The first table below looks at the demand for Reactive Extensions skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Reactive Extensions 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 of the Application Development category for the East Midlands 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
Reactive Extensions (Rx)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Reactive Extensions 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
327 356 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.22% 25.85% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 186 120
Average daily rate £310 £275 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -5.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 38
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Reactive Extensions
England

Reactive Extensions
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Reactive Extensions across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East Midlands Reactive Extensions Jobs Demand Trend

Reactive Extensions
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) IIS
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) SNMP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) WMI
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Expression Blend
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7

Reactive Extensions
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 5 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SNMP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 5 (100.00%) Expression Blend
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SOA
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) WMI
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft