The first table below looks at the demand for Google Maps API 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 Google Maps API 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 Application Development 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
Google Maps
Rank 194 210 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing Google Maps API 7 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.111% 0.039% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.390% 0.154% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
Average daily rate £300 £341 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £250 £376
% change year-on-year
+70.00% -33.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1796 1946 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.53% 25.01% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1418 1430 2105
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.75 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Google Maps API
London

Google Maps API
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Google Maps API across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London Google Maps API Jobs Demand Trend

Google Maps API
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Google Maps API Daily Rate Trend

Google Maps API
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Google Maps API 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 Google Maps API.

1 10 (100.00%) Google
2 8 (80.00%) OO
2 8 (80.00%) MVC
2 8 (80.00%) Android
3 7 (70.00%) Java
3 7 (70.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) Git (software)
4 6 (60.00%) Apple iOS
4 6 (60.00%) Facebook
4 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (60.00%) HTML
4 6 (60.00%) SQL
5 5 (50.00%) PHP
5 5 (50.00%) Adobe
5 5 (50.00%) jQuery
5 5 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
5 5 (50.00%) CakePHP
5 5 (50.00%) Objective-C
5 5 (50.00%) Twitter
5 5 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
5 5 (50.00%) HTML5
5 5 (50.00%) iOS SDK
5 5 (50.00%) CSS3
6 4 (40.00%) Internet
6 4 (40.00%) Linux
6 4 (40.00%) XML
6 4 (40.00%) UNIX
6 4 (40.00%) Photoshop
7 3 (30.00%) Windows
7 3 (30.00%) OOP

Google Maps API
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Google Maps API 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 Google Maps API. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
3 5 (50.00%) CakePHP
3 5 (50.00%) jQuery
3 5 (50.00%) HTML5
3 5 (50.00%) iOS SDK
3 5 (50.00%) CSS3
3 5 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
4 4 (40.00%) XML
5 3 (30.00%) JSON
6 2 (20.00%) XHTML
6 2 (20.00%) Java ME
6 2 (20.00%) WML
7 1 (10.00%) ADO
7 1 (10.00%) SOAP
7 1 (10.00%) Flash
7 1 (10.00%) WCF
7 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
7 1 (10.00%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Internet
2 2 (20.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQLite
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (20.00%) Subversion
3 2 (20.00%) Maven
3 2 (20.00%) Mercurial
3 2 (20.00%) Ant
3 2 (20.00%) JUnit
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) SilkTest
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (50.00%) PHP Developer
4 4 (40.00%) Senior PHP Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Android Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Flash Developer
6 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (20.00%) Java Card
1 2 (20.00%) iPhone
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Android
2 6 (60.00%) Apple iOS
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) OO
1 8 (80.00%) MVC
2 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (30.00%) OOP
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) Memory Management
4 1 (10.00%) SOA
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) PHP
3 5 (50.00%) Objective-C
4 1 (10.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) ActionScript
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Google
2 6 (60.00%) Facebook
3 5 (50.00%) Twitter
3 5 (50.00%) Adobe
4 1 (10.00%) Telerik
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
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