The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Actuate products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Actuate 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 currently tracked.

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 the Actuate Corporation.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Actuate
Rank 529 558 569
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +11
Contract jobs citing Actuate 5 28 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.047% 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% 0.102% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 25 12
Average daily rate £100 £600 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-83.33% +77.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22169 27540 27997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.04% 46.46% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11827 14057 14005
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1214 1336 1586
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Actuate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Actuate within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Actuate Jobs Demand Trend

Actuate
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Actuate within the UK.

Actuate Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Actuate within the UK.

Actuate Hourly Rate Trend

Actuate
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actuate within the UK 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
England +34 5 £100 -83.33%
London +7 3 £100 -83.33%
East of England - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Essex - 1 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -

Actuate
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Actuate 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 Actuate.

1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (18.18%) Derivative
5 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 2 (18.18%) Windows Vista
5 2 (18.18%) Time Management
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (18.18%) Spring Integration
5 2 (18.18%) BI-SAM
5 2 (18.18%) Vermilion
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (18.18%) Spring
5 2 (18.18%) Maven
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
5 2 (18.18%) JMS
5 2 (18.18%) JMX
5 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 2 (18.18%) UNIX
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) C
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
5 2 (18.18%) JUnit
5 2 (18.18%) Crystal Reports

Actuate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Actuate 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 Actuate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) Spring Integration
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
1 2 (18.18%) JMS
1 2 (18.18%) JMX
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
1 2 (18.18%) XML
1 2 (18.18%) XSLT
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) OSGi
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 2 (18.18%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (9.091%) MySQL
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (9.091%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Maven
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
1 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.091%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Coordinator
5 1 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (9.091%) Lead Developer
5 1 (9.091%) SQL Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Report Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Maximo Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Professional Services Consultant
5 1 (9.091%) Report Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Derivative
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
2 1 (9.091%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Vista
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Time Management
3 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
3 1 (9.091%) PRINCE
3 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.091%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) BI-SAM
1 2 (18.18%) Vermilion
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Business Objects
2 1 (9.091%) Cognos
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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