The first table below looks at the demand for FlexUnit 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 FlexUnit 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 Development Applications 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
FlexUnit
Rank 369 404 400
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -4
Contract jobs citing FlexUnit 8 11 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.041% 0.135%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.305% 0.427% 1.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 23
Average daily rate £475 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2619 2575 3549
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.09% 9.559% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1928 1748 2418
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 31
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £29.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +20.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
FlexUnit
England

FlexUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London FlexUnit Jobs Demand Trend

FlexUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

London FlexUnit Daily Rate Trend

FlexUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (100.00%) Adobe
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
1 11 (100.00%) Apache Flex
2 10 (90.91%) CSS
2 10 (90.91%) Parsley
3 8 (72.73%) Java
4 7 (63.64%) Unit Testing
4 7 (63.64%) Dependency Injection
4 7 (63.64%) Investment Management
4 7 (63.64%) Adobe AIR
4 7 (63.64%) Maven
4 7 (63.64%) Front Office
4 7 (63.64%) MVC
4 7 (63.64%) Windows
4 7 (63.64%) UML
4 7 (63.64%) OOP
4 7 (63.64%) Confluence
4 7 (63.64%) JIRA
5 4 (36.36%) ActionScript
6 3 (27.27%) Graphic Design
6 3 (27.27%) BlazeDS
6 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
6 3 (27.27%) Banking
6 3 (27.27%) HTML5
6 3 (27.27%) CSS3
6 3 (27.27%) Ember.js
6 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
7 1 (9.091%) Scrum
7 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development

FlexUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) Apache Flex
2 10 (90.91%) CSS
2 10 (90.91%) Parsley
3 7 (63.64%) Adobe AIR
4 3 (27.27%) BlazeDS
4 3 (27.27%) HTML5
4 3 (27.27%) CSS3
4 3 (27.27%) Ember.js
4 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (9.091%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Firewall
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Maven
1 7 (63.64%) JIRA
2 1 (9.091%) Selenium
General
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (63.64%) Front Office
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
1 8 (72.73%) Flex Developer
2 3 (27.27%) User Experience Designer
2 3 (27.27%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Graphic Design
2 1 (9.091%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Unit Testing
1 7 (63.64%) Dependency Injection
1 7 (63.64%) Investment Management
1 7 (63.64%) MVC
1 7 (63.64%) UML
1 7 (63.64%) OOP
2 3 (27.27%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) ActionScript
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Adobe