The first table below looks at the demand for LiteSpeed skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LiteSpeed 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 of the System Software 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
Quest LiteSpeed for SQL Server
Rank 525 575 -
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -
Contract jobs citing LiteSpeed 4 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.009% 0.015% -
As % of the System Software category 0.092% 0.196% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 0
Average daily rate £258 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £258 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4352 4594 4408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.877% 7.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 2092 2210 1930
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 589 627 658
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.01 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%

LiteSpeed
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LiteSpeed within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

LiteSpeed Jobs Demand Trend

LiteSpeed
Daily Rate Trend

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

LiteSpeed Daily Rate Trend

LiteSpeed
Daily Rate Histogram

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

LiteSpeed Daily Rate Histogram

LiteSpeed
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 LiteSpeed 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 +41 4 £258 -26.42%
Surrey +17 3 £300 -
South East +16 3 £300 -
Egham - 1 £215 -
North West - 1 £175 -
Merseyside - 1 £175 -

LiteSpeed
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Red Gate
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) CommVault
4 1 (25.00%) NHS

LiteSpeed
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DBA
1 4 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Database Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Administrator
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Database Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Server Administrator
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Red Gate
2 1 (25.00%) CommVault