The first table below looks at the demand for DOM 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 DOM 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 of the Application Development 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Document Object Model (DOM)
Rank 346 366 350
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -16
Contract jobs citing DOM 31 44 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.143% 0.163% 0.269%
As % of the Application Development category 0.492% 0.584% 0.879%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 66
Average daily rate £425 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £330 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £550 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £625 £255
% change year-on-year
-44.00% +145.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
Average hourly rate £42.50 £42.00 £50.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.19% -16.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £19.26 -
% change year-on-year
+107.68% -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
DOM
England

DOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DOM Jobs Demand Trend

DOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DOM Daily Rate Trend

DOM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London DOM Daily Rate Histogram

DOM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DOM Hourly Rate Trend

DOM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOM 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 +20 6 £450 -14.28%
Brentford - 2 £420 -
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
DOM
England

DOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 67 (91.78%) JavaScript
1 67 (91.78%) CSS
2 59 (80.82%) HTML
3 37 (50.68%) jQuery
4 36 (49.32%) Ajax
5 23 (31.51%) XML
6 20 (27.40%) Web Development
7 19 (26.03%) Finance
8 17 (23.29%) Photoshop
8 17 (23.29%) HTML5
9 15 (20.55%) CSS3
9 15 (20.55%) OO
10 14 (19.18%) .NET
10 14 (19.18%) CMS
10 14 (19.18%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (17.81%) MVC
11 13 (17.81%) SQL
11 13 (17.81%) Web Services
11 13 (17.81%) XHTML
11 13 (17.81%) Animation
11 13 (17.81%) JSON
12 12 (16.44%) ASP.NET
12 12 (16.44%) Java
13 11 (15.07%) XSLT
14 10 (13.70%) Dojo
14 10 (13.70%) HTTP
14 10 (13.70%) IIS
14 10 (13.70%) W3C
14 10 (13.70%) Banking
15 9 (12.33%) OOP

DOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 67 (91.78%) CSS
2 59 (80.82%) HTML
3 37 (50.68%) jQuery
4 36 (49.32%) Ajax
5 23 (31.51%) XML
6 17 (23.29%) HTML5
7 15 (20.55%) CSS3
8 14 (19.18%) .NET
9 13 (17.81%) Web Services
9 13 (17.81%) XHTML
9 13 (17.81%) JSON
10 12 (16.44%) ASP.NET
11 11 (15.07%) XSLT
12 10 (13.70%) Dojo
13 9 (12.33%) Node.js
13 9 (12.33%) KnockoutJS
14 7 (9.589%) SOAP
14 7 (9.589%) dotless
15 6 (8.219%) DHTML
15 6 (8.219%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (19.18%) CMS
2 10 (13.70%) IIS
3 7 (9.589%) SharePoint
3 7 (9.589%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (6.849%) Apache
5 4 (5.479%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.370%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (1.370%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.370%) Force.com
Applications
1 17 (23.29%) Photoshop
2 8 (10.96%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 1 (1.370%) Oracle CRM
1 1 (1.370%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.370%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.70%) HTTP
2 3 (4.110%) DVB
3 1 (1.370%) Internet
3 1 (1.370%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.479%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.110%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.740%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.370%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.370%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Dreamweaver
2 6 (8.219%) Selenium
3 4 (5.479%) Git (software)
4 3 (4.110%) Maven
4 3 (4.110%) Subversion
4 3 (4.110%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.110%) GitHub
4 3 (4.110%) QUnit
5 1 (1.370%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.370%) JUnit
5 1 (1.370%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (1.370%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.370%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.370%) RSpec
5 1 (1.370%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.370%) Mockito
5 1 (1.370%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.370%) Hudson
5 1 (1.370%) Jasmine
General
1 19 (26.03%) Finance
2 10 (13.70%) Banking
3 9 (12.33%) Marketing
4 6 (8.219%) Retail
4 6 (8.219%) Electronics
4 6 (8.219%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.479%) Games
6 3 (4.110%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.370%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.370%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (83.56%) Developer
2 17 (23.29%) Web Developer
3 15 (20.55%) Front-End Developer
4 11 (15.07%) JavaScript Developer
5 10 (13.70%) UI Developer
6 9 (12.33%) HTML Developer
7 7 (9.589%) UI Programmer
8 6 (8.219%) Senior Developer
9 4 (5.479%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.479%) Architect
10 3 (4.110%) .NET Developer
11 2 (2.740%) Designer
11 2 (2.740%) Front-End Web Developer
11 2 (2.740%) Senior C++ Developer
11 2 (2.740%) C++ Developer
11 2 (2.740%) Lead Developer
12 1 (1.370%) Project Manager
12 1 (1.370%) Software Engineer
12 1 (1.370%) Analyst
12 1 (1.370%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Animation
2 10 (13.70%) W3C
3 9 (12.33%) Video on Demand
4 7 (9.589%) E-Learning
4 7 (9.589%) STB
4 7 (9.589%) Digital Media
5 6 (8.219%) FMCG
5 6 (8.219%) IPTV
5 6 (8.219%) NHS
6 5 (6.849%) DTV
7 3 (4.110%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (4.110%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (4.110%) Streaming Video
7 3 (4.110%) N-Tier
7 3 (4.110%) Learning Management System
7 3 (4.110%) Computer Science
7 3 (4.110%) Social Media
8 2 (2.740%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.740%) Visualisation
8 2 (2.740%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.219%) Windows
2 5 (6.849%) Linux
3 1 (1.370%) UNIX
3 1 (1.370%) Android
3 1 (1.370%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) Web Development
2 15 (20.55%) OO
3 14 (19.18%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (17.81%) MVC
5 9 (12.33%) OOP
6 8 (10.96%) Product Management
7 7 (9.589%) SEO
7 7 (9.589%) Validation
8 6 (8.219%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.219%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (8.219%) Content Management
9 5 (6.849%) TDD
9 5 (6.849%) Unit Testing
10 4 (5.479%) Waterfall
10 4 (5.479%) MVVM
10 4 (5.479%) Software Architecture
11 3 (4.110%) Workflow
11 3 (4.110%) Scrum
11 3 (4.110%) E-Commerce
11 3 (4.110%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 67 (91.78%) JavaScript
2 13 (17.81%) SQL
3 12 (16.44%) Java
4 6 (8.219%) Clojure
5 4 (5.479%) C#
5 4 (5.479%) VB.NET
6 3 (4.110%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.110%) C++
7 2 (2.740%) C
7 2 (2.740%) PHP
7 2 (2.740%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.740%) Python
7 2 (2.740%) VC++
7 2 (2.740%) Ruby
8 1 (1.370%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.370%) XPath
8 1 (1.370%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.370%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.110%) Degree
2 2 (2.740%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.370%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Adobe
2 5 (6.849%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.479%) Caplin
4 3 (4.110%) Facebook
4 3 (4.110%) Twitter
5 2 (2.740%) Google
5 2 (2.740%) SAP
5 2 (2.740%) Oracle
5 2 (2.740%) IBM
6 1 (1.370%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.370%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.370%) Perforce
6 1 (1.370%) Sybase
6 1 (1.370%) Omniture
6 1 (1.370%) Endeca
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