The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Mercator products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mercator 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Mercator Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercator
Rank 358 382 397
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +15
Contract jobs citing Mercator 19 33 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.088% 0.122% 0.145%
As % of the Vendors category 0.195% 0.275% 0.320%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 6
Average daily rate £400 £500 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +69.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £350 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £570 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 296 406
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Mercator
England

Mercator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Mercator Jobs Demand Trend

Mercator
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Mercator Daily Rate Trend

Mercator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Mercator Daily Rate Histogram

Mercator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Mercator Hourly Rate Trend

Mercator
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator 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 6 £388 -
Mercator
England

Mercator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (30.23%) Oracle
2 11 (25.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 10 (23.26%) Publishing
3 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
4 9 (20.93%) Java
5 8 (18.60%) C#
6 7 (16.28%) .NET
6 7 (16.28%) Windows
6 7 (16.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (13.95%) WebSphere
7 6 (13.95%) .NET Framework
7 6 (13.95%) WCF
7 6 (13.95%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (13.95%) Oracle 8/8i
7 6 (13.95%) Python
7 6 (13.95%) XSLT
7 6 (13.95%) HTML
7 6 (13.95%) CSS
7 6 (13.95%) IBM
7 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
7 6 (13.95%) XQuery
7 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
7 6 (13.95%) WebSphere MQ
7 6 (13.95%) Middleware
8 5 (11.63%) W3C
8 5 (11.63%) XML
8 5 (11.63%) SWIFT
8 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
8 5 (11.63%) Temenos T24

Mercator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (16.28%) .NET
2 6 (13.95%) WebSphere
2 6 (13.95%) .NET Framework
2 6 (13.95%) WCF
2 6 (13.95%) XSLT
2 6 (13.95%) HTML
2 6 (13.95%) CSS
2 6 (13.95%) Middleware
3 5 (11.63%) XML
4 2 (4.651%) Oracle ADF
4 2 (4.651%) Ajax
4 2 (4.651%) Web Services
5 1 (2.326%) XHTML
5 1 (2.326%) J2EE
5 1 (2.326%) SOAP
5 1 (2.326%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.326%) COM
5 1 (2.326%) Velocity
5 1 (2.326%) Spring
5 1 (2.326%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.95%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (4.651%) Lync
2 2 (4.651%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.326%) CMS
3 1 (2.326%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (2.326%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Temenos T24
2 3 (6.977%) SAP GTS
3 2 (4.651%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) SAN
1 1 (2.326%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (16.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (13.95%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (13.95%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (6.977%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.326%) MarkLogic
5 1 (2.326%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.651%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.326%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
1 10 (23.26%) Publishing
2 4 (9.302%) Banking
2 4 (9.302%) Financial Institution
3 2 (4.651%) Front Office
3 2 (4.651%) Back Office
4 1 (2.326%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.326%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (32.56%) Consultant
2 11 (25.58%) Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Architect
4 6 (13.95%) Middleware Developer
5 5 (11.63%) Wintel Consultant
6 4 (9.302%) Storage Consultant
6 4 (9.302%) Oracle Consultant
6 4 (9.302%) Analyst
7 3 (6.977%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.977%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.651%) ERP Manager
8 2 (4.651%) SOA Consultant
8 2 (4.651%) Test Team Leader
8 2 (4.651%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (4.651%) C# Developer
8 2 (4.651%) Team Leader
8 2 (4.651%) ERP Project Manager
8 2 (4.651%) Oracle SOA Consultant
9 1 (2.326%) DBA
9 1 (2.326%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) W3C
1 5 (11.63%) SWIFT
1 5 (11.63%) Data Conversion
2 2 (4.651%) APACS
2 2 (4.651%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Windows
2 1 (2.326%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.58%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (11.63%) Software Testing
3 4 (9.302%) Change Management
4 3 (6.977%) Migration
4 3 (6.977%) Project Management
4 3 (6.977%) PRINCE2
4 3 (6.977%) ERP
4 3 (6.977%) SOA
4 3 (6.977%) Scrum
4 3 (6.977%) Test Scripting
4 3 (6.977%) Unit Testing
5 2 (4.651%) Feature Driven Development
5 2 (4.651%) Matrix Management
5 2 (4.651%) Test Management
5 2 (4.651%) System Testing
5 2 (4.651%) Content Management
5 2 (4.651%) TDD
5 2 (4.651%) UML
5 2 (4.651%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (4.651%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) Java
2 8 (18.60%) C#
3 6 (13.95%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) XQuery
4 2 (4.651%) PL/SQL
4 2 (4.651%) SQL
5 1 (2.326%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.326%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.326%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.326%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.326%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (2.326%) SCCM
1 1 (2.326%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Oracle
2 6 (13.95%) IBM
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.63%) VMware
4 4 (9.302%) OpenLink
5 3 (6.977%) SAP
5 3 (6.977%) T-Plan
6 2 (4.651%) Polycom
6 2 (4.651%) PeopleSoft
6 2 (4.651%) Siebel
6 2 (4.651%) Cisco
7 1 (2.326%) EMC
7 1 (2.326%) Sitecore