The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Aquila products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Aquila over the 3 months to 22 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 South East 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 Aquila Group Holdings Ltd.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Aquila
Rank 227 239 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Aquila 2 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.025% 0.068% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.050% 0.137% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £413 -
% change year-on-year
-18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3980 5105 5023
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.24% 49.35% 48.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2222 1977
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 390 415
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.65
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.31 £11.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Aquila
England

Aquila
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Aquila Jobs Demand Trend

Aquila
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Aquila Daily Rate Trend

Aquila
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aquila within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire - 2 £338 -
Aquila
England

Aquila
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Aquila 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 Aquila.

1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 10 (100.00%) VB
1 10 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) IIS
1 10 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 10 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
1 10 (100.00%) UML
1 10 (100.00%) OO
1 10 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 10 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 10 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (100.00%) NUnit
1 10 (100.00%) Telerik
1 10 (100.00%) Ajax
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 10 (100.00%) jQuery
1 10 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 10 (100.00%) JSUnit
1 10 (100.00%) Highcharts JS
2 9 (90.00%) OOD
3 7 (70.00%) Data Security
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
5 3 (30.00%) C#

Aquila
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Aquila 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 Aquila. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
1 10 (100.00%) HTML
1 10 (100.00%) Ajax
1 10 (100.00%) jQuery
1 10 (100.00%) Highcharts JS
2 2 (20.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 10 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 10 (100.00%) NUnit
1 10 (100.00%) JSUnit
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
1 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
2 5 (50.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 3 (30.00%) Programmer
3 3 (30.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) WinForms Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Analyst Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
5 1 (10.00%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 10 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) UML
1 10 (100.00%) OO
1 10 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 9 (90.00%) OOD
3 7 (70.00%) Data Security
4 4 (40.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 10 (100.00%) VB
1 10 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Oracle
1 10 (100.00%) Telerik