The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of PlateSpin 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 PlateSpin 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 PlateSpin Ltd.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PlateSpin
Rank 196 218 244
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +26
Contract jobs citing PlateSpin 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.105% 0.030% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £331 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £475 £375
% change year-on-year
-23.68% +26.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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%
PlateSpin
London

PlateSpin
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London PlateSpin Jobs Demand Trend

PlateSpin
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London PlateSpin Daily Rate Trend

PlateSpin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) Leostream
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Legato
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 3 (75.00%) SCOM
2 3 (75.00%) NetBackup
2 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) McAfee
2 3 (75.00%) Sophos
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Windows NT
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) ADSI
2 3 (75.00%) FTP
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) SAN

PlateSpin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) ADSI
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
1 3 (75.00%) Internet
1 3 (75.00%) FTP
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Windows NT
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VBScript
1 2 (50.00%) VB
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 3 (75.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Legato
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
1 3 (75.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (75.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Leostream
2 3 (75.00%) McAfee
2 3 (75.00%) Sophos
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) BMC
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) NetIQ