The first table below looks at the demand for Parsley 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 Parsley 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Spicefactory Parsley
Rank 366 385 398
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +13
Contract jobs citing Parsley 18 25 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.079% 0.094% 0.143%
As % of the Application Development category 0.258% 0.326% 0.469%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 31
Average daily rate £450 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 - £263
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6974 7680 9585
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 30.58% 28.89% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5047 5216 6511
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £285
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 93 104 116
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +46.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £19.52 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £67.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Parsley
England

Parsley
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Parsley Jobs Demand Trend

Parsley
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Parsley Daily Rate Trend

Parsley
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parsley within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
City of London +3 2 £575 +4.54%
Parsley
England

Parsley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (80.95%) Apache Flex
1 17 (80.95%) Finance
2 15 (71.43%) Java
3 14 (66.67%) Adobe
4 12 (57.14%) Front Office
4 12 (57.14%) CSS
5 11 (52.38%) OOP
5 11 (52.38%) Banking
6 10 (47.62%) FlexUnit
7 9 (42.86%) Dependency Injection
7 9 (42.86%) MVC
8 8 (38.10%) Windows
8 8 (38.10%) UML
8 8 (38.10%) Confluence
8 8 (38.10%) Unit Testing
8 8 (38.10%) Investment Management
8 8 (38.10%) Cairngorm
8 8 (38.10%) Maven
8 8 (38.10%) Adobe AIR
8 8 (38.10%) JIRA
9 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
10 5 (23.81%) RIA
10 5 (23.81%) HTML5
10 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
11 4 (19.05%) Internet
11 4 (19.05%) Information Architecture
12 3 (14.29%) Spring
12 3 (14.29%) OO
12 3 (14.29%) Python
12 3 (14.29%) Fixed Income

Parsley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (80.95%) Apache Flex
2 12 (57.14%) CSS
3 8 (38.10%) Cairngorm
3 8 (38.10%) Adobe AIR
4 5 (23.81%) HTML5
5 3 (14.29%) Spring
6 2 (9.524%) Middleware
6 2 (9.524%) Spring Security
6 2 (9.524%) BlazeDS
6 2 (9.524%) CSS3
6 2 (9.524%) Ember.js
6 2 (9.524%) AngularJS
7 1 (4.762%) jQuery
7 1 (4.762%) WSDL
7 1 (4.762%) Flash
7 1 (4.762%) HTML
7 1 (4.762%) J2EE
7 1 (4.762%) SOAP
7 1 (4.762%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) FlexUnit
2 8 (38.10%) Maven
2 8 (38.10%) JIRA
General
1 17 (80.95%) Finance
2 12 (57.14%) Front Office
3 11 (52.38%) Banking
4 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Developer
1 19 (90.48%) Flex Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Flex Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Designer
3 2 (9.524%) User Experience Designer
4 1 (4.762%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.762%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Perl Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) RIA
2 3 (14.29%) Fixed Income
3 2 (9.524%) Derivative
3 2 (9.524%) Graphic Design
3 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
3 2 (9.524%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 1 (4.762%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) OOP
2 9 (42.86%) Dependency Injection
2 9 (42.86%) MVC
3 8 (38.10%) UML
3 8 (38.10%) Unit Testing
3 8 (38.10%) Investment Management
4 4 (19.05%) Information Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) OO
6 2 (9.524%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (9.524%) TDD
6 2 (9.524%) Business Analysis
6 2 (9.524%) AOP
6 2 (9.524%) Electronic Trading
7 1 (4.762%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) Python
4 2 (9.524%) ActionScript
5 1 (4.762%) Korn
5 1 (4.762%) Perl
5 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) Degree
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Adobe
2 3 (14.29%) Sybase
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle
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