The first table below looks at the demand for ATL 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 ATL over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Active Template Library (ATL)
Rank 378 391 422
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +31
Contract jobs citing ATL 7 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.056% 0.048%
As % of the Application Development category 0.112% 0.201% 0.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 14
Average daily rate £550 £525 £585
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.76% -10.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £665 £425
% change year-on-year
- +56.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £36.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £165.00 £35.25 £34.75
% change year-on-year
+368.08% +1.43%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6267 7466 9557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.02% 27.88% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4907 6404
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 £288 £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 89 103 140
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ATL
England

ATL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London ATL Jobs Demand Trend

ATL
Daily Rate Trend

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

London ATL Daily Rate Trend

ATL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ATL across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London ATL Daily Rate Histogram

ATL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London ATL Hourly Rate Trend

ATL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ATL 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 ATL.

1 12 (80.00%) C++
1 12 (80.00%) STL
2 10 (66.67%) Banking
2 10 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 10 (66.67%) C#
3 8 (53.33%) Front Office
4 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
4 7 (46.67%) Multithreading
5 6 (40.00%) VBA
5 6 (40.00%) .NET
5 6 (40.00%) Windows
5 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
6 5 (33.33%) Derivative
6 5 (33.33%) SQL
7 4 (26.67%) Oracle
7 4 (26.67%) Oracle Coherence
7 4 (26.67%) Social Media
7 4 (26.67%) GemFire
8 3 (20.00%) Time Management
8 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (20.00%) FpML
8 3 (20.00%) Marketing
8 3 (20.00%) WPF
8 3 (20.00%) CSS
8 3 (20.00%) VB
9 2 (13.33%) Java
9 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (13.33%) C
9 2 (13.33%) SOAP
9 2 (13.33%) OOP

ATL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ATL 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 ATL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (80.00%) STL
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) FpML
3 3 (20.00%) WPF
4 2 (13.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (13.33%) WCF
4 2 (13.33%) HTML5
4 2 (13.33%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) SOAP
4 2 (13.33%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) DOM
4 2 (13.33%) XSL
5 1 (6.667%) DCOM
5 1 (6.667%) HTML
5 1 (6.667%) MXML
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Coherence
1 4 (26.67%) GemFire
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
1 1 (6.667%) Acrobat
1 1 (6.667%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (66.67%) Banking
1 10 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 8 (53.33%) Front Office
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (6.667%) Games
5 1 (6.667%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) C++ Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Senior C++ Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) ScrumMaster
6 1 (6.667%) Designer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Designer
6 1 (6.667%) Graphic Designer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Graphic Designer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 5 (33.33%) Derivative
3 4 (26.67%) Social Media
4 2 (13.33%) 3D Graphics
4 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.667%) Swaptions
5 1 (6.667%) Market Risk
5 1 (6.667%) Online Games
5 1 (6.667%) Equities
5 1 (6.667%) N-Tier
5 1 (6.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (6.667%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Solaris
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Multithreading
2 3 (20.00%) Time Management
2 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) OOD
3 2 (13.33%) B2B
3 2 (13.33%) RDF
3 2 (13.33%) MVC
3 2 (13.33%) OOP
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (6.667%) UML
4 1 (6.667%) Scrum
4 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) C++
2 10 (66.67%) C#
3 6 (40.00%) VBA
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) VB
6 2 (13.33%) VC++
6 2 (13.33%) C
6 2 (13.33%) Java
6 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) MBA
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Adobe
2 1 (6.667%) DataSynapse