The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces over the 3 months to 21 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 GigaSpaces.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GigaSpaces
Rank 388 401 416
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +15
Contract jobs citing GigaSpaces 1 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.015% 0.046%
As % of the Vendors category 0.010% 0.033% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 14
Average daily rate - £663 £613
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £625
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9950 12001 13861
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.17% 44.48% 45.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6268 7285 8366
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £270 £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 292 295 401
Average hourly rate £21.67 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £36.03 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
GigaSpaces
England

GigaSpaces
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London GigaSpaces Jobs Demand Trend

GigaSpaces
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GigaSpaces Daily Rate Trend

GigaSpaces
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (66.67%) Derivative
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (66.67%) TIBCO
2 2 (66.67%) Rendezvous
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) GemFire
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) OpenCL
3 1 (33.33%) Boost C++ Libraries

GigaSpaces
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
2 1 (33.33%) OpenCL
2 1 (33.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) STL
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (66.67%) Rendezvous
2 2 (66.67%) GemFire
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Derivative
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) GPGPU
2 1 (33.33%) CUDA
2 1 (33.33%) Grid Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (33.33%) DataSynapse