The first table below looks at the demand for AOP 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 AOP 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
Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
Rank 360 395 413
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +18
Contract jobs citing AOP 17 20 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.078% 0.074% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.105% 0.103% 0.131%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 24
Average daily rate £633 £555 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.96% -7.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £275 £305
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -9.83%
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%
AOP
England

AOP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London AOP Jobs Demand Trend

AOP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London AOP Daily Rate Trend

AOP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AOP across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London AOP Daily Rate Histogram

AOP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AOP within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
City of London +10 5 £638 -1.92%
Canary Wharf - 3 £643 -
AOP
England

AOP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (81.82%) Java
2 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
3 16 (72.73%) C#
4 12 (54.55%) Reuters
4 12 (54.55%) Finance
4 12 (54.55%) Scrum
4 12 (54.55%) C++
4 12 (54.55%) OOP
5 11 (50.00%) OLAP
5 11 (50.00%) Bloomberg
5 11 (50.00%) MDX
5 11 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 11 (50.00%) Trayport
5 11 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
6 7 (31.82%) TDD
7 6 (27.27%) SQL
8 5 (22.73%) Oracle
8 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
8 5 (22.73%) Spring
9 4 (18.18%) Middleware
9 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (18.18%) OO
9 4 (18.18%) Web Services
10 3 (13.64%) SOA
10 3 (13.64%) Sybase
10 3 (13.64%) JUnit
10 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (13.64%) Maven
10 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration

AOP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (50.00%) MDX
2 5 (22.73%) Spring
3 4 (18.18%) Middleware
3 4 (18.18%) Web Services
4 2 (9.091%) Guava
4 2 (9.091%) Ajax
4 2 (9.091%) WSDL
4 2 (9.091%) Hibernate
4 2 (9.091%) SOAP
4 2 (9.091%) .NET
5 1 (4.545%) XML
5 1 (4.545%) DOM
5 1 (4.545%) JMS
5 1 (4.545%) DHTML
5 1 (4.545%) HTML
5 1 (4.545%) CSS
5 1 (4.545%) JSP
5 1 (4.545%) JAXB
5 1 (4.545%) Apache Flex
5 1 (4.545%) Spring Security
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) Apache
2 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (50.00%) OLAP
2 11 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 11 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.091%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.545%) DB2
5 1 (4.545%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.545%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.545%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JUnit
1 3 (13.64%) Maven
2 2 (9.091%) Mockito
2 2 (9.091%) Subversion
2 2 (9.091%) TeamCity
2 2 (9.091%) Hudson
2 2 (9.091%) JIRA
2 2 (9.091%) ClearCase
3 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.545%) Selenium
3 1 (4.545%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.545%) FishEye
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
3 1 (4.545%) Electronics
3 1 (4.545%) Front Office
3 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Market Data Specialist
4 2 (9.091%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.545%) .NET Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.545%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Flex Developer
5 1 (4.545%) UI Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Developer
5 1 (4.545%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (13.64%) Open Source
2 1 (4.545%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
2 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) Derivative
2 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.545%) UNIX
1 1 (4.545%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Scrum
1 12 (54.55%) OOP
2 7 (31.82%) TDD
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
4 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (18.18%) OO
5 3 (13.64%) SOA
5 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (9.091%) User Stories
6 2 (9.091%) Use Case
6 2 (9.091%) UML
6 2 (9.091%) Data Modelling
7 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.545%) Data Management
7 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.545%) Change Management
7 1 (4.545%) Refactoring
7 1 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) Java
2 16 (72.73%) C#
3 12 (54.55%) C++
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
5 1 (4.545%) Python
5 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.545%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Reuters
2 11 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 11 (50.00%) Trayport
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle
4 3 (13.64%) Sybase
5 2 (9.091%) Endeca
5 2 (9.091%) Google
5 2 (9.091%) Perforce
6 1 (4.545%) JBoss
6 1 (4.545%) Cognos
6 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
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