The first table below looks at the demand for Force.com skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Force.com over the 3 months to 22 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 Platforms category 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Salesforce.com Force.com
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Force.com 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.154% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.971% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £413 £425
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Application Platforms
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
103 111 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.82% 11.36% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 48 64
Average daily rate £325 £400 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £222 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 11
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.50 £25.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -50.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.38 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.75 £25.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
Force.com
East of England

Force.com
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Force.com Jobs Demand Trend

Force.com
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Force.com 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 Force.com.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mason
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS

Force.com
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Force.com 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 Force.com. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Mason
1 1 (100.00%) Visualforce
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce.com