The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Network 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 Social Network 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Networking
Rank 202 207 243
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +36
Contract jobs citing Social Network 8 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.118% 0.065% 0.080%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.371% 0.200% 0.203%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
Average daily rate £450 £413 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +4.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £341 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £455 £635
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+33.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 £28.75 -
% change year-on-year
+508.69% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2159 2503 3939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.84% 32.33% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1610 1949 3091
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £632 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 51 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £12.70 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.30 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Social Network
London

Social Network
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Social Network Jobs Demand Trend

Social Network
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Social Network Daily Rate Trend

Social Network
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Social Network across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Social Network Daily Rate Histogram

Social Network
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Social Network Hourly Rate Trend

Social Network
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (61.54%) Hadoop
2 14 (53.85%) Apache Hive
2 14 (53.85%) Apache Cassandra
2 14 (53.85%) MapReduce
2 14 (53.85%) HBase
2 14 (53.85%) Mahout
2 14 (53.85%) Big Data
2 14 (53.85%) Apache Pig
2 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 14 (53.85%) Software Engineering
3 13 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 13 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 13 (50.00%) Physics
3 13 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 13 (50.00%) Java
3 13 (50.00%) Data Mining
4 9 (34.62%) NoSQL
4 9 (34.62%) MongoDB
5 8 (30.77%) HTML5
5 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
5 8 (30.77%) TDD
6 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
6 7 (26.92%) Business Analysis
6 7 (26.92%) Data Integration
6 7 (26.92%) RDBMS
6 7 (26.92%) Scrum
6 7 (26.92%) Grid Computing
6 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
6 7 (26.92%) OLAP
6 7 (26.92%) Apache

Social Network
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (53.85%) MapReduce
2 8 (30.77%) HTML5
3 6 (23.08%) ASP
4 5 (19.23%) J2ME
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) CSS
5 3 (11.54%) CSS3
6 2 (7.692%) OOCSS
6 2 (7.692%) Sass
6 2 (7.692%) LESS
6 2 (7.692%) Node.js
6 2 (7.692%) REST
6 2 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (3.846%) LAMP
7 1 (3.846%) .NET
7 1 (3.846%) XML
7 1 (3.846%) WPF
7 1 (3.846%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 14 (53.85%) Apache Pig
2 7 (26.92%) Apache
3 6 (23.08%) SAS
4 1 (3.846%) WordPress
4 1 (3.846%) Drupal
4 1 (3.846%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (23.08%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) Hadoop
2 14 (53.85%) Apache Hive
2 14 (53.85%) Apache Cassandra
2 14 (53.85%) HBase
2 14 (53.85%) Mahout
2 14 (53.85%) Big Data
3 13 (50.00%) Data Mining
4 9 (34.62%) NoSQL
4 9 (34.62%) MongoDB
5 7 (26.92%) RDBMS
5 7 (26.92%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) PhoneGap
1 4 (15.38%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 2 (7.692%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.846%) Selenium
3 1 (3.846%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.846%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (7.692%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (65.38%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Big Data Developer
3 7 (26.92%) Hadoop Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Data Scientist
4 6 (23.08%) Research Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Research Scientist
7 2 (7.692%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Analyst
8 1 (3.846%) Test Analyst
8 1 (3.846%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Data Analyst
8 1 (3.846%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) PHP Developer
8 1 (3.846%) QA Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Account Director
8 1 (3.846%) UI Designer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 13 (50.00%) Physics
1 13 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
3 7 (26.92%) Data Integration
3 7 (26.92%) Grid Computing
4 6 (23.08%) Visualisation
4 6 (23.08%) Statistics
4 6 (23.08%) Neural Network
5 5 (19.23%) Handset
5 5 (19.23%) Blackberry
5 5 (19.23%) iPhone
6 2 (7.692%) Open Source
7 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
7 1 (3.846%) Social Media
7 1 (3.846%) Digital Media
7 1 (3.846%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Android
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (19.23%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Software Engineering
2 13 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 8 (30.77%) TDD
4 7 (26.92%) Data Modelling
4 7 (26.92%) Business Analysis
4 7 (26.92%) Scrum
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
5 6 (23.08%) Predictive Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (7.692%) OO
8 1 (3.846%) SEO
8 1 (3.846%) OOP
8 1 (3.846%) Time Management
8 1 (3.846%) Web Development
8 1 (3.846%) Business Development
8 1 (3.846%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (3.846%) Software Testing
8 1 (3.846%) Pair Programming
8 1 (3.846%) Pay per click
8 1 (3.846%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) R
4 6 (23.08%) Scala
4 6 (23.08%) Python
4 6 (23.08%) C++
5 2 (7.692%) Ruby
6 1 (3.846%) C#
6 1 (3.846%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
1 6 (23.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (3.846%) Zend
1 1 (3.846%) Google
1 1 (3.846%) Facebook
1 1 (3.846%) Twitter
City of London
They are looking for an experienced Back-end PHP developer , experienced with the full LAMP stack. This is a contract role to work on a social networking platform...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013