The first table below looks at the demand for DAO skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DAO 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Access Object (DAO)
Rank 540 536 545
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +9
Contract jobs citing DAO 1 29 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.050% 0.066%
As % of the Application Development category 0.008% 0.195% 0.240%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 25 35
Average daily rate - £501 £560
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £318 £300
% change year-on-year
- +5.83%
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
12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
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 363 389 578
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%

DAO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DAO Jobs Demand Trend

DAO
Daily Rate Trend

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

DAO Daily Rate Trend

DAO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DAO Hourly Rate Trend

DAO
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 DAO 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 +17 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 - -

DAO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) Sybase
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Reuters
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) MS Access
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VBA
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) ADO
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) Front Office
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
4 1 (16.67%) ISAPI
4 1 (16.67%) MAPI
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (16.67%) OLE
4 1 (16.67%) OLE DB
4 1 (16.67%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services

DAO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ADO
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ISAPI
3 1 (16.67%) MAPI
3 1 (16.67%) OLE
3 1 (16.67%) OLE DB
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) ODBC
3 1 (16.67%) ActiveX
3 1 (16.67%) J2ME
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) MFC
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) BREW
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) MS Access
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Front Office
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Access Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (16.67%) Handset
2 1 (16.67%) Animation
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Management
2 1 (16.67%) Test Management
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (50.00%) VBA
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) VC++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Sybase
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Reuters
3 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (16.67%) JBoss
3 1 (16.67%) UC4