The first table below looks at the demand for LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle over the 3 months to 17 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 Platforms 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe LiveCycle
Rank 384 399 424
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +25
Contract jobs citing LiveCycle 1 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.026% 0.042%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.025% 0.162% 0.249%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
Average daily rate £290 £450 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% -18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £425 £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4017 4309 5220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.60% 16.09% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2587 2679 3212
Average daily rate £400 £385 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 124 176
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.35 £12.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £60.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
LiveCycle
England

LiveCycle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London LiveCycle Jobs Demand Trend

LiveCycle
Daily Rate Trend

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

London LiveCycle Daily Rate Trend

LiveCycle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London LiveCycle Hourly Rate Trend

LiveCycle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LiveCycle within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +10 1 £290 -35.55%
LiveCycle
England

LiveCycle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle.

1 5 (100.00%) Adobe
2 3 (60.00%) VBA
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (20.00%) V-Model
4 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000

LiveCycle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Workflow
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) V-Model
2 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
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