The first table below looks at the demand for Facebook Platform 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 Facebook Platform over the 3 months to 20 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 Platforms 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Facebook Platform (Facebook APIs)
Rank 200 216 233
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +17
Contract jobs citing Facebook Platform 1 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.051% 0.031%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.092% 0.339% 0.210%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £500 £250 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £219 -
% change year-on-year
+82.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 - -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1092 1180 1429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.28% 15.11% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 791 1016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £251 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 36 63
Average hourly rate £39.75 £20.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.76% -3.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.03 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Facebook Platform
London

Facebook Platform
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Facebook Platform Jobs Demand Trend

Facebook Platform
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Facebook Platform Daily Rate Trend

Facebook Platform
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Facebook Platform 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 Facebook Platform.

1 3 (100.00%) Facebook
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Blog
3 1 (33.33%) Android
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Social Media
3 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) C#

Facebook Platform
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Blog
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
1 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Facebook