The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DevExpress products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DevExpress 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Developer Express.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DevExpress
Rank 493 563 518
Rank change year-on-year
+70 -45
Contract jobs citing DevExpress 36 21 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.078% 0.036% 0.108%
As % of the Vendors category 0.165% 0.078% 0.232%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 46
Average daily rate £600 £558 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.52% -2.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £340 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £625 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £245 £288
% change year-on-year
+18.36% -14.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

DevExpress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DevExpress Jobs Demand Trend

DevExpress
Daily Rate Trend

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

DevExpress Daily Rate Trend

DevExpress
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DevExpress within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

DevExpress Daily Rate Histogram

DevExpress
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DevExpress Hourly Rate Trend

DevExpress
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevExpress 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 +62 36 £600 +7.52%
London +47 26 £625 +12.00%
City of London +17 10 £610 +6.08%
Leicestershire - 7 £288 -
East Midlands - 7 £288 -
Leicester - 5 £288 -
South East +16 2 £358 +43.00%
East Sussex - 2 £358 -
Brighton - 2 £358 -
East of England - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -

DevExpress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 87 (94.57%) C#
2 78 (84.78%) .NET
3 63 (68.48%) SQL Server
4 54 (58.70%) WinForms
5 52 (56.52%) Finance
5 52 (56.52%) Multithreading
6 50 (54.35%) Syncfusion
6 50 (54.35%) OO
7 42 (45.65%) SQL
8 29 (31.52%) WPF
9 27 (29.35%) Derivative
10 26 (28.26%) WCF
10 26 (28.26%) ASP.NET
11 24 (26.09%) Front Office
12 19 (20.65%) Visual Studio
13 18 (19.57%) N-Tier
13 18 (19.57%) Telerik
14 17 (18.48%) Ajax
14 17 (18.48%) Banking
14 17 (18.48%) OOP
15 14 (15.22%) jQuery
16 13 (14.13%) Windows
16 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
17 12 (13.04%) Risk Management
18 10 (10.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 10 (10.87%) IIS
19 9 (9.783%) MDX
19 9 (9.783%) Hedge funds
19 9 (9.783%) XML
19 9 (9.783%) OLAP

DevExpress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 78 (84.78%) .NET
2 54 (58.70%) WinForms
3 29 (31.52%) WPF
4 26 (28.26%) WCF
4 26 (28.26%) ASP.NET
5 17 (18.48%) Ajax
6 14 (15.22%) jQuery
7 9 (9.783%) MDX
7 9 (9.783%) XML
8 8 (8.696%) .NET Framework
9 6 (6.522%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (6.522%) LINQ
10 5 (5.435%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 3 (3.261%) Reactive Extensions
11 3 (3.261%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 3 (3.261%) HTML5
11 3 (3.261%) TAPI
11 3 (3.261%) Google Maps API
11 3 (3.261%) HTML
12 2 (2.174%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 10 (10.87%) IIS
2 5 (5.435%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 1 (1.087%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.261%) HTTP
2 2 (2.174%) Intranet
3 1 (1.087%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (68.48%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.783%) OLAP
3 6 (6.522%) GIS
3 6 (6.522%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (3.261%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) Visual Studio
2 6 (6.522%) Subversion
3 3 (3.261%) Git (software)
3 3 (3.261%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.174%) Rhino Mocks
4 2 (2.174%) NUnit
General
1 52 (56.52%) Finance
2 24 (26.09%) Front Office
3 17 (18.48%) Banking
4 8 (8.696%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.261%) Back Office
6 2 (2.174%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.174%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.087%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 81 (88.04%) Developer
2 57 (61.96%) C# Developer
3 31 (33.70%) .NET Developer
4 26 (28.26%) C# .NET Developer
5 21 (22.83%) Senior Developer
6 17 (18.48%) Senior C# Developer
7 10 (10.87%) Lead Developer
7 10 (10.87%) Lead .NET Developer
7 10 (10.87%) Lead C# Developer
8 9 (9.783%) ASP.NET Developer
9 8 (8.696%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 6 (6.522%) Software Engineer
10 6 (6.522%) Front-End Developer
10 6 (6.522%) .NET Software Engineer
10 6 (6.522%) Real Time Software Engineer
10 6 (6.522%) Real Time Engineer
10 6 (6.522%) C# Software Engineer
11 4 (4.348%) Software Developer
11 4 (4.348%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (4.348%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.35%) Derivative
2 18 (19.57%) N-Tier
3 10 (10.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (9.783%) Hedge funds
5 6 (6.522%) Fixed Income
6 4 (4.348%) Grid Computing
6 4 (4.348%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (3.261%) Computer Science
7 3 (3.261%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.087%) Informatics
8 1 (1.087%) Health Informatics
8 1 (1.087%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.087%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.13%) Windows
2 1 (1.087%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (1.087%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (56.52%) Multithreading
2 50 (54.35%) OO
3 17 (18.48%) OOP
4 12 (13.04%) Risk Management
5 7 (7.609%) Electronic Trading
5 7 (7.609%) MVC
6 6 (6.522%) UML
6 6 (6.522%) Software Engineering
6 6 (6.522%) TDD
7 5 (5.435%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (5.435%) OOD
8 4 (4.348%) Web Development
9 3 (3.261%) MVVM
9 3 (3.261%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (2.174%) Scrum
10 2 (2.174%) Pair Programming
11 1 (1.087%) Data Analysis
11 1 (1.087%) Business Intelligence
11 1 (1.087%) SOA
11 1 (1.087%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (94.57%) C#
2 42 (45.65%) SQL
3 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.348%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.087%) C++
5 1 (1.087%) VBA
5 1 (1.087%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (4.348%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.261%) QA
Vendors
1 50 (54.35%) Syncfusion
2 18 (19.57%) Telerik
3 9 (9.783%) Infragistics
4 7 (7.609%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.435%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.087%) Sophis
6 1 (1.087%) Oracle
6 1 (1.087%) Reuters
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