The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Publishing in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Publishing 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 terms in our General 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
Publishing
Rank 115 151 204
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +53
Contract jobs citing Publishing 373 334 273
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.727% 1.247% 0.874%
As % of the General category 3.360% 2.348% 1.473%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 207 182
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £518 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £365 £338
% change year-on-year
-10.95% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 15
Average hourly rate £18.92 £15.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.12% -21.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.75 £12.50 £14.91
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.27 £21.80 £27.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+12.12% -5.71%
All of the General Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
11100 14226 18536
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 51.41% 53.12% 59.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7789 9705 12601
Average daily rate £500 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 228 299
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.00 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Publishing
England

Publishing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Publishing Jobs Demand Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Publishing Daily Rate Trend

Publishing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Publishing Daily Rate Histogram

Publishing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Publishing Hourly Rate Trend

Publishing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Publishing across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Publishing Hourly Rate Histogram

Publishing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Publishing within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 -5 79 £350 -
Feltham - 5 £250 -
Kingston Upon Thames +1 4 £375 -
Bromley - 4 £325 -
Brentford - 3 £400 -
Docklands, London - 2 £475 -
Uxbridge - 2 £310 -
Hammersmith - 2 £208 -
Hounslow -2 1 £450 +350.00%
Canary Wharf - 1 £500 -
Hackney - 1 - -
Publishing
England

Publishing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 188 (26.11%) HTML
2 180 (25.00%) CSS
3 143 (19.86%) JavaScript
4 125 (17.36%) Agile Software Development
5 119 (16.53%) Java
6 114 (15.83%) Finance
7 107 (14.86%) Content Management
8 104 (14.44%) XML
9 96 (13.33%) CMS
10 85 (11.81%) Scrum
11 83 (11.53%) .NET
12 79 (10.97%) TDD
13 78 (10.83%) jQuery
14 70 (9.722%) C#
14 70 (9.722%) XSLT
15 69 (9.583%) SQL Server
16 64 (8.889%) E-Commerce
16 64 (8.889%) Degree
17 63 (8.750%) Web Services
17 63 (8.750%) HTML5
18 62 (8.611%) Migration
19 59 (8.194%) Project Management
20 55 (7.639%) Microsoft
21 50 (6.944%) Legal
22 49 (6.806%) Windows
23 48 (6.667%) CSS3
24 47 (6.528%) XQuery
24 47 (6.528%) SharePoint
25 46 (6.389%) J2EE
25 46 (6.389%) Oracle

Publishing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 188 (26.11%) HTML
2 180 (25.00%) CSS
3 104 (14.44%) XML
4 83 (11.53%) .NET
5 78 (10.83%) jQuery
6 70 (9.722%) XSLT
7 63 (8.750%) Web Services
7 63 (8.750%) HTML5
8 48 (6.667%) CSS3
9 46 (6.389%) J2EE
10 45 (6.250%) RESTful
11 40 (5.556%) Spring
11 40 (5.556%) REST
12 34 (4.722%) ASP.NET
12 34 (4.722%) XSD
13 28 (3.889%) Ajax
14 24 (3.333%) XHTML
15 23 (3.194%) JSON
16 20 (2.778%) SOAP
17 19 (2.639%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 96 (13.33%) CMS
2 47 (6.528%) SharePoint
3 30 (4.167%) Apache
4 25 (3.472%) Adobe CQ
5 24 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
6 15 (2.083%) Tomcat
6 15 (2.083%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (1.667%) Sitecore CMS
8 11 (1.528%) IIS
8 11 (1.528%) Documentum
9 10 (1.389%) MS Exchange
9 10 (1.389%) ESB
9 10 (1.389%) Amazon AWS
10 9 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (1.250%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.833%) Force.com
11 6 (0.833%) WebSphere Application Server
11 6 (0.833%) TeamSite
11 6 (0.833%) WebSphere Process Server
12 5 (0.694%) Mule
Applications
1 33 (4.583%) Photoshop
2 32 (4.444%) MS Visio
3 31 (4.306%) MS Office
4 26 (3.611%) MS Excel
5 12 (1.667%) MS PowerPoint
5 12 (1.667%) Adobe Illustrator
6 10 (1.389%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.556%) MS Project
8 3 (0.417%) Fireworks
8 3 (0.417%) XMetaL
9 2 (0.278%) InDesign
9 2 (0.278%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.139%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.139%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.139%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.139%) PageMaker
Business Applications
1 7 (0.972%) Google Analytics
2 6 (0.833%) Hyperion Planning
3 5 (0.694%) HFM
4 4 (0.556%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 3 (0.417%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.278%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.139%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.139%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.139%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.139%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.139%) Taleo
7 1 (0.139%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.139%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.139%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.556%) Intranet
2 32 (4.444%) Internet
3 16 (2.222%) HTTP
4 9 (1.250%) DNS
5 7 (0.972%) SAN
6 4 (0.556%) Firewall
6 4 (0.556%) DHCP
7 3 (0.417%) LDAP
7 3 (0.417%) LAN
7 3 (0.417%) CTI
7 3 (0.417%) FTP
8 2 (0.278%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.278%) NAS
8 2 (0.278%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.278%) WAN
8 2 (0.278%) SSL
8 2 (0.278%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.139%) VPN
9 1 (0.139%) Cisco PIX
9 1 (0.139%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (9.583%) SQL Server
2 38 (5.278%) MySQL
3 23 (3.194%) MarkLogic
4 21 (2.917%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
6 19 (2.639%) Hadoop
7 18 (2.500%) Big Data
8 16 (2.222%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.222%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 15 (2.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (1.667%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 12 (1.667%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.528%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.389%) Oracle 10g
13 8 (1.111%) DecisionStream
13 8 (1.111%) SQL Server 2005
14 7 (0.972%) Oracle BI EE
14 7 (0.972%) TOAD
14 7 (0.972%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.972%) DB2
Development Applications
1 23 (3.194%) JUnit
2 22 (3.056%) Jenkins
3 20 (2.778%) Subversion
4 19 (2.639%) JIRA
5 17 (2.361%) Git (software)
6 16 (2.222%) Visual Studio
7 15 (2.083%) SpecFlow
8 14 (1.944%) Xcode
9 11 (1.528%) Selenium
9 11 (1.528%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.389%) Hudson
11 9 (1.250%) Dreamweaver
12 8 (1.111%) WebDriver
12 8 (1.111%) GitHub
13 7 (0.972%) Jasmine
13 7 (0.972%) PHPUnit
13 7 (0.972%) Maven
14 5 (0.694%) MSI
14 5 (0.694%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.556%) Mercurial
General
1 114 (15.83%) Finance
2 50 (6.944%) Legal
3 43 (5.972%) Marketing
4 28 (3.889%) Telecoms
5 24 (3.333%) Banking
6 12 (1.667%) Retail
6 12 (1.667%) Games
7 10 (1.389%) Advertising
8 9 (1.250%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (0.972%) Multimedia
10 6 (0.833%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.833%) Back Office
11 5 (0.694%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.694%) Law
12 3 (0.417%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.417%) General Ledger
12 3 (0.417%) Local Government
13 2 (0.278%) Billing
13 2 (0.278%) Front Office
13 2 (0.278%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 249 (34.58%) Developer
2 83 (11.53%) Analyst
3 63 (8.750%) Architect
4 51 (7.083%) Project Manager
5 47 (6.528%) Business Analyst
6 39 (5.417%) Java Developer
7 38 (5.278%) Senior Developer
8 29 (4.028%) Consultant
9 25 (3.472%) Front-End Developer
10 24 (3.333%) Web Developer
11 20 (2.778%) Content Editor
12 18 (2.500%) Linux Engineer
12 18 (2.500%) Content Manager
12 18 (2.500%) iOS Developer
13 17 (2.361%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.222%) Administrator
15 15 (2.083%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (2.083%) DevOps Engineer
15 15 (2.083%) SharePoint Developer
15 15 (2.083%) Web Producer
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.972%) W3C
2 34 (4.722%) Digital Media
3 28 (3.889%) Social Media
3 28 (3.889%) Management Information System
3 28 (3.889%) Data Conversion
4 22 (3.056%) Open Source
5 20 (2.778%) iPad
6 19 (2.639%) Semantic Web
7 16 (2.222%) iPhone
8 13 (1.806%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.667%) Computer Science
10 11 (1.528%) Mathematics
11 10 (1.389%) Copywriting
12 9 (1.250%) Blog
12 9 (1.250%) Smartphone
13 8 (1.111%) Blackberry
14 7 (0.972%) Online Banking
14 7 (0.972%) New Media
15 6 (0.833%) Enterprise Software
15 6 (0.833%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.806%) Windows
2 42 (5.833%) Apple iOS
3 39 (5.417%) Linux
4 29 (4.028%) Android
5 24 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (1.944%) UNIX
7 10 (1.389%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (1.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.972%) Windows Mobile
9 7 (0.972%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.972%) CentOS
10 3 (0.417%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.417%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.417%) Solaris
11 2 (0.278%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.278%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.278%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.139%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.139%) OpenVMS
12 1 (0.139%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (17.36%) Agile Software Development
2 107 (14.86%) Content Management
3 85 (11.81%) Scrum
4 79 (10.97%) TDD
5 64 (8.889%) E-Commerce
6 62 (8.611%) Migration
7 59 (8.194%) Project Management
8 44 (6.111%) BDD
9 42 (5.833%) MVC
10 38 (5.278%) CRM
11 35 (4.861%) OO
12 30 (4.167%) PRINCE2
12 30 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (4.028%) ITIL
13 29 (4.028%) Analytics
14 28 (3.889%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (3.056%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (3.056%) SEO
16 21 (2.917%) Change Management
16 21 (2.917%) UML
Programming Languages
1 143 (19.86%) JavaScript
2 119 (16.53%) Java
3 70 (9.722%) C#
4 47 (6.528%) XQuery
5 43 (5.972%) SQL
6 39 (5.417%) Ruby
6 39 (5.417%) Python
7 24 (3.333%) Groovy
7 24 (3.333%) PHP
8 20 (2.778%) Objective-C
9 19 (2.639%) PowerShell
10 16 (2.222%) Perl
11 13 (1.806%) C++
11 13 (1.806%) Scala
12 12 (1.667%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.528%) VB
13 11 (1.528%) C
14 10 (1.389%) XPath
15 8 (1.111%) SPARQL
15 8 (1.111%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (8.889%) Degree
2 17 (2.361%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.111%) SC Cleared
4 6 (0.833%) CIPD
4 6 (0.833%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 6 (0.833%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (0.694%) MCITP
5 5 (0.694%) ISEB
6 4 (0.556%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.417%) CISSP
7 3 (0.417%) MCSE
7 3 (0.417%) CISM
8 2 (0.278%) CIMA
8 2 (0.278%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.278%) CCNA
8 2 (0.278%) CCA
8 2 (0.278%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (0.278%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.278%) CCAA
9 1 (0.139%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.972%) QA
2 5 (0.694%) WAI
3 4 (0.556%) SLA
3 4 (0.556%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.139%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (3.750%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.667%) XenApp
3 7 (0.972%) Microsoft App-V
4 6 (0.833%) Squid
5 4 (0.556%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.556%) VMware ESX
6 3 (0.417%) Forefront TMG
6 3 (0.417%) UAG
7 2 (0.278%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.278%) XenServer
7 2 (0.278%) ISA Server
7 2 (0.278%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.278%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.139%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.139%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.139%) vSphere
8 1 (0.139%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 15 (2.083%) Puppet
2 12 (1.667%) SCCM
3 9 (1.250%) SCOM
4 6 (0.833%) Tivoli
4 6 (0.833%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 2 (0.278%) MOM
5 2 (0.278%) MIMEsweeper
5 2 (0.278%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.278%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.139%) AppDNA
6 1 (0.139%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.139%) Nagios
Vendors
1 55 (7.639%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.389%) Oracle
3 41 (5.694%) Adobe
4 25 (3.472%) Siebel
5 19 (2.639%) IBM
6 17 (2.361%) Sitecore
7 16 (2.222%) VMware
7 16 (2.222%) Citrix
8 15 (2.083%) Salesforce.com
9 13 (1.806%) EMC
9 13 (1.806%) Google
10 11 (1.528%) Omniture
11 10 (1.389%) Mercator
12 9 (1.250%) HP
12 9 (1.250%) Cognos
13 8 (1.111%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.111%) Apple
13 8 (1.111%) Symantec
13 8 (1.111%) Zend
14 7 (0.972%) Sencha
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