The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces 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 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 GigaSpaces.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GigaSpaces
Rank - 216 230
Contract jobs citing GigaSpaces 0 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.013% 0.062%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.030% 0.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £700 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £625
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2903 3310 4065
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.18% 42.10% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2048 2260 2803
Average daily rate £430 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £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 103 101 126
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
GigaSpaces
London

GigaSpaces
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London GigaSpaces Jobs Demand Trend

GigaSpaces
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London GigaSpaces Daily Rate Trend

GigaSpaces
Top 18 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) STL
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) DataSynapse
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (100.00%) GPGPU
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCL

GigaSpaces
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) STL
1 1 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 1 (100.00%) OpenCL
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
General
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) GPGPU
1 1 (100.00%) CUDA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) DataSynapse