The first table below looks at the demand for Smarty 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 Smarty over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Smarty
Rank 200 219 -
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -
Contract jobs citing Smarty 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.055% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £225 £475 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £300 £150
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - £21.50
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1806 1972 2672
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.58% 25.25% 27.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1424 1451 2072
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Smarty
London

Smarty
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Smarty Jobs Demand Trend

Smarty
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Smarty Daily Rate Trend

Smarty
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Smarty 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 Smarty.

1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) Drupal
2 2 (66.67%) PHP5
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Web Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Zend
3 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) nginx
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (33.33%) REST

Smarty
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) XML-RPC
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) CSS3
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Drupal
2 1 (33.33%) WordPress
2 1 (33.33%) nginx
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Balsamiq Mockups
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Web Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Web Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) PHP5
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Zend