The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing 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 Publishing over the 3 months to 18 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 terms in our General 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Publishing
Rank 134 114 177
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +63
Contract jobs citing Publishing 83 111 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.204% 1.439% 0.708%
As % of the General category 2.114% 2.393% 1.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 81 53
Average daily rate £363 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £500 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £11.50 - £25.13
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 - £22.03
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.30 - £28.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £30.00 £17.51
% change year-on-year
-37.50% +71.33%
All of the General Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
3926 4638 6687
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 56.94% 60.13% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2999 3534 5088
Average daily rate £475 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £308 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £620 £630 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 54 93
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £15.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.47 £42.10 £49.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Publishing
London

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Publishing Daily Rate Histogram

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Publishing Hourly Rate Histogram

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Publishing 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 Publishing.

1 39 (24.68%) Finance
2 38 (24.05%) HTML
3 34 (21.52%) CSS
4 32 (20.25%) Microsoft
5 29 (18.35%) XML
6 26 (16.46%) Windows
7 25 (15.82%) XSLT
7 25 (15.82%) CMS
8 23 (14.56%) Agile Software Development
8 23 (14.56%) Java
9 21 (13.29%) Degree
10 20 (12.66%) TDD
10 20 (12.66%) Scrum
11 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
11 19 (12.03%) jQuery
12 18 (11.39%) Content Management
12 18 (11.39%) Migration
13 17 (10.76%) Web Services
14 16 (10.13%) .NET
14 16 (10.13%) J2EE
14 16 (10.13%) Legal
14 16 (10.13%) Project Management
14 16 (10.13%) RESTful
15 15 (9.494%) MVC
15 15 (9.494%) MS Excel
16 14 (8.861%) Adobe
16 14 (8.861%) Citrix
16 14 (8.861%) BDD
17 13 (8.228%) Windows Server 2008
17 13 (8.228%) Semantic Web

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Publishing 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 Publishing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (24.05%) HTML
2 34 (21.52%) CSS
3 29 (18.35%) XML
4 25 (15.82%) XSLT
5 19 (12.03%) jQuery
6 17 (10.76%) Web Services
7 16 (10.13%) RESTful
7 16 (10.13%) .NET
7 16 (10.13%) J2EE
8 12 (7.595%) Spring
9 11 (6.962%) HTML5
10 10 (6.329%) XSD
11 9 (5.696%) CSS3
12 8 (5.063%) Struts
13 7 (4.430%) Flash
13 7 (4.430%) JMS
13 7 (4.430%) ASP.NET
13 7 (4.430%) Ajax
13 7 (4.430%) ASP.NET MVC
14 6 (3.797%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 25 (15.82%) CMS
2 9 (5.696%) Apache
3 7 (4.430%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.430%) Adobe CQ
4 4 (2.532%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (2.532%) Lync
5 3 (1.899%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.899%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (1.899%) MS Exchange
6 2 (1.266%) Documentum
6 2 (1.266%) TeamSite
6 2 (1.266%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.266%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.266%) IIS
6 2 (1.266%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.266%) ESB
6 2 (1.266%) WebSphere Process Server
7 1 (0.633%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.633%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (0.633%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 15 (9.494%) MS Excel
2 12 (7.595%) Photoshop
3 9 (5.696%) MS Visio
3 9 (5.696%) MS Office
4 4 (2.532%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (1.899%) XMetaL
5 3 (1.899%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.266%) MS Project
7 1 (0.633%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.633%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.633%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.633%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.797%) Intranet
1 6 (3.797%) Internet
2 5 (3.165%) DNS
2 5 (3.165%) HTTP
3 3 (1.899%) DHCP
4 2 (1.266%) SSL
4 2 (1.266%) Firewall
4 2 (1.266%) FTP
5 1 (0.633%) Wireless
5 1 (0.633%) Gigabit Ethernet
5 1 (0.633%) VLAN
5 1 (0.633%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.633%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.633%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.633%) Junos
5 1 (0.633%) SAN
5 1 (0.633%) CTI
5 1 (0.633%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.633%) OSPF
5 1 (0.633%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.228%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.696%) MarkLogic
3 8 (5.063%) MySQL
4 5 (3.165%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.899%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (1.266%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (1.266%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.266%) DB2
6 2 (1.266%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.266%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (1.266%) DecisionStream
7 1 (0.633%) Siebel EIM
7 1 (0.633%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.633%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.633%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.633%) QlikView
7 1 (0.633%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.633%) TOAD
7 1 (0.633%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.633%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (3.797%) JIRA
2 5 (3.165%) MSI
2 5 (3.165%) AdminStudio
3 4 (2.532%) Subversion
3 4 (2.532%) JUnit
4 3 (1.899%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.899%) Selenium
4 3 (1.899%) Git (software)
4 3 (1.899%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.266%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.266%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.266%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.633%) ClearQuest
6 1 (0.633%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.633%) Hudson
6 1 (0.633%) QUnit
6 1 (0.633%) Jasmine
General
1 39 (24.68%) Finance
2 16 (10.13%) Legal
3 13 (8.228%) Marketing
4 7 (4.430%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.165%) Banking
6 4 (2.532%) Games
7 3 (1.899%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.266%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.266%) Advertising
8 2 (1.266%) Law
9 1 (0.633%) Front Office
9 1 (0.633%) Retail
9 1 (0.633%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.633%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.633%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (30.38%) Developer
2 15 (9.494%) Analyst
3 13 (8.228%) Project Manager
3 13 (8.228%) Business Analyst
4 11 (6.962%) Architect
4 11 (6.962%) Java Developer
5 9 (5.696%) Senior Developer
6 7 (4.430%) Web Producer
7 6 (3.797%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.165%) Content Editor
8 5 (3.165%) Content Manager
8 5 (3.165%) Agile Business Analyst
9 4 (2.532%) Front-End Developer
9 4 (2.532%) XML Developer
9 4 (2.532%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (2.532%) Author
9 4 (2.532%) Technical Author
10 3 (1.899%) Tester
10 3 (1.899%) Data Analyst
10 3 (1.899%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.228%) Semantic Web
2 11 (6.962%) W3C
3 9 (5.696%) Blackberry
3 9 (5.696%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.696%) Data Conversion
4 7 (4.430%) Social Media
5 5 (3.165%) iPad
5 5 (3.165%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.165%) Visualisation
6 4 (2.532%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.532%) Ontologies
6 4 (2.532%) Copywriting
7 3 (1.899%) Fat Client
7 3 (1.899%) Statistics
7 3 (1.899%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.266%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.266%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.266%) Replication
8 2 (1.266%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.266%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.46%) Windows
2 13 (8.228%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (6.329%) Apple iOS
4 9 (5.696%) Windows 7
4 9 (5.696%) Android
5 5 (3.165%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.899%) Linux
6 3 (1.899%) Mac OS X
6 3 (1.899%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.266%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.266%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.633%) OpenVMS
8 1 (0.633%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.633%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.633%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.56%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (12.66%) TDD
2 20 (12.66%) Scrum
3 18 (11.39%) Migration
3 18 (11.39%) Content Management
4 16 (10.13%) Project Management
5 15 (9.494%) MVC
6 14 (8.861%) BDD
7 12 (7.595%) E-Commerce
8 10 (6.329%) CRM
9 9 (5.696%) ITIL
10 7 (4.430%) UML
10 7 (4.430%) OO
10 7 (4.430%) RDF
10 7 (4.430%) Web Design
10 7 (4.430%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (3.797%) User Stories
11 6 (3.797%) Workflow
11 6 (3.797%) PRINCE2
12 5 (3.165%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.56%) Java
2 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
3 12 (7.595%) C#
4 11 (6.962%) XQuery
5 10 (6.329%) SQL
6 7 (4.430%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.165%) C++
8 4 (2.532%) PHP
8 4 (2.532%) Python
9 3 (1.899%) SPARQL
9 3 (1.899%) C
9 3 (1.899%) VBA
10 2 (1.266%) VBScript
10 2 (1.266%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.266%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.633%) XPath
11 1 (0.633%) PHP5
11 1 (0.633%) Groovy
11 1 (0.633%) VB
11 1 (0.633%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (13.29%) Degree
2 11 (6.962%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.063%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.797%) CIPD
5 3 (1.899%) MCITP
6 2 (1.266%) CCNA
6 2 (1.266%) ISEB
6 2 (1.266%) CISSP
6 2 (1.266%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.266%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.266%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.266%) CISM
7 1 (0.633%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.633%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.633%) MCSE
7 1 (0.633%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.633%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.962%) QA
2 2 (1.266%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.633%) WAI
System Software
1 13 (8.228%) Active Directory
1 13 (8.228%) XenApp
2 6 (3.797%) Squid
3 5 (3.165%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.532%) VMware ESX
5 3 (1.899%) ISA Server
6 2 (1.266%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (0.633%) UAG
7 1 (0.633%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.633%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.633%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.633%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (5.063%) SCCM
2 3 (1.899%) SCOM
3 2 (1.266%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.266%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (0.633%) MOM
4 1 (0.633%) MIMEsweeper
4 1 (0.633%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.633%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 32 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.861%) Adobe
2 14 (8.861%) Citrix
3 8 (5.063%) Oracle
3 8 (5.063%) VMware
4 7 (4.430%) Symantec
5 6 (3.797%) Siebel
5 6 (3.797%) Apple
6 4 (2.532%) Cisco
6 4 (2.532%) IBM
6 4 (2.532%) HP
7 3 (1.899%) Dell
8 2 (1.266%) EMC
8 2 (1.266%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.266%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (1.266%) Cognos
8 2 (1.266%) RedDot
8 2 (1.266%) Zend
8 2 (1.266%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.266%) Sencha
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