Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JSON skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JSON over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkJSON
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank405417560
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Up+143
Matching contract IT job ads882440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.182 %0.061 %0.049 %
As % of the Application Development category0.683 %0.275 %0.201 %
Daily rates quoted32610
Average daily rate£313£338£290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.400 %+16.37 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£251£288£258
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£374£395£362
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£395£290
% change year-on-year
-24.05 %+36.20 %
Hourly rates quoted520
Average hourly rate£36.25£23.26-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.88 %-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£36.25£23.26-
% change year-on-year
+55.88 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12893871819870
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.69 %22.10 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted657530396466
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4254911255
Average hourly rate£30.00£29.70£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.010 %-7.180 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

JSON
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JSON within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JSON Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JSON Hourly Rate Trend

JSON
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+2284£325-3.70 %
LondonDown-3242£350+12.00 %
North WestUp+1218£300-
ManchesterNew entry-18£300-
City of LondonDown-5415£363-
South EastUp+812£260-33.33 %
East of EnglandUp+197£325-18.75 %
EssexNew entry-7£325-
BerkshireNew entry-6£260-
SloughNew entry-6£260-
KentNew entry-4--
ScotlandNew entry-3£300-
South WestDown-52--
BristolDown-112--
LeedsNew entry-2£325-
YorkshireNew entry-2£325-
West YorkshireNew entry-2£325-
Northern IrelandUp+21--
East MidlandsDown-41--
Thames ValleyNew entry-1--
OxfordshireNew entry-1--
GlasgowNew entry-1--
EdinburghNew entry-1£300-

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JSON 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 JSON.

1119 (71.26 %)XML
2118 (70.66 %)AJAX
385 (50.90 %)JavaScript
475 (44.91 %)CSS
565 (38.92 %).NET
658 (34.73 %)jQuery
756 (33.53 %)Web Services
853 (31.74 %)OO
952 (31.14 %)ASP.NET
1051 (30.54 %)HTML
1051 (30.54 %)XHTML
1143 (25.75 %)Java
1241 (24.55 %)XSLT
1337 (22.16 %)SQL Server
1436 (21.56 %)SQL
1535 (20.96 %)RESTful
1535 (20.96 %)SQL Server 2005
1630 (17.96 %)PHP
1729 (17.37 %)C#
1729 (17.37 %)TDD
1827 (16.17 %)Flash
1926 (15.57 %)DOM
1926 (15.57 %)Agile Software Development
2024 (14.37 %)MVC
2123 (13.77 %)Subversion
2123 (13.77 %)Web 2.0
2123 (13.77 %)WCF
2221 (12.57 %)NUnit
2221 (12.57 %)TeamCity
2221 (12.57 %)ASP.NET 2.0

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1119 (71.26 %)XML
2118 (70.66 %)AJAX
375 (44.91 %)CSS
465 (38.92 %).NET
558 (34.73 %)jQuery
656 (33.53 %)Web Services
752 (31.14 %)ASP.NET
851 (30.54 %)HTML
851 (30.54 %)XHTML
941 (24.55 %)XSLT
1035 (20.96 %)RESTful
1127 (16.17 %)Flash
1226 (15.57 %)DOM
1323 (13.77 %)WCF
1421 (12.57 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1519 (11.38 %)NHibernate
1615 (8.982 %)Spring
1713 (7.784 %)ASP
1713 (7.784 %)Microformats
1812 (7.186 %)Zend Framework
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
117 (10.18 %)Apache
213 (7.784 %)Tomcat
37 (4.192 %)CMS
45 (2.994 %)Drupal
53 (1.796 %)lighttpd
53 (1.796 %)EPiServer
62 (1.198 %)WebLogic
62 (1.198 %)SharePoint
62 (1.198 %)Apache Solr
71 (0.599 %)Flash Media Server
71 (0.599 %)ColdFusion
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (3.593 %)Photoshop
22 (1.198 %)Adobe Illustrator
22 (1.198 %)MS Excel
31 (0.599 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (1.198 %)Google Analytics
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
120 (11.98 %)Internet
27 (4.192 %)Extranet
34 (2.395 %)HTTP
42 (1.198 %)SNMP
42 (1.198 %)Intranet
42 (1.198 %)AMQP
51 (0.599 %)SSH
51 (0.599 %)SMTP
51 (0.599 %)FTP
51 (0.599 %)TCP/IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
137 (22.16 %)SQL Server
235 (20.96 %)SQL Server 2005
313 (7.784 %)ETL
412 (7.186 %)MySQL
54 (2.395 %)CouchDB
62 (1.198 %)PostgreSQL
62 (1.198 %)SQL Server 2008
71 (0.599 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
123 (13.77 %)Subversion
221 (12.57 %)NUnit
221 (12.57 %)TeamCity
314 (8.383 %)Visual Studio
413 (7.784 %)JIRA
58 (4.790 %)XMLSpy
65 (2.994 %)Xcode
73 (1.796 %)Eclipse
82 (1.198 %)NDepend
82 (1.198 %)Dreamweaver
82 (1.198 %)Ant
82 (1.198 %)JUnit
82 (1.198 %)VSS/SourceSafe
82 (1.198 %)ReSharper
82 (1.198 %)WATIR
82 (1.198 %)Selenium
82 (1.198 %)Expression Blend
82 (1.198 %)csUnit
82 (1.198 %)Team Foundation Server
82 (1.198 %)NCover
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
115 (8.982 %)Insurance
212 (7.186 %)Finance
310 (5.988 %)Banking
310 (5.988 %)Investment Banking
48 (4.790 %)Education
48 (4.790 %)Government
54 (2.395 %)Back Office
62 (1.198 %)Advertising
62 (1.198 %)Publishing
62 (1.198 %)Graphic Design
62 (1.198 %)Music
62 (1.198 %)Music Industry
71 (0.599 %)Marketing
71 (0.599 %)Animation
71 (0.599 %)Telecoms
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1147 (88.02 %)Developer
235 (20.96 %)Web Developer
333 (19.76 %).NET Developer
423 (13.77 %)Java Developer
519 (11.38 %)JavaScript Developer
615 (8.982 %)ASP.NET Developer
714 (8.383 %)PHP Developer
813 (7.784 %)C# Developer
813 (7.784 %)iPhone Developer
911 (6.587 %)Senior Developer
911 (6.587 %).NET Web Developer
1010 (5.988 %)Website Developer
117 (4.192 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
126 (3.593 %)UI Developer
135 (2.994 %)Java Web Developer
144 (2.395 %)Programmer
144 (2.395 %)Software Developer
144 (2.395 %)Team Leader
144 (2.395 %)Mobile Developer
153 (1.796 %)CSS Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
123 (13.77 %)Web 2.0
217 (10.18 %)N-Tier
313 (7.784 %)iPhone
47 (4.192 %)Multithreading
47 (4.192 %)Derivative
47 (4.192 %)Equity Derivative
47 (4.192 %)Equities
56 (3.593 %)RIA
64 (2.395 %)Open Source
72 (1.198 %)W3C
72 (1.198 %)Data Protection Act
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
113 (7.784 %)Linux
28 (4.790 %)Android
33 (1.796 %)UNIX
33 (1.796 %)Windows
42 (1.198 %)Windows Server 2003
42 (1.198 %)Solaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
153 (31.74 %)OO
229 (17.37 %)TDD
326 (15.57 %)Agile Software Development
424 (14.37 %)MVC
519 (11.38 %)Continuous Integration
519 (11.38 %)Web Development
617 (10.18 %)Unit Testing
712 (7.186 %)OOD
811 (6.587 %)Scrum
99 (5.389 %)UML
99 (5.389 %)OOP
108 (4.790 %)RDF
116 (3.593 %)Data Modelling
116 (3.593 %)Database Tuning
125 (2.994 %)Software Testing
125 (2.994 %)Content Management
134 (2.395 %)Change Management
134 (2.395 %)RAD
143 (1.796 %)Information Management
143 (1.796 %)RUP
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
185 (50.90 %)JavaScript
243 (25.75 %)Java
336 (21.56 %)SQL
430 (17.96 %)PHP
529 (17.37 %)C#
618 (10.78 %)VB.NET
717 (10.18 %)PL/SQL
815 (8.982 %)T-SQL
914 (8.383 %)ActionScript
914 (8.383 %)Python
1013 (7.784 %)Objective-C
1112 (7.186 %)Perl
129 (5.389 %)ActionScript 3.0
137 (4.192 %)ActionScript 2.0
137 (4.192 %)Korn
146 (3.593 %)C
154 (2.395 %)Ruby
163 (1.796 %)VB
172 (1.198 %)Shell Script
172 (1.198 %)C++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18 (4.790 %)Security Cleared
27 (4.192 %)SC Cleared
32 (1.198 %)ISEB
32 (1.198 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (3.593 %)Dublin Core
22 (1.198 %)WAI
31 (0.599 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (2.994 %)OVSD
15 (2.994 %)OpenView
22 (1.198 %)Zenoss
31 (0.599 %)ServiceCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
114 (8.383 %)Adobe
213 (7.784 %)Zend
312 (7.186 %)Microsoft
45 (2.994 %)Oracle
45 (2.994 %)HP
45 (2.994 %)Terracotta
53 (1.796 %)Google
61 (0.599 %)telerik
61 (0.599 %)Sybase