The first table below looks at the demand for Dublin Core skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dublin Core 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
Dublin Core
Rank - 568 599
Contract jobs citing Dublin Core 0 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.003% 0.003%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 0.047% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3368 4300 4365
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 7.000% 7.409% 7.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1993 2207 2450
Average daily rate £400 £410 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% -7.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 226 275
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -32.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.63 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%

Dublin Core
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Dublin Core within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Dublin Core Jobs Demand Trend

Dublin Core
Daily Rate Trend

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

Dublin Core Daily Rate Trend

Dublin Core
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dublin Core 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
London - - - -
England - - - -

Dublin Core
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Lucene
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WF
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

Dublin Core
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Lucene
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WF
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ to SQL
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft