The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Client/Server in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Client/Server 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Surrey 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
Client Server
Rank 76 88 81
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -7
Contract jobs citing Client/Server 4 7 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.347% 0.435% 1.198%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.538% 2.642% 6.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 16
Average daily rate £320 £270 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.51% -32.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £333 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.29% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £35.75 £29.75
% change year-on-year
-18.88% +20.16%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
260 265 361
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 22.55% 16.45% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 129 207
Average daily rate £400 £320 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -14.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £160 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 11
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.23% -15.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Client/Server
South East

Client/Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Surrey Client/Server Jobs Demand Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Client/Server across the Surrey region.

Surrey Client/Server Daily Rate Trend

Client/Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Surrey Client/Server Daily Rate Histogram

Client/Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Client/Server across the Surrey region.

Surrey Client/Server Hourly Rate Trend

Client/Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client/Server within the Surrey 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
Guildford -8 3 £320 -
Client/Server
South East

Client/Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server.

1 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (50.00%) jQuery
2 5 (50.00%) Ajax
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 5 (50.00%) VB
2 5 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 5 (50.00%) OO
2 5 (50.00%) N-Tier
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) OOD
5 2 (20.00%) B2C
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (20.00%) VB6
5 2 (20.00%) ASP
5 2 (20.00%) InterDev
5 2 (20.00%) Intranet
5 2 (20.00%) Internet
6 1 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) TOGAF

Client/Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Client/Server 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 Client/Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) jQuery
2 5 (50.00%) Ajax
2 5 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) ASP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Intranet
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (20.00%) InterDev
3 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) MSBuild
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
1 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) VB.NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) VB Developer
3 2 (20.00%) ASP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) VB6 Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (30.00%) OOD
3 2 (20.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (10.00%) Document Management
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 5 (50.00%) VB
1 5 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) VB6
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Perforce
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft