The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Network in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Social Network over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Networking
Rank 486 497 498
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Network 49 52 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.112% 0.098% 0.142%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.409% 0.387% 0.489%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 42 53
Average daily rate £400 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+33.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 £28.75 -
% change year-on-year
+508.69% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11992 13433 16570
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.39% 25.34% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7386 7988 10153
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £251 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £610 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 530 637 655
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £22.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Social Network
UK

Social Network
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Social Network Jobs Demand Trend

Social Network
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Social Network Daily Rate Trend

Social Network
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Social Network across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Social Network Daily Rate Histogram

Social Network
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Social Network Hourly Rate Trend

Social Network
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Network within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +26 40 £425 +21.42% 20
South East +13 6 £400 +77.77% 5
North West +12 1 - - 4
East of England +12 1 £313 - 3
South West - 1 £300 - 1
West Midlands - - - - 2
Yorkshire - - - -
North East - - - -
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UK

Social Network
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Social Network 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 Social Network.

1 44 (33.85%) JavaScript
2 35 (26.92%) CSS
3 34 (26.15%) Android
3 34 (26.15%) HTML5
4 29 (22.31%) Java
5 28 (21.54%) HTML
6 27 (20.77%) Social Media
6 27 (20.77%) Google
7 25 (19.23%) Scrum
8 23 (17.69%) Agile Software Development
8 23 (17.69%) jQuery
9 21 (16.15%) Hadoop
9 21 (16.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 21 (16.15%) Apple iOS
9 21 (16.15%) PRINCE2
9 21 (16.15%) OO
9 21 (16.15%) CSS3
10 20 (15.38%) SQL
11 19 (14.62%) Big Data
12 18 (13.85%) Facebook
12 18 (13.85%) TDD
13 17 (13.08%) Apache Hive
13 17 (13.08%) Software Engineering
13 17 (13.08%) Mahout
13 17 (13.08%) MapReduce
13 17 (13.08%) HBase
13 17 (13.08%) Apache Pig
14 16 (12.31%) Mobile App
14 16 (12.31%) Node.js
14 16 (12.31%) iPhone

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Social Network 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 Social Network. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 35 (26.92%) CSS
2 34 (26.15%) HTML5
3 28 (21.54%) HTML
4 23 (17.69%) jQuery
5 21 (16.15%) CSS3
6 17 (13.08%) MapReduce
7 16 (12.31%) Node.js
8 14 (10.77%) Backbone.js
9 11 (8.462%) Underscore.js
10 10 (7.692%) .NET
10 10 (7.692%) XML
11 9 (6.923%) ASP
11 9 (6.923%) Ruby on Rails
11 9 (6.923%) Zepto.js
12 8 (6.154%) WebSphere
12 8 (6.154%) J2ME
13 6 (4.615%) REST
14 5 (3.846%) LESS
14 5 (3.846%) XHTML
15 4 (3.077%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 17 (13.08%) Apache Pig
2 8 (6.154%) Apache
3 7 (5.385%) CMS
4 6 (4.615%) SAS
5 4 (3.077%) SharePoint
5 4 (3.077%) Facebook Platform
6 3 (2.308%) WordPress
7 2 (1.538%) ColdFusion
8 1 (0.769%) Content Management Server
8 1 (0.769%) Drupal
8 1 (0.769%) IIS
8 1 (0.769%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.769%) Moodle
8 1 (0.769%) Elgg
8 1 (0.769%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.769%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.769%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (7.692%) Office 365
2 7 (5.385%) Photoshop
3 6 (4.615%) MS Project
3 6 (4.615%) MS Excel
3 6 (4.615%) SPSS
4 4 (3.077%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.538%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.769%) MS Office
6 1 (0.769%) PageMaker
Business Applications
1 1 (0.769%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.54%) Internet
2 12 (9.231%) Intranet
3 6 (4.615%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.15%) Hadoop
1 21 (16.15%) Apache Cassandra
2 19 (14.62%) Big Data
3 17 (13.08%) Apache Hive
3 17 (13.08%) HBase
3 17 (13.08%) Mahout
4 15 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 13 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 13 (10.00%) Data Mining
6 9 (6.923%) RDBMS
6 9 (6.923%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.385%) OLAP
8 4 (3.077%) MySQL
8 4 (3.077%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.308%) SQL Server 2008
10 2 (1.538%) Redis
10 2 (1.538%) SQLite
11 1 (0.769%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (6.923%) Jasmine
2 7 (5.385%) PhoneGap
2 7 (5.385%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 6 (4.615%) Git (software)
4 5 (3.846%) Subversion
5 3 (2.308%) Selenium
5 3 (2.308%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.308%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.538%) Xcode
6 2 (1.538%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.769%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.769%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.769%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.769%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.769%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.769%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.769%) FitNesse
7 1 (0.769%) Maven
7 1 (0.769%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (6.923%) Retail
1 9 (6.923%) Marketing
2 6 (4.615%) Publishing
2 6 (4.615%) Games
3 3 (2.308%) Finance
4 2 (1.538%) Advertising
4 2 (1.538%) Multimedia
4 2 (1.538%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.769%) French Language
5 1 (0.769%) German Language
Job Titles
1 71 (54.62%) Developer
2 17 (13.08%) Web Developer
3 12 (9.231%) Analyst
3 12 (9.231%) Architect
4 10 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (6.923%) Project Manager
5 9 (6.923%) Business Analyst
6 8 (6.154%) Designer
6 8 (6.154%) Android Developer
6 8 (6.154%) Big Data Developer
7 7 (5.385%) Hadoop Developer
7 7 (5.385%) Mobile Developer
7 7 (5.385%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (4.615%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 6 (4.615%) Research Engineer
8 6 (4.615%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.846%) Front-End Developer
9 5 (3.846%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.077%) PHP Developer
11 3 (2.308%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.77%) Social Media
2 16 (12.31%) Mobile App
2 16 (12.31%) iPhone
3 14 (10.77%) Physics
3 14 (10.77%) Computer Science
4 13 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 11 (8.462%) Machine Learning
6 10 (7.692%) Digital Media
7 9 (6.923%) Data Integration
7 9 (6.923%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (6.923%) Blog
8 8 (6.154%) Blackberry
8 8 (6.154%) Handset
8 8 (6.154%) Grid Computing
9 7 (5.385%) Open Source
10 6 (4.615%) iPad
10 6 (4.615%) Visualisation
10 6 (4.615%) Neural Network
10 6 (4.615%) Statistics
11 4 (3.077%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 34 (26.15%) Android
2 21 (16.15%) Apple iOS
3 10 (7.692%) Windows
4 8 (6.154%) Windows Mobile
5 6 (4.615%) Linux
6 2 (1.538%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.538%) UNIX
7 1 (0.769%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.769%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.23%) Scrum
2 23 (17.69%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (16.15%) PRINCE2
3 21 (16.15%) OO
4 18 (13.85%) TDD
5 17 (13.08%) Software Engineering
6 16 (12.31%) E-Commerce
7 15 (11.54%) Data Analysis
8 14 (10.77%) UML
9 12 (9.231%) Business Analysis
10 11 (8.462%) PRINCE
11 10 (7.692%) Change Management
11 10 (7.692%) Document Management
12 9 (6.923%) Zachman Framework
12 9 (6.923%) TOGAF
12 9 (6.923%) Web Development
12 9 (6.923%) Project Management
12 9 (6.923%) Analytics
13 8 (6.154%) BDD
14 7 (5.385%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.85%) JavaScript
2 29 (22.31%) Java
3 20 (15.38%) SQL
4 13 (10.00%) Ruby
5 10 (7.692%) PHP
6 9 (6.923%) C#
7 8 (6.154%) C++
7 8 (6.154%) Scala
7 8 (6.154%) Python
8 6 (4.615%) R
9 3 (2.308%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.308%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.538%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.538%) ActionScript 3.0
10 2 (1.538%) Perl
11 1 (0.769%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.769%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (8.462%) PMI Certification
1 11 (8.462%) Degree
2 10 (7.692%) PMP
3 9 (6.923%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 6 (4.615%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.769%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.538%) Puppet
2 1 (0.769%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.769%) Plesk
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) Google
2 18 (13.85%) Facebook
3 10 (7.692%) Twitter
3 10 (7.692%) IBM
4 9 (6.923%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.077%) Oracle
6 2 (1.538%) Adobe
7 1 (0.769%) BT
7 1 (0.769%) ATG
7 1 (0.769%) JBoss
7 1 (0.769%) Zend
London
Experienced Front End Developers with excellent knowledge of OO JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3/LESS, jQuery/Backbone.js/Require.js/Underscore.js required... Skills required include: JavaScript, CSS & HTML. jQuery...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £500 to £600 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
They are looking for an experienced Back-end PHP developer , experienced with the full LAMP stack. This is a contract role to work on a social networking platform...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
This currently consists primarily of a Sharepoint intranet and is being expanded to include other tools such as Google Apps suite and the Educational Social Networking tool, Edmodo.
Bristol Grammar School
Posted: 11 June 2013
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