City of London Syncfusion Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Syncfusion products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Syncfusion over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location City of London England London UK	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	147	184
Rank change on same period last year	+37
Matching contract IT job ads	31	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.060 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£500
Average daily rate	£504	£575
% change on same period last year	-12.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£558	£650
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2925	2956
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.607 %	3.167 %
Daily rates quoted	1491	1301
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£447
Average daily rate	£415	£474
% change on same period last year	-12.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£501
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	153	134
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.13	£22.19
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£23.57
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.88	£24.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Syncfusion, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Syncfusion across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Syncfusion across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Syncfusion 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 Syncfusion.

1 69 (100.00 %) C# 2 61 (88.41 %) Log4Net 2 61 (88.41 %) NUnit 2 61 (88.41 %) .NET 3 59 (85.51 %) OO 4 58 (84.06 %) Finance 5 55 (79.71 %) Fixed Income 5 55 (79.71 %) Front Office 6 54 (78.26 %) OOD 7 53 (76.81 %) Banking 8 51 (73.91 %) WinForms 9 48 (69.57 %) Government 10 47 (68.12 %) Automated Testing 11 42 (60.87 %) Windows 12 41 (59.42 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)

13 40 (57.97 %) Multithreading 14 35 (50.72 %) Tradeweb 14 35 (50.72 %) Bloomberg 14 35 (50.72 %) eSpeed 14 35 (50.72 %) MTS 15 34 (49.28 %) Investment Banking 16 21 (30.43 %) Java 16 21 (30.43 %) TIBCO 17 14 (20.29 %) Rendezvous 17 14 (20.29 %) Risk Management 18 9 (13.04 %) Infragistics 19 8 (11.59 %) Microsoft 20 1 (1.449 %) TIBCO EMS 20 1 (1.449 %) ComponentOne 20 1 (1.449 %) Oracle

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Syncfusion 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 Syncfusion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 61 (88.41 %) .NET 2 51 (73.91 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 35 (50.72 %) MTS 2 14 (20.29 %) Rendezvous 3 1 (1.449 %) TIBCO EMS
Development Applications 1 61 (88.41 %) Log4Net 1 61 (88.41 %) NUnit	General 1 58 (84.06 %) Finance 2 55 (79.71 %) Front Office 3 53 (76.81 %) Banking 4 48 (69.57 %) Government 5 34 (49.28 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 69 (100.00 %) Developer 2 65 (94.20 %) C# Developer 3 52 (75.36 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (10.14 %) Senior Developer 4 7 (10.14 %) Senior C# Developer 5 3 (4.348 %) UI Developer 6 2 (2.899 %) WinForms Developer	Miscellaneous 1 55 (79.71 %) Fixed Income 2 41 (59.42 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 40 (57.97 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 42 (60.87 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 59 (85.51 %) OO 2 54 (78.26 %) OOD 3 47 (68.12 %) Automated Testing 4 14 (20.29 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 69 (100.00 %) C# 2 21 (30.43 %) Java	Vendors 1 35 (50.72 %) Tradeweb 1 35 (50.72 %) Bloomberg 1 35 (50.72 %) eSpeed 2 21 (30.43 %) TIBCO 3 9 (13.04 %) Infragistics 4 8 (11.59 %) Microsoft 5 1 (1.449 %) ComponentOne 5 1 (1.449 %) Oracle 5 1 (1.449 %) Sybase