Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MAPI skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MAPI over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 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.

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.

Mail or Messaging Applications Programming Interface (MAPI)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank-571529
Matching contract IT job ads0107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK-0.016 %0.013 %
As % of the Application Development category-0.059 %0.045 %
Number of daily rates quoted041
Average daily rate-£294£345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
--14.85 %
UK excluding London average daily rate-£294-
Number of hourly rates quoted040
Average hourly rate-£15.50-
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
151651690115437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.62 %27.54 %28.04 %
Number of daily rates quoted891698148183
Average daily rate£350£400£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50 %+9.58 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted380573441
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

MAPI
Demand Trend

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

MAPI Demand Trend

MAPI
Daily Rate Trend

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

MAPI Daily Rate Trend

MAPI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MAPI Hourly Rate Trend

MAPI
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MAPI 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 MAPI.

15 (71.43 %)Lotus Notes
15 (71.43 %)Lotus
15 (71.43 %)GroupWise
15 (71.43 %)Migration
15 (71.43 %)IMAP
22 (28.57 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
22 (28.57 %)C#
22 (28.57 %)Finance
31 (14.29 %)WinForms

MAPI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MAPI 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 MAPI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (14.29 %)WinForms
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
15 (71.43 %)Lotus Notes
15 (71.43 %)GroupWise
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (71.43 %)IMAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (28.57 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (28.57 %)Finance
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15 (71.43 %)Analyst
22 (28.57 %)C# Developer
22 (28.57 %)Developer
31 (14.29 %)Migration Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (71.43 %)Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12 (28.57 %)C#
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (71.43 %)Lotus