The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse over the 3 months to 21 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 DataSynapse Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DataSynapse
Rank 334 370 333
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -37
Contract jobs citing DataSynapse 55 35 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.250% 0.130% 0.316%
As % of the Vendors category 0.553% 0.292% 0.700%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 30 88
Average daily rate £588 £600 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.08% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £675 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
9950 12001 13861
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.17% 44.48% 45.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6268 7285 8366
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £270 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 295 401
Average hourly rate £21.67 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £36.03 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
DataSynapse
England

DataSynapse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DataSynapse Jobs Demand Trend

DataSynapse
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DataSynapse Daily Rate Trend

DataSynapse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DataSynapse across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London DataSynapse Daily Rate Histogram

DataSynapse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataSynapse within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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 +24 24 £588 -2.08%
Canary Wharf +2 8 £625 +4.16%
DataSynapse
England

DataSynapse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse.

1 52 (56.52%) Banking
2 47 (51.09%) Investment Banking
3 45 (48.91%) Grid Computing
4 44 (47.83%) Java
5 35 (38.04%) Front Office
6 34 (36.96%) SQL
7 33 (35.87%) C#
8 31 (33.70%) C++
9 27 (29.35%) Windows
10 26 (28.26%) Oracle
10 26 (28.26%) SQL Server
10 26 (28.26%) Derivative
10 26 (28.26%) Oracle Coherence
11 24 (26.09%) XML
12 21 (22.83%) Linux
13 18 (19.57%) .NET
13 18 (19.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 17 (18.48%) Middleware
15 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
15 13 (14.13%) Sybase
15 13 (14.13%) XSLT
15 13 (14.13%) Credit Risk
15 13 (14.13%) Multithreading
16 12 (13.04%) NAS
16 12 (13.04%) WPF
16 12 (13.04%) Fixed Income
16 12 (13.04%) MS Excel
17 11 (11.96%) Solaris
17 11 (11.96%) STL
17 11 (11.96%) Finance

DataSynapse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DataSynapse 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 DataSynapse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (26.09%) XML
2 18 (19.57%) .NET
3 17 (18.48%) Middleware
4 13 (14.13%) XSLT
5 12 (13.04%) WPF
6 11 (11.96%) STL
6 11 (11.96%) Spring
6 11 (11.96%) WCF
7 10 (10.87%) WebSphere
8 9 (9.783%) HTML
9 5 (5.435%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 4 (4.348%) Hibernate
10 4 (4.348%) JMS
10 4 (4.348%) Web Services
11 3 (3.261%) SOAP
11 3 (3.261%) COM
11 3 (3.261%) JSON
11 3 (3.261%) REST
12 2 (2.174%) J2SE
13 1 (1.087%) DCOM
Application Platforms
1 26 (28.26%) Oracle Coherence
2 10 (10.87%) Apache
2 10 (10.87%) WebLogic
2 10 (10.87%) IIS
3 6 (6.522%) GemFire
4 1 (1.087%) MQSeries
Applications
1 12 (13.04%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (10.87%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.04%) NAS
2 10 (10.87%) SAN
3 3 (3.261%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.087%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.174%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.087%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (7.609%) Maven
2 5 (5.435%) Subversion
3 4 (4.348%) Hudson
3 4 (4.348%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.261%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.261%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.174%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.087%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.087%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.087%) Log4Cxx
6 1 (1.087%) CruiseControl
General
1 52 (56.52%) Banking
2 47 (51.09%) Investment Banking
3 35 (38.04%) Front Office
4 11 (11.96%) Finance
5 2 (2.174%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 67 (72.83%) Developer
2 28 (30.43%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.57%) C++ Developer
3 18 (19.57%) C# Developer
4 10 (10.87%) Analyst
4 10 (10.87%) Architect
5 9 (9.783%) Infrastructure Architect
6 8 (8.696%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.522%) C++/C# Developer
7 6 (6.522%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.435%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.435%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.435%) Production Support Analyst
9 4 (4.348%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.348%) SQL Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.348%) Lead Architect
10 3 (3.261%) Front Office Developer
10 3 (3.261%) Senior C++ Developer
10 3 (3.261%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 45 (48.91%) Grid Computing
2 26 (28.26%) Derivative
3 18 (19.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (14.13%) Credit Risk
5 12 (13.04%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.348%) Equities
6 4 (4.348%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 3 (3.261%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (3.261%) Open Source
7 3 (3.261%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (2.174%) CUDA
8 2 (2.174%) Computer Science
9 1 (1.087%) GPGPU
9 1 (1.087%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (29.35%) Windows
2 21 (22.83%) Linux
3 11 (11.96%) Solaris
4 3 (3.261%) UNIX
5 1 (1.087%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.13%) Multithreading
2 11 (11.96%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (10.87%) Benchmarking
4 9 (9.783%) TDD
4 9 (9.783%) Complex Event Processing
5 8 (8.696%) Risk Management
6 7 (7.609%) Monte Carlo Method
6 7 (7.609%) Analytics
7 4 (4.348%) Capacity Management
7 4 (4.348%) Performance Testing
7 4 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (4.348%) Release Management
7 4 (4.348%) Problem Management
7 4 (4.348%) Incident Management
7 4 (4.348%) Change Management
7 4 (4.348%) Project Management
7 4 (4.348%) OO
7 4 (4.348%) ITIL
8 3 (3.261%) SOA
9 2 (2.174%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 44 (47.83%) Java
2 34 (36.96%) SQL
3 33 (35.87%) C#
4 31 (33.70%) C++
5 7 (7.609%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.522%) VBA
6 6 (6.522%) Python
7 5 (5.435%) Scala
8 4 (4.348%) Bash shell
8 4 (4.348%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.261%) Perl
9 3 (3.261%) C++/CLI
9 3 (3.261%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.174%) Clojure
10 2 (2.174%) VB
11 1 (1.087%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (2.174%) Degree
Vendors
1 26 (28.26%) Oracle
2 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.13%) Sybase
3 10 (10.87%) EMC
3 10 (10.87%) NetApp
3 10 (10.87%) Cisco
4 9 (9.783%) 29West
5 3 (3.261%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.087%) Perforce
6 1 (1.087%) GigaSpaces
City of London
My global banking client is seeking a C++ and C# Developer to join their Risk Team... The ideal applicants main technologies would be C++ and C# with grid...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
C# Developer - C# Analyst Programmer required by an Investment Bank to work on a project to extend a Credit Risk application to increase calculation/capacity capabilities.The application...
Church International
Rate: Negotiable rates
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Our Client, a Major Bank, are currently looking for a Front Office FX Development Manager to work in their London Office, on a long-term contract basis. The...
Orgtel
Rate: £700 - £750 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013