The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blog over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blogs
Rank 356 380 417
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +37
Contract jobs citing Blog 28 30 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.123% 0.113% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.371% 0.353% 0.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 23
Average daily rate £415 £238 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+74.73% -38.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £125 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £385 £483
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
+19.23% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £21.65 £16.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.21% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 - £18.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7553 8494 11818
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.12% 31.95% 37.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5226 5808 8072
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 192 165
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £13.00 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £52.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Blog
England

Blog
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Blog Jobs Demand Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Blog Daily Rate Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Blog across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Blog Daily Rate Histogram

Blog
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Blog Hourly Rate Trend

Blog
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blog within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +2 4 £550 +51.72% 8
Hackney - - - -
Hounslow - - - -
Twickenham - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
Blog
England

Blog
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Blog 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 Blog.

1 21 (41.18%) CSS
2 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 15 (29.41%) Open Source
4 14 (27.45%) HTML
5 13 (25.49%) HTML5
6 12 (23.53%) Degree
7 10 (19.61%) Finance
7 10 (19.61%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (17.65%) TDD
8 9 (17.65%) Ruby
9 8 (15.69%) Content Management
9 8 (15.69%) Java
9 8 (15.69%) Social Media
9 8 (15.69%) jQuery
9 8 (15.69%) WordPress
10 7 (13.73%) CSS3
10 7 (13.73%) Facebook
10 7 (13.73%) GitHub
10 7 (13.73%) PHP
10 7 (13.73%) Web Services
10 7 (13.73%) Internet
10 7 (13.73%) Publishing
11 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 6 (11.76%) Ajax
11 6 (11.76%) E-Commerce
11 6 (11.76%) OO
11 6 (11.76%) .NET
11 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
11 6 (11.76%) Twitter
11 6 (11.76%) QA

Blog
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Blog 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 Blog. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (41.18%) CSS
2 14 (27.45%) HTML
3 13 (25.49%) HTML5
4 8 (15.69%) jQuery
5 7 (13.73%) CSS3
5 7 (13.73%) Web Services
6 6 (11.76%) Ajax
6 6 (11.76%) .NET
6 6 (11.76%) RESTful
7 5 (9.804%) J2EE
7 5 (9.804%) Spring
8 4 (7.843%) LAMP
8 4 (7.843%) JSON
9 3 (5.882%) XNA
9 3 (5.882%) WPF
9 3 (5.882%) AngularJS
9 3 (5.882%) XML
9 3 (5.882%) WebSphere
9 3 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
10 2 (3.922%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.69%) WordPress
2 5 (9.804%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.804%) CMS
3 3 (5.882%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.922%) TeamSite
5 1 (1.961%) Moodle
5 1 (1.961%) Kentico
5 1 (1.961%) Drupal
5 1 (1.961%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.961%) Facebook Platform
5 1 (1.961%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (1.961%) Documentum
5 1 (1.961%) FileNet
5 1 (1.961%) Joomla!
Applications
1 4 (7.843%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.922%) MS Office
3 1 (1.961%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.961%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Internet
2 4 (7.843%) Intranet
3 1 (1.961%) HTTP
3 1 (1.961%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.961%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.882%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.882%) Big Data
3 2 (3.922%) Redis
3 2 (3.922%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.961%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.961%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.961%) MySQL
4 1 (1.961%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) GitHub
2 4 (7.843%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.843%) Jasmine
3 3 (5.882%) TestNG
3 3 (5.882%) Mocha
3 3 (5.882%) JsTestDriver
3 3 (5.882%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.882%) JUnit
3 3 (5.882%) Maven
4 2 (3.922%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.961%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.961%) JSUnit
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.961%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (19.61%) Finance
2 7 (13.73%) Publishing
3 5 (9.804%) Marketing
3 5 (9.804%) Financial Institution
4 4 (7.843%) Banking
4 4 (7.843%) Retail
4 4 (7.843%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.843%) French Language
4 4 (7.843%) German Language
5 3 (5.882%) Spanish Language
5 3 (5.882%) Dutch Language
6 2 (3.922%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.922%) Games
6 2 (3.922%) Back Office
7 1 (1.961%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.961%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) Architect
2 8 (15.69%) Software Engineer
3 4 (7.843%) Senior Developer
3 4 (7.843%) Content Editor
4 3 (5.882%) Software Architect
4 3 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.882%) Analyst
4 3 (5.882%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (5.882%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.882%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (5.882%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (5.882%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (5.882%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (3.922%) Business Manager
5 2 (3.922%) Engagement Manager
5 2 (3.922%) PHP Developer
5 2 (3.922%) Web Developer
5 2 (3.922%) Agile Java Developer
6 1 (1.961%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (29.41%) Open Source
2 8 (15.69%) Social Media
3 5 (9.804%) Computer Science
4 4 (7.843%) New Media
4 4 (7.843%) Mathematics
5 3 (5.882%) Social Network
5 3 (5.882%) Kinect
5 3 (5.882%) N-Tier
6 2 (3.922%) BBC
6 2 (3.922%) Copywriting
6 2 (3.922%) RIA
6 2 (3.922%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.961%) Visualisation
7 1 (1.961%) Semantic Web
7 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.843%) Windows
2 2 (3.922%) Linux
2 2 (3.922%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.961%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.961%) Android
3 1 (1.961%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.61%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (17.65%) TDD
3 8 (15.69%) Content Management
4 6 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 6 (11.76%) E-Commerce
4 6 (11.76%) OO
5 5 (9.804%) BDD
5 5 (9.804%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (9.804%) Analytics
5 5 (9.804%) OOD
5 5 (9.804%) SEO
5 5 (9.804%) Pair Programming
5 5 (9.804%) Scrum
6 4 (7.843%) Workflow
6 4 (7.843%) Migration
6 4 (7.843%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (7.843%) Software Architecture
6 4 (7.843%) Time Management
7 3 (5.882%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (5.882%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 9 (17.65%) Ruby
3 8 (15.69%) Java
4 7 (13.73%) PHP
5 5 (9.804%) SQL
5 5 (9.804%) C#
6 4 (7.843%) Scala
7 2 (3.922%) Python
7 2 (3.922%) Perl
7 2 (3.922%) Groovy
8 1 (1.961%) Clojure
8 1 (1.961%) Erlang
8 1 (1.961%) C++
8 1 (1.961%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.961%) VBScript
8 1 (1.961%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (1.961%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.961%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (1.961%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (1.961%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Facebook
2 6 (11.76%) Twitter
3 5 (9.804%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.882%) JBoss
4 3 (5.882%) Google
5 2 (3.922%) Oracle
5 2 (3.922%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.922%) FactSet
6 1 (1.961%) Hitwise
6 1 (1.961%) Adobe
6 1 (1.961%) Omniture
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