The first table below looks at the demand for K2 blackpearl 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 K2 blackpearl 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
K2 blackpearl
Rank 196 218 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Contract jobs citing K2 blackpearl 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.013% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.166% 0.050% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £438 £600 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.08% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £500 £458
% change year-on-year
- +9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
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 25 27 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
K2 blackpearl
London

K2 blackpearl
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing K2 blackpearl across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London K2 blackpearl Jobs Demand Trend

K2 blackpearl
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing K2 blackpearl across the City of London region.

City of London K2 blackpearl Daily Rate Trend

K2 blackpearl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing K2 blackpearl 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 K2 blackpearl.

1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) C#
3 7 (77.78%) InfoPath
3 7 (77.78%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (66.67%) Workflow
5 5 (55.56%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
6 4 (44.44%) MS Office
6 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
6 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
6 4 (44.44%) Finance
7 3 (33.33%) MVC
7 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (33.33%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (33.33%) CRM
7 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (22.22%) SAN
8 2 (22.22%) LAN
8 2 (22.22%) HTML
8 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
8 2 (22.22%) CSS
8 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
8 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (22.22%) jQuery
8 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services

K2 blackpearl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing K2 blackpearl 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 K2 blackpearl. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (11.11%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (77.78%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (55.56%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (33.33%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (77.78%) InfoPath
2 4 (44.44%) MS Office
2 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Architect
3 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Economics
1 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Workflow
2 3 (33.33%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Teradata
3 1 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) IBM