The first table below looks at the demand for Google Maps API 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 Google Maps API 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Maps
Rank 360 399 431
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +32
Contract jobs citing Google Maps API 17 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.078% 0.059% 0.035%
As % of the Application Development category 0.269% 0.212% 0.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 4
Average daily rate £300 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.21% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £290 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £439 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £263 £350
% change year-on-year
+61.90% -25.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -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 91 107 136
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 £15.95 £17.65
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%
Google Maps API
England

Google Maps API
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Google Maps API Jobs Demand Trend

Google Maps API
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Google Maps API Daily Rate Trend

Google Maps API
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Google Maps API across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Google Maps API Daily Rate Histogram

Google Maps API
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Google Maps API Hourly Rate Trend

Google Maps API
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Google Maps API within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 8 £300 -12.08%
Google Maps API
England

Google Maps API
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 27 (93.10%) Google
2 20 (68.97%) CSS
3 16 (55.17%) OO
3 16 (55.17%) HTML5
3 16 (55.17%) CSS3
4 15 (51.72%) JavaScript
5 14 (48.28%) HTML
5 14 (48.28%) Facebook
6 13 (44.83%) MVC
6 13 (44.83%) Android
7 12 (41.38%) jQuery
7 12 (41.38%) Twitter
8 11 (37.93%) Apple iOS
8 11 (37.93%) PHP
9 10 (34.48%) Java
10 9 (31.03%) SQL
10 9 (31.03%) Git (software)
11 8 (27.59%) Mobile App
12 7 (24.14%) iOS SDK
12 7 (24.14%) Objective-C
12 7 (24.14%) UNIX
12 7 (24.14%) Windows
13 6 (20.69%) Adobe
13 6 (20.69%) XML
13 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (20.69%) CodeIgniter
13 6 (20.69%) CakePHP
13 6 (20.69%) Semantic HTML
14 5 (17.24%) iPhone
14 5 (17.24%) Web Development

Google Maps API
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 20 (68.97%) CSS
2 16 (55.17%) HTML5
2 16 (55.17%) CSS3
3 14 (48.28%) HTML
4 12 (41.38%) jQuery
5 7 (24.14%) iOS SDK
6 6 (20.69%) XML
6 6 (20.69%) CodeIgniter
6 6 (20.69%) CakePHP
6 6 (20.69%) Semantic HTML
7 5 (17.24%) JSON
8 4 (13.79%) REST
9 3 (10.34%) WCF
9 3 (10.34%) LAMP
9 3 (10.34%) Java ME
9 3 (10.34%) SOAP
9 3 (10.34%) .NET
10 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET
10 2 (6.897%) Web Services
10 2 (6.897%) WML
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Drupal
2 2 (6.897%) Apache
3 1 (3.448%) Facebook Platform
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Azure
3 1 (3.448%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (3.448%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Internet
2 3 (10.34%) HTTP
3 2 (6.897%) NFC
4 1 (3.448%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.448%) Firewall
4 1 (3.448%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.448%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 3 (10.34%) SQLite
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.897%) OLAP
3 2 (6.897%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.448%) Big Data
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.448%) Pentaho
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (3.448%) GIS
4 1 (3.448%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git (software)
2 4 (13.79%) Eclipse
2 4 (13.79%) Subversion
3 3 (10.34%) Mercurial
3 3 (10.34%) Maven
3 3 (10.34%) Ant
3 3 (10.34%) JUnit
4 1 (3.448%) GitHub
4 1 (3.448%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.448%) SilkTest
4 1 (3.448%) JIRA
4 1 (3.448%) Selenium
4 1 (3.448%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 2 (6.897%) Music
3 1 (3.448%) Games
3 1 (3.448%) Banking
3 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (82.76%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) PHP Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Senior Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Senior PHP Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Drupal Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Front-End Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Android Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.448%) iOS Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Ruby Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Flash Developer
5 1 (3.448%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Consultant
5 1 (3.448%) Development Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Architect
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Mobile App
2 5 (17.24%) iPhone
2 5 (17.24%) Blackberry
3 3 (10.34%) Social Media
4 2 (6.897%) N-Tier
4 2 (6.897%) W3C
4 2 (6.897%) Streaming Video
4 2 (6.897%) Java Card
4 2 (6.897%) iPad
4 2 (6.897%) Digital Media
5 1 (3.448%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (3.448%) Social Gaming
5 1 (3.448%) Visualisation
5 1 (3.448%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (3.448%) Online Games
5 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.448%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Android
2 11 (37.93%) Apple iOS
3 7 (24.14%) UNIX
3 7 (24.14%) Windows
4 5 (17.24%) Linux
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (6.897%) Windows Phone 8
6 2 (6.897%) Windows Phone
7 1 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) OO
2 13 (44.83%) MVC
3 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (17.24%) Web Development
4 5 (17.24%) OOP
5 4 (13.79%) Migration
5 4 (13.79%) Multithreading
6 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.897%) Web Design
7 2 (6.897%) Scrum
7 2 (6.897%) System Testing
7 2 (6.897%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (6.897%) Test Scripting
7 2 (6.897%) Memory Management
7 2 (6.897%) Analytics
7 2 (6.897%) Web Application Development
8 1 (3.448%) Mobile Application Development
8 1 (3.448%) Responsive Web Design
8 1 (3.448%) Game Development
8 1 (3.448%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) JavaScript
2 11 (37.93%) PHP
3 10 (34.48%) Java
4 9 (31.03%) SQL
5 7 (24.14%) Objective-C
6 3 (10.34%) C#
7 1 (3.448%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (3.448%) Ruby
7 1 (3.448%) ActionScript
7 1 (3.448%) C++
7 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.448%) Splunk
Vendors
1 27 (93.10%) Google
2 14 (48.28%) Facebook
3 12 (41.38%) Twitter
4 6 (20.69%) Adobe
5 2 (6.897%) Oracle
5 2 (6.897%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.448%) Sitecore
6 1 (3.448%) Telerik
6 1 (3.448%) Cisco
6 1 (3.448%) Microsoft
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