The first table below looks at the demand for DAO 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 DAO 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Access Object (DAO)
Rank 507 530 534
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +4
Contract jobs citing DAO 3 28 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.052% 0.067%
As % of the Application Development category 0.026% 0.200% 0.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 32
Average daily rate £480 £501 £560
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.19% -10.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £464 £435 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £486 £525 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate - £318 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11360 14029 15876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.33% 26.29% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7272 8431 9356
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
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 351 353 555
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
DAO
UK

DAO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England DAO Jobs Demand Trend

DAO
Daily Rate Trend

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

England DAO Daily Rate Trend

DAO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England DAO Hourly Rate Trend

DAO
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DAO 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
London -3 3 £480 -4.19%
DAO
UK

DAO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VBA
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Sybase
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) ADO
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) MS Access
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Reuters
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) jMock
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing

DAO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) ADO
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET 2.0
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Integration
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) MS Access
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) jMock
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Front Office
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Access Developer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VBA
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Reuters
1 3 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) UC4