Inversion of Control Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Inversion of Control 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank 485 529 484
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -45
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 44 55 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.095% 0.094% 0.164%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.357% 0.385% 0.582%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 45 76
Average daily rate £408 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.44% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £315 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £568 £600 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £329 £375
% change year-on-year
+6.46% -12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 56 Inversion of Control jobs
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12308 14298 17184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.53% 24.52% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7390 8376 10196
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 662 725
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.15 £45.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

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

Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Inversion of Control Daily Rate Histogram

Inversion of Control
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Inversion of Control Hourly Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inversion of Control 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 +33 42 £415 -7.77%
London +28 27 £500 -
City of London +17 14 £500 -
South East +15 11 £400 +30.08%
Surrey +22 8 £425 -5.55%
Guildford - 4 £425 -
Woking +6 2 - -
Hampshire -9 2 £350 -
Glasgow - 2 £300 -
Bristol - 2 £325 -
South West - 2 £325 -
Scotland - 2 £300 -
East of England +17 1 £375 -
West Midlands +8 1 £330 -
Luton - 1 £375 -
East Sussex - 1 £350 -
Bedfordshire - 1 £375 -
Brighton - 1 £350 -

Inversion of Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 85 (87.63%) C#
1 85 (87.63%) .NET
2 66 (68.04%) SQL Server
3 52 (53.61%) ASP.NET
4 51 (52.58%) MVC
5 41 (42.27%) NHibernate
6 39 (40.21%) WPF
7 36 (37.11%) SQL
8 32 (32.99%) OO
9 31 (31.96%) TDD
9 31 (31.96%) WCF
10 29 (29.90%) jQuery
10 29 (29.90%) Scrum
11 25 (25.77%) Windows
12 24 (24.74%) Front Office
12 24 (24.74%) .NET Framework
12 24 (24.74%) Dependency Injection
12 24 (24.74%) Unity DI Container
13 23 (23.71%) ASP.NET MVC
13 23 (23.71%) Agile Software Development
14 21 (21.65%) Unit Testing
15 20 (20.62%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (19.59%) Spring.NET
16 19 (19.59%) BDD
16 19 (19.59%) Banking
16 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
16 19 (19.59%) Microsoft
17 18 (18.56%) XML
17 18 (18.56%) StructureMap
17 18 (18.56%) Open Source

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 85 (87.63%) .NET
2 52 (53.61%) ASP.NET
3 41 (42.27%) NHibernate
4 39 (40.21%) WPF
5 31 (31.96%) WCF
6 29 (29.90%) jQuery
7 24 (24.74%) .NET Framework
7 24 (24.74%) Unity DI Container
8 23 (23.71%) ASP.NET MVC
9 19 (19.59%) Spring.NET
10 18 (18.56%) XML
10 18 (18.56%) StructureMap
11 16 (16.49%) CSS
11 16 (16.49%) WebSphere
11 16 (16.49%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 15 (15.46%) .NET Remoting
12 15 (15.46%) Lucene
13 14 (14.43%) Silverlight
14 13 (13.40%) JSON
15 11 (11.34%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 16 (16.49%) WebSphere MQ
2 15 (15.46%) MSMQ
3 9 (9.278%) CMS
4 6 (6.186%) Sitefinity
4 6 (6.186%) Documentum
5 5 (5.155%) SharePoint
5 5 (5.155%) TIBCO EMS
6 4 (4.124%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (3.093%) IIS
7 3 (3.093%) ESB
8 2 (2.062%) Umbraco
8 2 (2.062%) Windows Azure
8 2 (2.062%) Kentico
9 1 (1.031%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (17.53%) MS Excel
2 10 (10.31%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 4 (4.124%) RMDS
2 1 (1.031%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.216%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (68.04%) SQL Server
2 16 (16.49%) MySQL
3 14 (14.43%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (13.40%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (4.124%) SQLite
5 4 (4.124%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.124%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (2.062%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.062%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 16 (16.49%) NUnit
2 15 (15.46%) Rhino Mocks
3 12 (12.37%) TeamCity
4 9 (9.278%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (8.247%) Moq
6 7 (7.216%) ReSharper
7 6 (6.186%) Subversion
7 6 (6.186%) MSBuild
7 6 (6.186%) NMock
8 5 (5.155%) Visual Studio
8 5 (5.155%) MSI
8 5 (5.155%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 4 (4.124%) Selenium
9 4 (4.124%) SpecFlow
9 4 (4.124%) PhoneGap
9 4 (4.124%) MSTest
10 3 (3.093%) MbUnit
11 2 (2.062%) Git (software)
11 2 (2.062%) NuGet
11 2 (2.062%) NetAdvantage
General
1 24 (24.74%) Front Office
2 19 (19.59%) Banking
3 12 (12.37%) Finance
4 6 (6.186%) Back Office
5 3 (3.093%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.093%) Marketing
6 2 (2.062%) Retail
6 2 (2.062%) Games
6 2 (2.062%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.031%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.031%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (89.69%) Developer
2 38 (39.18%) .NET Developer
3 26 (26.80%) C# Developer
4 13 (13.40%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (9.278%) ASP.NET Developer
5 9 (9.278%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 9 (9.278%) WPF Developer
5 9 (9.278%) Agile C# Developer
6 7 (7.216%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.155%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (4.124%) Mobile Developer
8 4 (4.124%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.124%) Web Developer
9 3 (3.093%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.093%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.093%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (2.062%) C# Web Developer
10 2 (2.062%) UI Developer
10 2 (2.062%) UI Programmer
10 2 (2.062%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.56%) Open Source
2 6 (6.186%) RIA
3 5 (5.155%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.124%) Hedge funds
4 4 (4.124%) NHS
5 2 (2.062%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.062%) Derivative
5 2 (2.062%) Social Media
5 2 (2.062%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.062%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.031%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.031%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.031%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.031%) SaaS
6 1 (1.031%) SWIFT
6 1 (1.031%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.77%) Windows
2 6 (6.186%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.155%) Android
4 2 (2.062%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.062%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.062%) UNIX
4 2 (2.062%) Linux
4 2 (2.062%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.062%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) MVC
2 32 (32.99%) OO
3 31 (31.96%) TDD
4 29 (29.90%) Scrum
5 24 (24.74%) Dependency Injection
6 23 (23.71%) Agile Software Development
7 21 (21.65%) Unit Testing
8 20 (20.62%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (19.59%) BDD
10 18 (18.56%) Multithreading
11 15 (15.46%) MVVM
11 15 (15.46%) Memory Management
12 7 (7.216%) OOD
13 6 (6.186%) Domain-Driven Design
13 6 (6.186%) Extreme Programming
14 4 (4.124%) Complex Event Processing
14 4 (4.124%) E-Commerce
14 4 (4.124%) RAD
14 4 (4.124%) SOA
14 4 (4.124%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 85 (87.63%) C#
2 36 (37.11%) SQL
3 19 (19.59%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.31%) Java
5 8 (8.247%) VB.NET
6 5 (5.155%) C++
7 2 (2.062%) VB6
7 2 (2.062%) VB
8 1 (1.031%) Python
8 1 (1.031%) Perl
8 1 (1.031%) PHP
8 1 (1.031%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.031%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.031%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (2.062%) Degree
1 2 (2.062%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.031%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 19 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.43%) Oracle
3 5 (5.155%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.124%) 29West
4 4 (4.124%) Reuters
4 4 (4.124%) Bloomberg
5 3 (3.093%) Infragistics
6 2 (2.062%) Facebook
6 2 (2.062%) Twitter
7 1 (1.031%) Citrix
7 1 (1.031%) Sybase
7 1 (1.031%) Telerik
7 1 (1.031%) Google
7 1 (1.031%) Sencha
7 1 (1.031%) Appcelerator
7 1 (1.031%) Sitecore
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