The first table below looks at the demand for Task Parallel Library 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 Task Parallel Library 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Task Parallel Library (TPL)
Rank 374 406 -
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -
Contract jobs citing Task Parallel Library 3 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.033% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.047% 0.119% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
Average daily rate £368 £484 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.01% -
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
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -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 91 107 136
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 £15.95 £17.65
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%
Task Parallel Library
England

Task Parallel Library
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Task Parallel Library Jobs Demand Trend

Task Parallel Library
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Task Parallel Library Daily Rate Trend

Task Parallel Library
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (92.86%) C#
3 10 (71.43%) SQL
3 10 (71.43%) Multithreading
4 9 (64.29%) WCF
4 9 (64.29%) MVVM
4 9 (64.29%) Windows
5 7 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
5 7 (50.00%) WPF
6 6 (42.86%) LINQ
6 6 (42.86%) Windows Azure
6 6 (42.86%) MVC
6 6 (42.86%) OO
6 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
7 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
7 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
7 5 (35.71%) TDD
7 5 (35.71%) Finance
7 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (35.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (35.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (35.71%) jQuery
8 4 (28.57%) WF
8 4 (28.57%) Kanban
8 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
8 4 (28.57%) LINQ to SQL
8 4 (28.57%) REST
8 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC

Task Parallel Library
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (64.29%) WCF
3 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (50.00%) WPF
4 6 (42.86%) LINQ
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 5 (35.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (35.71%) jQuery
6 4 (28.57%) WF
6 4 (28.57%) LINQ to SQL
6 4 (28.57%) REST
6 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 4 (28.57%) HTML5
6 4 (28.57%) JSON
6 4 (28.57%) Lucene
6 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET
6 4 (28.57%) CSS
6 4 (28.57%) Web Services
6 4 (28.57%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Azure
2 4 (28.57%) IIS
3 1 (7.143%) Rendezvous
3 1 (7.143%) Apache
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle Coherence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (35.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.143%) KDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (14.29%) Moq
2 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
3 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.143%) JIRA
3 1 (7.143%) Subversion
3 1 (7.143%) NUnit
3 1 (7.143%) MSBuild
3 1 (7.143%) MSTest
3 1 (7.143%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.143%) .NET Architect
5 1 (7.143%) GUI Developer
5 1 (7.143%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mathematics
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 2 (14.29%) Derivative
3 1 (7.143%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.143%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (7.143%) Physics
3 1 (7.143%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.143%) Equities
3 1 (7.143%) Market Risk
3 1 (7.143%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Multithreading
2 9 (64.29%) MVVM
3 7 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (42.86%) MVC
4 6 (42.86%) OO
5 5 (35.71%) TDD
6 4 (28.57%) Kanban
6 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Workflow
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
7 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
7 2 (14.29%) BDD
7 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 1 (7.143%) OOA/OOD
8 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
8 1 (7.143%) OOD
8 1 (7.143%) Software Engineering
8 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
8 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
8 1 (7.143%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C#
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) Perl
5 2 (14.29%) VBA
5 2 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (7.143%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Dublin Core
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Tableau
3 1 (7.143%) TIBCO
3 1 (7.143%) Charles River
3 1 (7.143%) DataSynapse
3 1 (7.143%) Perforce