The first table below looks at the demand for concrete5 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 concrete5 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 of the Application Platforms 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
concrete5
Rank 503 555 -
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -
Contract jobs citing concrete5 7 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.006% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.092% 0.034% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £175 £160 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £160 -
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £10.00 -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7610 8762 9528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 18.31% 16.42% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 4375 4958 5146
Average daily rate £360 £350 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 395 531
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
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UK

concrete5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England concrete5 Daily Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing concrete5 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 - 5 £210 -
East of England +17 4 £175 -
London - 1 - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) PHP
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 8 (80.00%) WordPress
3 5 (50.00%) MySQL
3 5 (50.00%) CMS
3 5 (50.00%) Subversion
3 5 (50.00%) jQuery
4 4 (40.00%) PHP5
4 4 (40.00%) Ajax
4 4 (40.00%) Java EE
4 4 (40.00%) JSON
4 4 (40.00%) MVC
4 4 (40.00%) SEO
4 4 (40.00%) SOAP
4 4 (40.00%) XML
4 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 4 (40.00%) OOP
4 4 (40.00%) OO
4 4 (40.00%) Apache
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
4 4 (40.00%) RESTful
4 4 (40.00%) Memcached
4 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
4 4 (40.00%) Node.js
4 4 (40.00%) Redis
5 3 (30.00%) Symfony

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) jQuery
3 4 (40.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) Memcached
3 4 (40.00%) Node.js
3 4 (40.00%) SOAP
3 4 (40.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) Ajax
3 4 (40.00%) Java EE
3 4 (40.00%) JSON
4 3 (30.00%) Symfony
4 3 (30.00%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (10.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) WordPress
2 5 (50.00%) CMS
3 4 (40.00%) Apache
4 3 (30.00%) Drupal
5 1 (10.00%) Magento
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Subversion
2 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Web Developer
2 6 (60.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (50.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 2 (20.00%) PHP Programmer
4 2 (20.00%) Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Designer
5 1 (10.00%) Web Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) Designer
5 1 (10.00%) CSS Developer
5 1 (10.00%) HTML Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) OOP
1 4 (40.00%) OO
1 4 (40.00%) MVC
1 4 (40.00%) SEO
2 1 (10.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) PHP5
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Zend