The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of RightScale 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 RightScale 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 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 RightScale, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RightScale
Rank 369 413 -
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -
Contract jobs citing RightScale 8 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.007% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.082% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
Average daily rate £369 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.35% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £355 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 296 406
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
RightScale
England

RightScale
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RightScale Jobs Demand Trend

RightScale
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RightScale Daily Rate Trend

RightScale
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RightScale across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London RightScale Daily Rate Histogram

RightScale
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (73.33%) Continuous Integration
1 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (66.67%) ZABBIX
2 10 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 10 (66.67%) SOA
2 10 (66.67%) JIRA
3 9 (60.00%) Puppet
3 9 (60.00%) Hudson
4 8 (53.33%) Git (software)
5 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
5 7 (46.67%) Amazon AWS
5 7 (46.67%) Maven
5 7 (46.67%) E-Commerce
5 7 (46.67%) Java
5 7 (46.67%) J2EE
6 6 (40.00%) MySQL
6 6 (40.00%) Oracle
6 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (40.00%) SOAP
6 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (40.00%) Perl
6 6 (40.00%) PHP
6 6 (40.00%) XML
6 6 (40.00%) UNIX
6 6 (40.00%) Linux
6 6 (40.00%) JBoss
6 6 (40.00%) Apache
6 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
6 6 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
6 6 (40.00%) Flash

RightScale
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (46.67%) J2EE
2 6 (40.00%) SOAP
2 6 (40.00%) XML
2 6 (40.00%) Flash
2 6 (40.00%) DHTML
2 6 (40.00%) HTML
2 6 (40.00%) Ajax
2 6 (40.00%) Java EE
2 6 (40.00%) HTML5
2 6 (40.00%) REST
2 6 (40.00%) WSRP
2 6 (40.00%) JSR 168
3 5 (33.33%) .NET
4 4 (26.67%) LAMP
5 2 (13.33%) Web Services
6 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
6 1 (6.667%) Spring
6 1 (6.667%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Apache
2 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) LiveSite
4 1 (6.667%) Mule
4 1 (6.667%) ESB
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Google Analytics
1 3 (20.00%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) SAN
1 6 (40.00%) HTTP
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
1 6 (40.00%) SSL
1 6 (40.00%) RTSP
1 6 (40.00%) RTP
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
1 6 (40.00%) NAS
1 6 (40.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (46.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (40.00%) MySQL
3 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 6 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 6 (40.00%) CouchDB
3 6 (40.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (66.67%) JIRA
3 9 (60.00%) Hudson
4 8 (53.33%) Git (software)
5 7 (46.67%) Maven
6 6 (40.00%) Selenium
7 4 (26.67%) LoadRunner
7 4 (26.67%) JMeter
8 2 (13.33%) GitHub
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Web Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Web Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Taxonomies
1 6 (40.00%) Ontologies
2 3 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) UNIX
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (66.67%) SOA
3 7 (46.67%) E-Commerce
4 6 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (40.00%) DRM
4 6 (40.00%) Information Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) BDD
5 4 (26.67%) Feature Driven Development
5 4 (26.67%) Agile Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Web Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (6.667%) Performance Testing
7 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.667%) Identity Management
7 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
7 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Perl
2 6 (40.00%) PHP
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) ZABBIX
2 9 (60.00%) Puppet
3 6 (40.00%) Nagios
3 6 (40.00%) OpenView
4 4 (26.67%) HP SiteScope
5 3 (20.00%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
1 6 (40.00%) JBoss
1 6 (40.00%) Rackspace
2 4 (26.67%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) Google