The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ATG products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATG over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the Hertfordshire 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 ATG (Art Technology Group).

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ATG
Rank 51 70 64
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -6
Contract jobs citing ATG 5 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.773% 1.015% 0.322%
As % of the Vendors category 1.553% 2.457% 0.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
Average daily rate £425 £394 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.93% -17.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £363 £395
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £538 £363 £575
% change year-on-year
+48.27% -36.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 -
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
322 407 511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 49.77% 41.32% 54.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 146 199
Average daily rate £325 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £190 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £465 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 38 71
Average hourly rate £21.50 £29.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.86% -12.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.22 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.04 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+0.21% -5.00%
ATG
East of England

ATG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire ATG Jobs Demand Trend

ATG
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire ATG Daily Rate Trend

ATG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ATG across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Hertfordshire ATG Daily Rate Histogram

ATG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATG within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
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Job
Vacancies
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £450 -
ATG
East of England

ATG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing ATG 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 ATG.

1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) HTML
2 9 (75.00%) Java
2 9 (75.00%) XHTML
3 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 8 (66.67%) Interwoven
4 7 (58.33%) OO
4 7 (58.33%) XML
4 7 (58.33%) XSLT
4 7 (58.33%) JSP
4 7 (58.33%) Ajax
4 7 (58.33%) XPath
5 6 (50.00%) Bash shell
5 6 (50.00%) Elastic Path
5 6 (50.00%) Blue Martini
5 6 (50.00%) Retail
5 6 (50.00%) Subversion
5 6 (50.00%) Content Management
5 6 (50.00%) XMLBeans
5 6 (50.00%) Web 2.0
5 6 (50.00%) WebSphere
5 6 (50.00%) JSTL
5 6 (50.00%) Internet
5 6 (50.00%) Finance
5 6 (50.00%) JDBC
5 6 (50.00%) Log4j
5 6 (50.00%) Servlets
5 6 (50.00%) Struts
5 6 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 6 (50.00%) EJB

ATG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) HTML
1 9 (75.00%) XHTML
2 7 (58.33%) XML
2 7 (58.33%) XSLT
2 7 (58.33%) JSP
2 7 (58.33%) Ajax
3 6 (50.00%) XMLBeans
3 6 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 6 (50.00%) JSTL
3 6 (50.00%) JDBC
3 6 (50.00%) Servlets
3 6 (50.00%) Struts
3 6 (50.00%) EJB
3 6 (50.00%) J2EE
3 6 (50.00%) JMS
4 4 (33.33%) HTML5
4 4 (33.33%) jQuery
4 4 (33.33%) CSS
5 3 (25.00%) CSS3
6 2 (16.67%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (50.00%) MQSeries
2 3 (25.00%) TeamSite
2 3 (25.00%) CMS
2 3 (25.00%) LiveSite
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Photoshop
1 1 (8.333%) Fireworks
1 1 (8.333%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) DB2
1 6 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Subversion
1 6 (50.00%) Log4j
1 6 (50.00%) Ant
1 6 (50.00%) JUnit
1 6 (50.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (8.333%) Axure RP
General
1 6 (50.00%) Retail
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Games
3 4 (33.33%) Marketing
4 3 (25.00%) Publishing
5 1 (8.333%) Legal
5 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Web Producer
4 1 (8.333%) UI Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) UNIX
1 6 (50.00%) HPUX
1 6 (50.00%) Solaris
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 7 (58.33%) OO
3 6 (50.00%) Content Management
3 6 (50.00%) UML
3 6 (50.00%) RAD
4 5 (41.67%) Web Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
5 4 (33.33%) Web Development
6 3 (25.00%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) Web Design
7 2 (16.67%) Online Marketing
7 2 (16.67%) Multivariate Testing
7 2 (16.67%) SEO
8 1 (8.333%) Workflow
8 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (8.333%) Web Accessibility
8 1 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (75.00%) Java
3 7 (58.33%) XPath
4 6 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 6 (50.00%) Perl
4 6 (50.00%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) VB
6 1 (8.333%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Interwoven
2 6 (50.00%) Elastic Path
2 6 (50.00%) Blue Martini
2 6 (50.00%) IBM
3 3 (25.00%) Omniture
4 2 (16.67%) Adobe
5 1 (8.333%) Apple
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