The first table below looks at the demand for S-PLUS 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 S-PLUS over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Applications 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Insightful S-PLUS
Rank - 408 429
Contract jobs citing S-PLUS 0 2 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.008% 0.044%
As % of the Applications category - 0.059% 0.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
Average daily rate - £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £144 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
2822 3417 3709
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.38% 12.85% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1783 2103 2239
Average daily rate £400 £378 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.96% -11.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £306 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 191 238
Average hourly rate £17.13 £16.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.03% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.29 £27.50 £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
S-PLUS
England

S-PLUS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London S-PLUS Jobs Demand Trend

S-PLUS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London S-PLUS Daily Rate Trend

S-PLUS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing S-PLUS within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Vacancies
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S-PLUS
England

S-PLUS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing S-PLUS 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 S-PLUS.

1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) TOAD
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Star Schema
2 2 (66.67%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (66.67%) PowerBuilder
2 2 (66.67%) ERwin
2 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 2 (66.67%) R
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SunGard
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration

S-PLUS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing S-PLUS 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 S-PLUS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SunGard APT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) TOAD
1 2 (66.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) PowerBuilder
1 2 (66.67%) ERwin
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Database Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Database Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Database Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
2 2 (66.67%) R
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SunGard
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