The first table below looks at the demand for AppFabric 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 AppFabric 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft AppFabric
Rank 371 410 433
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +23
Contract jobs citing AppFabric 6 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.028% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Application Development category 0.095% 0.066% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
Average daily rate £388 £550 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.54% +22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £451 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £590 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £413 -
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £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 91 107 136
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 £15.95 £17.65
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%
AppFabric
England

AppFabric
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London AppFabric Jobs Demand Trend

AppFabric
Daily Rate Trend

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

London AppFabric Daily Rate Trend

AppFabric
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London AppFabric Daily Rate Histogram

AppFabric
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AppFabric 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 +14 2 £450 -18.18%
AppFabric
England

AppFabric
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (66.67%) C#
4 3 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (50.00%) MVC
4 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (50.00%) WCF
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (33.33%) WF
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (33.33%) SOA
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
6 1 (16.67%) OOP
6 1 (16.67%) CRM
6 1 (16.67%) Web Services
6 1 (16.67%) XML
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Middleware

AppFabric
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) WCF
3 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) WF
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) Middleware
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) NHibernate
5 1 (16.67%) LINQ
5 1 (16.67%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Azure
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) GIS
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics AX Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) OOP
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) F#
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft