The first table below looks at the demand for Force.com skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Force.com over the 3 months to 20 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 Platforms 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Salesforce.com Force.com
Rank 77 96 100
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +4
Contract jobs citing Force.com 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.175% 0.185% 0.054%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.873% 0.943% 0.249%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £438 £550 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.45% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £413
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Application Platforms
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
229 318 401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 20.09% 19.59% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 168 196
Average daily rate £343 £367 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -0.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £160 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £24.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Force.com
South East

Force.com
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Force.com across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Surrey Force.com Jobs Demand Trend

Force.com
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Force.com Daily Rate Trend

Force.com
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Force.com 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 Force.com.

1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (80.00%) SaaS
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) SAP
4 2 (40.00%) Heroku
4 2 (40.00%) Visualforce
4 2 (40.00%) Apex Code
5 1 (20.00%) Mason
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (20.00%) Marketing
5 1 (20.00%) Java

Force.com
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Force.com 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 Force.com. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (20.00%) Mason
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce.com Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce.com Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Heroku
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Apex Code
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
2 2 (40.00%) SAP