The first table below looks at the demand for Mason 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 Mason 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mason
Rank 487 511 534
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +23
Contract jobs citing Mason 48 38 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.110% 0.072% 0.079%
As % of the Application Development category 0.394% 0.272% 0.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 42
Average daily rate £500 £475 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £538 £475 £425
% change year-on-year
+13.15% +11.76%
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
12193 13979 16197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.85% 26.37% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7861 8549 9749
Average daily rate £375 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.00%
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 324 358 520
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -4.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Mason
UK

Mason
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Mason Jobs Demand Trend

Mason
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Mason Daily Rate Trend

Mason
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mason across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Mason Daily Rate Histogram

Mason
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Mason Hourly Rate Trend

Mason
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mason within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +29 37 £500 +5.26% 14
South East +18 5 £550 +4.76% 4
East of England +14 1 - -
West Midlands +7 1 £550 +83.33% 2
South West - 1 £363 -
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
North West - 1 £388 - 1
Yorkshire - - - -
Mason
UK

Mason
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 73 (89.02%) Salesforce.com
2 51 (62.20%) Apex Code
3 50 (60.98%) Visualforce
4 31 (37.80%) Cloud Computing
5 29 (35.37%) Force.com
5 29 (35.37%) Java
6 27 (32.93%) SaaS
7 25 (30.49%) Project Management
8 19 (23.17%) CRM
9 17 (20.73%) Business Analysis
10 15 (18.29%) Finance
11 7 (8.537%) Migration
11 7 (8.537%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (7.317%) Marketing
13 5 (6.098%) Programme Management
14 4 (4.878%) Telecoms
14 4 (4.878%) Scrum
14 4 (4.878%) Process Management
14 4 (4.878%) Change Management
14 4 (4.878%) SQL
14 4 (4.878%) Oracle
14 4 (4.878%) SQL Server
15 3 (3.659%) Security Cleared
15 3 (3.659%) Data Migration
15 3 (3.659%) JavaScript
15 3 (3.659%) Perl
15 3 (3.659%) HTML
15 3 (3.659%) CSS
15 3 (3.659%) Apache
15 3 (3.659%) E-Commerce

Mason
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 50 (60.98%) Visualforce
2 3 (3.659%) HTML
2 3 (3.659%) CSS
3 2 (2.439%) XML
3 2 (2.439%) XSLT
4 1 (1.220%) Django
Application Platforms
1 29 (35.37%) Force.com
2 3 (3.659%) Apache
3 2 (2.439%) SAS
4 1 (1.220%) Zope
4 1 (1.220%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.439%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.878%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.439%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.439%) SQLite
2 2 (2.439%) MySQL
3 1 (1.220%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (2.439%) Subversion
General
1 15 (18.29%) Finance
2 6 (7.317%) Marketing
3 4 (4.878%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.439%) Banking
4 2 (2.439%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.220%) Back Office
5 1 (1.220%) Publishing
5 1 (1.220%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.220%) German Language
Job Titles
1 24 (29.27%) Developer
2 20 (24.39%) Salesforce.com Developer
3 16 (19.51%) Salesforce.com Architect
3 16 (19.51%) Architect
4 15 (18.29%) Analyst
5 13 (15.85%) Business Analyst
6 11 (13.41%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
7 10 (12.20%) Salesforce.com Project Manager
7 10 (12.20%) Project Manager
7 10 (12.20%) Technical Architect
8 7 (8.537%) Consultant
9 6 (7.317%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.878%) Salesforce.com Administrator
10 4 (4.878%) Administrator
10 4 (4.878%) Technical Leader
10 4 (4.878%) Salesforce.com Consultant
11 3 (3.659%) Salesforce.com Trainer
11 3 (3.659%) Implementation Consultant
11 3 (3.659%) Trainer
12 2 (2.439%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 31 (37.80%) Cloud Computing
2 27 (32.93%) SaaS
3 2 (2.439%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.439%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.220%) FMCG
4 1 (1.220%) Online Gambling
4 1 (1.220%) Heroku
4 1 (1.220%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.220%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.439%) UNIX
1 2 (2.439%) Linux
2 1 (1.220%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.49%) Project Management
2 19 (23.17%) CRM
3 17 (20.73%) Business Analysis
4 7 (8.537%) Migration
4 7 (8.537%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (6.098%) Programme Management
6 4 (4.878%) Scrum
6 4 (4.878%) Process Management
6 4 (4.878%) Change Management
7 3 (3.659%) E-Commerce
7 3 (3.659%) Data Migration
8 2 (2.439%) Data Analysis
8 2 (2.439%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (2.439%) Web Development
8 2 (2.439%) Unit Testing
8 2 (2.439%) OO
8 2 (2.439%) Asset Management
9 1 (1.220%) Content Management
9 1 (1.220%) TDD
9 1 (1.220%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (62.20%) Apex Code
2 29 (35.37%) Java
3 4 (4.878%) SQL
4 3 (3.659%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.659%) Perl
5 2 (2.439%) C#
5 2 (2.439%) VBA
5 2 (2.439%) XQuery
5 2 (2.439%) PowerHouse
5 2 (2.439%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (3.659%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.439%) Degree
2 2 (2.439%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.220%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.220%) SLA
1 1 (1.220%) QA
Vendors
1 73 (89.02%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (4.878%) Oracle
3 2 (2.439%) SAP
3 2 (2.439%) Eloqua
4 1 (1.220%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.220%) IBM
4 1 (1.220%) Zend
Surrey, South East
A global financial services business based in Surrey is actively recruiting for a Salesforce.com Developer on an initial 3 month contract with room for extension. The business...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Salesforce.com Developer - 6 month Contract - Needed ASAP - LondonMy client, a boutique Salesforce.com partner, urgently requires a Salesforce.com Developer for a 6 month contract based in...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
Manchester, North West
A global retailer based out of Manchester is actively recruiting for a Technical Lead in their Salesforce.com team on a contract basis. After a successful trial rollout...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
My client is a market leading Salesforce.com Partner based in London and they are actively recruiting for a Technical Architect to facilitate an increase in project workflow...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
You will be working in a boutique practice and will be taking ownership of several projects so it will require a self-sufficient consultant who can juggle multiple...
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per annum
Posted: 30 May 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
Mason Frank International
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £480 - £525 per day
Posted: 6 June 2013
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