The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse over the 3 months to 24 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 DataSynapse Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DataSynapse
Rank 461 527 481
Rank change year-on-year
+66 -46
Contract jobs citing DataSynapse 52 32 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.125% 0.060% 0.160%
As % of the Vendors category 0.268% 0.130% 0.347%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 27 85
Average daily rate £588 £575 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.17% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
19388 24654 25908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.63% 46.22% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10664 13039 13321
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £235 £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 1105 1232 1516
Average hourly rate £19.63 £19.63 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.50 £11.38
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%
DataSynapse
UK

DataSynapse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England DataSynapse Jobs Demand Trend

DataSynapse
Daily Rate Trend

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

England DataSynapse Daily Rate Trend

DataSynapse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DataSynapse across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England DataSynapse Daily Rate Histogram

DataSynapse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataSynapse within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +58 52 £588 +2.17%
DataSynapse
UK

DataSynapse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse.

1 52 (58.43%) Banking
2 46 (51.69%) Investment Banking
3 44 (49.44%) Java
4 42 (47.19%) Grid Computing
5 34 (38.20%) Front Office
6 33 (37.08%) SQL
7 29 (32.58%) C#
8 28 (31.46%) C++
9 26 (29.21%) Oracle
10 24 (26.97%) Derivative
10 24 (26.97%) Oracle Coherence
11 23 (25.84%) XML
11 23 (25.84%) Windows
12 22 (24.72%) SQL Server
13 21 (23.60%) Linux
14 18 (20.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (17.98%) Middleware
16 15 (16.85%) .NET
17 14 (15.73%) Credit Risk
18 13 (14.61%) Sybase
18 13 (14.61%) XSLT
19 12 (13.48%) Fixed Income
19 12 (13.48%) Multithreading
19 12 (13.48%) NAS
20 11 (12.36%) Spring
20 11 (12.36%) Solaris
20 11 (12.36%) MS Excel
21 10 (11.24%) Apache
21 10 (11.24%) WebLogic
21 10 (11.24%) IIS

DataSynapse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (25.84%) XML
2 16 (17.98%) Middleware
3 15 (16.85%) .NET
4 13 (14.61%) XSLT
5 11 (12.36%) Spring
6 10 (11.24%) WebSphere
7 9 (10.11%) WPF
7 9 (10.11%) STL
7 9 (10.11%) HTML
8 8 (8.989%) WCF
9 5 (5.618%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 4 (4.494%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.494%) JMS
10 4 (4.494%) Web Services
11 3 (3.371%) SOAP
11 3 (3.371%) JSON
11 3 (3.371%) REST
12 2 (2.247%) J2SE
13 1 (1.124%) ATL
13 1 (1.124%) COM
Application Platforms
1 24 (26.97%) Oracle Coherence
2 10 (11.24%) Apache
2 10 (11.24%) WebLogic
2 10 (11.24%) IIS
3 6 (6.742%) GemFire
4 1 (1.124%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (12.36%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (11.24%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) NAS
2 10 (11.24%) SAN
3 3 (3.371%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.72%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.247%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.124%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.124%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.124%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (6.742%) Maven
2 4 (4.494%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.494%) Hudson
3 3 (3.371%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.247%) Subversion
5 1 (1.124%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.124%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (58.43%) Banking
2 46 (51.69%) Investment Banking
3 34 (38.20%) Front Office
4 10 (11.24%) Finance
5 2 (2.247%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 63 (70.79%) Developer
2 27 (30.34%) Java Developer
3 16 (17.98%) C++ Developer
3 16 (17.98%) C# Developer
4 10 (11.24%) Analyst
4 10 (11.24%) Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Architect
6 8 (8.989%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.742%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.618%) Production Support Analyst
8 5 (5.618%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.494%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.494%) C++/C# Developer
9 4 (4.494%) Lead Architect
9 4 (4.494%) SQL Developer
9 4 (4.494%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.494%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.371%) Development Manager
10 3 (3.371%) Front Office Developer
10 3 (3.371%) Senior C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (47.19%) Grid Computing
2 24 (26.97%) Derivative
3 18 (20.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (15.73%) Credit Risk
5 12 (13.48%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.494%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 3 (3.371%) Equities
7 3 (3.371%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (3.371%) Open Source
8 2 (2.247%) CUDA
8 2 (2.247%) Computer Science
8 2 (2.247%) Credit Derivative
9 1 (1.124%) Clustering
9 1 (1.124%) GPGPU
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.84%) Windows
2 21 (23.60%) Linux
3 11 (12.36%) Solaris
4 3 (3.371%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.48%) Multithreading
2 10 (11.24%) Benchmarking
2 10 (11.24%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (10.11%) TDD
3 9 (10.11%) Complex Event Processing
4 8 (8.989%) Risk Management
5 7 (7.865%) Monte Carlo Method
5 7 (7.865%) Analytics
6 4 (4.494%) Capacity Management
6 4 (4.494%) Problem Management
6 4 (4.494%) Release Management
6 4 (4.494%) Performance Testing
6 4 (4.494%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (4.494%) Incident Management
6 4 (4.494%) Project Management
6 4 (4.494%) Change Management
6 4 (4.494%) OO
6 4 (4.494%) ITIL
7 3 (3.371%) SOA
8 2 (2.247%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) Java
2 33 (37.08%) SQL
3 29 (32.58%) C#
4 28 (31.46%) C++
5 7 (7.865%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.742%) VBA
6 6 (6.742%) Python
7 5 (5.618%) Scala
8 4 (4.494%) Bash shell
8 4 (4.494%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.371%) Perl
10 2 (2.247%) Clojure
10 2 (2.247%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.247%) C
10 2 (2.247%) VB
11 1 (1.124%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 3 (3.371%) Degree
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Oracle
2 13 (14.61%) Sybase
3 10 (11.24%) Cisco
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 10 (11.24%) EMC
3 10 (11.24%) NetApp
4 9 (10.11%) 29West
5 3 (3.371%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.124%) GigaSpaces
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