The first table below looks at the demand for HLSL 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 HLSL 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 of the Programming Languages 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Level Shading Language (HLSL)
Rank 507 553 570
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +17
Contract jobs citing HLSL 6 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.014% 0.011% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.039% 0.032% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £388 - £185
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 - £185
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15538 18900 21502
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.37% 35.43% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9795 11399 12698
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 684 872
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
HLSL
UK

HLSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England HLSL Jobs Demand Trend

HLSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

England HLSL Daily Rate Trend

HLSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England HLSL Hourly Rate Trend

HLSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HLSL 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 +39 4 - -
North East - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
HLSL
UK

HLSL
Top 23 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (100.00%) GLSL
2 7 (87.50%) OpenGL
3 6 (75.00%) C++
4 5 (62.50%) Linux
4 5 (62.50%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (62.50%) OpenCL
4 5 (62.50%) OpenGL ES
5 3 (37.50%) Animation
6 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (25.00%) Cocoa Touch
6 2 (25.00%) UIKit
6 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
6 2 (25.00%) Core Animation
6 2 (25.00%) Cocoa
6 2 (25.00%) Xcode
6 2 (25.00%) Objective-C
6 2 (25.00%) Subversion
6 2 (25.00%) Apple
6 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
6 2 (25.00%) C
7 1 (12.50%) DirectX
7 1 (12.50%) Games
7 1 (12.50%) Game Development

HLSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) OpenGL
2 5 (62.50%) OpenCL
2 5 (62.50%) OpenGL ES
3 2 (25.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (25.00%) UIKit
3 2 (25.00%) Core Animation
3 2 (25.00%) Cocoa
4 1 (12.50%) DirectX
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Xcode
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Programmer
2 3 (37.50%) Graphics Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) iOS Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (37.50%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) GLSL
2 6 (75.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (25.00%) C
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Apple