The first table below looks at the demand for Swiz 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 Swiz over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Swiz Framework
Rank - 402 431
Contract jobs citing Swiz 0 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.030% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.106% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 2
Average daily rate - £475 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
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 £282 £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 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
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%
Swiz
England

Swiz
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Swiz Jobs Demand Trend

Swiz
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Swiz Daily Rate Trend

Swiz
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Swiz 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 Swiz.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) ATG
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Omniture
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics

Swiz
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Swiz 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 Swiz. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NFC
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Appcelerator Titanium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) iPhone
1 1 (100.00%) iPad
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) ATG
1 1 (100.00%) Omniture
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Demandware