Author Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Author role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Author in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Author
Rank 326 378 387
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Author 51 37 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.235% 0.137% 0.177%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.256% 0.149% 0.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 38
Average daily rate £370 £275 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.54% -30.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £175 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £432 £690
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
-13.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +55.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £22.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+46.06% +3.48%
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All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Author
England

Author
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Author Jobs Demand Trend

Author
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Author Daily Rate Trend

Author
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Author Daily Rate Histogram

Author
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Author Hourly Rate Trend

Author
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Author 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 +26 19 £363 +45.00%
Paddington - 2 £370 -
Brentford - 1 £475 -
Canary Wharf - 1 £450 -
Author
England

Author
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title.

1 22 (23.40%) Finance
2 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.89%) Publishing
3 14 (14.89%) Banking
4 13 (13.83%) XML
5 11 (11.70%) MS Visio
5 11 (11.70%) Time Management
6 8 (8.511%) Marketing
6 8 (8.511%) UML
7 7 (7.447%) Android
7 7 (7.447%) Apple iOS
7 7 (7.447%) Mobile App
8 6 (6.383%) Management Information System
8 6 (6.383%) Adobe
8 6 (6.383%) MS Office
9 5 (5.319%) Java
9 5 (5.319%) SQL
9 5 (5.319%) .NET
10 4 (4.255%) Investment Banking
10 4 (4.255%) Mobile Payment
10 4 (4.255%) Basel III
10 4 (4.255%) C++
10 4 (4.255%) VB.NET
10 4 (4.255%) Vignette
10 4 (4.255%) Windows
10 4 (4.255%) SQL Server
10 4 (4.255%) MS Excel
10 4 (4.255%) TCP/IP
10 4 (4.255%) Service Management
10 4 (4.255%) Legal

Author
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (13.83%) XML
2 5 (5.319%) .NET
3 2 (2.128%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.128%) HTML
4 1 (1.064%) COM
4 1 (1.064%) SGML
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.128%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.064%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) MS Visio
2 6 (6.383%) MS Office
3 4 (4.255%) MS Excel
4 3 (3.191%) Acrobat
5 2 (2.128%) ProjectWise
5 2 (2.128%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (1.064%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (1.064%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.064%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.255%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.191%) Broadband
3 2 (2.128%) Internet
3 2 (2.128%) Wireless
4 1 (1.064%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.255%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.128%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.064%) InstallShield
1 1 (1.064%) Balsamiq Mockups
General
1 22 (23.40%) Finance
2 14 (14.89%) Publishing
2 14 (14.89%) Banking
3 8 (8.511%) Marketing
4 4 (4.255%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.255%) Legal
5 3 (3.191%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.128%) Retail
6 2 (2.128%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.128%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.128%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.064%) Electronics
7 1 (1.064%) Front Office
7 1 (1.064%) Automotive
7 1 (1.064%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.064%) Avionics
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.447%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.383%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.255%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.128%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.128%) FMCG
5 1 (1.064%) E-Learning
5 1 (1.064%) EMV
5 1 (1.064%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.064%) Wiki
5 1 (1.064%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.064%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.064%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.447%) Android
1 7 (7.447%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.255%) Windows
3 1 (1.064%) Linux
3 1 (1.064%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (11.70%) Time Management
2 8 (8.511%) UML
3 4 (4.255%) Service Management
4 2 (2.128%) Information Management
4 2 (2.128%) Document Management
4 2 (2.128%) SAP Implementation
4 2 (2.128%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (2.128%) E-Commerce
4 2 (2.128%) ERP
4 2 (2.128%) Business Continuity
4 2 (2.128%) Change Management
4 2 (2.128%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (2.128%) Risk Management
5 1 (1.064%) Quality Management
5 1 (1.064%) Migration
5 1 (1.064%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (1.064%) Scrum
5 1 (1.064%) Project Management
5 1 (1.064%) Logistics
5 1 (1.064%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.319%) Java
1 5 (5.319%) SQL
2 4 (4.255%) C++
2 4 (4.255%) VB.NET
3 2 (2.128%) C#
4 1 (1.064%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (3.191%) Degree
2 1 (1.064%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.255%) Basel III
2 1 (1.064%) Basel II
2 1 (1.064%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.383%) Adobe
3 4 (4.255%) Vignette
4 3 (3.191%) LogiXML
5 2 (2.128%) SAP
6 1 (1.064%) Kofax
6 1 (1.064%) Oracle
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