The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tandem over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tandem
Rank 500 477 511
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +34
Contract jobs citing Tandem 32 68 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.074% 0.128% 0.121%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.270% 0.507% 0.418%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 43
Average daily rate £450 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £227 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-23.43% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11864 13403 16520
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.42% 25.31% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7322 7988 10108
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 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 629 645
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £22.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.95 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Tandem
UK

Tandem
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Tandem Jobs Demand Trend

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Tandem Daily Rate Trend

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tandem across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Tandem Daily Rate Histogram

Tandem
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Tandem Hourly Rate Trend

Tandem
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tandem within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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 +7 16 £450 +12.50% 10
North West +5 10 - - 6
East of England +20 3 £275 -31.25% 1
South West - 2 £313 -
South East +25 1 £320 -24.70% 3
Yorkshire - - - - 5
East Midlands - - - - 2
North East - - - - 2
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UK

Tandem
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Tandem 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 Tandem.

1 20 (45.45%) Banking
2 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
2 15 (34.09%) Windows
3 13 (29.55%) SQL
3 13 (29.55%) .NET
4 12 (27.27%) COBOL
5 11 (25.00%) Mainframe
6 10 (22.73%) Middleware
6 10 (22.73%) IBM
6 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (22.73%) MCP
6 10 (22.73%) MCAD
6 10 (22.73%) MCSD
6 10 (22.73%) UNIX
6 10 (22.73%) MCTS
6 10 (22.73%) IBM Mainframe
7 9 (20.45%) SWIFT
7 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (18.18%) Finance
8 8 (18.18%) XML
8 8 (18.18%) T-SQL
8 8 (18.18%) C#
8 8 (18.18%) Information Security
9 7 (15.91%) SQL Server 2008
9 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
10 6 (13.64%) Migration
10 6 (13.64%) MVC
10 6 (13.64%) Risk Management
10 6 (13.64%) SQL Server 2012

Tandem
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Tandem 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 Tandem. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (29.55%) .NET
2 10 (22.73%) Middleware
3 8 (18.18%) XML
4 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
5 5 (11.36%) NHibernate
5 5 (11.36%) WinForms
5 5 (11.36%) WCF
6 4 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 3 (6.818%) Castle Windsor
7 3 (6.818%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (6.818%) MonoRail
7 3 (6.818%) XHTML
8 2 (4.545%) Web Services
8 2 (4.545%) LINQ
9 1 (2.273%) jQuery
9 1 (2.273%) HTML5
9 1 (2.273%) SCSS
9 1 (2.273%) Unity DI Container
9 1 (2.273%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.273%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.273%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.273%) Internet
1 1 (2.273%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (13.64%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (11.36%) GIS
5 3 (6.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.545%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.273%) DB2
7 1 (2.273%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.273%) Informix
Development Applications
1 3 (6.818%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (6.818%) NUnit
General
1 20 (45.45%) Banking
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (50.00%) Developer
2 10 (22.73%) .NET Developer
2 10 (22.73%) Designer
3 8 (18.18%) Analyst
3 8 (18.18%) Solutions Designer
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Developer
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Server Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Programmer
6 5 (11.36%) VB.NET Developer
6 5 (11.36%) COBOL Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Analyst Programmer
7 2 (4.545%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.545%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) Infrastructure Designer
8 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Front-End Developer
8 1 (2.273%) Front-End Web Developer
8 1 (2.273%) E-Commerce Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 10 (22.73%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (20.45%) SWIFT
3 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.818%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.273%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.273%) Replication
5 1 (2.273%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (34.09%) Windows
2 10 (22.73%) UNIX
3 1 (2.273%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.18%) Information Security
2 6 (13.64%) Migration
2 6 (13.64%) MVC
2 6 (13.64%) Risk Management
3 5 (11.36%) Time Management
3 5 (11.36%) Asset Management
3 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (9.091%) ITIL
4 4 (9.091%) TDD
4 4 (9.091%) Web Application Development
5 3 (6.818%) E-Commerce
5 3 (6.818%) Data Modelling
5 3 (6.818%) Scrum
6 2 (4.545%) ERP
6 2 (4.545%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (4.545%) Business Analysis
6 2 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (4.545%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.273%) BDD
7 1 (2.273%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) COBOL
3 8 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 8 (18.18%) C#
4 5 (11.36%) VB
4 5 (11.36%) VB.NET
4 5 (11.36%) Java
5 1 (2.273%) XPath
5 1 (2.273%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.273%) XQuery
5 1 (2.273%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (22.73%) MCP
1 10 (22.73%) MCAD
1 10 (22.73%) MCSD
1 10 (22.73%) MCTS
2 2 (4.545%) ISEB
3 1 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 2 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) IBM
3 2 (4.545%) Dell
4 1 (2.273%) Teradata
4 1 (2.273%) Sybase
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle
4 1 (2.273%) Citrix
4 1 (2.273%) VMware
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