The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Music Industry 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 Music Industry over the 3 months to 22 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 General 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Music Industry
Rank 202 - 240
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Music Industry 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% - 0.010%
As % of the General category 0.082% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 - -
All of the General Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
3662 4799 6536
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 56.96% 60.15% 67.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2798 3614 4930
Average daily rate £475 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £310 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £630 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 69 86
Average hourly rate £21.50 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.50% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £15.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.60 £35.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Music Industry
London

Music Industry
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Music Industry Jobs Demand Trend

Music Industry
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Music Industry Daily Rate Trend

Music Industry
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Music Industry 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 Music Industry.

1 6 (100.00%) Music
2 4 (66.67%) Digital Media
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (50.00%) Degree
3 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (50.00%) Android
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Ruby
5 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (16.67%) Internet
5 1 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (16.67%) CSS
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) BBC
5 1 (16.67%) Xcode
5 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) iPad
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) Puppet
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS

Music Industry
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Music Industry 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 Music Industry. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) iOS SDK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) Xcode
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) RSpec
General
1 6 (100.00%) Music
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Android Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Media
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) BBC
3 1 (16.67%) iPad
3 1 (16.67%) iPhone
3 1 (16.67%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Market Research
2 1 (16.67%) Product Management
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google