The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Alterian 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 Alterian 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 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 Alterian.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Alterian
Rank 527 533 570
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +37
Contract jobs citing Alterian 6 40 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.069% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.027% 0.147% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 32 9
Average daily rate £275 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £279 £315
% change year-on-year
-1.34% -11.50%
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
21868 27126 28034
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.50% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11659 13853 14018
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
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 1197 1299 1587
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
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%

Alterian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Alterian Jobs Demand Trend

Alterian
Daily Rate Trend

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

Alterian Daily Rate Trend

Alterian
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Alterian Hourly Rate Trend

Alterian
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alterian within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +32 4 £275 -29.48%
West Midlands - 3 £275 -
Scotland -12 2 - -
Wolverhampton - 2 £275 -
Glasgow -23 1 - -
Dorset - 1 £275 -
South West - 1 £275 -
Bournemouth - 1 £275 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

Alterian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Alterian 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 Alterian.

1 16 (69.57%) CMS
2 15 (65.22%) HTML
2 15 (65.22%) CSS
3 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
4 11 (47.83%) .NET
5 9 (39.13%) Java
6 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
6 8 (34.78%) Subversion
6 8 (34.78%) jQuery
7 7 (30.43%) Kentico
7 7 (30.43%) Web Development
7 7 (30.43%) Spring
7 7 (30.43%) Adobe CQ
7 7 (30.43%) C#
8 6 (26.09%) J2EE
8 6 (26.09%) JSP
8 6 (26.09%) SAS
8 6 (26.09%) Epiphany
8 6 (26.09%) HTML5
8 6 (26.09%) Marketing
8 6 (26.09%) SAS Macro
8 6 (26.09%) Base SAS
9 5 (21.74%) SQL
10 4 (17.39%) Web Services
10 4 (17.39%) Mainframe
10 4 (17.39%) MVC
10 4 (17.39%) Adobe
10 4 (17.39%) Spring MVC
10 4 (17.39%) Content Management
10 4 (17.39%) CSS3

Alterian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (65.22%) HTML
1 15 (65.22%) CSS
2 11 (47.83%) .NET
3 8 (34.78%) jQuery
4 7 (30.43%) Spring
5 6 (26.09%) J2EE
5 6 (26.09%) JSP
5 6 (26.09%) HTML5
6 4 (17.39%) CSS3
6 4 (17.39%) Spring MVC
6 4 (17.39%) Web Services
7 2 (8.696%) XML
7 2 (8.696%) Struts
7 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET
8 1 (4.348%) JDBC
8 1 (4.348%) XSLT
8 1 (4.348%) Hibernate
8 1 (4.348%) Lucene
8 1 (4.348%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (4.348%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 16 (69.57%) CMS
2 7 (30.43%) Kentico
2 7 (30.43%) Adobe CQ
3 6 (26.09%) SAS
4 2 (8.696%) Apache
4 2 (8.696%) Umbraco
5 1 (4.348%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (4.348%) Apache Solr
5 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
5 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
5 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.348%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) LAN
1 1 (4.348%) VoIP
1 1 (4.348%) WAN
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.348%) VPN
1 1 (4.348%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (26.09%) Base SAS
3 1 (4.348%) MySQL
3 1 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Subversion
2 1 (4.348%) Maven
2 1 (4.348%) Ant
2 1 (4.348%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (26.09%) Marketing
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 12 (52.17%) Web Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Campaign Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) SAS Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Customer Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Customer Insight Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Development Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.696%) Kindle
3 1 (4.348%) E-Learning
3 1 (4.348%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.696%) Windows
1 2 (8.696%) Linux
2 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.348%) Solaris
2 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Web Development
2 4 (17.39%) Content Management
2 4 (17.39%) MVC
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
4 2 (8.696%) Contact Management
4 2 (8.696%) TDD
4 2 (8.696%) OO
4 2 (8.696%) CRM
4 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.348%) DRM
5 1 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.348%) ITIL
5 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Content Management
5 1 (4.348%) Customer Insight
5 1 (4.348%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
2 9 (39.13%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) C#
4 6 (26.09%) SAS Macro
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 1 (4.348%) Ruby
6 1 (4.348%) Bash shell
6 1 (4.348%) Perl
6 1 (4.348%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.348%) MCSE
1 1 (4.348%) CCNA
1 1 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.348%) MCITP
1 1 (4.348%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
1 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Epiphany
2 4 (17.39%) Adobe
3 2 (8.696%) Oracle
3 2 (8.696%) Chordiant
4 1 (4.348%) Cisco
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.348%) Novell
4 1 (4.348%) Veritas
4 1 (4.348%) Sage
4 1 (4.348%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.348%) FatWire
4 1 (4.348%) VMware
4 1 (4.348%) Google
4 1 (4.348%) PlateSpin
4 1 (4.348%) Sitecore
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