The first table below looks at the demand for Extranet skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Extranet 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 Communications & Networking 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
Extranet
Rank 462 492 479
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -13
Contract jobs citing Extranet 68 86 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.147% 0.148% 0.178%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.003% 0.945% 1.381%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 49 53
Average daily rate £425 £395 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.59% +21.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £166 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £440 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £335 £300
% change year-on-year
+23.13% +11.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 7
Average hourly rate £54.00 £25.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+109.70% -39.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £25.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-47.57% -39.41%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

Extranet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Extranet within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Extranet Jobs Demand Trend

Extranet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Extranet Daily Rate Trend

Extranet
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Extranet Daily Rate Histogram

Extranet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Extranet Hourly Rate Trend

Extranet
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Extranet Hourly Rate Histogram

Extranet
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Extranet 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 +35 63 £425 +6.25%
London +9 43 £425 +3.03%
City of London +9 10 £408 +6.88%
North West +20 6 £295 -1.58%
Scotland -19 5 £368 +6.52%
South East +22 4 £425 +39.34%
Manchester - 4 £295 -
West Midlands - 4 £444 -
Glasgow -18 3 £400 +30.08%
South West +19 2 £588 +46.87%
Cheshire +7 2 - -
Edinburgh +3 2 £150 -56.83%
Staffordshire - 2 £425 -
Durham - 2 £330 -
North East - 2 £330 -
Birmingham - 2 £469 -
Berkshire +16 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +10 1 - -
Bournemouth +2 1 £750 +100.00%
East Midlands +2 1 - -
Dorset +1 1 £750 +100.00%
Nottinghamshire -1 1 - -
Southampton -3 1 £400 +32.89%
Nottingham -7 1 - -
Hampshire -7 1 £400 +32.89%
Docklands, London - 1 £520 -
Yorkshire - 1 £200 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £200 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £425 -
Reading - 1 - -

Extranet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 64 (49.23%) SharePoint
2 63 (48.46%) Intranet
3 44 (33.85%) .NET
4 35 (26.92%) Internet
5 34 (26.15%) Microsoft
6 32 (24.62%) CSS
7 31 (23.85%) SharePoint 2010
8 30 (23.08%) SQL
9 25 (19.23%) JavaScript
9 25 (19.23%) XML
9 25 (19.23%) InfoPath
10 24 (18.46%) HTML
11 23 (17.69%) C#
12 22 (16.92%) Finance
13 20 (15.38%) Migration
13 20 (15.38%) Document Management
13 20 (15.38%) ASP.NET
13 20 (15.38%) MS Excel
14 19 (14.62%) Project Management
15 16 (12.31%) XSLT
15 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
15 16 (12.31%) jQuery
16 15 (11.54%) Web Development
17 14 (10.77%) CRM
17 14 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
18 13 (10.00%) Cisco
18 13 (10.00%) Web Services
19 12 (9.231%) Visual Studio
19 12 (9.231%) Windows
19 12 (9.231%) Cisco Certification

Extranet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 44 (33.85%) .NET
2 32 (24.62%) CSS
3 25 (19.23%) XML
4 24 (18.46%) HTML
5 20 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 16 (12.31%) XSLT
6 16 (12.31%) jQuery
7 13 (10.00%) Web Services
8 11 (8.462%) Ajax
9 10 (7.692%) WF
9 10 (7.692%) .NET Framework
10 7 (5.385%) LAMP
11 6 (4.615%) Middleware
12 5 (3.846%) Silverlight
12 5 (3.846%) Apache Flex
12 5 (3.846%) HTML5
13 4 (3.077%) Hibernate
13 4 (3.077%) Spring
14 3 (2.308%) ASP.NET MVC
14 3 (2.308%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 64 (49.23%) SharePoint
2 31 (23.85%) SharePoint 2010
3 10 (7.692%) CMS
4 6 (4.615%) SharePoint 2013
5 5 (3.846%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (3.846%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.538%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.538%) IIS
6 2 (1.538%) SugarCRM
6 2 (1.538%) WordPress
6 2 (1.538%) Lync
7 1 (0.769%) ESB
7 1 (0.769%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.769%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.769%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.769%) Documentum
7 1 (0.769%) LiveLink
Applications
1 25 (19.23%) InfoPath
2 20 (15.38%) MS Excel
3 7 (5.385%) MS Project
3 7 (5.385%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (4.615%) MS Office
5 2 (1.538%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.538%) Google Apps
6 1 (0.769%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.769%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.769%) PaintShop Pro
Business Applications
1 9 (6.923%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.077%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.769%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.769%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.769%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 63 (48.46%) Intranet
2 35 (26.92%) Internet
3 10 (7.692%) Firewall
4 9 (6.923%) LAN
5 8 (6.154%) MPLS
5 8 (6.154%) VPN
6 7 (5.385%) WAN
6 7 (5.385%) TCP/IP
7 6 (4.615%) Wireless
7 6 (4.615%) IPv4
8 5 (3.846%) IPv6
8 5 (3.846%) SAN
8 5 (3.846%) WLAN
8 5 (3.846%) VLAN
8 5 (3.846%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (3.077%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (3.077%) RFID
9 4 (3.077%) ATM
9 4 (3.077%) OSPF
9 4 (3.077%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.077%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (3.077%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.308%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.538%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.538%) MySQL
5 1 (0.769%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.769%) MS Access
5 1 (0.769%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.769%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.231%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.538%) JUnit
2 2 (1.538%) Hudson
2 2 (1.538%) CruiseControl
2 2 (1.538%) Subversion
2 2 (1.538%) Maven
2 2 (1.538%) Selenium
2 2 (1.538%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.769%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.769%) PHPUnit
3 1 (0.769%) Moq
3 1 (0.769%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (0.769%) MSI
3 1 (0.769%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.769%) NUnit
General
1 22 (16.92%) Finance
2 11 (8.462%) Banking
3 9 (6.923%) Law
4 6 (4.615%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.846%) Retail
5 5 (3.846%) Billing
5 5 (3.846%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.077%) Legal
7 2 (1.538%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.538%) Local Government
8 1 (0.769%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (36.92%) Developer
2 32 (24.62%) SharePoint Developer
3 22 (16.92%) Architect
4 14 (10.77%) Analyst
5 13 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 10 (7.692%) Consultant
7 7 (5.385%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.385%) SharePoint Consultant
8 5 (3.846%) Technical Leader
8 5 (3.846%) PHP Developer
8 5 (3.846%) Coordinator
8 5 (3.846%) Applications Architect
8 5 (3.846%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.846%) Administrator
8 5 (3.846%) Project Coordinator
9 4 (3.077%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.077%) Web Developer
9 4 (3.077%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 4 (3.077%) Infrastructure Manager
9 4 (3.077%) SharePoint Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.692%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.154%) Client/Server
2 8 (6.154%) Social Media
3 5 (3.846%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.077%) Equities
4 4 (3.077%) Mainframe
4 4 (3.077%) Open Source
5 3 (2.308%) Data Integration
5 3 (2.308%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.538%) NHS
6 2 (1.538%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.769%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.769%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.769%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.769%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.769%) Clustering
7 1 (0.769%) AS400
7 1 (0.769%) SaaS
7 1 (0.769%) SecurID
7 1 (0.769%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.231%) Windows
2 6 (4.615%) Windows 7
3 3 (2.308%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.538%) UNIX
4 2 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.769%) Linux
5 1 (0.769%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.769%) CentOS
5 1 (0.769%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.38%) Migration
1 20 (15.38%) Document Management
2 19 (14.62%) Project Management
3 15 (11.54%) Web Development
4 14 (10.77%) CRM
4 14 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (8.462%) Workflow
6 10 (7.692%) B2B
6 10 (7.692%) OO
6 10 (7.692%) TOGAF
7 8 (6.154%) Business Analysis
7 8 (6.154%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (6.154%) PRINCE2
7 8 (6.154%) UML
7 8 (6.154%) E-Commerce
8 6 (4.615%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (4.615%) Process Management
9 5 (3.846%) Scrum
9 5 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (3.846%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.08%) SQL
2 25 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 23 (17.69%) C#
4 10 (7.692%) Java
4 10 (7.692%) PHP
5 3 (2.308%) Perl
5 3 (2.308%) VB
5 3 (2.308%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.538%) Scala
6 2 (1.538%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.769%) C
7 1 (0.769%) COBOL
7 1 (0.769%) tcsh
7 1 (0.769%) Bash shell
7 1 (0.769%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.769%) VBA
7 1 (0.769%) XQuery
7 1 (0.769%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.769%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 12 (9.231%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (7.692%) CCIE
3 8 (6.154%) CCNP
4 4 (3.077%) ISEB
4 4 (3.077%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.308%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.308%) CCNA
6 2 (1.538%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.538%) MCSE
7 1 (0.769%) CCIA
7 1 (0.769%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.769%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.769%) CCEA
7 1 (0.769%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.769%) CCSE
7 1 (0.769%) CCDP
7 1 (0.769%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.692%) QA
2 3 (2.308%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (4.615%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.077%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.538%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.538%) XenApp
4 1 (0.769%) XenServer
4 1 (0.769%) XenDesktop
4 1 (0.769%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (0.769%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.769%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (3.846%) SCCM
2 3 (2.308%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.769%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (0.769%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 34 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) Cisco
3 9 (6.923%) Oracle
4 5 (3.846%) Citrix
4 5 (3.846%) Juniper
4 5 (3.846%) VMware
5 4 (3.077%) BT
5 4 (3.077%) Nokia
5 4 (3.077%) HP
6 3 (2.308%) Radianz
6 3 (2.308%) Websense
6 3 (2.308%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.308%) Brocade
7 2 (1.538%) Zend
7 2 (1.538%) Blue Coat
7 2 (1.538%) Google
7 2 (1.538%) SAP
7 2 (1.538%) JBoss
8 1 (0.769%) Adobe
8 1 (0.769%) Lotus
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