The first table below looks at the demand for RFID 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 RFID over the 3 months to 24 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 Communications & Networking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)
Rank - 414 438
Contract jobs citing RFID 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.004% 0.013%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.027% 0.118%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £413 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +26.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £297 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
-20.73% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £7.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
RFID
England

RFID
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RFID Jobs Demand Trend

RFID
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RFID Daily Rate Trend

RFID
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London RFID Hourly Rate Trend

RFID
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RFID 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 RFID.

1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) OOD
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (75.00%) WinForms
1 3 (75.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) K2 blackpearl
3 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) ASP
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) MVC

RFID
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RFID 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 RFID. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) WinForms
1 3 (75.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) K2 blackpearl
3 1 (25.00%) ASP
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (75.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Lead Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Lead C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Agile C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OOD
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft