The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of RedDot 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 RedDot over the 3 months to 18 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 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 RedDot Solutions.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RedDot
Rank 383 - 445
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RedDot 9 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.039% - 0.032%
As % of the Vendors category 0.087% - 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
Average daily rate £325 - £283
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £275 £275
% change year-on-year
+31.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £19.00 -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10387 11971 14407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.04% 44.95% 45.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6537 7224 8747
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 307 400
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.50 £40.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
RedDot
England

RedDot
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RedDot Jobs Demand Trend

RedDot
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RedDot Daily Rate Trend

RedDot
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London RedDot Hourly Rate Trend

RedDot
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RedDot 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 RedDot.

1 12 (80.00%) CMS
2 11 (73.33%) HTML
3 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
3 8 (53.33%) .NET
3 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
4 6 (40.00%) XML
4 6 (40.00%) Open Text
5 5 (33.33%) Intranet
5 5 (33.33%) CSS
5 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (33.33%) PHP
5 5 (33.33%) Content Management
5 5 (33.33%) jQuery
6 3 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (20.00%) Statistics
6 3 (20.00%) Degree
6 3 (20.00%) Freedom of Information Act
6 3 (20.00%) Copywriting
6 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
6 3 (20.00%) C#
6 3 (20.00%) MS Office
6 3 (20.00%) Adobe
6 3 (20.00%) W3C
6 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
6 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
6 3 (20.00%) Publishing
7 2 (13.33%) Scrum
7 2 (13.33%) Subversion
7 2 (13.33%) Zachman Framework
7 2 (13.33%) TOGAF

RedDot
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RedDot 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 RedDot. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (73.33%) HTML
2 8 (53.33%) .NET
2 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET
3 6 (40.00%) XML
4 5 (33.33%) jQuery
4 5 (33.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) Node.js
6 1 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 12 (80.00%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
1 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.667%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Publishing
2 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Tester
3 1 (6.667%) UAT Tester
3 1 (6.667%) Content Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Intranet Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) W3C
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (20.00%) Freedom of Information
1 3 (20.00%) Statistics
1 3 (20.00%) Freedom of Information Act
1 3 (20.00%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Content Management
2 2 (13.33%) Scrum
2 2 (13.33%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) RUP
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Information Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.667%) Release Management
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) Regression Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.667%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Varnish
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Open Text
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Adobe
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