The first table below looks at the demand for NCover 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 NCover 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 Development Applications 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
NCover
Rank - 412 427
Contract jobs citing NCover 0 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.011% 0.048%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.117% 0.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 15
Average daily rate - £650 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £415 £250
% change year-on-year
- +66.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2619 2575 3549
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.09% 9.559% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1928 1748 2418
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 31
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £29.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +20.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
NCover
England

NCover
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London NCover Jobs Demand Trend

NCover
Daily Rate Trend

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

London NCover Daily Rate Trend

NCover
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London NCover Hourly Rate Trend

NCover
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) WinForms
2 2 (50.00%) NUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) XAML
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) COM
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint

NCover
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) COM
3 1 (25.00%) DHTML
3 1 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (25.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Velocity
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (25.00%) MSBuild
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (25.00%) Moq
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) XAML
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft