The first table below looks at the demand for RDF 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 RDF over the 3 months to 19 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 201 204 247
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +43
Contract jobs citing RDF 9 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.133% 0.103% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.179% 0.143% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 1
Average daily rate £413 £445 £800
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.30% -44.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £416 £344
% change year-on-year
-22.52% +21.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RDF
London

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London RDF Hourly Rate Trend

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RDF 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 RDF.

1 8 (53.33%) XML
2 7 (46.67%) Publishing
2 7 (46.67%) Semantic Web
3 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (40.00%) CSS
3 6 (40.00%) XSLT
4 4 (26.67%) Linux
4 4 (26.67%) XSL
4 4 (26.67%) C++
4 4 (26.67%) VBA
4 4 (26.67%) Ontologies
5 3 (20.00%) MarkLogic
5 3 (20.00%) Data Conversion
5 3 (20.00%) SPARQL
5 3 (20.00%) .NET
5 3 (20.00%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) UNIX
5 3 (20.00%) Windows
5 3 (20.00%) Python
5 3 (20.00%) XHTML
5 3 (20.00%) XQuery
5 3 (20.00%) XML Schema
5 3 (20.00%) XMetaL
6 2 (13.33%) SUSE
6 2 (13.33%) VMware
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) SAN
6 2 (13.33%) W3C

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing RDF 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 RDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (53.33%) XML
2 6 (40.00%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) XSLT
3 4 (26.67%) XSL
4 3 (20.00%) .NET
4 3 (20.00%) XHTML
4 3 (20.00%) XML Schema
5 2 (13.33%) XSD
5 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 1 (6.667%) RESTful
6 1 (6.667%) HTML5
6 1 (6.667%) CSS3
6 1 (6.667%) MapReduce
6 1 (6.667%) Kafka
6 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
6 1 (6.667%) JRules
6 1 (6.667%) JSON
6 1 (6.667%) J2EE
6 1 (6.667%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Apache Pig
1 1 (6.667%) OpenStack
1 1 (6.667%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (6.667%) Windows Azure
1 1 (6.667%) Apache
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) RMDS
1 1 (6.667%) Cognos Planning
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (6.667%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MarkLogic
2 1 (6.667%) Hypertable
2 1 (6.667%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.667%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.667%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.667%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.667%) HBase
2 1 (6.667%) Big Data
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.667%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.667%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (6.667%) Subversion
2 1 (6.667%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.667%) Mercurial
General
1 7 (46.67%) Publishing
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Front Office
3 1 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) XML Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) UNIX Administrator
4 2 (13.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (6.667%) JRules Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Cognos Support
5 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Semantic Web
2 4 (26.67%) Ontologies
3 3 (20.00%) Data Conversion
4 2 (13.33%) W3C
4 2 (13.33%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (6.667%) Open Source
5 1 (6.667%) Derivative
5 1 (6.667%) Wiki
5 1 (6.667%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) UNIX
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (13.33%) SUSE
3 2 (13.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Migration
1 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
1 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (6.667%) Analytics
2 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
2 1 (6.667%) Change Control
2 1 (6.667%) Data Analytics
2 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Security Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
2 1 (6.667%) System Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Data Migration
2 1 (6.667%) ITIL
2 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
2 1 (6.667%) Project Management
2 1 (6.667%) Change Management
2 1 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) C++
1 4 (26.67%) VBA
2 3 (20.00%) SPARQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) XQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Korn
4 1 (6.667%) XPath
4 1 (6.667%) C
4 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) ISEB
2 1 (6.667%) PMP
2 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.667%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (6.667%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
1 2 (13.33%) Veritas
1 2 (13.33%) EMC
1 2 (13.33%) Sun
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Cognos
2 1 (6.667%) CODA
2 1 (6.667%) Reuters
2 1 (6.667%) Bloomberg
2 1 (6.667%) NetApp
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft