The first table below looks at the demand for S-PLUS 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 S-PLUS 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 of the Applications 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
Insightful S-PLUS
Rank 510 557 559
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +2
Contract jobs citing S-PLUS 3 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.004% 0.021%
As % of the Applications category 0.054% 0.030% 0.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 7
Average daily rate - £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £16.00
All Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
5545 6734 6814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 13.34% 12.62% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2869 3478 3406
Average daily rate £345 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £177 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 704 839
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.66 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.39% -3.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
S-PLUS
UK

S-PLUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England S-PLUS Jobs Demand Trend

S-PLUS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England S-PLUS Daily Rate Trend

S-PLUS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England S-PLUS Hourly Rate Trend

S-PLUS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing S-PLUS 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
West Midlands - 2 - -
London +37 1 - -
S-PLUS
UK

S-PLUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) R
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (28.57%) SAN
3 2 (28.57%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (28.57%) PowerBuilder
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) ERwin
3 2 (28.57%) MPLS
3 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) DB2
3 2 (28.57%) MS Office
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) TOAD
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence

S-PLUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SunGard APT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) MPLS
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
1 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) TOAD
1 2 (28.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) PowerBuilder
1 2 (28.57%) ERwin
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Quantitative Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Technical Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) EqualLogic
2 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 2 (28.57%) ETL
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Kimball Methodology
1 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) R
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) CCNA
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (14.29%) VCP4
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) XenServer
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) SonicWALL
2 2 (28.57%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) WatchGuard
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) SunGard