The first table below looks at the demand for GWT 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 GWT 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Rank 198 208 206
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing GWT 5 9 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.114% 0.310%
As % of the Application Development category 0.272% 0.451% 1.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 14
Average daily rate £455 £588 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.55% +14.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £500 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £507 £648 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £700 £413
% change year-on-year
-43.57% +69.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year
-25.40% -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1841 1995 2685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.65% 25.38% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1452 1472 2083
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -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 27 28 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £44.75 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
GWT
London

GWT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London GWT Jobs Demand Trend

GWT
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London GWT Daily Rate Trend

GWT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GWT across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London GWT Daily Rate Histogram

GWT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) Google
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) CSS
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (25.00%) Open Source
6 2 (25.00%) Subversion
6 2 (25.00%) Spring
6 2 (25.00%) Maven
6 2 (25.00%) HTML5
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) J2EE
7 1 (12.50%) Oracle
7 1 (12.50%) Ant
7 1 (12.50%) EJB
7 1 (12.50%) PHP
7 1 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (12.50%) Linux
7 1 (12.50%) OOP
7 1 (12.50%) OO
7 1 (12.50%) Swing
7 1 (12.50%) XHTML
7 1 (12.50%) CRM
7 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (12.50%) AWT
7 1 (12.50%) Eclipse

GWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (25.00%) Spring
2 2 (25.00%) HTML5
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) EJB
3 1 (12.50%) Swing
3 1 (12.50%) XHTML
3 1 (12.50%) AWT
3 1 (12.50%) SWT
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) Ext JS
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) ESB
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics AX
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Ant
2 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
2 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
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