The first table below looks at the demand for ActiveX 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 ActiveX over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ActiveX
Rank 359 383 412
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +29
Contract jobs citing ActiveX 18 27 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.083% 0.100% 0.073%
As % of the Application Development category 0.286% 0.358% 0.238%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 12
Average daily rate £219 £425 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% -1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £425 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £425 £486
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £300 £188
% change year-on-year
-29.16% +60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- -22.50%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ActiveX
England

ActiveX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London ActiveX Jobs Demand Trend

ActiveX
Daily Rate Trend

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

London ActiveX Daily Rate Trend

ActiveX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ActiveX across the London region.

London ActiveX Hourly Rate Trend

ActiveX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ActiveX 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 ActiveX.

1 29 (100.00%) VB
2 28 (96.55%) HTML
2 28 (96.55%) SQL
2 28 (96.55%) XML
3 27 (93.10%) IIS
4 26 (89.66%) ASP
4 26 (89.66%) JavaScript
4 26 (89.66%) PL/SQL
4 26 (89.66%) XSD
4 26 (89.66%) UML
5 25 (86.21%) RUP
6 24 (82.76%) HTTP
6 24 (82.76%) Oracle
7 23 (79.31%) VBScript
7 23 (79.31%) CSS
7 23 (79.31%) XSL
8 22 (75.86%) ODBC
8 22 (75.86%) SOAP
8 22 (75.86%) Web Services
9 12 (41.38%) SSL
10 6 (20.69%) Rational Rose
11 5 (17.24%) VBA
11 5 (17.24%) IBM
12 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
12 4 (13.79%) Finance
12 4 (13.79%) VB6
12 4 (13.79%) DCOM
13 3 (10.34%) C#
13 3 (10.34%) .NET
13 3 (10.34%) Business Development

ActiveX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ActiveX 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 ActiveX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (96.55%) HTML
1 28 (96.55%) XML
2 26 (89.66%) ASP
2 26 (89.66%) XSD
3 23 (79.31%) CSS
3 23 (79.31%) XSL
4 22 (75.86%) ODBC
4 22 (75.86%) SOAP
4 22 (75.86%) Web Services
5 4 (13.79%) DCOM
6 3 (10.34%) .NET
7 2 (6.897%) Silverlight
7 2 (6.897%) Ajax
7 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET
7 2 (6.897%) COM
8 1 (3.448%) ADO
8 1 (3.448%) WCF
8 1 (3.448%) .NET Remoting
Application Platforms
1 27 (93.10%) IIS
2 2 (6.897%) MSMQ
Applications
1 2 (6.897%) MS Office
1 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.448%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.448%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 24 (82.76%) HTTP
2 12 (41.38%) SSL
3 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.897%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (6.897%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.897%) TOAD
1 2 (6.897%) SQL Navigator
1 2 (6.897%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (6.897%) MS Access
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Rational Rose
2 2 (6.897%) RequisitePro
2 2 (6.897%) ClearQuest
2 2 (6.897%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.448%) Subversion
3 1 (3.448%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (93.10%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) VB Developer
3 9 (31.03%) SQL Developer
3 9 (31.03%) PL/SQL Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Programmer
6 2 (6.897%) Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Excel Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Excel VBA Developer
7 1 (3.448%) VBA Developer
7 1 (3.448%) .NET Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.448%) Derivative
1 1 (3.448%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.448%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (89.66%) UML
2 25 (86.21%) RUP
3 3 (10.34%) Business Development
3 3 (10.34%) Unified Process
4 2 (6.897%) OOD
4 2 (6.897%) OO
5 1 (3.448%) RAD
5 1 (3.448%) Integration Testing
5 1 (3.448%) MVVM
5 1 (3.448%) Fund Management
5 1 (3.448%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) VB
2 28 (96.55%) SQL
3 26 (89.66%) JavaScript
3 26 (89.66%) PL/SQL
4 23 (79.31%) VBScript
5 5 (17.24%) VBA
6 4 (13.79%) VB6
7 3 (10.34%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) IBM
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft