DirectX Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DirectX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DirectX 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft DirectX
Rank 517 560 575
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +15
Contract jobs citing DirectX 13 18 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.031% 0.021%
As % of the Application Development category 0.102% 0.121% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
Average daily rate £265 £300 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% -52.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £300 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
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 375 374 576
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 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

DirectX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DirectX Jobs Demand Trend

DirectX
Daily Rate Trend

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

DirectX Daily Rate Trend

DirectX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DirectX within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

DirectX Daily Rate Histogram

DirectX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DirectX Hourly Rate Trend

DirectX
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 DirectX 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 +43 13 £265 -11.66%
London +31 12 £265 -
Canary Wharf - 3 £250 -
City of London - 2 £288 -
South East +17 1 - -
Hampshire -7 1 - -

DirectX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (86.36%) C++
2 18 (81.82%) C#
3 16 (72.73%) OpenGL
4 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 12 (54.55%) WPF
5 9 (40.91%) Visualisation
5 9 (40.91%) 3D Graphics
6 8 (36.36%) C
6 8 (36.36%) Finance
6 8 (36.36%) WebGL
7 7 (31.82%) .NET
8 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
8 6 (27.27%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (22.73%) GPGPU
9 5 (22.73%) User Experience Design
9 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
9 5 (22.73%) Games
9 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
9 5 (22.73%) TIBCO
9 5 (22.73%) MFC
9 5 (22.73%) Windows
9 5 (22.73%) VC++
9 5 (22.73%) Fortran
10 4 (18.18%) HTTP
10 4 (18.18%) RESTful
10 4 (18.18%) Windows 8
11 3 (13.64%) HTML5
11 3 (13.64%) Silverlight
11 3 (13.64%) XAML

DirectX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (72.73%) OpenGL
2 12 (54.55%) WPF
3 8 (36.36%) WebGL
4 7 (31.82%) .NET
5 5 (22.73%) MFC
6 4 (18.18%) RESTful
7 3 (13.64%) Silverlight
7 3 (13.64%) HTML5
8 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 1 (4.545%) WebKit
8 1 (4.545%) jQuery
8 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.545%) GIS
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.545%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (4.545%) Subversion
1 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
1 1 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Games
3 1 (4.545%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Programmer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Analyst Programmer
3 5 (22.73%) Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) C++ Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) C++ Analyst Programmer
3 5 (22.73%) C++ Programmer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Programmer
4 3 (13.64%) UI Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Market Data Specialist
4 3 (13.64%) UI Programmer
5 2 (9.091%) Data Visualisation Specialist
6 1 (4.545%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) 3D Graphics
1 9 (40.91%) Visualisation
2 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
3 5 (22.73%) GPGPU
4 2 (9.091%) Animation
5 1 (4.545%) Device Driver
5 1 (4.545%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Windows 8
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) Android
3 1 (4.545%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.545%) MeeGo
3 1 (4.545%) Tizen
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
2 5 (22.73%) User Experience Design
2 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
3 1 (4.545%) Workflow
3 1 (4.545%) CAD
3 1 (4.545%) MVC
3 1 (4.545%) Image Processing
3 1 (4.545%) Game Development
3 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) C++
2 18 (81.82%) C#
3 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 8 (36.36%) C
5 5 (22.73%) VC++
5 5 (22.73%) Fortran
6 3 (13.64%) XAML
7 1 (4.545%) GLSL
7 1 (4.545%) HLSL
7 1 (4.545%) Java
7 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) TIBCO
UI Developer Contract
City of London
You will also be confident in tackling debugging and bug-fixing across the product as required.Qualification for UI Developer*Strong programming skills in C++, C# or Javascript*...
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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