The first table below looks at the demand for concrete5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited concrete5 over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Application Platforms category for the East of England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
concrete5
Rank 119 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing concrete5 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.089% 0.066% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.503% 0.385% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £175 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £250 -
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
398 519 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.77% 17.16% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 242 257
Average daily rate £300 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £233 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 44 37
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.00 £11.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.54 £35.00 £32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
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England

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Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing concrete5 across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

East of England concrete5 Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing concrete5 across the East of England region.

East of England concrete5 Daily Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing concrete5 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 concrete5.

1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) PHP
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) WordPress
3 5 (71.43%) CMS
3 5 (71.43%) MySQL
4 4 (57.14%) PHP5
4 4 (57.14%) jQuery
4 4 (57.14%) Ajax
4 4 (57.14%) Java EE
4 4 (57.14%) JSON
4 4 (57.14%) Git (software)
4 4 (57.14%) RESTful
4 4 (57.14%) Memcached
4 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (57.14%) Node.js
4 4 (57.14%) Redis
4 4 (57.14%) MVC
4 4 (57.14%) SEO
4 4 (57.14%) Subversion
4 4 (57.14%) SOAP
4 4 (57.14%) XML
4 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 4 (57.14%) OOP
4 4 (57.14%) OO
4 4 (57.14%) Apache
4 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) Java
4 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (42.86%) Symfony

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing concrete5 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 concrete5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) SOAP
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) Ajax
2 4 (57.14%) Java EE
2 4 (57.14%) JSON
2 4 (57.14%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Memcached
2 4 (57.14%) Node.js
3 3 (42.86%) Symfony
3 3 (42.86%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) WordPress
2 5 (71.43%) CMS
3 4 (57.14%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
2 4 (57.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Subversion
1 4 (57.14%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Web Developer
2 4 (57.14%) PHP Developer
3 3 (42.86%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (28.57%) PHP Programmer
4 2 (28.57%) Programmer
5 1 (14.29%) HTML Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Web Programmer
5 1 (14.29%) CSS Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) OOP
1 4 (57.14%) OO
1 4 (57.14%) MVC
1 4 (57.14%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) PHP5
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Zend
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