The first table below looks at the demand for Memory Management 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 Memory Management 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Memory Management
Rank 174 214 223
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +9
Contract jobs citing Memory Management 25 5 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.394% 0.064% 0.221%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.537% 0.089% 0.307%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 5 16
Average daily rate £500 £575 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% +39.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £346 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £325 £335
% change year-on-year
-11.53% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Memory Management
London

Memory Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Memory Management across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Memory Management Jobs Demand Trend

Memory Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Memory Management Daily Rate Trend

Memory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Memory Management Daily Rate Histogram

Memory Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Memory Management Hourly Rate Trend

Memory Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 38 (86.36%) OO
2 37 (84.09%) Multithreading
3 34 (77.27%) C#
3 34 (77.27%) Banking
4 33 (75.00%) SQL
4 33 (75.00%) .NET
4 33 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 33 (75.00%) WCF
5 20 (45.45%) Web Services
5 20 (45.45%) Front Office
6 19 (43.18%) Scrum
6 19 (43.18%) XML
7 17 (38.64%) MVC
7 17 (38.64%) Telecoms
7 17 (38.64%) N-Tier
8 16 (36.36%) WPF
9 15 (34.09%) Rhino Mocks
9 15 (34.09%) Spring.NET
9 15 (34.09%) Open Source
9 15 (34.09%) Inversion of Control
9 15 (34.09%) Unity DI Container
9 15 (34.09%) MS Excel
9 15 (34.09%) WebSphere MQ
9 15 (34.09%) MSMQ
9 15 (34.09%) MySQL
9 15 (34.09%) Lucene
9 15 (34.09%) NHibernate
9 15 (34.09%) WebSphere
9 15 (34.09%) .NET Remoting
10 6 (13.64%) OOP

Memory Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 33 (75.00%) .NET
1 33 (75.00%) WCF
2 20 (45.45%) Web Services
3 19 (43.18%) XML
4 16 (36.36%) WPF
5 15 (34.09%) Spring.NET
5 15 (34.09%) Unity DI Container
5 15 (34.09%) Lucene
5 15 (34.09%) NHibernate
5 15 (34.09%) WebSphere
5 15 (34.09%) .NET Remoting
6 5 (11.36%) WinForms
7 3 (6.818%) JSON
7 3 (6.818%) Cocoa Touch
8 2 (4.545%) Cocoa
8 2 (4.545%) CSS
8 2 (4.545%) iOS SDK
8 2 (4.545%) REST
9 1 (2.273%) HTML5
9 1 (2.273%) PureMVC
Application Platforms
1 15 (34.09%) WebSphere MQ
1 15 (34.09%) MSMQ
2 1 (2.273%) CoreMedia CMS
Applications
1 15 (34.09%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (34.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (9.091%) Xcode
3 1 (2.273%) Hudson
3 1 (2.273%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.273%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.273%) PhoneGap
3 1 (2.273%) GitHub
3 1 (2.273%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.273%) Subversion
General
1 34 (77.27%) Banking
2 20 (45.45%) Front Office
3 17 (38.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.545%) Finance
5 1 (2.273%) Back Office
5 1 (2.273%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (93.18%) Developer
2 18 (40.91%) C# Developer
3 17 (38.64%) Software Developer
3 17 (38.64%) C# Software Developer
4 15 (34.09%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.818%) iOS Developer
5 3 (6.818%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.545%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (4.545%) Android Developer
7 1 (2.273%) C# Programmer
7 1 (2.273%) C++/C# Developer
7 1 (2.273%) Senior iOS Developer
7 1 (2.273%) Architect
7 1 (2.273%) DBA
7 1 (2.273%) C++ Developer
7 1 (2.273%) Programmer
7 1 (2.273%) SQL DBA
7 1 (2.273%) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (38.64%) N-Tier
2 15 (34.09%) Open Source
2 15 (34.09%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (9.091%) Fixed Income
3 4 (9.091%) Equities
3 4 (9.091%) Derivative
3 4 (9.091%) Computer Science
4 3 (6.818%) iPhone
5 2 (4.545%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.273%) iPad
6 1 (2.273%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.273%) Blackberry
6 1 (2.273%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.273%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Apple iOS
2 5 (11.36%) Android
3 2 (4.545%) Windows
4 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.273%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (86.36%) OO
2 37 (84.09%) Multithreading
3 19 (43.18%) Scrum
4 17 (38.64%) MVC
5 6 (13.64%) OOP
6 4 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (6.818%) TDD
8 2 (4.545%) OOD
8 2 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (2.273%) BDD
9 1 (2.273%) Image Processing
9 1 (2.273%) Performance Testing
9 1 (2.273%) Unit Testing
9 1 (2.273%) Mobile Application Development
9 1 (2.273%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 34 (77.27%) C#
2 33 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) Objective-C
4 4 (9.091%) C++
4 4 (9.091%) Java
5 3 (6.818%) C
6 1 (2.273%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.273%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (2.273%) F#
6 1 (2.273%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.273%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.273%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.273%) DFS Replication
Vendors
1 1 (2.273%) Facebook
1 1 (2.273%) Twitter
1 1 (2.273%) Adobe
1 1 (2.273%) Apple
1 1 (2.273%) Google