The first table below looks at the demand for Rapid Prototyping 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 Rapid Prototyping over the 3 months to 21 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rapid Prototyping
Rank 487 549 525
Rank change year-on-year
+62 -24
Contract jobs citing Rapid Prototyping 25 8 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.059% 0.015% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.022% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 12
Average daily rate £325 - £289
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 - £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £288 -
% change year-on-year
+17.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -33.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
30182 36546 37754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.34% 68.30% 68.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18435 21484 21848
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £595 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 1202 1371
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.12 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £46.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Rapid Prototyping
UK

Rapid Prototyping
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Rapid Prototyping across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Rapid Prototyping Jobs Demand Trend

Rapid Prototyping
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Rapid Prototyping Daily Rate Trend

Rapid Prototyping
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Rapid Prototyping Hourly Rate Trend

Rapid Prototyping
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rapid Prototyping within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +30 18 £325 -
East of England - 5 £375 -
South West - 2 £301 -
Rapid Prototyping
UK

Rapid Prototyping
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Rapid Prototyping 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 Rapid Prototyping.

1 24 (45.28%) C#
2 19 (35.85%) HTML
3 16 (30.19%) JavaScript
3 16 (30.19%) CSS
3 16 (30.19%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (30.19%) Analytics
4 13 (24.53%) Scrum
5 12 (22.64%) MVC
6 11 (20.75%) WCF
7 10 (18.87%) Selenium
7 10 (18.87%) Windows Azure
7 10 (18.87%) TDD
7 10 (18.87%) Front Office
7 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
7 10 (18.87%) MS Excel
7 10 (18.87%) PhD
7 10 (18.87%) .NET
7 10 (18.87%) ASP.NET
7 10 (18.87%) LESS
7 10 (18.87%) Gherkin
7 10 (18.87%) BDD
7 10 (18.87%) Razor View Engine
8 8 (15.09%) Axure RP
9 7 (13.21%) VBA
9 7 (13.21%) OO
10 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
10 6 (11.32%) C++
10 6 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (11.32%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (9.434%) jQuery

Rapid Prototyping
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Rapid Prototyping 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 Rapid Prototyping. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (35.85%) HTML
2 16 (30.19%) CSS
3 11 (20.75%) WCF
4 10 (18.87%) .NET
4 10 (18.87%) ASP.NET
4 10 (18.87%) LESS
4 10 (18.87%) Gherkin
4 10 (18.87%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (9.434%) jQuery
6 3 (5.660%) WPF
7 2 (3.774%) MDX
7 2 (3.774%) HTML5
7 2 (3.774%) RESTful
8 1 (1.887%) Zend Framework
8 1 (1.887%) Lucene
8 1 (1.887%) Ajax
8 1 (1.887%) JSON
8 1 (1.887%) SOAP
8 1 (1.887%) Web Services
8 1 (1.887%) XML
Application Platforms
1 10 (18.87%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.887%) WordPress
2 1 (1.887%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (1.887%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.887%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.887%) Apache
2 1 (1.887%) CMS
2 1 (1.887%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 10 (18.87%) MS Excel
2 6 (11.32%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (9.434%) Photoshop
4 4 (7.547%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (5.660%) OmniGraffle
5 3 (5.660%) MS Visio
5 3 (5.660%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (9.434%) Big Data
3 3 (5.660%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.660%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (5.660%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.887%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.887%) MySQL
4 1 (1.887%) Hypertable
4 1 (1.887%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.887%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.887%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) Selenium
2 8 (15.09%) Axure RP
3 4 (7.547%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 2 (3.774%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.887%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.887%) Subversion
General
1 10 (18.87%) Front Office
2 4 (7.547%) Finance
2 4 (7.547%) Retail
3 3 (5.660%) Billing
3 3 (5.660%) Marketing
3 3 (5.660%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.774%) Banking
4 2 (3.774%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.887%) Electronics
5 1 (1.887%) Automotive
5 1 (1.887%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Designer
3 8 (15.09%) User Experience Designer
4 7 (13.21%) Excel Developer
4 7 (13.21%) Architect
5 6 (11.32%) Senior Designer
6 5 (9.434%) C# Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Information Architect
7 4 (7.547%) Consultant
8 3 (5.660%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (5.660%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (5.660%) Quantitative Developer
8 3 (5.660%) ETL Developer
8 3 (5.660%) VBA Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Excel VBA Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.660%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.660%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (5.660%) Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) User Experience Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.660%) Psychology
1 3 (5.660%) Linked Data
1 3 (5.660%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.774%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.774%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.774%) Open Source
3 1 (1.887%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.887%) Video on Demand
3 1 (1.887%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (1.887%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.887%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.887%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.887%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Agile Software Development
1 16 (30.19%) Analytics
2 13 (24.53%) Scrum
3 12 (22.64%) MVC
4 10 (18.87%) TDD
4 10 (18.87%) BDD
5 7 (13.21%) OO
6 5 (9.434%) Information Architecture
6 5 (9.434%) E-Commerce
6 5 (9.434%) ETL
6 5 (9.434%) User Stories
7 4 (7.547%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (7.547%) Use Case
8 3 (5.660%) Multithreading
8 3 (5.660%) Data Management
8 3 (5.660%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (5.660%) Data Modelling
8 3 (5.660%) CRM
8 3 (5.660%) Risk Management
8 3 (5.660%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 24 (45.28%) C#
2 16 (30.19%) JavaScript
3 7 (13.21%) VBA
4 6 (11.32%) C++
5 4 (7.547%) Java
6 3 (5.660%) SQL
6 3 (5.660%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.774%) PHP
8 1 (1.887%) PHP5
8 1 (1.887%) C
8 1 (1.887%) Perl
8 1 (1.887%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) PhD
2 3 (5.660%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.887%) Varnish
1 1 (1.887%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.660%) Business Objects
2 3 (5.660%) StreamBase
3 2 (3.774%) ClickTale
3 2 (3.774%) Omniture
4 1 (1.887%) Zend
4 1 (1.887%) Google
4 1 (1.887%) Facebook
4 1 (1.887%) Twitter
4 1 (1.887%) Tealeaf
Swindon, South West
Our prestigious client has an immediate and urgent contract role available for a highly motivated SSIS ETL developer to join a high profile project with aggressive delivery timeframes...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £301 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
The work involves developing multiple interfaces to structures and linked data sources that will be exposed on the web... Sand Resources is an equal opportunity employer committed to...
Sand Resources
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Electronics Design Engineer, Cambridgeshire, 6 Months, £35ph+ (Mixed Signal, SoC, SMPS, FPGA, Motor Control) An Electronics Design Engineer is required for a 6 month contract based in Cambridgeshire.
Real Staffing
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013