SOAP
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Derivative
5 2 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) Servlets
5 2 (16.67%) JMS
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) HTTP

DOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing DOM 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 DOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (58.33%) HTML
1 7 (58.33%) CSS
1 7 (58.33%) XML
2 4 (33.33%) JAXB
3 3 (25.00%) Ajax
3 3 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) JDBC
3 3 (25.00%) SOAP
3 3 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) Servlets
4 2 (16.67%) JMS
5 1 (8.333%) Visualforce
5 1 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Remoting
5 1 (8.333%) WF
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) WS-I
5 1 (8.333%) SAX
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (8.333%) CMS
2 1 (8.333%) Force.com
2 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) RSpec
1 1 (8.333%) Selenium
1 1 (8.333%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (8.333%) UI Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Salesforce.com Developer
4 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (16.67%) Derivative
3 1 (8.333%) Equities
3 1 (8.333%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Web Development
2 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (25.00%) Workflow
2 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.333%) Content Management
4 1 (8.333%) BPEL
4 1 (8.333%) TDD
4 1 (8.333%) CRM
4 1 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby
4 1 (8.333%) Apex Code
4 1 (8.333%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (8.333%) Ab Initio
2 1 (8.333%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) SAP