The first table below looks at the demand for Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reactive Extensions (Rx)
Rank 370 393 431
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +38
Contract jobs citing Reactive Extensions 7 17 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.063% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category 0.111% 0.226% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 4
Average daily rate £675 £510 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.48% +1.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £280 £275
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 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Reactive Extensions
England

Reactive Extensions
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Reactive Extensions Jobs Demand Trend

Reactive Extensions
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Reactive Extensions Daily Rate Trend

Reactive Extensions
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reactive Extensions within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +17 4 £688 +19.56%
Reactive Extensions
England

Reactive Extensions
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions.

1 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) WPF
2 13 (86.67%) .NET
3 12 (80.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (80.00%) Front Office
4 9 (60.00%) MVVM
4 9 (60.00%) Multithreading
4 9 (60.00%) TDD
5 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
5 7 (46.67%) TIBCO
6 6 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 5 (33.33%) Rendezvous
8 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (20.00%) Banking
9 3 (20.00%) Infragistics
9 3 (20.00%) HTTP
9 3 (20.00%) Windows
9 3 (20.00%) OO
9 3 (20.00%) WCF
9 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (20.00%) DevExpress
9 3 (20.00%) Silverlight
9 3 (20.00%) LINQ
9 3 (20.00%) Syncfusion
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (20.00%) Derivative
10 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
10 2 (13.33%) Inversion of Control
10 2 (13.33%) Greeks
10 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software

Reactive Extensions
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) WPF
2 13 (86.67%) .NET
3 6 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 3 (20.00%) WCF
4 3 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (20.00%) Silverlight
4 3 (20.00%) LINQ
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.667%) Lucene
6 1 (6.667%) COM
6 1 (6.667%) CSS
6 1 (6.667%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) Rendezvous
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.667%) MarkLogic
2 1 (6.667%) KDB
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Moq
1 2 (13.33%) NUnit
2 1 (6.667%) Subversion
2 1 (6.667%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.667%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Front Office
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) WPF Developer
3 9 (60.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Front Office Developer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) UI Programmer
5 1 (6.667%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (20.00%) Derivative
3 2 (13.33%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (13.33%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) MVVM
1 9 (60.00%) Multithreading
1 9 (60.00%) TDD
2 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Greeks
5 2 (13.33%) OOD
6 1 (6.667%) SOA
6 1 (6.667%) BDD
6 1 (6.667%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) TIBCO
2 3 (20.00%) Infragistics
2 3 (20.00%) DevExpress
2 3 (20.00%) Syncfusion
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Sybase
4 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.667%) 29West
London
WPF C# Silverlight Developer. C#, Silverlight, .Net, WPF, UI, UX, Rx, FX, RFQ, E-Trading C# WPF developer part of agile team working directly in Front Office on...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £700 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
A senior C# WPF developer is required by a leading investment bank to develop and deliver a new suite of front office FX trading UIs, using the cutting...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
The application is developed in C#, WPF and MVVM which integrates into an F# Server, F# is not a requirement but would be nice to have... C#, WPF,...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £575pd or £100k
Posted: 21 May 2013