The first table below looks at the demand for Force.com 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 Force.com 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Salesforce.com Force.com
Rank 188 201 240
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +39
Contract jobs citing Force.com 15 17 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.235% 0.216% 0.051%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.379% 1.425% 0.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 4
Average daily rate £450 £475 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £413 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £550 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £450 £425
% change year-on-year
- +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1088 1193 1435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.06% 15.17% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 808 1010
Average daily rate £405 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £253 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 35 63
Average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.20 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
Force.com
London

Force.com
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Force.com Jobs Demand Trend

Force.com
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Force.com Daily Rate Trend

Force.com
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Force.com across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Force.com Daily Rate Histogram

Force.com
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Force.com Hourly Rate Trend

Force.com
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
2 15 (78.95%) Apex Code
3 14 (73.68%) Visualforce
4 10 (52.63%) Java
5 7 (36.84%) CRM
5 7 (36.84%) Mason
6 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
6 6 (31.58%) SaaS
7 5 (26.32%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (21.05%) Finance
8 4 (21.05%) Business Analysis
9 3 (15.79%) Migration
9 3 (15.79%) Web Development
9 3 (15.79%) Project Management
9 3 (15.79%) SQL
9 3 (15.79%) REST
10 2 (10.53%) .NET
10 2 (10.53%) SOAP
10 2 (10.53%) Marketing
10 2 (10.53%) jQuery
10 2 (10.53%) Billing
11 1 (5.263%) Ajax
11 1 (5.263%) Scrum
11 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
11 1 (5.263%) Retail
11 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
11 1 (5.263%) Online Gambling
11 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
11 1 (5.263%) FMCG
11 1 (5.263%) .NET Remoting

Force.com
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (73.68%) Visualforce
2 7 (36.84%) Mason
3 3 (15.79%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) .NET
4 2 (10.53%) SOAP
4 2 (10.53%) jQuery
5 1 (5.263%) Ajax
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Remoting
5 1 (5.263%) HTML
5 1 (5.263%) DOM
5 1 (5.263%) CSS
5 1 (5.263%) soapUI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Billing
3 1 (5.263%) Retail
3 1 (5.263%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
1 9 (47.37%) Salesforce.com Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) SaaS
2 5 (26.32%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.263%) Online Gambling
3 1 (5.263%) FMCG
3 1 (5.263%) PaaS
3 1 (5.263%) Heroku
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) CRM
2 4 (21.05%) Business Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Web Development
3 3 (15.79%) Project Management
4 1 (5.263%) Scrum
4 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
4 1 (5.263%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Apex Code
2 10 (52.63%) Java
3 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) SQL
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (5.263%) SAP
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