The first table below looks at the demand for Mobile Commerce 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 Mobile Commerce 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mobile Commerce (mCommerce)
Rank 194 211 238
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +27
Contract jobs citing Mobile Commerce 7 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.111% 0.026% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.152% 0.036% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
Average daily rate £350 £413 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £383 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £424 £443 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £438 £275
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +59.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Mobile Commerce
London

Mobile Commerce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Mobile Commerce Jobs Demand Trend

Mobile Commerce
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Mobile Commerce Daily Rate Trend

Mobile Commerce
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mobile Commerce across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Mobile Commerce Daily Rate Histogram

Mobile Commerce
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Mobile Commerce 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 Mobile Commerce.

1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
3 4 (30.77%) Mobile Payment
4 3 (23.08%) HTML5
4 3 (23.08%) Content Management
4 3 (23.08%) Project Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Time Management
4 3 (23.08%) MBA
4 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
5 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
5 2 (15.38%) iPhone
5 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) iPad
5 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
6 1 (7.692%) Apple iOS
6 1 (7.692%) CSS3
6 1 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.692%) TYPO3
6 1 (7.692%) PHP5
6 1 (7.692%) jQuery
6 1 (7.692%) NFC

Mobile Commerce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (23.08%) HTML
1 3 (23.08%) HTML5
2 1 (7.692%) CSS3
2 1 (7.692%) CSS
2 1 (7.692%) XML
2 1 (7.692%) XHTML
2 1 (7.692%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) CMS
1 1 (7.692%) TYPO3
1 1 (7.692%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) GSM
1 1 (7.692%) 3GPP
1 1 (7.692%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Retail
2 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Advertising
4 1 (7.692%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Product Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Android Developer
4 1 (7.692%) iOS Developer
4 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Mobile Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 2 (15.38%) iPhone
2 2 (15.38%) iPad
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.692%) EMV
3 1 (7.692%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Android
1 1 (7.692%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Time Management
4 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) Content Management
4 3 (23.08%) Project Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Programme Management
6 1 (7.692%) Product Management
6 1 (7.692%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (7.692%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) Java
1 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.692%) PHP
1 1 (7.692%) ActionScript
1 1 (7.692%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) MBA