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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercator
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mercator 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
163 108 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 49.70% 38.30% 50.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 60 41
Average daily rate £331 £338 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% +8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £205 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £475 £755
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 2 17
Average hourly rate £23.75 £23.75 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +3.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.12 £18.75 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £28.75 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Mercator
East Midlands

Mercator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire Mercator Jobs Demand Trend

Mercator
Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX

Mercator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle