The first table below looks at the demand for RDF 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 RDF 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 347 377 419
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +42
Contract jobs citing RDF 38 29 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.176% 0.108% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.236% 0.151% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 7
Average daily rate £400 £450 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £351 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £635 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £450 £326
% change year-on-year
-28.33% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
RDF
England

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London RDF Daily Rate Histogram

RDF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London RDF Hourly Rate Trend

RDF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF 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 +12 6 £390 +13.04%
RDF
England

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 33 (47.83%) Linux
2 31 (44.93%) XML
3 30 (43.48%) Finance
4 29 (42.03%) Shell Script
5 26 (37.68%) SAN
6 25 (36.23%) Solaris
6 25 (36.23%) EMC
6 25 (36.23%) Symmetrix DMX
7 24 (34.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 24 (34.78%) Sun
7 24 (34.78%) UNIX
7 24 (34.78%) Perl
7 24 (34.78%) Veritas
7 24 (34.78%) SUSE
7 24 (34.78%) VMware
8 23 (33.33%) Korn
9 22 (31.88%) Problem Management
9 22 (31.88%) Banking
9 22 (31.88%) Oracle
9 22 (31.88%) ITIL
10 21 (30.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 21 (30.43%) Semantic Web
11 20 (28.99%) Investment Banking
11 20 (28.99%) CSS
12 19 (27.54%) Sybase
13 18 (26.09%) AIX
13 18 (26.09%) SharePoint
13 18 (26.09%) Change Management
13 18 (26.09%) Wiki
14 17 (24.64%) Oracle Exadata

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 31 (44.93%) XML
2 20 (28.99%) CSS
3 12 (17.39%) HTML
3 12 (17.39%) XSLT
4 11 (15.94%) .NET
4 11 (15.94%) Web Services
5 10 (14.49%) RESTful
6 8 (11.59%) JSON
6 8 (11.59%) XSD
6 8 (11.59%) XML Schema
6 8 (11.59%) REST
7 7 (10.14%) XSL
8 5 (7.246%) ASP.NET
8 5 (7.246%) SOAP
8 5 (7.246%) XHTML
8 5 (7.246%) .NET Framework
8 5 (7.246%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (5.797%) HTML5
9 4 (5.797%) Spring
10 3 (4.348%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 18 (26.09%) SharePoint
2 8 (11.59%) Apache
3 3 (4.348%) CMS
3 3 (4.348%) Jetty
3 3 (4.348%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (4.348%) IIS
4 2 (2.899%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.899%) SAS
5 1 (1.449%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.449%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.449%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.449%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (1.449%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.449%) Kafka
5 1 (1.449%) Apache Pig
5 1 (1.449%) Amazon EMR
Applications
1 6 (8.696%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.348%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 5 (7.246%) RMDS
2 1 (1.449%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.449%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.68%) SAN
2 7 (10.14%) HTTP
3 4 (5.797%) Firewall
4 1 (1.449%) SSL
4 1 (1.449%) LDAP
4 1 (1.449%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) Oracle Exadata
2 9 (13.04%) MarkLogic
3 4 (5.797%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.797%) Big Data
4 3 (4.348%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.899%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.899%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.899%) MySQL
5 2 (2.899%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.899%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.899%) Hypertable
6 1 (1.449%) HBase
6 1 (1.449%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.449%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.449%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.449%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.449%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) PowerDesigner
2 5 (7.246%) Subversion
2 5 (7.246%) Git (software)
3 4 (5.797%) Hudson
4 3 (4.348%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.348%) Mercurial
4 3 (4.348%) Mockito
4 3 (4.348%) JUnit
4 3 (4.348%) Firebug
5 1 (1.449%) Maven
5 1 (1.449%) Log4j
General
1 30 (43.48%) Finance
2 22 (31.88%) Banking
3 20 (28.99%) Investment Banking
4 13 (18.84%) Publishing
5 3 (4.348%) Games
5 3 (4.348%) Legal
6 2 (2.899%) Music
7 1 (1.449%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.449%) French Language
7 1 (1.449%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Developer
1 18 (26.09%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 17 (24.64%) UNIX Administrator
2 17 (24.64%) Systems Administrator
2 17 (24.64%) Administrator
3 13 (18.84%) Architect
4 6 (8.696%) XML Developer
5 4 (5.797%) UNIX Engineer
5 4 (5.797%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Support Analyst
5 4 (5.797%) Applications Support
5 4 (5.797%) Analyst
5 4 (5.797%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.797%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (4.348%) Technical Architect
6 3 (4.348%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.899%) Software Developer
7 2 (2.899%) Consultant
7 2 (2.899%) C++ Developer
7 2 (2.899%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.23%) Symmetrix DMX
2 21 (30.43%) Semantic Web
3 18 (26.09%) Wiki
4 8 (11.59%) Data Conversion
5 6 (8.696%) Ontologies
5 6 (8.696%) W3C
6 4 (5.797%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.348%) iDTV
7 3 (4.348%) Linked Data
8 2 (2.899%) Visualisation
8 2 (2.899%) Open Source
8 2 (2.899%) Social Media
8 2 (2.899%) Digital Media
8 2 (2.899%) BBC
8 2 (2.899%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (2.899%) Mathematics
8 2 (2.899%) Computer Science
9 1 (1.449%) Replication
9 1 (1.449%) CLARiiON
9 1 (1.449%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 33 (47.83%) Linux
2 25 (36.23%) Solaris
3 24 (34.78%) UNIX
3 24 (34.78%) SUSE
4 18 (26.09%) AIX
5 6 (8.696%) Windows
6 4 (5.797%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) ITIL
1 22 (31.88%) Problem Management
2 18 (26.09%) Change Management
3 17 (24.64%) Migration
4 9 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (13.04%) Knowledge Management
5 8 (11.59%) Scrum
5 8 (11.59%) BDD
6 7 (10.14%) TDD
6 7 (10.14%) OO
7 6 (8.696%) MVC
7 6 (8.696%) Refactoring
8 5 (7.246%) Incident Management
9 4 (5.797%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (5.797%) E-Commerce
9 4 (5.797%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (4.348%) ATDD
10 3 (4.348%) Web Accessibility
10 3 (4.348%) Domain-Driven Design
10 3 (4.348%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 29 (42.03%) Shell Script
2 24 (34.78%) Perl
3 23 (33.33%) Korn
4 15 (21.74%) SPARQL
5 14 (20.29%) Java
6 12 (17.39%) JavaScript
7 11 (15.94%) Python
7 11 (15.94%) XQuery
8 6 (8.696%) Ruby
8 6 (8.696%) C#
8 6 (8.696%) C++
8 6 (8.696%) SQL
9 5 (7.246%) PHP
10 4 (5.797%) XPath
11 3 (4.348%) Groovy
11 3 (4.348%) VBA
11 3 (4.348%) Clojure
12 2 (2.899%) VC++
12 2 (2.899%) Scala
13 1 (1.449%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Degree
2 4 (5.797%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (2.899%) MBA
4 1 (1.449%) PMP
4 1 (1.449%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.449%) CCNA
4 1 (1.449%) ISEB
4 1 (1.449%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.449%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.449%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.449%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.246%) SLA
2 1 (1.449%) QA
System Software
1 24 (34.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 21 (30.43%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 15 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.899%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 4 (5.797%) Zenoss
2 1 (1.449%) EMC Navisphere
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) EMC
2 24 (34.78%) Veritas
2 24 (34.78%) Sun
2 24 (34.78%) VMware
3 22 (31.88%) Oracle
4 19 (27.54%) Sybase
5 5 (7.246%) Reuters
5 5 (7.246%) Bloomberg
6 4 (5.797%) Caplin
6 4 (5.797%) Kalahari
7 3 (4.348%) Sitecore
7 3 (4.348%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.899%) Cisco
9 1 (1.449%) HP
9 1 (1.449%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (1.449%) NetApp
9 1 (1.449%) Google
9 1 (1.449%) Symantec
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