The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term RIA in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RIA over the 3 months to 17 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 Swindon 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rich Internet Application (RIA)
Rank 34 - 36
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RIA 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.455% - 0.316%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.333% - 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £563 - £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
+61.53% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year
- -26.78%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
48 68 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 17.45% 18.78% 10.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 44 16
Average daily rate £433 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.89% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £263 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £525 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 6
Average hourly rate £13.00 £24.25 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.39% -21.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £16.00 £23.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £32.50 £36.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
RIA
Wiltshire

RIA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon RIA Jobs Demand Trend

RIA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon RIA Daily Rate Trend

RIA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RIA across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Swindon RIA Daily Rate Histogram

RIA
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing RIA 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 RIA.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) IIS
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) UML
1 7 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 7 (100.00%) ESRI
1 7 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) WCF
1 7 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (100.00%) MSTest
1 7 (100.00%) Moq
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 7 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
2 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared

RIA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing RIA 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 RIA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) WCF
1 7 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 7 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Framework
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) IIS
1 7 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) MSTest
1 7 (100.00%) Moq
2 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Programmer
1 7 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Software Programmer
1 7 (100.00%) C# Programmer
2 5 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Programmer
2 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) UML
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) ESRI