The first table below looks at the demand for Esper 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 Esper over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Esper for Java
Rank 384 - 432
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Esper 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% - 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.047% - 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £550 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate - £556 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
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 £280 £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 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
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%
Esper
England

Esper
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Esper Jobs Demand Trend

Esper
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Esper Daily Rate Trend

Esper
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Esper 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 Esper.

1 4 (100.00%) StreamBase
2 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) Process Management
2 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Complex Event Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Pattern Recognition
3 1 (25.00%) 29West
3 1 (25.00%) Kafka
3 1 (25.00%) Equities
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Derivative
3 1 (25.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) J2SE
3 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (25.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (25.00%) Rendezvous
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics

Esper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Esper 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 Esper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Rendezvous
General
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Equities
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Process Management
1 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Complex Event Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Pattern Recognition
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) StreamBase
2 1 (25.00%) 29West
2 1 (25.00%) TIBCO