Linked Data Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linked Data in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Linked Data over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Linked Data
Rank 534 580 -
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -
Contract jobs citing Linked Data 6 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.002% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.048% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-7.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12468 14366 16938
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.41% 24.57% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7504 8442 10060
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £252 £280
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 553 669 716
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.33 £11.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.85 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%

Linked Data
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Linked Data Jobs Demand Trend

Linked Data
Daily Rate Trend

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

Linked Data Daily Rate Trend

Linked Data
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Linked Data Hourly Rate Trend

Linked Data
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Linked Data within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +50 6 £375 +15.38%
London - 4 £375 -
Wiltshire - 2 £301 -
Swindon - 2 £301 -
South West - 2 £301 -
City of London - 1 £425 -

Linked Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Linked Data 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 Linked Data.

1 8 (72.73%) Semantic Web
2 7 (63.64%) RDF
3 6 (54.55%) Web Services
3 6 (54.55%) XML
4 5 (45.45%) Java
4 5 (45.45%) Apache
4 5 (45.45%) RESTful
4 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
6 3 (27.27%) PHP
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
6 3 (27.27%) JUnit
6 3 (27.27%) CSS
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (27.27%) ETL
6 3 (27.27%) Publishing
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Content Management
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (27.27%) SPARQL
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (27.27%) Zend
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (27.27%) Jetty
6 3 (27.27%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (27.27%) HTML5
6 3 (27.27%) Mockito
6 3 (27.27%) BDD

Linked Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Linked Data 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 Linked Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) Web Services
1 6 (54.55%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) RESTful
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML5
4 2 (18.18%) OSGi
4 2 (18.18%) jQuery
4 2 (18.18%) JSON
5 1 (9.091%) SOAP
5 1 (9.091%) Struts
5 1 (9.091%) J2EE
5 1 (9.091%) XML-RPC
5 1 (9.091%) Spring
5 1 (9.091%) Ajax
5 1 (9.091%) JPA
5 1 (9.091%) Guice
5 1 (9.091%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Jetty
3 1 (9.091%) Tomcat
3 1 (9.091%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (27.27%) MarkLogic
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
1 3 (27.27%) Mockito
2 2 (18.18%) QUnit
2 2 (18.18%) PHPUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
2 2 (18.18%) Subversion
2 2 (18.18%) Ant
3 1 (9.091%) Log4j
3 1 (9.091%) Maven
3 1 (9.091%) Mercurial
3 1 (9.091%) Hudson
General
1 3 (27.27%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Web Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) ETL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Android Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Semantic Web
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 2 (18.18%) Smartphone
2 2 (18.18%) Ontologies
2 2 (18.18%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
1 2 (18.18%) Android
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) RDF
2 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) TDD
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Content Management
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Rapid Prototyping
3 3 (27.27%) BDD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
4 2 (18.18%) Progressive Enhancement
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) Test-First Development
4 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 2 (18.18%) OOP
5 1 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 3 (27.27%) SPARQL
4 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 2 (18.18%) Objective-C
5 1 (9.091%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Zend
2 2 (18.18%) Apple
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) Google
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