The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term RIA in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RIA 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rich Internet Application (RIA)
Rank 439 440 382
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -58
Contract jobs citing RIA 74 119 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.178% 0.223% 0.352%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.660% 0.882% 1.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 95 122
Average daily rate £548 £486 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.77% +2.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £309 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £575 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £338 £330
% change year-on-year
+55.55% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
- -1.19%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11208 13487 16440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.96% 25.29% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6896 8084 9903
Average daily rate £438 £437 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £607 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 617 685
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.60 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
RIA
UK

RIA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England RIA Jobs Demand Trend

RIA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England RIA Daily Rate Trend

RIA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England RIA Daily Rate Histogram

RIA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England RIA Hourly Rate Trend

RIA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RIA 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 +8 63 £550 +4.76%
South West +29 4 £600 +50.00%
North East +16 4 - -
South East +14 2 - -
North West +13 1 £375 -10.23%
West Midlands +6 1 £525 +31.25%
RIA
UK

RIA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 79 (50.32%) JavaScript
2 63 (40.13%) Internet
3 60 (38.22%) jQuery
4 58 (36.94%) Agile Software Development
5 56 (35.67%) CSS
6 48 (30.57%) Banking
7 47 (29.94%) HTML5
8 45 (28.66%) Finance
9 44 (28.03%) Silverlight
10 42 (26.75%) C#
11 40 (25.48%) Ajax
12 39 (24.84%) CSS3
13 38 (24.20%) Java
14 37 (23.57%) OO
15 32 (20.38%) E-Commerce
15 32 (20.38%) SQL
15 32 (20.38%) Investment Banking
16 31 (19.75%) SQL Server
17 29 (18.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 28 (17.83%) Web Development
19 27 (17.20%) Oracle
20 25 (15.92%) .NET
20 25 (15.92%) WCF
21 24 (15.29%) Windows
21 24 (15.29%) UML
22 23 (14.65%) DV Cleared
22 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
23 21 (13.38%) HTML
24 20 (12.74%) XML
24 20 (12.74%) Linux

RIA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 60 (38.22%) jQuery
2 56 (35.67%) CSS
3 47 (29.94%) HTML5
4 44 (28.03%) Silverlight
5 40 (25.48%) Ajax
6 39 (24.84%) CSS3
7 25 (15.92%) .NET
7 25 (15.92%) WCF
8 21 (13.38%) HTML
9 20 (12.74%) XML
10 18 (11.46%) WPF
11 17 (10.83%) Web Services
11 17 (10.83%) JMS
12 16 (10.19%) GWT
13 15 (9.554%) Apache Flex
13 15 (9.554%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 15 (9.554%) JPA
13 15 (9.554%) EJB 3.0
13 15 (9.554%) EJB
14 13 (8.280%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 13 (8.280%) ArcGIS
1 13 (8.280%) IIS
2 9 (5.732%) Apache
3 6 (3.822%) Documentum
4 3 (1.911%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.274%) Lightstreamer
5 2 (1.274%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.637%) CMS
6 1 (0.637%) Google App Engine
6 1 (0.637%) Mule
6 1 (0.637%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (3.185%) Photoshop
1 5 (3.185%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.911%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.911%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.274%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (1.274%) MS Project
4 1 (0.637%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.637%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 63 (40.13%) Internet
2 7 (4.459%) HTTP
3 5 (3.185%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (19.75%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (9.554%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.459%) SQL Server 2000
4 7 (4.459%) Sybase ASE
4 7 (4.459%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (3.185%) MySQL
5 5 (3.185%) GIS
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Visual Studio
2 16 (10.19%) Maven
3 14 (8.917%) Subversion
4 9 (5.732%) TortoiseSVN
4 9 (5.732%) NMock
5 8 (5.096%) MSTest
5 8 (5.096%) Moq
6 7 (4.459%) NUnit
6 7 (4.459%) TeamCity
6 7 (4.459%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (3.822%) MSBuild
8 4 (2.548%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.911%) GitHub
9 3 (1.911%) Expression Blend
10 1 (0.637%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.637%) JUnit
10 1 (0.637%) Git (software)
10 1 (0.637%) FlexUnit
10 1 (0.637%) GCC
10 1 (0.637%) Selenium
General
1 48 (30.57%) Banking
2 45 (28.66%) Finance
3 32 (20.38%) Investment Banking
4 6 (3.822%) Front Office
4 6 (3.822%) Back Office
5 3 (1.911%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.911%) Advertising
5 3 (1.911%) Marketing
6 2 (1.274%) Spanish Language
6 2 (1.274%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.637%) Games
7 1 (0.637%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 117 (74.52%) Developer
2 26 (16.56%) C# Developer
3 17 (10.83%) Silverlight Developer
4 16 (10.19%) Java Developer
5 13 (8.280%) Software Engineer
6 12 (7.643%) JavaScript Developer
7 11 (7.006%) Flex Developer
8 10 (6.369%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.732%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.732%) Architect
9 9 (5.732%) Consultant
9 9 (5.732%) Designer
10 8 (5.096%) Visual Designer
10 8 (5.096%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (5.096%) Software Programmer
10 8 (5.096%) Programmer
11 7 (4.459%) C# Programmer
12 6 (3.822%) Agile C# Developer
12 6 (3.822%) PHP Developer
13 5 (3.185%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (9.554%) Credit Risk
3 8 (5.096%) Client/Server
4 7 (4.459%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.459%) Web 2.0
5 6 (3.822%) Inversion of Control
5 6 (3.822%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.185%) Open Source
7 3 (1.911%) Digital Media
7 3 (1.911%) Social Media
8 2 (1.274%) Photography
8 2 (1.274%) PMI
9 1 (0.637%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.637%) Visualisation
9 1 (0.637%) Video on Demand
9 1 (0.637%) SaaS
9 1 (0.637%) Social Gaming
9 1 (0.637%) Copywriting
9 1 (0.637%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.637%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.29%) Windows
2 20 (12.74%) Linux
3 8 (5.096%) Windows 7
4 6 (3.822%) UNIX
5 5 (3.185%) HPUX
6 1 (0.637%) Android
6 1 (0.637%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.94%) Agile Software Development
2 37 (23.57%) OO
3 32 (20.38%) E-Commerce
4 28 (17.83%) Web Development
5 24 (15.29%) UML
6 18 (11.46%) Unit Testing
7 17 (10.83%) MVVM
8 15 (9.554%) Customer Engagement
8 15 (9.554%) Configuration Management
8 15 (9.554%) OOA/OOD
9 11 (7.006%) TDD
10 9 (5.732%) MVC
10 9 (5.732%) Information Architecture
11 8 (5.096%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (5.096%) OOD
12 7 (4.459%) Extreme Programming
12 7 (4.459%) User Experience Design
13 6 (3.822%) DNA
14 5 (3.185%) B2C
14 5 (3.185%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.32%) JavaScript
2 42 (26.75%) C#
3 38 (24.20%) Java
4 32 (20.38%) SQL
5 18 (11.46%) C
6 11 (7.006%) ActionScript
7 8 (5.096%) PHP
8 7 (4.459%) Python
8 7 (4.459%) VBA
8 7 (4.459%) ActionScript 3.0
9 5 (3.185%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.911%) XAML
10 3 (1.911%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.274%) Ruby
11 2 (1.274%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.637%) Smalltalk
12 1 (0.637%) C++
12 1 (0.637%) GLSL
12 1 (0.637%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) DV Cleared
1 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 4 (2.548%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.274%) Degree
3 2 (1.274%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 27 (17.20%) Oracle
2 15 (9.554%) JBoss
2 15 (9.554%) Sybase
3 13 (8.280%) ESRI
4 11 (7.006%) Adobe
5 10 (6.369%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.185%) Zend
7 1 (0.637%) Facebook
7 1 (0.637%) Twitter
7 1 (0.637%) IBM
7 1 (0.637%) Perforce
7 1 (0.637%) Omniture
7 1 (0.637%) Google
London
HTML5, CSS3, RIA, Javascript, jQuery, eCommerce, Rails, Ajax, Real Time, Banking HTML5 FX Web Developer - RIA, HTML5, eCommerce Our client, a leading investment bank, are currently searching for...
Orgtel
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
County Durham
Candidates must have experience of Java, Windows, Unix and messaging technologies such as SOAP/XML... Candidates with Spring, RIA, AJAX, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3 are highly desirable but not...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Upon Application
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
Nuneaton, West Midlands
Requirements:-Max day rate = £295 -Immediate start-3 to 6 month contract (TBC)- Major Brand The e-Commerce Manager will be responsible for web merchandisers, web development manager,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £295 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013