The first table below looks at the demand for ATL skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATL 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 of the Application Development category for the 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Active Template Library (ATL)
Rank 522 527 556
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +29
Contract jobs citing ATL 10 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.023% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the Application Development category 0.083% 0.128% 0.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 14
Average daily rate £254 £525 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-51.66% -10.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £410
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £165.00 £26.95 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+512.24% -22.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £165.00 £26.95 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+512.24% -22.44%
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12120 14009 16221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.01% 26.45% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7804 8578 9744
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 357 519
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
ATL
UK

ATL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ATL Jobs Demand Trend

ATL
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ATL Daily Rate Trend

ATL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England ATL Daily Rate Histogram

ATL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ATL across the England region.

England ATL Hourly Rate Trend

ATL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATL within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +22 9 £254 -51.66% 7
South West - 1 - - 1
East of England - - - -
North West - - - -
South East - - - - 1
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UK

ATL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ATL 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 ATL.

1 8 (47.06%) C#
1 8 (47.06%) C++
1 8 (47.06%) STL
1 8 (47.06%) Investment Banking
1 8 (47.06%) Banking
2 7 (41.18%) Front Office
3 6 (35.29%) Windows
3 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
3 6 (35.29%) Retail
3 6 (35.29%) Marketing
3 6 (35.29%) Multithreading
4 5 (29.41%) Fixed Income
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) VBA
4 5 (29.41%) .NET
5 4 (23.53%) Finance
6 3 (17.65%) Internet
6 3 (17.65%) FpML
6 3 (17.65%) Oracle
6 3 (17.65%) C
6 3 (17.65%) B2B
6 3 (17.65%) Adobe
6 3 (17.65%) Time Management
6 3 (17.65%) WPF
6 3 (17.65%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (17.65%) Derivative
6 3 (17.65%) Social Media
6 3 (17.65%) GemFire
7 2 (11.76%) WCF
7 2 (11.76%) Games

ATL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ATL 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 ATL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (47.06%) STL
2 5 (29.41%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) FpML
3 3 (17.65%) WPF
4 2 (11.76%) WCF
5 1 (5.882%) HTML
5 1 (5.882%) DCOM
5 1 (5.882%) CSS
5 1 (5.882%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Coherence
1 3 (17.65%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.882%) MS Office
1 1 (5.882%) Acrobat
1 1 (5.882%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (47.06%) Investment Banking
1 8 (47.06%) Banking
2 7 (41.18%) Front Office
3 6 (35.29%) Retail
3 6 (35.29%) Marketing
4 4 (23.53%) Finance
5 2 (11.76%) Games
6 1 (5.882%) Advertising
6 1 (5.882%) Publishing
6 1 (5.882%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) C++ Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Graphic Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Graphic Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Designer
4 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C++/C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior C++ Developer
4 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.882%) C Developer
5 1 (5.882%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (5.882%) Marketing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Fixed Income
2 3 (17.65%) Derivative
2 3 (17.65%) Social Media
3 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.882%) Equities
3 1 (5.882%) Swaptions
3 1 (5.882%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.882%) Online Games
3 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Multithreading
2 3 (17.65%) B2B
2 3 (17.65%) Time Management
3 2 (11.76%) OOD
3 2 (11.76%) OOP
4 1 (5.882%) OO
4 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.882%) UML
4 1 (5.882%) B2C
4 1 (5.882%) Scrum
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.882%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) Supplier Management
4 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (5.882%) Product Marketing
4 1 (5.882%) Marketing Strategy
4 1 (5.882%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) C#
1 8 (47.06%) C++
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) VBA
3 3 (17.65%) C
4 2 (11.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) Adobe
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) DataSynapse
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