The first table below looks at the demand for AutoMapper skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AutoMapper 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
AutoMapper
Rank 521 578 583
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +5
Contract jobs citing AutoMapper 8 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.010% 0.002%
As % of the Application Development category 0.063% 0.040% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
Average daily rate £350 £365 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +16.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 £358 £313
% change year-on-year
-0.34% +14.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
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 364 388 570
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 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

AutoMapper
Jobs Demand Trend

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

AutoMapper Jobs Demand Trend

AutoMapper
Daily Rate Trend

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

AutoMapper Daily Rate Trend

AutoMapper
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 AutoMapper within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +48 8 £350 -4.10%
South East +20 6 £356 +1.78%
London +37 2 £340 -15.00%
Berkshire +16 2 £350 -
Surrey - 2 - -
Woking - 2 - -
Home Counties - 1 £400 -
Reading - 1 £350 -
Hampshire - 1 £363 -

AutoMapper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AutoMapper 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 AutoMapper.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (81.82%) MVC
2 9 (81.82%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) TDD
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Framework
3 8 (72.73%) BDD
4 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (54.55%) HTML
5 6 (54.55%) jQuery
6 5 (45.45%) NHibernate
6 5 (45.45%) LINQ
6 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
6 5 (45.45%) CSS
6 5 (45.45%) OO
6 5 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (36.36%) KnockoutJS
7 4 (36.36%) HTML5
7 4 (36.36%) Kanban
7 4 (36.36%) TeamCity
7 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (27.27%) Inversion of Control
8 3 (27.27%) WPF
8 3 (27.27%) Open Source
8 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
8 3 (27.27%) SQL
8 3 (27.27%) Scrum
8 3 (27.27%) Infragistics
8 3 (27.27%) NetAdvantage

AutoMapper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AutoMapper 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 AutoMapper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (81.82%) .NET
1 9 (81.82%) .NET Framework
2 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 6 (54.55%) jQuery
3 5 (45.45%) NHibernate
3 5 (45.45%) LINQ
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
3 5 (45.45%) CSS
3 5 (45.45%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (36.36%) KnockoutJS
4 4 (36.36%) HTML5
5 3 (27.27%) WPF
5 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 3 (27.27%) CSS3
5 3 (27.27%) Backbone.js
6 2 (18.18%) StructureMap
6 2 (18.18%) LINQ to SQL
6 2 (18.18%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (18.18%) Caliburn.Micro
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) CMS
1 1 (9.091%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) TeamCity
2 3 (27.27%) NetAdvantage
2 3 (27.27%) SpecFlow
3 2 (18.18%) LLBLGen Pro
3 2 (18.18%) MSI
3 2 (18.18%) Moq
3 2 (18.18%) NUnit
3 2 (18.18%) CruiseControl
3 2 (18.18%) ReSharper
4 1 (9.091%) Selenium
4 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
4 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Marketing
2 1 (9.091%) Military
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) C# Developer
3 6 (54.55%) .NET Developer
4 5 (45.45%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Senior C# Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
6 2 (18.18%) WPF Developer
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Developer
6 2 (18.18%) Agile C# Developer
7 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Inversion of Control
1 3 (27.27%) Open Source
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) MVC
1 9 (81.82%) TDD
2 8 (72.73%) BDD
3 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (45.45%) OO
5 4 (36.36%) Kanban
5 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
8 1 (9.091%) Refactoring
8 1 (9.091%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
8 1 (9.091%) Feature Driven Development
8 1 (9.091%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Infragistics
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Telerik
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