The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mandarin Language in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mandarin Language over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mandarin Language
Rank 377 405 438
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +33
Contract jobs citing Mandarin Language 7 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.031% 0.019% 0.016%
As % of the General category 0.060% 0.036% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 4
Average daily rate £375 £300 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -21.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £240
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £50.00
All of the General Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11731 13981 18344
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 51.44% 52.58% 58.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8192 9554 12567
Average daily rate £488 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.63% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 198 264
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.65% -4.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Mandarin Language
England

Mandarin Language
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Mandarin Language Jobs Demand Trend

Mandarin Language
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Mandarin Language Daily Rate Trend

Mandarin Language
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Mandarin Language Hourly Rate Trend

Mandarin Language
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Mandarin Language 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 Mandarin Language.

1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Front Office
2 5 (62.50%) Legal
2 5 (62.50%) MS PowerPoint
2 5 (62.50%) German Language
2 5 (62.50%) Reference Data
2 5 (62.50%) Bloomberg
2 5 (62.50%) VBA
3 3 (37.50%) MS Office
3 3 (37.50%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Cantonese Language
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) IBM Notes
4 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (25.00%) Broadband
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Lotus
4 2 (25.00%) 3G
4 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (12.50%) CRM
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Web Analytics

Mandarin Language
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Mandarin Language 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 Mandarin Language. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (62.50%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (37.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Broadband
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
1 2 (25.00%) 3G
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 5 (62.50%) Front Office
2 5 (62.50%) Legal
2 5 (62.50%) German Language
3 2 (25.00%) Cantonese Language
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Sales Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Reference Data
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) CRM
1 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
1 1 (12.50%) Customer Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Web Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Online Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Bloomberg
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Lotus