The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank 85 84 91
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Contract jobs citing Internet 1054 1202 1205
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 2.156% 2.103% 1.938%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.97% 13.51% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 608 594
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £199 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £540 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.15% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 93 126
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 £16.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.44 £10.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.75 £43.40 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £16.88
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.03%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7041 8897 8099
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.40% 15.56% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3525 3976 3672
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £206 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 521 596 803
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Internet Daily Rate Histogram

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Internet within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Internet Hourly Rate Histogram

Internet
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 Internet within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England 0 971 £350 -6.66% 435
London -6 522 £400 - 198
South East +38 206 £320 -5.18% 97
City of London +4 140 £350 -12.50% 53
Yorkshire +30 86 £270 -10.00% 18
West Yorkshire +29 78 £270 -10.00% 14
Berkshire +21 78 £210 -35.38% 26
Leeds +23 60 £275 -8.33% 12
Reading +15 41 £175 -32.03% 10
East of England -10 41 £360 +10.76% 39
Hampshire +7 38 £370 +55.78% 24
Surrey +26 37 £375 +8.69% 16
North West -32 37 £325 -21.21% 33
Scotland -27 31 £283 -19.28% 5
South West +8 29 £305 -4.68% 20
East Midlands -1 27 £280 -25.33% 15
Oxfordshire -2 19 £325 -7.14% 7
West Midlands -5 18 £250 -16.66% 8
Manchester +5 17 £325 +18.18% 16
Cheshire -8 17 £343 -23.88% 9
Nottinghamshire -5 15 £290 - 6
Hertfordshire +11 12 £388 -3.12% 10
Wales +2 11 £383 -19.47% 3
Bournemouth +2 11 £250 -30.98%
Buckinghamshire +1 11 £350 -33.33% 6
Dorset 0 11 £250 -25.92%
Slough -1 11 £223 -36.42% 2
Cambridgeshire -5 11 £225 -37.93% 19
South Wales -5 11 £383 -19.47% 2
Nottingham -6 11 £325 - 5

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 445 (22.91%) Windows
2 391 (20.13%) Microsoft
3 381 (19.62%) Finance
4 326 (16.79%) Java
5 311 (16.01%) Banking
6 299 (15.40%) JavaScript
7 274 (14.11%) .NET
8 263 (13.54%) HTML
9 240 (12.36%) Linux
10 238 (12.26%) E-Commerce
11 233 (12.00%) Oracle
12 232 (11.95%) CSS
13 231 (11.89%) SQL
14 224 (11.53%) MS Excel
15 212 (10.92%) Web Services
16 208 (10.71%) Firewall
17 204 (10.50%) TCP/IP
18 199 (10.25%) Cisco
19 198 (10.20%) Active Directory
20 197 (10.14%) Project Management
21 188 (9.681%) SQL Server
22 186 (9.578%) Agile Software Development
23 184 (9.475%) C#
24 183 (9.423%) Retail
25 181 (9.320%) Telecoms
26 177 (9.114%) DNS
27 175 (9.011%) MS Office
28 173 (8.908%) Intranet
29 166 (8.548%) LAN
30 162 (8.342%) Citrix

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 274 (14.11%) .NET
2 263 (13.54%) HTML
3 232 (11.95%) CSS
4 212 (10.92%) Web Services
5 161 (8.290%) XML
6 159 (8.187%) jQuery
7 144 (7.415%) HTML5
8 127 (6.540%) ASP.NET
9 91 (4.686%) WebSphere
9 91 (4.686%) Ajax
10 81 (4.171%) J2EE
10 81 (4.171%) CSS3
11 63 (3.244%) .NET Framework
12 55 (2.832%) REST
13 54 (2.781%) XHTML
14 53 (2.729%) JSP
15 51 (2.626%) Spring
15 51 (2.626%) SOAP
15 51 (2.626%) ASP
16 45 (2.317%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 153 (7.878%) Apache
2 124 (6.385%) SharePoint
3 104 (5.355%) MS Exchange
4 90 (4.634%) IIS
5 72 (3.708%) Amazon AWS
6 67 (3.450%) CMS
7 64 (3.296%) Amazon EC2
8 62 (3.193%) Amazon S3
8 62 (3.193%) Route 53
9 48 (2.472%) nginx
9 48 (2.472%) WebSphere Application Server
10 46 (2.369%) WebLogic
11 41 (2.111%) Tomcat
11 41 (2.111%) TeamSite
12 40 (2.060%) Exchange Server 2010
13 35 (1.802%) Exchange Server 2007
14 26 (1.339%) ESB
14 26 (1.339%) Exchange Server 2003
15 25 (1.287%) SharePoint 2010
15 25 (1.287%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 224 (11.53%) MS Excel
2 175 (9.011%) MS Office
3 63 (3.244%) MS PowerPoint
4 56 (2.884%) MS Visio
5 45 (2.317%) Photoshop
6 23 (1.184%) MS Project
7 19 (0.978%) Acrobat
8 16 (0.824%) Office 365
9 10 (0.515%) Adobe Illustrator
10 8 (0.412%) InfoPath
10 8 (0.412%) Spreadsheet
11 5 (0.257%) Fireworks
12 3 (0.154%) Google Apps
13 2 (0.103%) DOC1
13 2 (0.103%) CINEMA 4D
13 2 (0.103%) PrintSoft PReS
13 2 (0.103%) Vectorworks
14 1 (0.051%) Adobe Captivate
14 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.051%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 34 (1.751%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (0.515%) Tridion
3 7 (0.360%) Temenos T24
3 7 (0.360%) FLEXCUBE
4 6 (0.309%) Google Analytics
5 4 (0.206%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.154%) Remedy AR System
6 3 (0.154%) assyst
7 2 (0.103%) Oracle HRMS
7 2 (0.103%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.103%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.103%) Exstream
7 2 (0.103%) Misys Midas
7 2 (0.103%) Bond Adapt
7 2 (0.103%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.103%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.103%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.103%) Eikon
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.051%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 208 (10.71%) Firewall
2 204 (10.50%) TCP/IP
3 177 (9.114%) DNS
4 173 (8.908%) Intranet
5 166 (8.548%) LAN
6 156 (8.033%) WAN
7 127 (6.540%) HTTP
8 112 (5.767%) VPN
9 99 (5.098%) DHCP
10 80 (4.119%) Wireless
11 77 (3.965%) VoIP
11 77 (3.965%) SAN
12 75 (3.862%) MPLS
13 73 (3.759%) BGP
14 63 (3.244%) OSPF
15 62 (3.193%) SMTP
16 59 (3.038%) SSL
17 58 (2.987%) Intrusion Detection
18 54 (2.781%) Ethernet
19 45 (2.317%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (9.681%) SQL Server
2 128 (6.591%) MySQL
3 73 (3.759%) MongoDB
4 53 (2.729%) Redis
5 52 (2.678%) SQL Server 2008
5 52 (2.678%) Amazon RDS
6 45 (2.317%) RDBMS
7 44 (2.266%) SQL Server 2005
8 43 (2.214%) DB2
9 26 (1.339%) SQL Server 2000
9 26 (1.339%) Oracle 8/8i
10 25 (1.287%) Data Warehouse
11 23 (1.184%) Oracle 11g
12 21 (1.081%) NoSQL
13 19 (0.978%) Oracle 10g
14 17 (0.875%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.824%) SimpleDB
15 16 (0.824%) Couchbase
16 14 (0.721%) DTS
16 14 (0.721%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 65 (3.347%) Git (software)
2 56 (2.884%) Visual Studio
3 48 (2.472%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.420%) JUnit
4 47 (2.420%) Subversion
5 46 (2.369%) Selenium
6 44 (2.266%) TeamCity
7 43 (2.214%) Maven
8 39 (2.008%) CruiseControl
9 29 (1.493%) JIRA
10 23 (1.184%) Ant
11 14 (0.721%) Eclipse
12 13 (0.669%) MSBuild
12 13 (0.669%) Team Foundation Server
13 12 (0.618%) Mockito
14 11 (0.566%) Cucumber
14 11 (0.566%) Oracle Forms
15 9 (0.463%) TestNG
15 9 (0.463%) WebDriver
15 9 (0.463%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 381 (19.62%) Finance
2 311 (16.01%) Banking
3 183 (9.423%) Retail
4 181 (9.320%) Telecoms
5 110 (5.664%) Marketing
6 55 (2.832%) Investment Banking
7 51 (2.626%) Retail Banking
7 51 (2.626%) Publishing
8 48 (2.472%) Legal
9 39 (2.008%) Games
10 35 (1.802%) Back Office
11 29 (1.493%) Financial Institution
12 27 (1.390%) Advertising
13 25 (1.287%) Corporate Banking
14 23 (1.184%) Front Office
15 19 (0.978%) Billing
16 18 (0.927%) Law
17 15 (0.772%) German Language
18 12 (0.618%) Dutch Language
18 12 (0.618%) French Language
Job Titles
1 375 (19.31%) Developer
2 310 (15.96%) Analyst
3 189 (9.732%) Architect
4 133 (6.849%) Project Manager
5 99 (5.098%) Solutions Architect
6 91 (4.686%) Administrator
7 90 (4.634%) Support Engineer
8 82 (4.222%) Business Analyst
9 80 (4.119%) Consultant
10 71 (3.656%) Java Developer
11 69 (3.553%) Network Engineer
12 67 (3.450%) Web Developer
13 61 (3.141%) Security Analyst
14 57 (2.935%) Software Engineer
15 56 (2.884%) Support Analyst
16 52 (2.678%) .NET Developer
17 50 (2.575%) Designer
18 44 (2.266%) Desktop Support
19 43 (2.214%) Front-End Developer
20 42 (2.163%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 125 (6.437%) Online Banking
2 71 (3.656%) RIA
3 69 (3.553%) Mobile App
4 63 (3.244%) Management Information System
5 59 (3.038%) Blackberry
6 57 (2.935%) Open Source
7 56 (2.884%) Client/Server
8 48 (2.472%) Mobile Banking
9 36 (1.854%) Clustering
9 36 (1.854%) Computer Science
9 36 (1.854%) Social Media
10 33 (1.699%) Fixed Income
11 31 (1.596%) Digital Media
11 31 (1.596%) N-Tier
12 28 (1.442%) DataPower
13 27 (1.390%) Mainframe
14 21 (1.081%) Web 2.0
15 20 (1.030%) SaaS
16 18 (0.927%) Cryptography
17 17 (0.875%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 445 (22.91%) Windows
2 240 (12.36%) Linux
3 140 (7.209%) Windows Server 2008
4 136 (7.003%) Windows 7
5 134 (6.900%) Windows Server 2003
6 126 (6.488%) UNIX
7 121 (6.231%) Windows XP
8 64 (3.296%) Solaris
9 49 (2.523%) Android
10 41 (2.111%) Windows Vista
11 37 (1.905%) Apple iOS
12 36 (1.854%) Windows 2000
13 34 (1.751%) Mac OS X
14 33 (1.699%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 15 (0.772%) AIX
15 15 (0.772%) Windows NT
16 14 (0.721%) Ubuntu
17 12 (0.618%) Windows 8
18 11 (0.566%) HPUX
19 9 (0.463%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (12.26%) E-Commerce
2 197 (10.14%) Project Management
3 186 (9.578%) Agile Software Development
4 158 (8.136%) Scrum
5 149 (7.673%) ITIL
6 144 (7.415%) TDD
7 130 (6.694%) Content Management
8 127 (6.540%) Migration
9 126 (6.488%) OO
10 104 (5.355%) PRINCE2
11 100 (5.149%) Continuous Integration
12 91 (4.686%) Stakeholder Management
13 87 (4.480%) UML
14 85 (4.377%) Incident Management
15 84 (4.325%) Security Testing
16 79 (4.068%) Web Development
17 72 (3.708%) Change Management
18 71 (3.656%) Service Management
18 71 (3.656%) MVC
18 71 (3.656%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 326 (16.79%) Java
2 299 (15.40%) JavaScript
3 231 (11.89%) SQL
4 184 (9.475%) C#
5 133 (6.849%) PHP
6 91 (4.686%) Perl
7 90 (4.634%) C++
8 75 (3.862%) Python
9 69 (3.553%) Ruby
10 65 (3.347%) C
11 53 (2.729%) Bash shell
12 39 (2.008%) VB
13 35 (1.802%) T-SQL
14 30 (1.545%) VBScript
15 25 (1.287%) PowerShell
16 24 (1.236%) VB.NET
17 21 (1.081%) PL/SQL
18 20 (1.030%) ActionScript
18 20 (1.030%) Objective-C
19 16 (0.824%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 150 (7.724%) Degree
2 141 (7.261%) Security Cleared
3 118 (6.076%) Cisco Certification
4 111 (5.716%) Microsoft Certification
5 90 (4.634%) SC Cleared
6 75 (3.862%) CCNA
7 73 (3.759%) MCSE
8 58 (2.987%) CCNP
9 35 (1.802%) DV Cleared
9 35 (1.802%) MCP
10 31 (1.596%) ISEB
11 28 (1.442%) CISSP
12 22 (1.133%) CCIE
13 21 (1.081%) GIAC
14 16 (0.824%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 16 (0.824%) MCITP
15 15 (0.772%) JNCIP
16 12 (0.618%) MBA
16 12 (0.618%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.618%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.686%) QA
2 63 (3.244%) SLA
3 22 (1.133%) PCI DSS
4 12 (0.618%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.206%) WCAG
5 4 (0.206%) WAI
6 3 (0.154%) COSO
7 2 (0.103%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.103%) COBIT
8 1 (0.051%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.051%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.051%) GAMP
8 1 (0.051%) GMP
8 1 (0.051%) BS7799
System Software
1 198 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 94 (4.840%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.648%) XenApp
4 21 (1.081%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.081%) vSphere
4 21 (1.081%) Microsoft App-V
5 17 (0.875%) Oracle RAC
6 14 (0.721%) VMware ESX
6 14 (0.721%) XenServer
7 13 (0.669%) ProxySG
8 12 (0.618%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 11 (0.566%) XenDesktop
10 10 (0.515%) Snort
11 8 (0.412%) ISA Server
12 6 (0.309%) NFS
13 5 (0.257%) VMware ESXi
13 5 (0.257%) UAG
13 5 (0.257%) Terminal Services
14 4 (0.206%) MetaFrame
14 4 (0.206%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (2.678%) SCCM
2 44 (2.266%) Puppet
3 29 (1.493%) CA SiteMinder
4 28 (1.442%) Tivoli
5 25 (1.287%) SCOM
5 25 (1.287%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 22 (1.133%) HP Quality Center
7 21 (1.081%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 16 (0.824%) Nagios
9 13 (0.669%) Backup Exec
9 13 (0.669%) Unicenter
10 11 (0.566%) NetBackup
11 10 (0.515%) OpenView Configuration Management
12 8 (0.412%) Legato
13 7 (0.360%) Cisco CUCM
13 7 (0.360%) Norton AntiVirus
14 6 (0.309%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 6 (0.309%) OpenView
14 6 (0.309%) McAfee ePO
15 5 (0.257%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 391 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 233 (12.00%) Oracle
3 199 (10.25%) Cisco
4 162 (8.342%) Citrix
5 141 (7.261%) HP
6 115 (5.922%) VMware
7 75 (3.862%) Adobe
8 69 (3.553%) Juniper
9 57 (2.935%) IBM
10 53 (2.729%) Red Hat
11 49 (2.523%) McAfee
12 47 (2.420%) CheckPoint
12 47 (2.420%) Percona
13 46 (2.369%) CA
14 38 (1.957%) F5
15 36 (1.854%) Blue Coat
16 32 (1.648%) Dell
17 31 (1.596%) Lotus
17 31 (1.596%) JBoss
18 30 (1.545%) Symantec
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Rate: £350 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
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Bite Consulting
Rate: From £25 to £50 per hour DOE and skills range & location
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Rate: £250 - £300 per day
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London
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £600 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Salt
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
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Adstream
Rate: Circa £40,000 + benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
Noir Consulting
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
Central London / West End
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £500 - £575 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
South East London
Think IT Recruitment
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
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London
Church International
Rate: £190 to £250 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
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Rate: From £250 to £275 per day
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Derbyshire
Lucid Support Services
Rate: Competitive Market Rates
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Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Rate: £25,000 per annum
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London
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Rate: From £230 to £280 per day
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Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
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Darlington, North East
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