The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of PolarLake 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 PolarLake over the 3 months to 22 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 PolarLake Limited.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PolarLake
Rank 379 416 -
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -
Contract jobs citing PolarLake 8 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.036% 0.007% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.080% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £500 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
9944 12176 13868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.21% 44.54% 45.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6264 7379 8380
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £270 £280
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 294 302 402
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
PolarLake
England

PolarLake
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London PolarLake Jobs Demand Trend

PolarLake
Daily Rate Trend

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

London PolarLake Daily Rate Trend

PolarLake
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PolarLake within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +12 3 £500 +25.00%
PolarLake
England

PolarLake
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PolarLake 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 PolarLake.

1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
1 9 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
2 8 (88.89%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Data Integration
3 5 (55.56%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (33.33%) Middleware
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (11.11%) XPath
5 1 (11.11%) ESB
5 1 (11.11%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) XSLT
5 1 (11.11%) UNIX
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
5 1 (11.11%) HTTP
5 1 (11.11%) XQuery

PolarLake
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing PolarLake 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 PolarLake. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) ESB
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
General
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
1 9 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) XPath
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) XQuery
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) Bloomberg