The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term RIA 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 RIA 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rich Internet Application (RIA)
Rank 191 204 203
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -1
Contract jobs citing RIA 8 15 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.126% 0.191% 0.421%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.398% 0.583% 1.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 34
Average daily rate £550 £525 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £365 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £630 £550 £634
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £350 £330
% change year-on-year
+50.00% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
- -1.19%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2008 2575 4008
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.61% 32.71% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1491 1993 3106
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 66 54
Average hourly rate £24.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.39 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
RIA
London

RIA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London RIA Jobs Demand Trend

RIA
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London RIA Daily Rate Trend

RIA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London RIA Daily Rate Histogram

RIA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London RIA Hourly Rate Trend

RIA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 11 (52.38%) Internet
2 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 11 (52.38%) jQuery
3 10 (47.62%) HTML5
3 10 (47.62%) CSS
4 9 (42.86%) Ajax
4 9 (42.86%) CSS3
5 7 (33.33%) Silverlight
5 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (28.57%) C#
6 6 (28.57%) Java
7 5 (23.81%) Banking
8 4 (19.05%) .NET
8 4 (19.05%) Photoshop
8 4 (19.05%) Web Services
8 4 (19.05%) Flash
8 4 (19.05%) Apache Flex
9 3 (14.29%) WCF
9 3 (14.29%) WPF
9 3 (14.29%) Web Development
9 3 (14.29%) Ext JS
9 3 (14.29%) Expression Blend
9 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
9 3 (14.29%) Swing
9 3 (14.29%) Eclipse
9 3 (14.29%) WSDL
9 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 3 (14.29%) Adobe

RIA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (52.38%) jQuery
2 10 (47.62%) HTML5
2 10 (47.62%) CSS
3 9 (42.86%) Ajax
3 9 (42.86%) CSS3
4 7 (33.33%) Silverlight
5 4 (19.05%) .NET
5 4 (19.05%) Web Services
5 4 (19.05%) Flash
5 4 (19.05%) Apache Flex
6 3 (14.29%) WCF
6 3 (14.29%) WPF
6 3 (14.29%) Ext JS
6 3 (14.29%) Swing
6 3 (14.29%) WSDL
6 3 (14.29%) SOAP
6 3 (14.29%) XML
6 3 (14.29%) HTML
6 3 (14.29%) JSON
7 2 (9.524%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.762%) IIS
1 1 (4.762%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Photoshop
2 3 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (4.762%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) Sybase ASE
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.762%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Expression Blend
1 3 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 2 (9.524%) Subversion
2 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
2 2 (9.524%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.762%) Marketing
4 1 (4.762%) Advertising
4 1 (4.762%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Analyst
3 2 (9.524%) Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Web Developer
3 2 (9.524%) C# Developer
3 2 (9.524%) HTML Developer
3 2 (9.524%) WPF Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Designer
4 1 (4.762%) Creative Designer
4 1 (4.762%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (4.762%) User Experience Designer
4 1 (4.762%) Visual Designer
4 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce Web Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.762%) Project Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) GIS Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.524%) Web 2.0
3 2 (9.524%) Digital Media
3 2 (9.524%) Photography
3 2 (9.524%) Social Media
4 1 (4.762%) Graphic Design
4 1 (4.762%) SaaS
4 1 (4.762%) Visualisation
4 1 (4.762%) Spread Betting
4 1 (4.762%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.762%) Windows
1 1 (4.762%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 3 (14.29%) Web Development
2 3 (14.29%) ITIL
2 3 (14.29%) MVC
2 3 (14.29%) Service Management
2 3 (14.29%) Process Management
3 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (9.524%) TDD
3 2 (9.524%) OO
3 2 (9.524%) MVVM
4 1 (4.762%) Business Development
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (4.762%) Marketing Strategy
4 1 (4.762%) Project Management
4 1 (4.762%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.762%) Information Security
4 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) XAML
4 2 (9.524%) VBA
5 1 (4.762%) Python
5 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 3 (14.29%) Adobe
2 2 (9.524%) Sybase
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle
3 1 (4.762%) ESRI
City, London
HTML5 FX Web Developer- Greenfield Project My client is seeking a successful HTML5 Developer with experience within the eCommerce FX space or credit risk front or middle office...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £600 p/d
Posted: 17 May 2013