The first table below looks at the demand for RSS 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 RSS over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Rank 384 400 425
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +25
Contract jobs citing RSS 3 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.066% 0.026%
As % of the Application Development category 0.047% 0.235% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 2
Average daily rate £364 £375 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.00% +17.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £375
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
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
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 £280 £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 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
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%
RSS
England

RSS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London RSS Jobs Demand Trend

RSS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RSS Daily Rate Trend

RSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London RSS Hourly Rate Trend

RSS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 14 (73.68%) HTML
1 14 (73.68%) CSS
2 13 (68.42%) XML
3 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
4 9 (47.37%) Web 2.0
4 9 (47.37%) Social Media
5 8 (42.11%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (42.11%) XSLT
6 7 (36.84%) .NET
6 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
6 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET
6 7 (36.84%) TDD
6 7 (36.84%) NUnit
6 7 (36.84%) MVC
6 7 (36.84%) NHibernate
6 7 (36.84%) Web Development
6 7 (36.84%) WCF
6 7 (36.84%) WF
6 7 (36.84%) LINQ
6 7 (36.84%) jQuery
6 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (31.58%) PHP
8 5 (26.32%) SQL
8 5 (26.32%) Apache
8 5 (26.32%) CMS
9 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
9 4 (21.05%) SEO
10 3 (15.79%) Banking
10 3 (15.79%) Retail
10 3 (15.79%) Multimedia

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (73.68%) HTML
1 14 (73.68%) CSS
2 13 (68.42%) XML
3 8 (42.11%) XSLT
4 7 (36.84%) .NET
4 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET
4 7 (36.84%) NHibernate
4 7 (36.84%) WCF
4 7 (36.84%) WF
4 7 (36.84%) LINQ
4 7 (36.84%) jQuery
4 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (15.79%) Ajax
5 3 (15.79%) XHTML
5 3 (15.79%) HTML5
5 3 (15.79%) CSS3
6 2 (10.53%) REST
6 2 (10.53%) Apache Flex
6 2 (10.53%) SOAP
6 2 (10.53%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) Apache
1 5 (26.32%) CMS
2 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (15.79%) IIS
4 1 (5.263%) Joomla!
4 1 (5.263%) Drupal
4 1 (5.263%) nginx
4 1 (5.263%) Moodle
4 1 (5.263%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.263%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (5.263%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) WebTrends
1 1 (5.263%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.263%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) NUnit
General
1 3 (15.79%) Banking
1 3 (15.79%) Retail
1 3 (15.79%) Multimedia
1 3 (15.79%) Retail Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) Web Developer
3 7 (36.84%) .NET Developer
3 7 (36.84%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Web Manager
4 3 (15.79%) Web Analytics Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Designer
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) Web Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Web 2.0
1 9 (47.37%) Social Media
2 3 (15.79%) W3C
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 2 (10.53%) Open Source
4 1 (5.263%) Blog
4 1 (5.263%) Data Integration
4 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (10.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (36.84%) TDD
2 7 (36.84%) MVC
2 7 (36.84%) Web Development
3 4 (21.05%) SEO
4 3 (15.79%) Web Analytics
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Competitor Analysis
6 1 (5.263%) Multivariate Testing
6 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.263%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) JavaScript
2 6 (31.58%) PHP
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 1 (5.263%) Ruby
4 1 (5.263%) Objective-C
4 1 (5.263%) Perl
4 1 (5.263%) Java
4 1 (5.263%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Adobe
2 1 (5.263%) Omniture
2 1 (5.263%) Sencha
2 1 (5.263%) Facebook
2 1 (5.263%) Twitter