The first table below looks at the demand for NCover 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 NCover over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Development Applications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NCover
Rank - 210 240
Contract jobs citing NCover 0 2 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.026% 0.110%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.270% 1.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 11
Average daily rate - £613 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £250
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
783 741 1019
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.55% 9.572% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 569 787
Average daily rate £400 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
Average hourly rate £42.50 £34.00 £33.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.99% +2.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £23.80 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.30 £39.20 £81.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
NCover
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NCover
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London NCover Jobs Demand Trend

NCover
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London NCover Daily Rate Trend

NCover
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NCover 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 NCover.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) COM
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) XAML
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight

NCover
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NCover 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 NCover. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) COM
1 1 (50.00%) DHTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
1 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (50.00%) LINQ
1 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
1 1 (50.00%) MSBuild
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) MVVM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) XAML
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
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