The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Twitter 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Twitter, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 286 370 432
Rank change year-on-year
+84 +62
Contract jobs citing Twitter 92 45 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.425% 0.167% 0.032%
As % of the Vendors category 0.944% 0.375% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 32 8
Average daily rate £350 £350 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £131 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £410 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 296 406
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Twitter
England

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Twitter Jobs Demand Trend

Twitter
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Twitter across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Twitter Daily Rate Histogram

Twitter
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Twitter Hourly Rate Trend

Twitter
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Twitter across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Twitter Hourly Rate Histogram

Twitter
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Twitter within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +31 19 £300 -4.76%
Twitter
England

Twitter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 73 (38.62%) HTTP
1 73 (38.62%) Facebook
2 70 (37.04%) HTTPS
3 58 (30.69%) CSS
4 57 (30.16%) Social Media
5 51 (26.98%) HTML
6 49 (25.93%) JavaScript
7 45 (23.81%) Finance
8 38 (20.11%) HTML5
8 38 (20.11%) jQuery
9 32 (16.93%) Google
9 32 (16.93%) CSS3
9 32 (16.93%) Mobile App
10 25 (13.23%) Microsoft
10 25 (13.23%) Java
10 25 (13.23%) Android
11 24 (12.70%) New Media
12 23 (12.17%) Marketing
12 23 (12.17%) PHP
12 23 (12.17%) Agile Software Development
13 22 (11.64%) .NET
14 21 (11.11%) SQL
14 21 (11.11%) Apple iOS
15 20 (10.58%) JSON
15 20 (10.58%) Investment Management
15 20 (10.58%) Scrum
16 19 (10.05%) MVC
16 19 (10.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 18 (9.524%) Git (software)
17 18 (9.524%) Objective-C

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 58 (30.69%) CSS
2 51 (26.98%) HTML
3 38 (20.11%) HTML5
3 38 (20.11%) jQuery
4 32 (16.93%) CSS3
5 22 (11.64%) .NET
6 20 (10.58%) JSON
7 19 (10.05%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 15 (7.937%) RESTful
9 12 (6.349%) Google Maps API
10 11 (5.820%) ASP.NET MVC
11 10 (5.291%) Ajax
11 10 (5.291%) COM
11 10 (5.291%) Web Services
12 9 (4.762%) XML
12 9 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 9 (4.762%) Semantic HTML
12 9 (4.762%) Razor View Engine
13 8 (4.233%) Cocoa
14 7 (3.704%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (5.820%) WordPress
2 5 (2.646%) Apache
2 5 (2.646%) CMS
2 5 (2.646%) Drupal
3 4 (2.116%) SAS
4 3 (1.587%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.058%) ExpressionEngine
5 2 (1.058%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.058%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.058%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.058%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.058%) Lync
5 2 (1.058%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.529%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.529%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.529%) IIS
6 1 (0.529%) Facebook Platform
6 1 (0.529%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.529%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (0.529%) Liferay
Applications
1 12 (6.349%) Photoshop
2 9 (4.762%) MS Office
3 8 (4.233%) MS Excel
4 6 (3.175%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (2.116%) MS Project
6 1 (0.529%) Fireworks
6 1 (0.529%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.529%) PageMaker
Business Applications
1 5 (2.646%) LatentZero
2 4 (2.116%) Google Analytics
3 3 (1.587%) Capstone
3 3 (1.587%) Tesseract
3 3 (1.587%) Minerva
3 3 (1.587%) Sentinel
4 2 (1.058%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (1.058%) LongView
5 1 (0.529%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 73 (38.62%) HTTP
2 70 (37.04%) HTTPS
3 14 (7.407%) Internet
4 5 (2.646%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.116%) SMTP
6 3 (1.587%) VoIP
6 3 (1.587%) POP3
6 3 (1.587%) FTP
6 3 (1.587%) 3G
6 3 (1.587%) 4G
6 3 (1.587%) IMAP
7 2 (1.058%) Network Security
7 2 (1.058%) Wireless
7 2 (1.058%) Firewall
7 2 (1.058%) MPLS
7 2 (1.058%) DSL
7 2 (1.058%) DNS
7 2 (1.058%) SAN
7 2 (1.058%) WAN
8 1 (0.529%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.995%) MySQL
2 6 (3.175%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.175%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.116%) MS Access
4 3 (1.587%) Data Mining
4 3 (1.587%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.587%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.587%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.058%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.058%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.058%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.058%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.058%) Big Data
5 2 (1.058%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.058%) OLAP
6 1 (0.529%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.529%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.529%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.529%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.529%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (9.524%) Git (software)
2 9 (4.762%) Subversion
3 7 (3.704%) Xcode
4 4 (2.116%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.587%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.587%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (1.587%) Mercurial
6 2 (1.058%) Trac
6 2 (1.058%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.529%) Dreamweaver
7 1 (0.529%) MSI
7 1 (0.529%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.529%) Hudson
7 1 (0.529%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.529%) GitHub
7 1 (0.529%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.529%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.529%) JIRA
General
1 45 (23.81%) Finance
2 23 (12.17%) Marketing
3 16 (8.466%) Games
4 11 (5.820%) Front Office
5 8 (4.233%) Banking
5 8 (4.233%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.175%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.646%) Legal
7 5 (2.646%) Publishing
8 4 (2.116%) Dutch Language
8 4 (2.116%) French Language
8 4 (2.116%) German Language
9 3 (1.587%) Multimedia
9 3 (1.587%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.058%) Music
10 2 (1.058%) Electronics
10 2 (1.058%) Back Office
10 2 (1.058%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.529%) Retail
11 1 (0.529%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 91 (48.15%) Developer
2 29 (15.34%) Analyst
3 18 (9.524%) Business Analyst
4 13 (6.878%) Front-End Developer
5 12 (6.349%) Android Developer
5 12 (6.349%) Senior Developer
5 12 (6.349%) .NET Developer
6 9 (4.762%) Project Manager
6 9 (4.762%) Consultant
6 9 (4.762%) iOS Developer
7 8 (4.233%) PHP Developer
8 7 (3.704%) Web Developer
9 6 (3.175%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (3.175%) C# Developer
10 5 (2.646%) Data Analyst
10 5 (2.646%) Support Engineer
10 5 (2.646%) Mobile Developer
10 5 (2.646%) Designer
11 4 (2.116%) Strategy Consultant
11 4 (2.116%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 57 (30.16%) Social Media
2 32 (16.93%) Mobile App
3 24 (12.70%) New Media
4 16 (8.466%) Computer Science
5 9 (4.762%) Streaming Video
6 8 (4.233%) Open Source
7 6 (3.175%) Fixed Income
8 5 (2.646%) Equities
8 5 (2.646%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.646%) Derivative
8 5 (2.646%) Blog
9 4 (2.116%) Social Network
9 4 (2.116%) iPad
9 4 (2.116%) Digital Media
9 4 (2.116%) W3C
10 3 (1.587%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.587%) Psychology
10 3 (1.587%) Market Risk
11 2 (1.058%) FMCG
11 2 (1.058%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 25 (13.23%) Android
2 21 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 13 (6.878%) Windows
4 9 (4.762%) UNIX
4 9 (4.762%) Linux
5 4 (2.116%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.587%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.587%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.529%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.529%) Solaris
7 1 (0.529%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.529%) SUSE
7 1 (0.529%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (12.17%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (10.58%) Investment Management
2 20 (10.58%) Scrum
3 19 (10.05%) MVC
4 15 (7.937%) OO
5 13 (6.878%) Test Automation
5 13 (6.878%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (6.349%) Digital Marketing
6 12 (6.349%) CRM
6 12 (6.349%) Project Management
7 11 (5.820%) Asset Management
7 11 (5.820%) Mobile Application Development
7 11 (5.820%) Fund Management
7 11 (5.820%) Web Development
8 9 (4.762%) OOP
8 9 (4.762%) Analytics
9 8 (4.233%) Migration
9 8 (4.233%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (4.233%) SEO
10 7 (3.704%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 49 (25.93%) JavaScript
2 25 (13.23%) Java
3 23 (12.17%) PHP
4 21 (11.11%) SQL
5 18 (9.524%) Objective-C
6 17 (8.995%) C#
7 16 (8.466%) C++
8 13 (6.878%) C
9 6 (3.175%) Ruby
9 6 (3.175%) ActionScript
10 5 (2.646%) Python
10 5 (2.646%) VBA
10 5 (2.646%) ActionScript 3.0
11 4 (2.116%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (1.058%) PHP5
12 2 (1.058%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.529%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.529%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.529%) Perl
13 1 (0.529%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 16 (8.466%) Degree
2 5 (2.646%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.116%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.587%) CCIE
4 3 (1.587%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.058%) JNCIA
5 2 (1.058%) JNCIS
5 2 (1.058%) JNCIP
5 2 (1.058%) CCSA
5 2 (1.058%) MBA
5 2 (1.058%) CCSE
5 2 (1.058%) CCNP
6 1 (0.529%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (0.529%) CCEA
6 1 (0.529%) ISEB
6 1 (0.529%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 1 (0.529%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.529%) JNCIE
6 1 (0.529%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.587%) QA
2 1 (0.529%) SLA
2 1 (0.529%) ISO 9000
2 1 (0.529%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.529%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (3.704%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.116%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.587%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.058%) vSphere
5 1 (0.529%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.529%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (0.529%) UAG
5 1 (0.529%) OpenSSO
5 1 (0.529%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (1.058%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.529%) Control-M
2 1 (0.529%) Puppet
2 1 (0.529%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 73 (38.62%) Facebook
2 32 (16.93%) Google
3 25 (13.23%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.820%) Adobe
5 9 (4.762%) Oracle
6 6 (3.175%) Endeca
6 6 (3.175%) Charles River
7 5 (2.646%) Juniper
7 5 (2.646%) thinkFolio
8 4 (2.116%) F5
8 4 (2.116%) VMware
8 4 (2.116%) Cisco
8 4 (2.116%) HP
9 3 (1.587%) StatPro
10 2 (1.058%) Brocade
10 2 (1.058%) Teradata
10 2 (1.058%) Reuters
10 2 (1.058%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.058%) Salesforce.com
10 2 (1.058%) Murex
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