The first table below looks at the demand for NServiceBus 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 NServiceBus 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
NServiceBus
Rank 376 412 429
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +17
Contract jobs citing NServiceBus 1 3 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.011% 0.042%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.025% 0.069% 0.253%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 13
Average daily rate £325 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +3.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -
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%
NServiceBus
England

NServiceBus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London NServiceBus Jobs Demand Trend

NServiceBus
Daily Rate Trend

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

London NServiceBus Daily Rate Trend

NServiceBus
Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Lucene
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) RavenDB
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

NServiceBus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Lucene
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL