The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of MKS products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MKS over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within MKS, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
MKS
Rank 529 575 582
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +7
Contract jobs citing MKS 1 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% 0.011% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £401 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.80% +13.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £401 £375 -
% change year-on-year
+6.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

MKS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MKS Jobs Demand Trend

MKS
Daily Rate Trend

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

MKS Daily Rate Trend

MKS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MKS Hourly Rate Trend

MKS
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MKS within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
Scotland - 1 £401 -
Stirling - 1 £401 -

MKS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MKS 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 MKS.

1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) Business Development
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) JDBC
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) Servlets
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT

MKS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MKS 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 MKS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) JSP
1 1 (25.00%) Servlets
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XSLT
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) TOAD
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) RAD
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Business Development
1 1 (25.00%) Time Management
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Fujitsu