The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognizant products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognizant over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognizant
Rank 505 539 565
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +26
Contract jobs citing Cognizant 5 19 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.036% 0.012%
As % of the Vendors category 0.026% 0.077% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 2
Average daily rate - £180 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -55.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 £400
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19343 24682 25994
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.53% 46.26% 46.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10648 13062 13369
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1121 1209 1513
Average hourly rate £19.63 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.87% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £11.99 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognizant
UK

Cognizant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Cognizant Jobs Demand Trend

Cognizant
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Cognizant Daily Rate Trend

Cognizant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognizant within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
South East +26 3 - -
London +5 2 - -
Cognizant
UK

Cognizant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cognizant 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 Cognizant.

1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Swing
2 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
2 5 (62.50%) Code Coverage
2 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
2 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (50.00%) Hudson
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) UNIX
3 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) UML
4 3 (37.50%) OO
4 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (37.50%) C++
4 3 (37.50%) Ant
4 3 (37.50%) JUnit
4 3 (37.50%) OOD
4 3 (37.50%) Ingres
4 3 (37.50%) ClearCase
4 3 (37.50%) JDBC
4 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) NetBeans
4 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
4 3 (37.50%) Subversion
4 3 (37.50%) Spring

Cognizant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Cognizant 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 Cognizant. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (62.50%) Swing
2 4 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) JDBC
4 1 (12.50%) Java RMI
4 1 (12.50%) JMX
4 1 (12.50%) PowerMock
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) MQSeries
1 1 (12.50%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Ingres
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (25.00%) GIS
3 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
1 5 (62.50%) Jenkins
2 4 (50.00%) Hudson
3 3 (37.50%) FindBugs
3 3 (37.50%) ClearCase
3 3 (37.50%) NetBeans
3 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
3 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 3 (37.50%) Ant
3 3 (37.50%) JUnit
3 3 (37.50%) Mockito
4 2 (25.00%) JProfiler
5 1 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (12.50%) Checkstyle
5 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) French Language
3 1 (12.50%) German Language
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) GUI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Swing Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Code Coverage
1 5 (62.50%) Multithreading
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Time Management
3 3 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
3 3 (37.50%) Software Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) UML
3 3 (37.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) OOD
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) AOP
3 3 (37.50%) Refactoring
3 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) NDS
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase
1 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
1 1 (12.50%) SAP
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) Peregrine
1 1 (12.50%) TIBCO
1 1 (12.50%) Coverity