The first table below looks at the demand for Active Record skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Active Record 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 Processes & Methodologies category 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Active Record Pattern
Rank - 406 440
Contract jobs citing Active Record 0 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.033% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.047% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 2
Average daily rate - £475 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.01%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £288 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16194 19350 22109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.77% 71.83% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11076 12690 14542
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 340 350
Average hourly rate £30.00 £26.23 £27.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.39% -3.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Active Record
England

Active Record
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Active Record across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Active Record Jobs Demand Trend

Active Record
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Active Record Daily Rate Trend

Active Record
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Active Record 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 Active Record.

1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Apple
1 2 (100.00%) Gentoo
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (100.00%) Varnish
1 2 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
1 2 (100.00%) Resque
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins

Active Record
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Resque
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) nginx
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) Capistrano
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Gentoo
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Apple