The first table below looks at the demand for Domain-Driven Design 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 Domain-Driven Design over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Rank 194 211 231
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +20
Contract jobs citing Domain-Driven Design 7 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.111% 0.026% 0.152%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.152% 0.036% 0.212%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 12
Average daily rate £575 £475 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% -2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £475 £371
10% offered a daily rate of more than £638 £475 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £400 £338
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Domain-Driven Design
London

Domain-Driven Design
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Domain-Driven Design across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Domain-Driven Design Jobs Demand Trend

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Domain-Driven Design Daily Rate Trend

Domain-Driven Design
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Domain-Driven Design across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Domain-Driven Design Daily Rate Histogram

Domain-Driven Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Domain-Driven Design 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 Domain-Driven Design.

1 13 (81.25%) .NET
1 13 (81.25%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (62.50%) TDD
2 10 (62.50%) C#
2 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 8 (50.00%) Scrum
3 8 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 8 (50.00%) BDD
4 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (43.75%) Java
5 6 (37.50%) Finance
5 6 (37.50%) MVC
6 5 (31.25%) Web Services
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
6 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (25.00%) RESTful
7 4 (25.00%) Degree
7 4 (25.00%) jQuery
7 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
7 4 (25.00%) CMS
8 3 (18.75%) SOAP
8 3 (18.75%) Front Office
8 3 (18.75%) Banking
8 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
8 3 (18.75%) HTTP
8 3 (18.75%) OO
8 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
8 3 (18.75%) JSON

Domain-Driven Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Domain-Driven Design 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 Domain-Driven Design. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (81.25%) .NET
2 10 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 8 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (43.75%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (31.25%) Web Services
6 4 (25.00%) jQuery
6 4 (25.00%) RESTful
7 3 (18.75%) JSON
7 3 (18.75%) SOAP
7 3 (18.75%) HTML5
8 2 (12.50%) REST
8 2 (12.50%) WPF
8 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (12.50%) XML
8 2 (12.50%) XML Schema
8 2 (12.50%) WinForms
9 1 (6.250%) Spring
9 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
9 1 (6.250%) Java EE
9 1 (6.250%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) CMS
2 2 (12.50%) Umbraco
2 2 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (12.50%) Kentico
2 2 (12.50%) Sitefinity
2 2 (12.50%) IIS
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
2 2 (12.50%) Rendezvous
3 1 (6.250%) MTS
3 1 (6.250%) MS Exchange
3 1 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) MarkLogic
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.250%) FindBugs
2 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.250%) JUnit
2 1 (6.250%) Checkstyle
2 1 (6.250%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.250%) TestNG
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Front Office
3 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.250%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
3 5 (31.25%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Programmer
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java Programmer
5 2 (12.50%) Scala Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Agile C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Real Time Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Architect
6 1 (6.250%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Java Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 2 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (62.50%) TDD
3 8 (50.00%) BDD
3 8 (50.00%) Scrum
4 6 (37.50%) MVC
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (18.75%) OO
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
8 2 (12.50%) RDF
8 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) User Stories
8 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
9 1 (6.250%) Kanban
9 1 (6.250%) Test Strategy
9 1 (6.250%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (6.250%) Business Analysis
9 1 (6.250%) Release Management
9 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (6.250%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) VB
3 2 (12.50%) XQuery
3 2 (12.50%) XPath
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.250%) PHP
4 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) WCAG
1 1 (6.250%) WAI
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Sybase
2 2 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 2 (12.50%) Sitecore
3 1 (6.250%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.250%) eSpeed
3 1 (6.250%) Tradeweb
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle
3 1 (6.250%) Sun