The first table below looks at the demand for Bing Maps skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Bing Maps over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Bing Maps
Rank 538 566 -
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -
Contract jobs citing Bing Maps 3 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.007% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.022% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £343 £285 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.17% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £285 -
% change year-on-year
+17.54% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Bing Maps
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bing Maps Jobs Demand Trend

Bing Maps
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bing Maps Daily Rate Trend

Bing Maps
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bing Maps Hourly Rate Trend

Bing Maps
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bing Maps within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +12 3 £343 +20.17%
East of England - 1 - -
South East - 1 £335 -
Essex - 1 - -
Surrey - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
East Grinstead - - - -
Farnham - - - -

Bing Maps
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Bing Maps 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 Bing Maps.

1 16 (80.00%) .NET
1 16 (80.00%) Google Maps API
2 15 (75.00%) Google
2 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 14 (70.00%) CSS
3 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (70.00%) SQL
3 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (65.00%) MVC
4 13 (65.00%) jQuery
5 12 (60.00%) Back Office
5 12 (60.00%) Scrum
5 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (60.00%) XHTML
5 12 (60.00%) Subversion
5 12 (60.00%) TDD
5 12 (60.00%) NUnit
5 12 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (60.00%) Umbraco
5 12 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 11 (55.00%) CMS
7 10 (50.00%) QA
8 6 (30.00%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (30.00%) Sitecore
9 5 (25.00%) Telerik
9 5 (25.00%) C#
9 5 (25.00%) HTML
10 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
11 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
11 2 (10.00%) Android

Bing Maps
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Bing Maps 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 Bing Maps. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (80.00%) .NET
1 16 (80.00%) Google Maps API
2 15 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 14 (70.00%) CSS
4 13 (65.00%) jQuery
5 12 (60.00%) XHTML
5 12 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (25.00%) HTML
7 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
8 2 (10.00%) ADO.NET
9 1 (5.000%) RESTful
9 1 (5.000%) ADO
9 1 (5.000%) SOAP
9 1 (5.000%) Web Services
9 1 (5.000%) XML
9 1 (5.000%) WCF
9 1 (5.000%) WebCenter
9 1 (5.000%) HTML5
9 1 (5.000%) soapUI
9 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 12 (60.00%) Umbraco
2 11 (55.00%) CMS
3 6 (30.00%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.000%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Subversion
1 12 (60.00%) NUnit
2 1 (5.000%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.000%) Selenium
2 1 (5.000%) SilkTest
2 1 (5.000%) JIRA
General
1 12 (60.00%) Back Office
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Legal
2 1 (5.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 11 (55.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Web Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.000%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.000%) N-Tier
1 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Android
2 1 (5.000%) Windows
2 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) MVC
2 12 (60.00%) Scrum
2 12 (60.00%) TDD
2 12 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (10.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (5.000%) Product Management
4 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.000%) SOA
4 1 (5.000%) OOP
4 1 (5.000%) OO
4 1 (5.000%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) JavaScript
1 14 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) Java
3 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
3 1 (5.000%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Google
2 14 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) Sitecore
4 5 (25.00%) Telerik
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) LogiXML
6 1 (5.000%) AccuRev
6 1 (5.000%) FatWire
6 1 (5.000%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.000%) Facebook
6 1 (5.000%) Twitter