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The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multithreading in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Multithreading over the 3 months to 12 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category.

LinkMulti-threading
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank166286340
Rank change year-on-year
Up+120Up+54
Matching contract IT job ads457164295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.974 %0.407 %0.362 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category3.651 %1.694 %1.689 %
Daily rates quoted28176111
Average daily rate£550£475£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.78 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£300£325
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£575£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£295£325
% change year-on-year
+15.25 %-9.230 %
Hourly rates quoted6019
Average hourly rate£48.75-£45.00
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.25-£30.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£55.00-£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£48.75-£45.00
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12518968417466
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.68 %24.01 %21.41 %
Daily rates quoted661336136132
Average daily rate£525£425£513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.52 %-17.07 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£285£225£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£600£700
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£330£350
% change year-on-year
-1.510 %-5.710 %
Hourly rates quoted5728161514
Average hourly rate£19.00£22.50£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£12.00£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.50£40.00£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£22.85£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.84 %-8.600 %

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.

Multithreading
Demand Trend

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

Multithreading Demand Trend

Multithreading
Daily Rate Trend

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

Multithreading Daily Rate Trend

Multithreading
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multithreading within the UK over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

Multithreading Daily Rate Histogram

Multithreading
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Multithreading Hourly Rate Trend

Multithreading
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Multithreading within the UK over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

Multithreading Hourly Rate Histogram

Multithreading
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Multithreading within the UK over the 3 months to 12 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+115449£550+15.78 %
LondonUp+69429£550+10.00 %
City of LondonNo change0166£550+10.00 %
Docklands, LondonUp+1322£650+30.00 %
Canary WharfDown-1121£650+30.00 %
South EastUp+1810£340+38.77 %
SurreyDown-77£413+68.36 %
West MidlandsUp+155--
East of EnglandUp+254£425-
WorcestershireUp+63--
GlasgowDown-103£338-
ScotlandDown-123£338-
BedfordshireNew entry-3£425-
BirminghamNew entry-3--
BedfordNew entry-3£425-
Isle of ManNew entry-2£313-
HampshireUp+61£275-
BasingstokeUp+31£275-
WorcesterUp+21--
YorkshireNo change01£301+0.16 %
LeedsDown-31£301+0.16 %
West YorkshireDown-41£301+0.16 %
HertfordshireNew entry-1--
RedhillNew entry-1£425-

Multithreading
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Multithreading 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 Multithreading.

1491 (52.57 %)Java
2434 (46.47 %)Banking
3392 (41.97 %)C#
4362 (38.76 %)Investment Banking
5359 (38.44 %)Front Office
6287 (30.73 %)C++
7262 (28.05 %)Derivative
8252 (26.98 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
9239 (25.59 %)Fixed Income
10214 (22.91 %)Finance
11210 (22.48 %).NET
12196 (20.99 %)SQL
13165 (17.67 %)Oracle
14148 (15.85 %)OO
15146 (15.63 %)E-Commerce
16135 (14.45 %)Sybase
17125 (13.38 %)Spring
17125 (13.38 %)SQL Server
18108 (11.56 %)Windows
1998 (10.49 %)WinForms
2092 (9.850 %)Swing
2189 (9.529 %)Equity Derivative
2286 (9.208 %)UNIX
2382 (8.779 %)XML
2382 (8.779 %)Linux
2479 (8.458 %)J2SE
2479 (8.458 %)WPF
2574 (7.923 %)STL
2672 (7.709 %)J2EE
2770 (7.495 %)Electronic Trading

Multithreading
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Multithreading 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 Multithreading. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1210 (22.48 %).NET
2125 (13.38 %)Spring
398 (10.49 %)WinForms
492 (9.850 %)Swing
582 (8.779 %)XML
679 (8.458 %)J2SE
679 (8.458 %)WPF
774 (7.923 %)STL
872 (7.709 %)J2EE
965 (6.959 %)Web Services
1057 (6.103 %)Hibernate
1146 (4.925 %)ASP.NET
1232 (3.426 %).NET Framework
1232 (3.426 %)WCF
1329 (3.105 %)EJB
1425 (2.677 %)JMS
1523 (2.463 %)Oracle Coherence
1620 (2.141 %)Middleware
1719 (2.034 %)JDBC
1719 (2.034 %)Boost C++ Libraries
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
120 (2.141 %)Rendezvous
219 (2.034 %)MQSeries
318 (1.927 %)TIBCO EMS
411 (1.178 %)SharePoint Server 2007
59 (0.964 %)MTS
68 (0.857 %)WebSphere MQ
77 (0.749 %)Progress Apama
85 (0.535 %)BizTalk Server
85 (0.535 %)Tomcat
94 (0.428 %)Confluence
94 (0.428 %)SharePoint
103 (0.321 %)ActiveMQ
103 (0.321 %)ESB
112 (0.214 %)Jetty
112 (0.214 %)Apache
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (0.857 %)MS Excel
27 (0.749 %)MS Visio
32 (0.214 %)Spreadsheet
32 (0.214 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
111 (1.178 %)Endur
111 (1.178 %)ION MarketView
28 (0.857 %)RMDS
37 (0.749 %)Oracle 11i
44 (0.428 %)AWD
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (2.355 %)TCP/IP
24 (0.428 %)HTTP
33 (0.321 %)Wi-Fi
33 (0.321 %)DSL
42 (0.214 %)FTP
42 (0.214 %)SSL
42 (0.214 %)SMS
51 (0.107 %)Bluetooth
51 (0.107 %)GPRS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1125 (13.38 %)SQL Server
228 (2.998 %)SQL Server 2005
321 (2.248 %)RDBMS
413 (1.392 %)Oracle 10g
58 (0.857 %)Reference Data
58 (0.857 %)OLTP
67 (0.749 %)Oracle 8/8i
76 (0.642 %)SQL Server 2000
85 (0.535 %)Datawarehouse
85 (0.535 %)SQL Server 2008
92 (0.214 %)SQL Server Integration Services
92 (0.214 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
101 (0.107 %)GIS
101 (0.107 %)ETL
101 (0.107 %)MySQL
101 (0.107 %)KDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
160 (6.424 %)Maven
238 (4.069 %)Subversion
324 (2.570 %)Visual Studio
421 (2.248 %)Eclipse
518 (1.927 %)JUnit
617 (1.820 %)ClearCase
716 (1.713 %)VSS/SourceSafe
89 (0.964 %)Team Foundation Server
98 (0.857 %)NUnit
104 (0.428 %)JIRA
104 (0.428 %)Visual Studio Team System
104 (0.428 %)TeamCity
104 (0.428 %)PVCS
104 (0.428 %)Ant
112 (0.214 %)NCover
112 (0.214 %)CruiseControl
121 (0.107 %)EasyMock
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1434 (46.47 %)Banking
2362 (38.76 %)Investment Banking
3359 (38.44 %)Front Office
4214 (22.91 %)Finance
542 (4.497 %)Government
616 (1.713 %)Games
711 (1.178 %)Back Office
89 (0.964 %)Publishing
98 (0.857 %)Financial Institution
106 (0.642 %)Mobile Games
115 (0.535 %)Telecoms
115 (0.535 %)Education
123 (0.321 %)Manufacturing
132 (0.214 %)3D Graphics
141 (0.107 %)Insurance
141 (0.107 %)Electronics
141 (0.107 %)Law
141 (0.107 %)Social Media
141 (0.107 %)Online Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1808 (86.51 %)Developer
2358 (38.33 %)Java Developer
3262 (28.05 %)C# Developer
4135 (14.45 %)C++ Developer
5102 (10.92 %)Senior Developer
660 (6.424 %)Front Office Developer
759 (6.317 %)Java Swing Developer
857 (6.103 %).NET Developer
945 (4.818 %)Senior Java Developer
1042 (4.497 %)GUI Developer
1141 (4.390 %)Software Engineer
1229 (3.105 %)Real Time Developer
1229 (3.105 %)Senior C# Developer
1323 (2.463 %)Technical Leader
1420 (2.141 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1519 (2.034 %)C++/C# Developer
1617 (1.820 %)Senior C++ Developer
1617 (1.820 %)ASP.NET Developer
1716 (1.713 %)Software Developer
1814 (1.499 %)Senior Software Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1262 (28.05 %)Derivative
2252 (26.98 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3239 (25.59 %)Fixed Income
489 (9.529 %)Equity Derivative
569 (7.388 %)Equities
650 (5.353 %)Credit Risk
744 (4.711 %)N-Tier
842 (4.497 %)Credit Derivative
941 (4.390 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1039 (4.176 %)Open Source
1131 (3.319 %)Client/Server
1220 (2.141 %)Market Risk
1318 (1.927 %)Computer Science
149 (0.964 %)Grid Computing
149 (0.964 %)W3C
157 (0.749 %)Mathematics
164 (0.428 %)Smartphone
164 (0.428 %)Physics
164 (0.428 %)iSeries
173 (0.321 %)PDA
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1108 (11.56 %)Windows
286 (9.208 %)UNIX
382 (8.779 %)Linux
417 (1.820 %)Solaris
53 (0.321 %)Windows CE
62 (0.214 %)Windows Mobile
62 (0.214 %)ThreadX
62 (0.214 %)pSOS
62 (0.214 %)VxWorks
71 (0.107 %)SUSE
71 (0.107 %)Red Hat Linux
71 (0.107 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1148 (15.85 %)OO
2146 (15.63 %)E-Commerce
370 (7.495 %)Electronic Trading
457 (6.103 %)Agile Software Development
549 (5.246 %)OOD
642 (4.497 %)Risk Management
738 (4.069 %)UML
837 (3.961 %)Web Development
936 (3.854 %)Unit Testing
1026 (2.784 %)Algorithmic Trading
1125 (2.677 %)SOA
1221 (2.248 %)RAD
1221 (2.248 %)TDD
1221 (2.248 %)Refactoring
1318 (1.927 %)Workflow
1417 (1.820 %)Software Engineering
1516 (1.713 %)Monte Carlo Method
1615 (1.606 %)Project Management
1714 (1.499 %)Scrum
1812 (1.285 %)OOA/OOD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1491 (52.57 %)Java
2392 (41.97 %)C#
3287 (30.73 %)C++
4196 (20.99 %)SQL
542 (4.497 %)C
638 (4.069 %)PL/SQL
731 (3.319 %)Perl
827 (2.891 %)VC++
926 (2.784 %)T-SQL
1022 (2.355 %)Python
1113 (1.392 %)JavaScript
128 (0.857 %)Korn
137 (0.749 %)Shell Script
146 (0.642 %)VB.NET
146 (0.642 %)VBA
155 (0.535 %)Embedded C++
155 (0.535 %)VB
164 (0.428 %)F#
164 (0.428 %)XAML
172 (0.214 %)Embedded C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
130 (3.212 %)Degree
210 (1.071 %)Security Cleared
38 (0.857 %)SC Cleared
42 (0.214 %)Sun Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (0.428 %)QA
22 (0.214 %)TickIT
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.321 %)MSMQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.214 %)AutoSys
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1165 (17.67 %)Oracle
2135 (14.45 %)Sybase
363 (6.745 %)TIBCO
448 (5.139 %)Microsoft
524 (2.570 %)ION Trading
622 (2.355 %)DataSynapse
717 (1.820 %)Bloomberg
813 (1.392 %)Reuters
911 (1.178 %)Tradeweb
109 (0.964 %)IBM
118 (0.857 %)Syncfusion
126 (0.642 %)Tangosol
135 (0.535 %)Perforce
135 (0.535 %)eSpeed
135 (0.535 %)Murex
135 (0.535 %)GigaSpaces
144 (0.428 %)Infragistics
153 (0.321 %)JBoss
153 (0.321 %)DevExpress
162 (0.214 %)Green Hills