The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Statistics 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 Statistics 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
Statistics
Rank 182 173 233
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +60
Contract jobs citing Statistics 28 39 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.413% 0.504% 0.180%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.297% 1.558% 0.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 28 16
Average daily rate £400 £355 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.67% -12.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £513 £638
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £285
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.00 £15.48 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.02% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £14.07
% change year-on-year
+21.87% +13.71%
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%
Statistics
London

Statistics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Statistics Jobs Demand Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Statistics Daily Rate Trend

Statistics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Statistics Daily Rate Histogram

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Statistics Hourly Rate Trend

Statistics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 28 (44.44%) SQL
2 27 (42.86%) Degree
3 22 (34.92%) Mathematics
3 22 (34.92%) Computer Science
4 20 (31.75%) SAS
5 15 (23.81%) Analytics
6 14 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
6 14 (22.22%) Data Analysis
7 12 (19.05%) Windows
8 11 (17.46%) Finance
9 10 (15.87%) Java
9 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
9 10 (15.87%) PhD
9 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
9 10 (15.87%) Banking
9 10 (15.87%) Hadoop
9 10 (15.87%) Statistical Modelling
10 9 (14.29%) Big Data
10 9 (14.29%) Python
10 9 (14.29%) Data Mining
11 8 (12.70%) VBA
11 8 (12.70%) C++
11 8 (12.70%) ITIL
11 8 (12.70%) Service Delivery
11 8 (12.70%) IBM
11 8 (12.70%) R
11 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
11 8 (12.70%) Economics
11 8 (12.70%) Marketing
12 7 (11.11%) Investment Banking

Statistics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (11.11%) HTML
2 6 (9.524%) MapReduce
3 5 (7.937%) .NET
4 3 (4.762%) ASP
4 3 (4.762%) XML
5 1 (1.587%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.587%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.587%) Ajax
5 1 (1.587%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.587%) Rendezvous
5 1 (1.587%) Middleware
5 1 (1.587%) FIXML
5 1 (1.587%) OLE DB
5 1 (1.587%) JMS
5 1 (1.587%) WSDL
5 1 (1.587%) J2EE
5 1 (1.587%) XSL
5 1 (1.587%) ODBC
5 1 (1.587%) JSP
5 1 (1.587%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 20 (31.75%) SAS
2 7 (11.11%) Apache
3 6 (9.524%) Apache Pig
4 2 (3.175%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.175%) CMS
5 1 (1.587%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.587%) Liferay
5 1 (1.587%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (1.587%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.587%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.587%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.587%) IIS
5 1 (1.587%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) SPSS
1 7 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 5 (7.937%) MS Office
3 2 (3.175%) Photoshop
4 1 (1.587%) Office 365
4 1 (1.587%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.587%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.524%) Internet
2 4 (6.349%) HTTP
3 3 (4.762%) SAN
4 2 (3.175%) Intranet
5 1 (1.587%) FTP
5 1 (1.587%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.87%) SQL Server
1 10 (15.87%) Hadoop
2 9 (14.29%) Big Data
2 9 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 6 (9.524%) Apache Hive
3 6 (9.524%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (9.524%) HBase
3 6 (9.524%) Mahout
4 4 (6.349%) Base SAS
5 3 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.175%) MySQL
6 2 (3.175%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.175%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.587%) SAS Enterprise Miner
7 1 (1.587%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.587%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (1.587%) MS Access
7 1 (1.587%) OLTP
7 1 (1.587%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (1.587%) Selenium
1 1 (1.587%) WinDbg
1 1 (1.587%) Git (software)
1 1 (1.587%) JMeter
1 1 (1.587%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (1.587%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (17.46%) Finance
2 10 (15.87%) Banking
3 8 (12.70%) Marketing
4 7 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.349%) Games
6 3 (4.762%) Publishing
7 2 (3.175%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.587%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (1.587%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.587%) Retail
8 1 (1.587%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (41.27%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Developer
3 8 (12.70%) Senior Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Data Scientist
4 6 (9.524%) SAS Analyst
4 6 (9.524%) Research Engineer
4 6 (9.524%) Senior SAS Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Customer Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) SAS Insight Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Insight Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Senior Insight Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Customer Insight Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Senior Customer Insight Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Data Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.349%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.349%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.349%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 3 (4.762%) Research Scientist
8 2 (3.175%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.92%) Mathematics
1 22 (34.92%) Computer Science
2 8 (12.70%) Economics
3 7 (11.11%) Physics
3 7 (11.11%) Visualisation
4 6 (9.524%) Grid Computing
4 6 (9.524%) Social Network
4 6 (9.524%) Neural Network
5 5 (7.937%) Replication
6 4 (6.349%) NHS
6 4 (6.349%) Machine Learning
7 2 (3.175%) W3C
7 2 (3.175%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.175%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (3.175%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (3.175%) Informatics
7 2 (3.175%) Freedom of Information Act
7 2 (3.175%) Copywriting
8 1 (1.587%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.587%) Artificial Intelligence
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.05%) Windows
2 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (9.524%) HPUX
3 6 (9.524%) Linux
4 4 (6.349%) Mac OS X
5 2 (3.175%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.587%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.587%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.587%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.81%) Analytics
2 14 (22.22%) Predictive Modelling
2 14 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 10 (15.87%) Statistical Modelling
4 8 (12.70%) ITIL
4 8 (12.70%) Service Delivery
5 7 (11.11%) Customer Insight
5 7 (11.11%) Service Management
6 6 (9.524%) CHAID
6 6 (9.524%) Business Analytics
6 6 (9.524%) Information Assurance
6 6 (9.524%) Risk Analysis
6 6 (9.524%) Data Management
6 6 (9.524%) Software Engineering
7 5 (7.937%) Operations Research
8 4 (6.349%) Data Modelling
8 4 (6.349%) Project Management
8 4 (6.349%) Web Development
9 3 (4.762%) Content Management
9 3 (4.762%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 28 (44.44%) SQL
2 10 (15.87%) Java
3 9 (14.29%) Python
4 8 (12.70%) VBA
4 8 (12.70%) C++
4 8 (12.70%) R
5 7 (11.11%) Scala
6 5 (7.937%) C#
7 3 (4.762%) C
8 2 (3.175%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.587%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.587%) Perl
9 1 (1.587%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.587%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (42.86%) Degree
2 10 (15.87%) PhD
3 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
4 7 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 6 (9.524%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (9.524%) MCITP
6 5 (7.937%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 5 (7.937%) MCP
6 5 (7.937%) MCSE
7 4 (6.349%) MCSA
8 1 (1.587%) CFA
8 1 (1.587%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.587%) MBA
8 1 (1.587%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.587%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.349%) SLA
2 2 (3.175%) QA
3 1 (1.587%) Solvency II
3 1 (1.587%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.937%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.349%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.349%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.762%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.175%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (3.175%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (1.587%) Splunk
2 1 (1.587%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) IBM
3 6 (9.524%) HP
3 6 (9.524%) Oracle
3 6 (9.524%) VMware
4 5 (7.937%) Citrix
5 4 (6.349%) Adobe
5 4 (6.349%) Apple
6 3 (4.762%) Business Objects
7 2 (3.175%) RedDot
7 2 (3.175%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.175%) Veeam
7 2 (3.175%) Brocade
8 1 (1.587%) Omniture
8 1 (1.587%) Google
8 1 (1.587%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.587%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.587%) Symantec
8 1 (1.587%) Plumtree
8 1 (1.587%) NetApp
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