The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of TOWER Software 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 TOWER Software over the 3 months to 21 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 TOWER Software.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TOWER Software
Rank 507 538 554
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +16
Contract jobs citing TOWER Software 5 19 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.036% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.025% 0.077% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 1
Average daily rate £435 £475 £222
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.42% +113.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £475 £222
% change year-on-year
- +113.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £36.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.50 - -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19712 24757 25541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.59% 46.27% 46.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10815 13100 13150
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £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 1143 1239 1486
Average hourly rate £19.63 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.87% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
TOWER Software
UK

TOWER Software
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England TOWER Software Jobs Demand Trend

TOWER Software
Daily Rate Trend

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

England TOWER Software Daily Rate Trend

TOWER Software
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England TOWER Software Hourly Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOWER Software within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +16 4 £435 +24.73%
South East +21 1 - -
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UK

TOWER Software
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TOWER Software 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 TOWER Software.

1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (37.50%) REST
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
3 3 (37.50%) HTML5
3 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VB
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) OpenGL
4 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
4 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared

TOWER Software
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TOWER Software 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 TOWER Software. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) HTML5
3 2 (25.00%) OpenGL
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Kondor+
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) SSDT
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (12.50%) PowerBuilder
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Development Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Development Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (50.00%) User Stories
2 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VB
5 1 (12.50%) Objective-C
5 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase