The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of 29West products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 29West over the 3 months to 18 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 London 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 29West Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
29West
Rank 359 358 401
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +43
Contract jobs citing 29West 33 55 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.143% 0.207% 0.172%
As % of the Vendors category 0.318% 0.459% 0.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 51 43
Average daily rate £600 £600 £600
90% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £550 £530
10% offered a daily rate of more than £690 £700 £685
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10387 11971 14407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.04% 44.95% 45.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6537 7224 8747
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 307 400
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.50 £40.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
29West
England

29West
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 29West across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

London 29West Jobs Demand Trend

29West
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 29West across the London region.

London 29West Daily Rate Trend

29West
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 29West across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London 29West Daily Rate Histogram

29West
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 29West within the London region over the 3 months to 18 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
City of London +5 20 £600 -14.28% 2
Canary Wharf - 6 £650 -
29West
England

29West
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing 29West 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 29West.

1 62 (96.88%) Java
2 46 (71.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 35 (54.69%) Oracle
4 31 (48.44%) RMDS
5 30 (46.88%) TIBCO
6 29 (45.31%) Linux
7 28 (43.75%) Multithreading
7 28 (43.75%) Front Office
8 26 (40.63%) Solaris
8 26 (40.63%) E-Commerce
8 26 (40.63%) SQL
9 21 (32.81%) SQL Server
10 19 (29.69%) Sybase
11 18 (28.13%) Middleware
12 17 (26.56%) JMS
12 17 (26.56%) Complex Event Processing
13 16 (25.00%) NAS
13 16 (25.00%) DataSynapse
13 16 (25.00%) WebSphere
13 16 (25.00%) Apache
13 16 (25.00%) XML
13 16 (25.00%) XSLT
13 16 (25.00%) Windows
13 16 (25.00%) HTML
13 16 (25.00%) IIS
13 16 (25.00%) EMC
13 16 (25.00%) SAN
13 16 (25.00%) NetApp
13 16 (25.00%) Cisco
13 16 (25.00%) Benchmarking

29West
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing 29West 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 29West. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (28.13%) Middleware
2 17 (26.56%) JMS
3 16 (25.00%) HTML
3 16 (25.00%) XML
3 16 (25.00%) XSLT
3 16 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 15 (23.44%) Rendezvous
5 8 (12.50%) SOAP
5 8 (12.50%) RESTful
6 7 (10.94%) WPF
6 7 (10.94%) .NET
7 6 (9.375%) Web Services
7 6 (9.375%) Silverlight
7 6 (9.375%) .NET Framework
8 5 (7.813%) JSON
8 5 (7.813%) REST
8 5 (7.813%) WCF
9 4 (6.250%) ASP.NET
9 4 (6.250%) Struts
9 4 (6.250%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 16 (25.00%) IIS
1 16 (25.00%) Apache
2 13 (20.31%) TIBCO EMS
2 13 (20.31%) WebLogic
3 10 (15.63%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (4.688%) Progress Apama
4 3 (4.688%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.688%) Oracle HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 31 (48.44%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) SAN
1 16 (25.00%) NAS
2 4 (6.250%) HTTP
3 3 (4.688%) LAN
3 3 (4.688%) WAN
3 3 (4.688%) FCoE
3 3 (4.688%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (32.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.813%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.250%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (3.125%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.125%) HBase
5 1 (1.563%) MarkLogic
5 1 (1.563%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.563%) KDB
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) JIRA
2 6 (9.375%) Subversion
2 6 (9.375%) Maven
3 5 (7.813%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (6.250%) TeamCity
5 3 (4.688%) jMock
6 1 (1.563%) Mockito
6 1 (1.563%) FishEye
6 1 (1.563%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.563%) EasyMock
6 1 (1.563%) Selenium
6 1 (1.563%) Ant
6 1 (1.563%) JUnit
General
1 28 (43.75%) Front Office
2 15 (23.44%) Banking
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 7 (10.94%) Investment Banking
5 6 (9.375%) Spanish Language
6 4 (6.250%) Back Office
7 1 (1.563%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.563%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (57.81%) Developer
2 29 (45.31%) Java Developer
3 19 (29.69%) Architect
4 15 (23.44%) Lead Developer
5 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure Architect
6 12 (18.75%) Lead Java Developer
6 12 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (14.06%) Senior Developer
7 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 8 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (9.375%) Technical Leader
10 5 (7.813%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 5 (7.813%) Technical Developer
10 5 (7.813%) Lead Architect
11 4 (6.250%) Java Team Leader
11 4 (6.250%) Team Leader
12 3 (4.688%) Java Architect
13 2 (3.125%) Senior Java Architect
13 2 (3.125%) C# Developer
13 2 (3.125%) Senior Architect
Miscellaneous
1 46 (71.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (6.250%) Equities
3 3 (4.688%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.563%) Derivative
4 1 (1.563%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.563%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 29 (45.31%) Linux
2 26 (40.63%) Solaris
3 16 (25.00%) Windows
4 7 (10.94%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.75%) Multithreading
2 26 (40.63%) E-Commerce
3 17 (26.56%) Complex Event Processing
4 16 (25.00%) Benchmarking
5 15 (23.44%) TDD
6 13 (20.31%) Scrum
6 13 (20.31%) Electronic Trading
7 11 (17.19%) Data Modelling
8 9 (14.06%) OO
8 9 (14.06%) Risk Management
9 8 (12.50%) UML
10 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (7.813%) MVVM
12 4 (6.250%) Dependency Injection
12 4 (6.250%) Algorithmic Trading
12 4 (6.250%) MVC
12 4 (6.250%) RAD
12 4 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
13 2 (3.125%) Investment Management
13 2 (3.125%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 62 (96.88%) Java
2 26 (40.63%) SQL
3 11 (17.19%) JavaScript
4 8 (12.50%) C#
5 5 (7.813%) C++
6 1 (1.563%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (7.813%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (4.688%) NFS
1 3 (4.688%) SRDF
2 2 (3.125%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 35 (54.69%) Oracle
2 30 (46.88%) TIBCO
3 19 (29.69%) Sybase
4 16 (25.00%) Cisco
4 16 (25.00%) EMC
4 16 (25.00%) NetApp
4 16 (25.00%) DataSynapse
5 8 (12.50%) Reuters
6 6 (9.375%) Bloomberg
6 6 (9.375%) Microsoft
7 4 (6.250%) Google
8 3 (4.688%) Intel
8 3 (4.688%) IBM
9 2 (3.125%) StreamBase
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