BASE24 Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BASE24 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BASE24 over the 3 months to 23 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 Business Applications 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ACI BASE24
Rank 535 546 563
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +17
Contract jobs citing BASE24 6 19 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.033% 0.037%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.151% 0.363% 0.395%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 15
Average daily rate £475 £330 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.93% -24.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £315 £450
% change year-on-year
- -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category		 3984 5236 5828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.598% 8.970% 9.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 1980 2543 2852
Average daily rate £445 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.11% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 60 104
Average hourly rate £37.80 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.20% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.00 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £56.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%

BASE24
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BASE24 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

BASE24 Jobs Demand Trend

BASE24
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BASE24 within the UK.

BASE24 Daily Rate Trend

BASE24
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BASE24 within the UK.

BASE24 Hourly Rate Trend

BASE24
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 BASE24 within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +35 6 £475 +43.93%
London +31 4 £475 +5.55%
South East +19 1 - -
Home Counties - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -

BASE24
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing BASE24 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 BASE24.

1 10 (47.62%) ISO 8583
1 10 (47.62%) Retail
2 8 (38.10%) Wincor Nixdorf
2 8 (38.10%) VeriFone
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 8 (38.10%) EFT
3 7 (33.33%) EPoS
3 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 6 (28.57%) ATM
4 6 (28.57%) EMV
4 6 (28.57%) EFTPOS
4 6 (28.57%) Smartcard
4 6 (28.57%) Mobile Commerce
5 4 (19.05%) VocaLink
5 4 (19.05%) Banking
6 3 (14.29%) VisionPLUS
6 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
6 3 (14.29%) Tandem
6 3 (14.29%) C++
6 3 (14.29%) UNIX
7 2 (9.524%) PRINCE2
7 2 (9.524%) Java
7 2 (9.524%) SQL
7 2 (9.524%) Oracle
7 2 (9.524%) OO
7 2 (9.524%) OOD
7 2 (9.524%) SOA
7 2 (9.524%) HP
7 2 (9.524%) zOS
7 2 (9.524%) Migration

BASE24
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing BASE24 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 BASE24. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) JMS
1 1 (4.762%) EJB
1 1 (4.762%) JDBC
1 1 (4.762%) JSP
1 1 (4.762%) Servlets
1 1 (4.762%) XML
1 1 (4.762%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (4.762%) FLEXCUBE
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) ATM
2 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (4.762%) OLTP
1 1 (4.762%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.762%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.762%) Ant
1 1 (4.762%) JUnit
1 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (47.62%) Retail
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Architect
4 2 (9.524%) Consultant
4 2 (9.524%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) VisionPlus Business Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (4.762%) EMV Project Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Designer
5 1 (4.762%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Designer
5 1 (4.762%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) EFT
2 7 (33.33%) EPoS
3 6 (28.57%) EMV
3 6 (28.57%) EFTPOS
3 6 (28.57%) Smartcard
4 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
4 3 (14.29%) Tandem
5 2 (9.524%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (4.762%) PKI
6 1 (4.762%) Replication
6 1 (4.762%) APACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) UNIX
2 2 (9.524%) zOS
3 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 6 (28.57%) Mobile Commerce
3 2 (9.524%) PRINCE2
3 2 (9.524%) OO
3 2 (9.524%) OOD
3 2 (9.524%) SOA
3 2 (9.524%) Migration
3 2 (9.524%) TOGAF
3 2 (9.524%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (4.762%) Test Strategy
4 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (4.762%) Use Case
4 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Performance Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Multithreading
4 1 (4.762%) Test Automation
4 1 (4.762%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (4.762%) PRINCE
4 1 (4.762%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C++
2 2 (9.524%) Java
2 2 (9.524%) SQL
3 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.762%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Wincor Nixdorf
1 8 (38.10%) VeriFone
2 4 (19.05%) VocaLink
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle
3 2 (9.524%) HP
4 1 (4.762%) TSYS
4 1 (4.762%) BEA
4 1 (4.762%) IBM
4 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.762%) Misys
4 1 (4.762%) Temenos
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