The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of RedDot products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RedDot 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within RedDot Solutions.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RedDot
Rank 500 531 557
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +26
Contract jobs citing RedDot 13 28 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.052% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.067% 0.114% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 8
Average daily rate £325 £275 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -3.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £241 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £275 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate - £275 £288
% change year-on-year
- -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19388 24654 25908
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.63% 46.22% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10664 13039 13321
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1105 1232 1516
Average hourly rate £19.63 £19.63 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
RedDot
UK

RedDot
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England RedDot Jobs Demand Trend

RedDot
Daily Rate Trend

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

England RedDot Daily Rate Trend

RedDot
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RedDot across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England RedDot Daily Rate Histogram

RedDot
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England RedDot Hourly Rate Trend

RedDot
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RedDot 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 +50 13 £325 -
RedDot
UK

RedDot
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 31 (91.18%) CMS
2 22 (64.71%) .NET
3 19 (55.88%) HTML
4 17 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (50.00%) ASP.NET
5 15 (44.12%) C#
6 14 (41.18%) jQuery
7 12 (35.29%) CSS
7 12 (35.29%) Open Text
8 10 (29.41%) EPiServer
9 9 (26.47%) XML
10 6 (17.65%) Intranet
10 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
10 6 (17.65%) EPiServer CMS
11 5 (14.71%) Web Development
11 5 (14.71%) PHP
11 5 (14.71%) Content Management
12 4 (11.76%) Degree
12 4 (11.76%) Sitecore CMS
12 4 (11.76%) Sitecore
13 3 (8.824%) JIRA
13 3 (8.824%) Freedom of Information Act
13 3 (8.824%) Copywriting
13 3 (8.824%) Git (software)
13 3 (8.824%) Web Application Development
13 3 (8.824%) Management Information System
13 3 (8.824%) MVC
13 3 (8.824%) Publishing
13 3 (8.824%) Freedom of Information
13 3 (8.824%) Scrum

RedDot
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 22 (64.71%) .NET
2 19 (55.88%) HTML
3 17 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 14 (41.18%) jQuery
5 12 (35.29%) CSS
6 9 (26.47%) XML
7 3 (8.824%) WebSphere
8 2 (5.882%) Web Services
8 2 (5.882%) Node.js
8 2 (5.882%) CSS3
9 1 (2.941%) JSON
9 1 (2.941%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.941%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (2.941%) HTML5
9 1 (2.941%) LAMP
9 1 (2.941%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 31 (91.18%) CMS
2 6 (17.65%) EPiServer CMS
3 4 (11.76%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (8.824%) IIS
5 2 (5.882%) Apache
5 2 (5.882%) Windows Azure
5 2 (5.882%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (2.941%) Confluence
6 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Photoshop
1 3 (8.824%) MS Office
1 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Intranet
2 2 (5.882%) Internet
3 1 (2.941%) Firewall
3 1 (2.941%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.824%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.824%) JIRA
1 3 (8.824%) Git (software)
1 3 (8.824%) Visual Studio
1 3 (8.824%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (5.882%) Subversion
2 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.941%) ReSharper
3 1 (2.941%) StyleCop
3 1 (2.941%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.941%) FindBugs
3 1 (2.941%) NUnit
General
1 3 (8.824%) Publishing
2 1 (2.941%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) CMS Developer
3 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Web Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Web Architect
5 2 (5.882%) UAT Tester
5 2 (5.882%) Tester
5 2 (5.882%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Front-End Web Developer
6 1 (2.941%) Content Manager
6 1 (2.941%) Intranet Manager
6 1 (2.941%) Web Editor
6 1 (2.941%) Web Content Editor
6 1 (2.941%) Content Editor
6 1 (2.941%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) Freedom of Information Act
1 3 (8.824%) Copywriting
1 3 (8.824%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.824%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (8.824%) Web 2.0
1 3 (8.824%) Statistics
1 3 (8.824%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.824%) Linux
2 2 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) Web Development
1 5 (14.71%) Content Management
2 3 (8.824%) Web Application Development
2 3 (8.824%) MVC
2 3 (8.824%) Scrum
2 3 (8.824%) RUP
3 2 (5.882%) ITIL
3 2 (5.882%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (5.882%) Zachman Framework
3 2 (5.882%) TOGAF
3 2 (5.882%) Project Management
3 2 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (5.882%) Regression Testing
3 2 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (5.882%) Information Architecture
3 2 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (5.882%) Test Scripting
4 1 (2.941%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (2.941%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.941%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (44.12%) C#
3 5 (14.71%) PHP
4 1 (2.941%) SQL
4 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (5.882%) Varnish
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Open Text
2 10 (29.41%) EPiServer
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.76%) Sitecore
5 3 (8.824%) Adobe
5 3 (8.824%) Macromedia