The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Open Text products and/or services 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 Open Text over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Open Text Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Text
Rank 187 216 235
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +19
Contract jobs citing Open Text 12 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.189% 0.038% 0.100%
As % of the Vendors category 0.418% 0.090% 0.238%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 5
Average daily rate £319 £525 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.28% +35.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £525 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £394 £525 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £343 £350
% change year-on-year
+38.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £21.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2870 3315 4200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.18% 42.11% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2036 2269 2905
Average daily rate £430 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 99 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.20 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Open Text
London

Open Text
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Open Text Jobs Demand Trend

Open Text
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Open Text Daily Rate Trend

Open Text
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Open Text across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Open Text Daily Rate Histogram

Open Text
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Open Text Hourly Rate Trend

Open Text
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Open Text 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 Open Text.

1 9 (45.00%) SQL
1 9 (45.00%) Document Management
2 7 (35.00%) Content Management
3 6 (30.00%) VB
3 6 (30.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 5 (25.00%) Siebel
5 4 (20.00%) LDAP
5 4 (20.00%) HTML
5 4 (20.00%) .NET
5 4 (20.00%) Law
5 4 (20.00%) LiveLink
5 4 (20.00%) E-Discovery
6 3 (15.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (15.00%) RightFax
6 3 (15.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 3 (15.00%) Change Management
6 3 (15.00%) WinForms
6 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
6 3 (15.00%) Use Case
6 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (15.00%) Clearswift
6 3 (15.00%) MAILsweeper
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (15.00%) EDRMS
6 3 (15.00%) Symantec

Open Text
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Open Text 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 Open Text. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (15.00%) WinForms
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) XML
3 1 (5.000%) Java EE
3 1 (5.000%) CGI
3 1 (5.000%) ASP
3 1 (5.000%) JSP
3 1 (5.000%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (20.00%) LiveLink
3 3 (15.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (15.00%) Documentum
4 1 (5.000%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (5.000%) MS Project Server
4 1 (5.000%) CoreMedia CMS
4 1 (5.000%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.000%) CMS
4 1 (5.000%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
4 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (5.000%) SAP HCM
1 1 (5.000%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) LDAP
2 3 (15.00%) SMTP
3 2 (10.00%) DHCP
3 2 (10.00%) DNS
3 2 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.000%) Internet
4 1 (5.000%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) EDRMS
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (5.000%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Consultant
1 4 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Messaging Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) IT Trainer
4 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.000%) Trainer
4 1 (5.000%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
3 1 (5.000%) Solaris
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Document Management
2 7 (35.00%) Content Management
3 4 (20.00%) E-Discovery
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Use Case
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Content Management
5 2 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (5.000%) TOGAF
6 1 (5.000%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.000%) MODAF
6 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (5.000%) Time Management
6 1 (5.000%) Service Management
6 1 (5.000%) Migration
6 1 (5.000%) DRM
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) VB
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (10.00%) VB6
5 1 (5.000%) Perl
5 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.000%) C
5 1 (5.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (15.00%) MCSE
2 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) ISA Server
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 3 (15.00%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Siebel
2 3 (15.00%) RightFax
2 3 (15.00%) Clearswift
2 3 (15.00%) Symantec
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Adobe
3 2 (10.00%) Websense
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.000%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.000%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.000%) Hummingbird
4 1 (5.000%) Sun
4 1 (5.000%) Remedy
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Vignette
4 1 (5.000%) SAP
4 1 (5.000%) JBoss