The first table below looks at the demand for Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reactive Extensions (Rx)
Rank 509 545 569
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +24
Contract jobs citing Reactive Extensions 9 17 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.032% 0.007%
As % of the Application Development category 0.080% 0.122% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 4
Average daily rate £625 £510 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.66% +1.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
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
11298 13988 16114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.21% 26.19% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7248 8388 9560
Average daily rate £375 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -11.25%
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 340 367 558
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -6.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Reactive Extensions
UK

Reactive Extensions
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Reactive Extensions Jobs Demand Trend

Reactive Extensions
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Reactive Extensions Daily Rate Trend

Reactive Extensions
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reactive Extensions across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Reactive Extensions Daily Rate Histogram

Reactive Extensions
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reactive Extensions within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +23 7 £675 +32.48%
East of England - 2 £350 -
Reactive Extensions
UK

Reactive Extensions
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions.

1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 22 (91.67%) .NET
2 22 (91.67%) WPF
3 16 (66.67%) MVVM
4 14 (58.33%) Multithreading
5 13 (54.17%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 12 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (50.00%) Front Office
7 10 (41.67%) Windows
7 10 (41.67%) WCF
8 9 (37.50%) TDD
9 8 (33.33%) LINQ
9 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
10 7 (29.17%) TIBCO
10 7 (29.17%) Web Services
10 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
10 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
10 7 (29.17%) Risk Management
11 6 (25.00%) SOA
11 6 (25.00%) Windows 8
12 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2012
12 5 (20.83%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
12 5 (20.83%) Expression Blend
12 5 (20.83%) Windows 7
12 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
12 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
12 5 (20.83%) SNMP
12 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
12 5 (20.83%) Rendezvous

Reactive Extensions
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (91.67%) .NET
1 22 (91.67%) WPF
2 13 (54.17%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 10 (41.67%) WCF
4 8 (33.33%) LINQ
5 7 (29.17%) Web Services
5 7 (29.17%) .NET Framework
6 5 (20.83%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 5 (20.83%) HTML
6 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET
6 5 (20.83%) Silverlight
6 5 (20.83%) jQuery
6 5 (20.83%) Ajax
6 5 (20.83%) .NET Remoting
7 3 (12.50%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (8.333%) SOAP
8 2 (8.333%) XML
8 2 (8.333%) Castle Windsor
9 1 (4.167%) HTML5
9 1 (4.167%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Rendezvous
1 5 (20.83%) IIS
2 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SNMP
1 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 3 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2012
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.167%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.167%) KDB
3 1 (4.167%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Expression Blend
1 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio
1 5 (20.83%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (8.333%) NUnit
2 2 (8.333%) NuGet
2 2 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (8.333%) Moq
3 1 (4.167%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.167%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.167%) Subversion
3 1 (4.167%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Finance
4 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (83.33%) Developer
2 16 (66.67%) WPF Developer
3 9 (37.50%) C# Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) UI Developer
6 1 (4.167%) UI Programmer
6 1 (4.167%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (12.50%) Derivative
4 2 (8.333%) Grid Computing
4 2 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows 8
3 5 (20.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) MVVM
2 14 (58.33%) Multithreading
3 9 (37.50%) TDD
4 7 (29.17%) Risk Management
5 6 (25.00%) SOA
6 4 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.50%) OO
8 2 (8.333%) OOD
8 2 (8.333%) UML
8 2 (8.333%) Unit Testing
8 2 (8.333%) Project Planning
8 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.333%) Workflow
8 2 (8.333%) Validation
8 2 (8.333%) Greeks
8 2 (8.333%) Software Architecture
9 1 (4.167%) BDD
9 1 (4.167%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (8.333%) SQL
3 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) TIBCO
3 3 (12.50%) DevExpress
3 3 (12.50%) Infragistics
3 3 (12.50%) Syncfusion
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle
4 2 (8.333%) Sybase
5 1 (4.167%) 29West
London
WPF C# Silverlight Developer. C#, Silverlight, .Net, WPF, UI, UX, Rx, FX, RFQ, E-Trading C# WPF developer part of agile team working directly in Front Office on...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £700 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
A senior C# WPF developer is required by a leading investment bank to develop and deliver a new suite of front office FX trading UIs, using the cutting...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
The application is developed in C#, WPF and MVVM which integrates into an F# Server, F# is not a requirement but would be nice to have... C#, WPF,...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £575pd or £100k
Posted: 21 May 2013