The first table below looks at the demand for DNA 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 DNA over the 3 months to 20 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Distributed interNet Applications (DNA)
Rank 374 396 430
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +34
Contract jobs citing DNA 7 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.022% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.031% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
Average daily rate £550 £460 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.56% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £305 -
% change year-on-year
+0.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16184 19288 21901
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.60% 71.83% 71.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11116 12664 14439
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 329 346
Average hourly rate £32.29 £28.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.29% +3.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £49.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
DNA
England

DNA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DNA Jobs Demand Trend

DNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DNA Daily Rate Trend

DNA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DNA Hourly Rate Trend

DNA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNA within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +18 1 £575 +79.68%
DNA
England

DNA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DNA 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 DNA.

1 20 (68.97%) C#
1 20 (68.97%) VBA
2 18 (62.07%) Front Office
3 16 (55.17%) SQL Server
4 15 (51.72%) Banking
5 13 (44.83%) SQL
6 12 (41.38%) .NET
6 12 (41.38%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 11 (37.93%) Oracle
7 11 (37.93%) Sybase
8 9 (31.03%) HTML
8 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
8 9 (31.03%) Finance
9 8 (27.59%) Reuters
9 8 (27.59%) Bloomberg
9 8 (27.59%) Fixed Income
10 7 (24.14%) Financial Institution
10 7 (24.14%) Risk Analysis
11 6 (20.69%) RIA
11 6 (20.69%) Ext JS
11 6 (20.69%) JSON
11 6 (20.69%) HTTP
11 6 (20.69%) CSS
11 6 (20.69%) Analytics
12 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
12 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
12 5 (17.24%) Time Management
13 4 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
14 3 (10.34%) Scrum
14 3 (10.34%) Application Packaging

DNA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (41.38%) .NET
2 9 (31.03%) HTML
3 6 (20.69%) Ext JS
3 6 (20.69%) CSS
3 6 (20.69%) JSON
4 3 (10.34%) Application Packaging
4 3 (10.34%) Web Services
4 3 (10.34%) XML
5 2 (6.897%) WCF
5 2 (6.897%) LINQ
6 1 (3.448%) WPF
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (55.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (3.448%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (3.448%) Wise Package Studio
2 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.448%) MSI
2 1 (3.448%) Subversion
General
1 18 (62.07%) Front Office
2 15 (51.72%) Banking
3 9 (31.03%) Finance
4 7 (24.14%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.448%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (79.31%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) C# Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Excel Developer
4 6 (20.69%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (20.69%) Front Office Developer
5 4 (13.79%) VBA Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Excel VBA Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Applications Packager
8 1 (3.448%) .NET Developer
8 1 (3.448%) RAD Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Fixed Income
2 6 (20.69%) RIA
3 1 (3.448%) Derivative
3 1 (3.448%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.897%) Windows
2 1 (3.448%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.448%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Risk Analysis
2 6 (20.69%) Analytics
3 5 (17.24%) Data Transformation
3 5 (17.24%) Time Management
4 4 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (10.34%) Scrum
6 1 (3.448%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.448%) TDD
6 1 (3.448%) RAD
6 1 (3.448%) Risk Management
6 1 (3.448%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) C#
1 20 (68.97%) VBA
2 13 (44.83%) SQL
3 9 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.897%) C++
5 1 (3.448%) VBScript
5 1 (3.448%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.448%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) AppDNA
2 1 (3.448%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Oracle
1 11 (37.93%) Sybase
2 8 (27.59%) Reuters
2 8 (27.59%) Bloomberg
3 3 (10.34%) Citrix
4 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.448%) Intel