The first table below looks at the demand for AppFabric skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AppFabric 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 Application Development category for the Hampshire 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
Microsoft AppFabric
Rank 101 91 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Contract jobs citing AppFabric 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.131% 0.189% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.451% 0.679% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £400 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £413 -
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
443 442 515
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.03% 27.78% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 191 208
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £465 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 72
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £19.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
AppFabric
South East

AppFabric
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AppFabric across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hampshire AppFabric Jobs Demand Trend

AppFabric
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire AppFabric Daily Rate Trend

AppFabric
Top 17 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) MS Project
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WF
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development

AppFabric
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Project
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Management
1 4 (100.00%) Use Case
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft