The first table below looks at the demand for MonoRail 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 MonoRail 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 Development 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
Castle MonoRail
Rank 382 404 431
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +27
Contract jobs citing MonoRail 3 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the Application Development category 0.048% 0.027% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
Average daily rate £450 £403 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.80% -19.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6267 7466 9557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.02% 27.88% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4907 6404
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 103 140
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
MonoRail
England

MonoRail
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MonoRail Jobs Demand Trend

MonoRail
Daily Rate Trend

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

London MonoRail Daily Rate Trend

MonoRail
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) NHibernate
2 4 (80.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (80.00%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (80.00%) Web Application Development
2 4 (80.00%) Castle Windsor
2 4 (80.00%) NUnit
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) WPF
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Tandem
4 2 (40.00%) MVVM
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) WinForms
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) MCTS

MonoRail
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Castle Windsor
2 4 (80.00%) Razor View Engine
2 4 (80.00%) NHibernate
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) WPF
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (40.00%) WinForms
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) NUnit
1 4 (80.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) NetAdvantage
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Tandem
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (40.00%) MVVM
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) MCP
1 2 (40.00%) MCAD
1 2 (40.00%) MCSD
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Infragistics
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