Grid Computing Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Grid Computing
Rank 170 204 180
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -24
Contract jobs citing Grid Computing 29 15 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.457% 0.191% 0.652%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.444% 0.583% 1.622%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 61
Average daily rate £588 £525 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.90% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £525 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £723 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £275 £533
% change year-on-year
+40.90% -48.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 2008 2575 4008
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.61% 32.71% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1491 1993 3106
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 66 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.39 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Grid Computing
London

Grid Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Grid Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Grid Computing Daily Rate Trend

Grid Computing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Grid Computing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Grid Computing Daily Rate Histogram

Grid Computing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Grid Computing Hourly Rate Trend

Grid Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing.

1 46 (59.74%) C#
2 38 (49.35%) Banking
3 37 (48.05%) Front Office
4 35 (45.45%) Java
5 34 (44.16%) Investment Banking
6 32 (41.56%) Derivative
6 32 (41.56%) .NET
7 24 (31.17%) DataSynapse
7 24 (31.17%) Multithreading
7 24 (31.17%) Finance
8 21 (27.27%) C++
9 18 (23.38%) SQL Server
9 18 (23.38%) Fixed Income
9 18 (23.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 16 (20.78%) TDD
11 15 (19.48%) WPF
11 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
11 15 (19.48%) SQL
12 14 (18.18%) Python
12 14 (18.18%) WCF
13 13 (16.88%) XML
13 13 (16.88%) Windows
14 11 (14.29%) Degree
14 11 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
14 11 (14.29%) Oracle
15 10 (12.99%) Risk Management
15 10 (12.99%) Mathematics
15 10 (12.99%) Credit Derivative
15 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
16 9 (11.69%) STL

Grid Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Grid Computing 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 Grid Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (41.56%) .NET
2 15 (19.48%) WPF
3 14 (18.18%) WCF
4 13 (16.88%) XML
5 9 (11.69%) STL
6 8 (10.39%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 7 (9.091%) OpenCL
7 7 (9.091%) MapReduce
8 4 (5.195%) Middleware
9 2 (2.597%) WinForms
9 2 (2.597%) ASP
9 2 (2.597%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.597%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.597%) Reactive Extensions
10 1 (1.299%) web2py
10 1 (1.299%) COM
10 1 (1.299%) JMS
10 1 (1.299%) Web Services
10 1 (1.299%) Spring
10 1 (1.299%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 11 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
2 8 (10.39%) Apache Pig
3 7 (9.091%) Apache
4 6 (7.792%) SAS
5 2 (2.597%) MQSeries
5 2 (2.597%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (7.792%) SPSS
2 2 (2.597%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.195%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.195%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.69%) Hadoop
3 8 (10.39%) Big Data
3 8 (10.39%) Apache Hive
4 7 (9.091%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (9.091%) HBase
4 7 (9.091%) Mahout
5 6 (7.792%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.299%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.299%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.299%) Ant
1 1 (1.299%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.299%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (1.299%) Maven
1 1 (1.299%) Subversion
1 1 (1.299%) JIRA
1 1 (1.299%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (1.299%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (49.35%) Banking
2 37 (48.05%) Front Office
3 34 (44.16%) Investment Banking
4 24 (31.17%) Finance
5 1 (1.299%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.299%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.299%) Games
5 1 (1.299%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (80.52%) Developer
2 30 (38.96%) C# Developer
3 19 (24.68%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.58%) C++ Developer
5 8 (10.39%) .NET Developer
6 7 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (9.091%) WPF Developer
7 6 (7.792%) Data Scientist
7 6 (7.792%) Research Engineer
7 6 (7.792%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.195%) C++/C# Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Senior C++ Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.195%) Analyst
9 3 (3.896%) Research Scientist
9 3 (3.896%) RAD Developer
9 3 (3.896%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.896%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.896%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (3.896%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 32 (41.56%) Derivative
2 18 (23.38%) Fixed Income
2 18 (23.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
4 10 (12.99%) Mathematics
4 10 (12.99%) Credit Derivative
5 7 (9.091%) Social Network
5 7 (9.091%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 6 (7.792%) CUDA
6 6 (7.792%) GPGPU
6 6 (7.792%) Visualisation
6 6 (7.792%) Statistics
6 6 (7.792%) Physics
6 6 (7.792%) Credit Risk
6 6 (7.792%) Neural Network
7 2 (2.597%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.299%) Machine Learning
8 1 (1.299%) Hedge funds
8 1 (1.299%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Windows
2 1 (1.299%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.17%) Multithreading
2 16 (20.78%) TDD
3 10 (12.99%) Risk Management
3 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
4 9 (11.69%) Analytics
5 7 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (7.792%) Predictive Modelling
6 6 (7.792%) Data Analysis
7 5 (6.494%) Greeks
8 4 (5.195%) System Testing
8 4 (5.195%) RAD
8 4 (5.195%) Parallel Processing
9 3 (3.896%) UML
9 3 (3.896%) OO
9 3 (3.896%) SOA
9 3 (3.896%) Scrum
9 3 (3.896%) MVC
10 2 (2.597%) Web Development
10 2 (2.597%) OOD
10 2 (2.597%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (59.74%) C#
2 35 (45.45%) Java
3 21 (27.27%) C++
4 15 (19.48%) SQL
5 14 (18.18%) Python
6 6 (7.792%) R
6 6 (7.792%) Scala
6 6 (7.792%) VBA
7 2 (2.597%) Perl
8 1 (1.299%) VB
8 1 (1.299%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.299%) Ruby
8 1 (1.299%) C++/CLI
8 1 (1.299%) F#
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (7.792%) PhD
3 1 (1.299%) ISEB
3 1 (1.299%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.299%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.299%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (31.17%) DataSynapse
2 11 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (5.195%) Reuters
3 4 (5.195%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.896%) DevExpress
4 3 (3.896%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.896%) Infragistics
5 2 (2.597%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.597%) Sybase
6 1 (1.299%) Talend
6 1 (1.299%) HP
6 1 (1.299%) Perforce
6 1 (1.299%) GigaSpaces
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