The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Cognizant products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cognizant 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cognizant
Rank 383 388 433
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +45
Contract jobs citing Cognizant 2 18 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.067% 0.013%
As % of the Vendors category 0.021% 0.151% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £180 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 £400
% change year-on-year
- -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9746 11913 14109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.14% 44.48% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6153 7231 8518
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £268 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 288 409
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.25 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Cognizant
England

Cognizant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Cognizant Jobs Demand Trend

Cognizant
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Cognizant Daily Rate Trend

Cognizant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cognizant within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +12 1 - -
Cognizant
England

Cognizant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) Swing
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) JProfiler
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Hudson
4 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) Confluence
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Information Management
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking

Cognizant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) Swing
3 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (40.00%) JProfiler
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Hudson
3 1 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) French Language
3 1 (20.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Data Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) GUI Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Swing Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Code Coverage
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
1 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (20.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) NDS
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase
1 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Peregrine
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO