The first table below looks at the demand for ClearTrust skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ClearTrust 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 System Software 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
RSA ClearTrust
Rank 528 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ClearTrust 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.046% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £463 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4317 4635 4468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.304% 7.953% 7.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 2073 2240 1970
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 613 651
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

ClearTrust
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ClearTrust Jobs Demand Trend

ClearTrust
Daily Rate Trend

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

ClearTrust Daily Rate Trend

ClearTrust
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ClearTrust Hourly Rate Trend

ClearTrust
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ClearTrust 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 - 2 £463 -
City of London - 2 £463 -
London - 2 £463 -

ClearTrust
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67%) JSP
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSL
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) JAX-WS
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) FishEye
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

ClearTrust
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) JSP
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) XSL
1 2 (66.67%) JMS
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring MVC
1 2 (66.67%) JAX-WS
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) FishEye
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft