The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited N-Tier 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
N-Tier
Rank - 84 78
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 0 11 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.683% 1.361%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 4.151% 6.925%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 5
Average daily rate - £275 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
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%
N-Tier
South East

N-Tier
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey N-Tier Jobs Demand Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey N-Tier Daily Rate Trend

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey N-Tier Hourly Rate Trend

N-Tier
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (90.91%) T-SQL
3 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
4 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
4 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
4 6 (54.55%) VB.NET
4 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (54.55%) jQuery
5 5 (45.45%) Client/Server
5 5 (45.45%) C#
6 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (36.36%) SQL
6 4 (36.36%) VB
6 4 (36.36%) Ajax
6 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
7 3 (27.27%) OOD
7 3 (27.27%) HTML
7 3 (27.27%) OO
7 3 (27.27%) CSS
7 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (27.27%) SaaS
8 2 (18.18%) CRM
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle
9 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
9 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (9.091%) SOA
9 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
9 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
9 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
9 1 (9.091%) Commerce Server

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
3 6 (54.55%) jQuery
4 4 (36.36%) Ajax
5 3 (27.27%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
6 1 (9.091%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Commerce Server
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Architect
4 1 (9.091%) CRM Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Client/Server
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
2 3 (27.27%) OOD
2 3 (27.27%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) SOA
4 1 (9.091%) UML
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) T-SQL
2 6 (54.55%) VB.NET
3 5 (45.45%) C#
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) VB
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft