The first table below looks at the demand for StructureMap 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 StructureMap over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
StructureMap
Rank 381 401 417
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +16
Contract jobs citing StructureMap 8 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.036% 0.015% 0.042%
As % of the Application Development category 0.125% 0.053% 0.139%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 12
Average daily rate £325 £400 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +0.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £403 - £299
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
6388 7563 9347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.00% 28.03% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4622 4989 6271
Average daily rate £406 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 90 106 133
Average hourly rate £41.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.45 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
StructureMap
England

StructureMap
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London StructureMap Jobs Demand Trend

StructureMap
Daily Rate Trend

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

London StructureMap Daily Rate Trend

StructureMap
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing StructureMap across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London StructureMap Daily Rate Histogram

StructureMap
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing StructureMap within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
City of London +16 4 - -
StructureMap
England

StructureMap
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing StructureMap 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 StructureMap.

1 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 12 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
4 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
4 11 (73.33%) NUnit
4 11 (73.33%) NHibernate
5 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
5 10 (66.67%) OO
6 9 (60.00%) Unit Testing
7 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
7 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
7 8 (53.33%) Silverlight
7 8 (53.33%) Oracle
7 8 (53.33%) SQL
7 8 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (46.67%) XML Schema
8 7 (46.67%) XML
8 7 (46.67%) WPF
9 6 (40.00%) NMock
9 6 (40.00%) Ninject
9 6 (40.00%) MSBuild
9 6 (40.00%) Unity DI Container
9 6 (40.00%) RIA
9 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (40.00%) TeamCity
9 6 (40.00%) WCF
9 6 (40.00%) Spring
9 6 (40.00%) Windows
9 6 (40.00%) OOD

StructureMap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing StructureMap 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 StructureMap. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 11 (73.33%) ASP.NET
3 11 (73.33%) NHibernate
4 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
4 8 (53.33%) Silverlight
5 7 (46.67%) XML Schema
5 7 (46.67%) XML
5 7 (46.67%) WPF
6 6 (40.00%) Ninject
6 6 (40.00%) Unity DI Container
6 6 (40.00%) WCF
6 6 (40.00%) Spring
7 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (26.67%) Castle Windsor
8 4 (26.67%) Spring.NET
8 4 (26.67%) jQuery
9 3 (20.00%) Autofac
10 2 (13.33%) Backbone.js
10 2 (13.33%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) Documentum
2 3 (20.00%) CMS
2 3 (20.00%) Sitefinity
3 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (73.33%) NUnit
2 6 (40.00%) NMock
2 6 (40.00%) MSBuild
2 6 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 5 (33.33%) MSTest
4 3 (20.00%) MbUnit
5 2 (13.33%) Rhino Mocks
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Back Office
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
1 14 (93.33%) C# Developer
2 7 (46.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Agile C# Developer
4 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Web Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Technical Leader
6 1 (6.667%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (40.00%) RIA
3 2 (13.33%) Hedge funds
3 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
4 1 (6.667%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) OO
2 9 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 8 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (40.00%) OOD
4 6 (40.00%) Extreme Programming
5 5 (33.33%) MVC
5 5 (33.33%) TDD
6 4 (26.67%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (13.33%) Analytics
7 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
7 2 (13.33%) OOA/OOD
7 2 (13.33%) Business Analysis
7 2 (13.33%) ETRM
8 1 (6.667%) Multithreading
8 1 (6.667%) Integration Testing
8 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) VBA
5 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.667%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle