The first table below looks at the demand for NFC 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 NFC over the 3 months to 17 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 Communications & Networking 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Rank 194 215 243
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +28
Contract jobs citing NFC 13 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.189% 0.065% 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.505% 0.526% 0.291%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
Average daily rate £413 £410 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.60% -31.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £478 £420 £475
% change year-on-year
+13.69% -11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
864 950 1031
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.55% 12.30% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 634 661
Average daily rate £390 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £518 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 84
Average hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.21% +8.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.80 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £72.80 £41.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
NFC
London

NFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London NFC Jobs Demand Trend

NFC
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London NFC Daily Rate Trend

NFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NFC 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 NFC.

1 15 (83.33%) Java Card
1 15 (83.33%) Mobile App
2 14 (77.78%) Android
2 14 (77.78%) Scrum
3 13 (72.22%) Mobile Application Development
4 12 (66.67%) Blackberry
5 11 (61.11%) iPhone
6 10 (55.56%) Windows
7 9 (50.00%) Cocoa
7 9 (50.00%) Xcode
7 9 (50.00%) Objective-C
7 9 (50.00%) Cocoa Touch
7 9 (50.00%) Apple iOS
7 9 (50.00%) iOS SDK
8 8 (44.44%) MonoTouch
8 8 (44.44%) Windows Phone
8 8 (44.44%) TDD
8 8 (44.44%) Java
8 8 (44.44%) N-Tier
8 8 (44.44%) SOA
9 7 (38.89%) Multithreading
10 6 (33.33%) MVC
10 6 (33.33%) OOP
11 5 (27.78%) Finance
12 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
12 4 (22.22%) Mercurial
12 4 (22.22%) OO
12 4 (22.22%) Ant
12 4 (22.22%) JUnit
12 4 (22.22%) EMV

NFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (50.00%) Cocoa
1 9 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 9 (50.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 8 (44.44%) MonoTouch
3 2 (11.11%) WML
3 2 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) XHTML
3 2 (11.11%) Java ME
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) GSM
1 2 (11.11%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQLite
2 1 (5.556%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Xcode
2 4 (22.22%) Subversion
2 4 (22.22%) Maven
2 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 4 (22.22%) Mercurial
2 4 (22.22%) Ant
2 4 (22.22%) JUnit
3 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Developer
2 11 (61.11%) Senior Developer
3 9 (50.00%) iOS Developer
3 9 (50.00%) Senior iOS Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Android Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Android Developer
6 1 (5.556%) ScrumMaster
6 1 (5.556%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (83.33%) Java Card
1 15 (83.33%) Mobile App
2 12 (66.67%) Blackberry
3 11 (61.11%) iPhone
4 8 (44.44%) N-Tier
5 4 (22.22%) EMV
6 2 (11.11%) Smartcard
6 2 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (5.556%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Android
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
3 9 (50.00%) Apple iOS
4 8 (44.44%) Windows Phone
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Scrum
2 13 (72.22%) Mobile Application Development
3 8 (44.44%) TDD
3 8 (44.44%) SOA
4 7 (38.89%) Multithreading
5 6 (33.33%) OOP
5 6 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (22.22%) OO
7 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Mobile Commerce
7 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 14443
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 7816
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Google