The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse 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 of the Programming Languages 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
IBM Cognos PowerHouse
Rank 202 - 233
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing PowerHouse 1 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% - 0.031%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.037% - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £395 £500
% change year-on-year
+7.59% -21.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2682 2865 4070
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.74% 36.44% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2072 2145 3086
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 33 35
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.81 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PowerHouse
London

PowerHouse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London PowerHouse Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHouse
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London PowerHouse Daily Rate Trend

PowerHouse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London PowerHouse Hourly Rate Trend

PowerHouse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) XQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Middleware
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) MarkLogic
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Flash
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) MVC

PowerHouse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Flash
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Symfony
2 1 (33.33%) Django
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) ExpressionEngine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) XQuery
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) ActionScript
2 1 (33.33%) ActionScript 3.0
2 1 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
1 1 (33.33%) Google