The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ESRI 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 ESRI 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 Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ESRI
Rank - 217 244
Contract jobs citing ESRI 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.030% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £358 £400
% change year-on-year
+11.88% -10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 -
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
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%
ESRI
London

ESRI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London ESRI Jobs Demand Trend

ESRI
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London ESRI Daily Rate Trend

ESRI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London ESRI Hourly Rate Trend

ESRI
Top 25 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) GIS
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (75.00%) ArcObjects
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) HPUX
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (25.00%) RIA
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008

ESRI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ArcObjects
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) GIS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle