The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DevExpress 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 DevExpress over the 3 months to 23 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 Developer Express.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DevExpress
Rank 350 393 373
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -20
Contract jobs citing DevExpress 27 17 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.125% 0.063% 0.196%
As % of the Vendors category 0.277% 0.142% 0.433%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 42
Average daily rate £625 £558 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -2.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £588 £452 £460
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £625 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £250 £288
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9754 11998 14306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.08% 44.55% 45.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6142 7276 8648
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £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 287 296 409
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.73 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
DevExpress
England

DevExpress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DevExpress Jobs Demand Trend

DevExpress
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DevExpress Daily Rate Trend

DevExpress
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DevExpress across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London DevExpress Daily Rate Histogram

DevExpress
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DevExpress Hourly Rate Trend

DevExpress
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevExpress within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +23 11 £620 +7.82%
DevExpress
England

DevExpress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DevExpress 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 DevExpress.

1 65 (100.00%) C#
2 52 (80.00%) Multithreading
3 51 (78.46%) .NET
4 50 (76.92%) SQL Server
4 50 (76.92%) WinForms
4 50 (76.92%) Syncfusion
5 48 (73.85%) Finance
6 40 (61.54%) SQL
7 39 (60.00%) OO
8 27 (41.54%) Derivative
8 27 (41.54%) WPF
9 24 (36.92%) Front Office
10 18 (27.69%) WCF
11 17 (26.15%) Banking
12 12 (18.46%) Risk Management
13 10 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (13.85%) Hedge funds
14 9 (13.85%) MDX
14 9 (13.85%) OLAP
14 9 (13.85%) Infragistics
15 8 (12.31%) Windows
15 8 (12.31%) Investment Banking
16 7 (10.77%) Electronic Trading
16 7 (10.77%) XML
17 6 (9.231%) UML
17 6 (9.231%) Fixed Income
17 6 (9.231%) Subversion
18 5 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
18 5 (7.692%) MVC
18 5 (7.692%) TIBCO

DevExpress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DevExpress 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 DevExpress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 51 (78.46%) .NET
2 50 (76.92%) WinForms
3 27 (41.54%) WPF
4 18 (27.69%) WCF
5 9 (13.85%) MDX
6 7 (10.77%) XML
7 4 (6.154%) ASP.NET
7 4 (6.154%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (4.615%) Reactive Extensions
8 3 (4.615%) Managed Extensibility Framework
9 2 (3.077%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.538%) HTML5
10 1 (1.538%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (1.538%) REST
10 1 (1.538%) WF
10 1 (1.538%) ADO.NET
10 1 (1.538%) XSD
10 1 (1.538%) HTML
10 1 (1.538%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.692%) Rendezvous
2 4 (6.154%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.538%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.077%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (76.92%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.85%) OLAP
3 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (9.231%) Subversion
2 3 (4.615%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.538%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.538%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (73.85%) Finance
2 24 (36.92%) Front Office
3 17 (26.15%) Banking
4 8 (12.31%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.615%) Back Office
6 2 (3.077%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.538%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (89.23%) Developer
2 46 (70.77%) C# Developer
3 20 (30.77%) Senior Developer
4 17 (26.15%) C# .NET Developer
4 17 (26.15%) Senior C# Developer
5 16 (24.62%) .NET Developer
6 10 (15.38%) Lead Developer
6 10 (15.38%) Lead C# Developer
6 10 (15.38%) Lead .NET Developer
7 6 (9.231%) Software Engineer
7 6 (9.231%) C# Software Engineer
7 6 (9.231%) Real Time Software Engineer
7 6 (9.231%) Real Time Engineer
7 6 (9.231%) Front-End Developer
7 6 (9.231%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (6.154%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (6.154%) WPF Developer
9 3 (4.615%) GUI Developer
10 2 (3.077%) Technical Leader
10 2 (3.077%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (41.54%) Derivative
2 10 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (13.85%) Hedge funds
4 6 (9.231%) Fixed Income
5 4 (6.154%) Grid Computing
5 4 (6.154%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.538%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.538%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.538%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Windows
2 1 (1.538%) Windows 8
2 1 (1.538%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (80.00%) Multithreading
2 39 (60.00%) OO
3 12 (18.46%) Risk Management
4 7 (10.77%) Electronic Trading
5 6 (9.231%) UML
6 5 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (7.692%) MVC
7 4 (6.154%) OOD
7 4 (6.154%) TDD
7 4 (6.154%) Web Development
7 4 (6.154%) Software Engineering
8 3 (4.615%) MVVM
8 3 (4.615%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (1.538%) SOA
9 1 (1.538%) OOP
9 1 (1.538%) Workflow
9 1 (1.538%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) C#
2 40 (61.54%) SQL
3 1 (1.538%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.538%) C++
3 1 (1.538%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.077%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.615%) QA
Vendors
1 50 (76.92%) Syncfusion
2 9 (13.85%) Infragistics
3 5 (7.692%) TIBCO
4 1 (1.538%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.538%) Reuters
4 1 (1.538%) Oracle
4 1 (1.538%) Sophis
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