The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Music 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 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Music
Rank 195 198 226
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +28
Contract jobs citing Music 8 19 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.124% 0.242% 0.103%
As % of the General category 0.219% 0.400% 0.152%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 7
Average daily rate £450 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £302 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £329 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £96.75 - -
All of the General Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
3645 4753 6573
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 56.72% 60.46% 67.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2782 3562 4963
Average daily rate £475 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £313 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £642 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 71 87
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 £13.80 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.60 £34.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Music
London

Music
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Music Jobs Demand Trend

Music
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Music Daily Rate Trend

Music
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Music Daily Rate Histogram

Music
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Music Hourly Rate Trend

Music
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (35.29%) Music Industry
1 6 (35.29%) Android
2 5 (29.41%) Digital Media
2 5 (29.41%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) Eclipse
3 4 (23.53%) Google
3 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
4 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 3 (17.65%) Streaming Music
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) HTTP
4 3 (17.65%) OO
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) ASP
5 2 (11.76%) Windows
5 2 (11.76%) Linux
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Internet
5 2 (11.76%) Star Schema
5 2 (11.76%) Ruby
5 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (11.76%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
5 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.76%) BDD
5 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
5 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
5 2 (11.76%) Visualisation

Music
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) ASP
1 2 (11.76%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (5.882%) Node.js
2 1 (5.882%) iOS SDK
2 1 (5.882%) HTML5
2 1 (5.882%) Middleware
2 1 (5.882%) CSS
2 1 (5.882%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SAS
1 1 (5.882%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (5.882%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Star Schema
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Hive
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.76%) Big Data
3 1 (5.882%) Redis
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.882%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle OWB
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (5.882%) PowerCenter
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Eclipse
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) RSpec
3 1 (5.882%) Xcode
General
1 6 (35.29%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Android Developer
3 3 (17.65%) iOS Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (5.882%) PMO Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Business Developer
5 1 (5.882%) DBA
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Digital Media
2 3 (17.65%) Streaming Music
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.882%) iPhone
4 1 (5.882%) iPad
4 1 (5.882%) Podcast
4 1 (5.882%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Android
2 4 (23.53%) Apple iOS
3 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
1 3 (17.65%) OO
2 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.76%) TDD
2 2 (11.76%) BDD
3 1 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) Master Data Management
3 1 (5.882%) Market Research
3 1 (5.882%) Product Management
3 1 (5.882%) Data Management
3 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Web Development
3 1 (5.882%) Use Case
3 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) ETL
3 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) Service Management
3 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Ruby
4 1 (5.882%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.882%) PHP
4 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.882%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) OCP
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Puppet
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.882%) DataFlux
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) Informatica
3 1 (5.882%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle