The first table below looks at the demand for LiveSite 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 LiveSite 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Autonomy LiveSite
Rank 368 411 412
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +1
Contract jobs citing LiveSite 9 4 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.042% 0.015% 0.097%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.224% 0.092% 0.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 21
Average daily rate £400 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -13.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 - £341
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
4012 4358 5145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.53% 16.18% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2559 2703 3152
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 £239 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 128 175
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
LiveSite
England

LiveSite
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London LiveSite Jobs Demand Trend

LiveSite
Daily Rate Trend

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

London LiveSite Daily Rate Trend

LiveSite
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (70.00%) XML
2 6 (60.00%) XSLT
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
2 6 (60.00%) TeamSite
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) JSP
3 5 (50.00%) Servlets
4 4 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (40.00%) LAMP
4 4 (40.00%) Open Source
4 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (30.00%) Cobbler
5 3 (30.00%) RightScale
5 3 (30.00%) Puppet
5 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (20.00%) Finance
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (20.00%) Hudson
6 2 (20.00%) J2EE
6 2 (20.00%) Apache
6 2 (20.00%) PHP
7 1 (10.00%) Rackspace
7 1 (10.00%) Tomcat

LiveSite
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (70.00%) XML
2 6 (60.00%) XSLT
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) JSP
3 5 (50.00%) Servlets
4 4 (40.00%) LAMP
5 2 (20.00%) J2EE
6 1 (10.00%) Flash
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) DHTML
6 1 (10.00%) SOAP
6 1 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) HTML5
6 1 (10.00%) WSRP
6 1 (10.00%) JSR 168
6 1 (10.00%) Ajax
6 1 (10.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) TeamSite
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (10.00%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) RTP
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
1 1 (10.00%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) IDOL
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Hudson
3 1 (10.00%) OpenDeploy
3 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) French Language
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (10.00%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) DRM
3 1 (10.00%) Information Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Content Management
3 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Cobbler
1 3 (30.00%) Puppet
1 3 (30.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) RightScale
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Rackspace
3 1 (10.00%) Interwoven
3 1 (10.00%) JBoss
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase