The first table below looks at the demand for Lightstreamer 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 Lightstreamer over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Weswit Srl Lightstreamer
Rank - 547 574
Contract jobs citing Lightstreamer 0 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England - 0.004% 0.009%
As % of the Application Platforms category - 0.023% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £625 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7756 8722 9323
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.72% 16.45% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4447 5033 5123
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 410 429 534
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.75 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
Lightstreamer
UK

Lightstreamer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Lightstreamer Jobs Demand Trend

Lightstreamer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Lightstreamer Daily Rate Trend

Lightstreamer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Lightstreamer 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 Lightstreamer.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Java SE
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 2 (100.00%) RIA
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0

Lightstreamer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Lightstreamer 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 Lightstreamer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) JMS
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) Java SE
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Flex
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Flex Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Adobe