The first table below looks at the demand for AppFabric skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AppFabric 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 of the Application Development category.

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
Microsoft AppFabric
Rank 517 563 577
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +14
Contract jobs citing AppFabric 13 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.026% 0.018%
As % of the Application Development category 0.102% 0.101% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 6
Average daily rate £400 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £323 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £568 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £60.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

AppFabric
Jobs Demand Trend

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

AppFabric Jobs Demand Trend

AppFabric
Daily Rate Trend

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

AppFabric Daily Rate Trend

AppFabric
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing AppFabric within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

AppFabric Daily Rate Histogram

AppFabric
Hourly Rate Trend

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

AppFabric Hourly Rate Trend

AppFabric
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 AppFabric within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +49 12 £400 -15.78%
London +22 6 £388 -29.54%
South East +22 4 £400 -11.11%
Berkshire +19 4 £425 +6.25%
City of London +11 2 £450 -18.18%
Hampshire -6 2 £400 -11.11%
South West - 2 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Devon - 1 - -

AppFabric
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AppFabric 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 AppFabric.

1 25 (96.15%) .NET
2 22 (84.62%) WCF
3 19 (73.08%) SQL Server
3 19 (73.08%) Windows
3 19 (73.08%) BizTalk Server
4 18 (69.23%) Windows Azure
5 17 (65.38%) ASP.NET
5 17 (65.38%) C#
5 17 (65.38%) WF
6 11 (42.31%) SOA
6 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
6 11 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (34.62%) Visual Studio
7 9 (34.62%) XML
7 9 (34.62%) SQL Server 2005
8 7 (26.92%) SQL
9 5 (19.23%) MVC
9 5 (19.23%) Finance
9 5 (19.23%) Requirements Management
9 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
9 5 (19.23%) Banking
9 5 (19.23%) MS Visio
9 5 (19.23%) MS Project
9 5 (19.23%) MS Office
9 5 (19.23%) Web Services
9 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
9 5 (19.23%) Use Case
10 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 4 (15.38%) IIS

AppFabric
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AppFabric 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 AppFabric. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (96.15%) .NET
2 22 (84.62%) WCF
3 17 (65.38%) WF
3 17 (65.38%) ASP.NET
4 9 (34.62%) XML
5 5 (19.23%) Web Services
6 4 (15.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (7.692%) Middleware
7 2 (7.692%) Ajax
7 2 (7.692%) NHibernate
7 2 (7.692%) LINQ
7 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (7.692%) Memcached
8 1 (3.846%) Windows Identity Foundation
Application Platforms
1 19 (73.08%) BizTalk Server
2 18 (69.23%) Windows Azure
3 4 (15.38%) IIS
4 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) MS Project
1 5 (19.23%) MS Office
1 5 (19.23%) MS Visio
2 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.846%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (73.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (34.62%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (7.692%) Redis
4 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (3.846%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Visual Studio
2 3 (11.54%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (7.692%) Subversion
4 1 (3.846%) MSBuild
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
1 5 (19.23%) Banking
2 1 (3.846%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) BizTalk Developer
3 6 (23.08%) BizTalk Consultant
3 6 (23.08%) Analyst
3 6 (23.08%) Consultant
4 5 (19.23%) Business Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (7.692%) Coordinator
6 2 (7.692%) Test Coordinator
7 1 (3.846%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.846%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.846%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (3.846%) Environment Manager
7 1 (3.846%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.846%) Architect
7 1 (3.846%) Dynamics AX Developer
7 1 (3.846%) Software Architect
7 1 (3.846%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.846%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) SOA
2 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
2 5 (19.23%) Requirements Management
2 5 (19.23%) Use Case
2 5 (19.23%) MVC
2 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
3 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (11.54%) ETL
4 3 (11.54%) Workflow
4 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (11.54%) ITIL
5 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.846%) UML
6 1 (3.846%) OOP
6 1 (3.846%) CRM
6 1 (3.846%) Scrum
6 1 (3.846%) Information Security
6 1 (3.846%) Data Security
6 1 (3.846%) TOGAF
6 1 (3.846%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 2 (7.692%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.692%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.692%) C
4 1 (3.846%) F#
4 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.692%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.846%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.846%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) SCOM
2 1 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft