The first table below looks at the demand for DCL 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 DCL 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 of the Programming Languages 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DIGITAL Command Language (DCL)
Rank - 411 437
Contract jobs citing DCL 0 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.015% 0.016%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.039% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
Average daily rate - £550 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 -
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
8875 10154 13197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 40.98% 37.69% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6378 6878 8900
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 157 180
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.85 £18.00 £18.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
DCL
England

DCL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DCL Jobs Demand Trend

DCL
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DCL Daily Rate Trend

DCL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DCL Hourly Rate Trend

DCL
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DCL 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 DCL.

1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
1 5 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) OCP
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (100.00%) RHCE
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (100.00%) DECnet
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (40.00%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management

DCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DCL 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 DCL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DECnet
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior UNIX Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Freedom of Information Act
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
1 5 (100.00%) OpenVMS
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) OCP
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (100.00%) RHCE
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat