The first table below looks at the demand for IDOL 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 IDOL 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
Autonomy IDOL
Rank 374 412 435
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +23
Contract jobs citing IDOL 3 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.011% 0.023%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.066% 0.060% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £550 £575 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% +53.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £575 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £575 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £1,000 £400 -
% change year-on-year
+150.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4528 5041 6211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.91% 18.71% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3111 3262 3947
Average daily rate £430 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 43 54
Average hourly rate £22.85 £26.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.11% +6.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £17.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
IDOL
England

IDOL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IDOL across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

London IDOL Jobs Demand Trend

IDOL
Daily Rate Trend

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

London IDOL Daily Rate Trend

IDOL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London IDOL Hourly Rate Trend

IDOL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IDOL 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 +15 1 - -
IDOL
England

IDOL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Content Management
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (25.00%) Use Case
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) WorkSite
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) French Language
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
3 1 (12.50%) LiveSite
3 1 (12.50%) Optimost
3 1 (12.50%) Social Media

IDOL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Lucene
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (25.00%) WorkSite
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 1 (12.50%) LiveSite
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) TeamSite
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Optimost
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
1 1 (12.50%) OpenDeploy
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) French Language
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Law
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
2 1 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Functional Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Social Media
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Content Management
1 2 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
2 1 (12.50%) Document Management
2 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) MCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (12.50%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Facebook
3 1 (12.50%) Meridio
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Interwoven
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase