N-Tier Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term N-Tier in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited N-Tier over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
N-Tier
Rank 348 394 276
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -118
Contract jobs citing N-Tier 193 185 378
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.415% 0.317% 0.628%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.573% 1.292% 2.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 121 252
Average daily rate £351 £375 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.53% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 10
Average hourly rate £44.50 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.50% -27.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £33.25
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12273 14324 16984
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.38% 24.55% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7382 8428 10080
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £251 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 660 718
Average hourly rate £22.66 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.47% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%

N-Tier
Jobs Demand Trend

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

N-Tier Jobs Demand Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Trend

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

N-Tier Daily Rate Trend

N-Tier
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing N-Tier within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

N-Tier Daily Rate Histogram

N-Tier
Hourly Rate Trend

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

N-Tier Hourly Rate Trend

N-Tier
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing N-Tier within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +56 178 £351 -6.53%
London +19 83 £435 -17.76%
City of London +18 34 £435 -17.76%
South East +14 25 £350 +12.99%
West Midlands +18 21 £308 -5.38%
East of England +20 16 £351 +7.84%
East Midlands +9 14 £300 -
North West +19 9 £265 -10.16%
Buckinghamshire +4 9 £363 +15.07%
Milton Keynes +8 8 £363 +9.02%
Leicestershire - 8 £288 -
Berkshire +22 7 - -
Scotland -6 7 £338 -
Worcestershire - 7 £293 -
Suffolk +16 6 £351 +1.59%
Staffordshire +9 6 £330 +1.53%
Stoke-on-Trent +6 6 £330 +1.53%
Hampshire -2 6 £325 -29.91%
Leicester - 6 £288 -
Ipswich - 6 £351 -
Glasgow -15 5 £338 -
South West +17 4 £250 -38.27%
Hertfordshire +7 4 £388 +19.23%
Manchester - 4 £248 -
Worcester - 4 £263 -
Cheshire +9 3 £450 +28.57%
Yorkshire -9 3 - -
Warwickshire - 3 £275 -
North East - 3 £215 -
Tyne and Wear - 3 £215 -

N-Tier
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing N-Tier 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 N-Tier.

1 292 (73.00%) .NET
2 257 (64.25%) C#
3 237 (59.25%) SQL Server
4 196 (49.00%) ASP.NET
5 163 (40.75%) SQL
6 145 (36.25%) JavaScript
7 127 (31.75%) XML
8 125 (31.25%) OO
9 124 (31.00%) Web Services
10 116 (29.00%) CSS
11 115 (28.75%) jQuery
12 110 (27.50%) WCF
13 105 (26.25%) Ajax
14 102 (25.50%) TDD
15 98 (24.50%) SOA
16 97 (24.25%) MVC
17 88 (22.00%) Finance
17 88 (22.00%) HTML
18 87 (21.75%) Microsoft
19 85 (21.25%) Oracle
20 77 (19.25%) .NET Framework
21 75 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
21 75 (18.75%) Visual Studio
22 74 (18.50%) Unit Testing
23 64 (16.00%) Banking
23 64 (16.00%) VB.NET
24 63 (15.75%) Java
25 61 (15.25%) Multithreading
26 60 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
27 57 (14.25%) SQL Server 2005

N-Tier
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 292 (73.00%) .NET
2 196 (49.00%) ASP.NET
3 127 (31.75%) XML
4 124 (31.00%) Web Services
5 116 (29.00%) CSS
6 115 (28.75%) jQuery
7 110 (27.50%) WCF
8 105 (26.25%) Ajax
9 88 (22.00%) HTML
10 77 (19.25%) .NET Framework
11 60 (15.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 45 (11.25%) HTML5
12 45 (11.25%) XSLT
13 34 (8.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 33 (8.250%) Spring
15 32 (8.000%) CSS3
16 31 (7.750%) SOAP
17 29 (7.250%) XHTML
18 26 (6.500%) J2EE
19 22 (5.500%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 40 (10.00%) IIS
2 26 (6.500%) SharePoint
3 25 (6.250%) Apache
4 23 (5.750%) BizTalk Server
5 14 (3.500%) CMS
5 14 (3.500%) Tomcat
6 12 (3.000%) ESB
7 10 (2.500%) Windows Azure
8 8 (2.000%) SharePoint 2010
9 6 (1.500%) WebLogic
10 5 (1.250%) Mule
11 3 (0.750%) WordPress
11 3 (0.750%) Amazon AWS
11 3 (0.750%) GemFire
11 3 (0.750%) MSMQ
11 3 (0.750%) SharePoint Server
11 3 (0.750%) Site Server
12 2 (0.500%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.500%) FileNet
12 2 (0.500%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 23 (5.750%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.250%) MS Office
3 4 (1.000%) MS Project
4 2 (0.500%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.250%) Fireworks
5 1 (0.250%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 5 (1.250%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.500%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.250%) Tridion
3 1 (0.250%) AWD
3 1 (0.250%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.000%) Internet
2 17 (4.250%) DNS
3 13 (3.250%) HTTP
4 8 (2.000%) NFC
5 6 (1.500%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.750%) SSH
6 3 (0.750%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (0.750%) HTTPS
6 3 (0.750%) SSL
6 3 (0.750%) SMTP
7 2 (0.500%) SMS
8 1 (0.250%) LDAP
8 1 (0.250%) GSM
8 1 (0.250%) Intranet
8 1 (0.250%) SNMP
8 1 (0.250%) RTCP
8 1 (0.250%) RTP
8 1 (0.250%) RFID
8 1 (0.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (59.25%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.25%) SQL Server 2005
3 41 (10.25%) SQL Server 2008
4 23 (5.750%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 21 (5.250%) MySQL
6 19 (4.750%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (4.250%) RDBMS
8 12 (3.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 11 (2.750%) Oracle 11g
9 11 (2.750%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
11 9 (2.250%) OLAP
11 9 (2.250%) VLDB
11 9 (2.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (2.000%) SQL Server 2000
13 7 (1.750%) MongoDB
14 6 (1.500%) Oracle OLAP
14 6 (1.500%) GIS
15 5 (1.250%) DTS
15 5 (1.250%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 75 (18.75%) Visual Studio
2 44 (11.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 38 (9.500%) Subversion
4 31 (7.750%) JIRA
5 14 (3.500%) Jenkins
6 12 (3.000%) Eclipse
6 12 (3.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 12 (3.000%) Xcode
6 12 (3.000%) NUnit
7 11 (2.750%) Maven
8 10 (2.500%) JSUnit
9 9 (2.250%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.750%) JUnit
11 6 (1.500%) ClearCase
12 5 (1.250%) Selenium
12 5 (1.250%) Git (software)
12 5 (1.250%) Hudson
13 4 (1.000%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.750%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.750%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 88 (22.00%) Finance
2 64 (16.00%) Banking
3 33 (8.250%) Telecoms
4 23 (5.750%) Front Office
5 18 (4.500%) Investment Banking
6 7 (1.750%) Games
6 7 (1.750%) Back Office
7 6 (1.500%) Retail
8 3 (0.750%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.500%) Legal
9 2 (0.500%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.500%) Marketing
10 1 (0.250%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.250%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 302 (75.50%) Developer
2 162 (40.50%) .NET Developer
3 75 (18.75%) C# Developer
4 54 (13.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 49 (12.25%) Architect
6 46 (11.50%) C# .NET Developer
7 38 (9.500%) Web Developer
8 36 (9.000%) Senior Developer
9 34 (8.500%) Java Developer
10 33 (8.250%) Solutions Architect
11 28 (7.000%) VB.NET Developer
12 27 (6.750%) Software Developer
13 26 (6.500%) .NET Web Developer
14 23 (5.750%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 22 (5.500%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
16 20 (5.000%) SQL Developer
17 18 (4.500%) C# Software Developer
18 17 (4.250%) Agile .NET Developer
19 12 (3.000%) iOS Developer
19 12 (3.000%) Senior iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.500%) Client/Server
2 18 (4.500%) Derivative
2 18 (4.500%) Mobile App
3 16 (4.000%) Fixed Income
4 14 (3.500%) Blackberry
4 14 (3.500%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.250%) iPhone
6 12 (3.000%) Equities
7 11 (2.750%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.500%) Equity Derivative
9 9 (2.250%) Contract for Difference
10 8 (2.000%) Java Card
11 7 (1.750%) Open Source
12 5 (1.250%) SaaS
12 5 (1.250%) PKI
13 4 (1.000%) NHS
13 4 (1.000%) Clustering
13 4 (1.000%) Swaptions
13 4 (1.000%) Market Risk
14 3 (0.750%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.75%) Windows
2 28 (7.000%) UNIX
3 26 (6.500%) Linux
4 16 (4.000%) Apple iOS
5 14 (3.500%) Android
6 11 (2.750%) Windows Phone
7 8 (2.000%) Solaris
8 7 (1.750%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.250%) Windows Mobile
10 4 (1.000%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (1.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.000%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.750%) SUSE
11 3 (0.750%) Windows 2000
11 3 (0.750%) BlackBerry OS
12 2 (0.500%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.500%) Windows XP
12 2 (0.500%) zOS
13 1 (0.250%) Windows CE
13 1 (0.250%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (31.25%) OO
2 102 (25.50%) TDD
3 98 (24.50%) SOA
4 97 (24.25%) MVC
5 75 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
6 74 (18.50%) Unit Testing
7 61 (15.25%) Multithreading
8 56 (14.00%) Scrum
9 47 (11.75%) E-Commerce
9 47 (11.75%) UML
10 34 (8.500%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (8.250%) Web Development
12 32 (8.000%) OOP
13 31 (7.750%) SEO
14 27 (6.750%) OOD
14 27 (6.750%) Web Application Development
15 23 (5.750%) Business Intelligence
16 19 (4.750%) Data Modelling
17 17 (4.250%) Memory Management
17 17 (4.250%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 257 (64.25%) C#
2 163 (40.75%) SQL
3 145 (36.25%) JavaScript
4 64 (16.00%) VB.NET
5 63 (15.75%) Java
6 57 (14.25%) T-SQL
7 25 (6.250%) VB
8 22 (5.500%) C++
9 17 (4.250%) PL/SQL
9 17 (4.250%) Objective-C
10 13 (3.250%) Python
11 8 (2.000%) VBA
12 7 (1.750%) PHP
13 6 (1.500%) C
14 4 (1.000%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.000%) Bash shell
15 3 (0.750%) F#
15 3 (0.750%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.750%) Haskell
15 3 (0.750%) Jython
Qualifications
1 31 (7.750%) Degree
2 9 (2.250%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (1.750%) MCSD
4 5 (1.250%) MCSE
4 5 (1.250%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.000%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.750%) CCNA
6 3 (0.750%) MCTS
6 3 (0.750%) MCP
6 3 (0.750%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.500%) ISEB
8 1 (0.250%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.750%) QA
2 5 (1.250%) SLA
3 2 (0.500%) WCAG
4 1 (0.250%) JTAG
4 1 (0.250%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (3.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.250%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.750%) OpenSSO
4 1 (0.250%) NDS
4 1 (0.250%) MetaFrame
4 1 (0.250%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.250%) vSphere
4 1 (0.250%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (0.750%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 3 (0.750%) Puppet
2 1 (0.250%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.250%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.250%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.250%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 87 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 85 (21.25%) Oracle
3 28 (7.000%) Telerik
4 19 (4.750%) DevExpress
5 16 (4.000%) Sybase
6 13 (3.250%) VMware
7 11 (2.750%) IBM
8 10 (2.500%) Aquila
8 10 (2.500%) SAP
9 6 (1.500%) Perforce
9 6 (1.500%) AccuRev
10 5 (1.250%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.250%) JBoss
10 5 (1.250%) Informatica
11 4 (1.000%) HP
11 4 (1.000%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.750%) Serena
12 3 (0.750%) Google
12 3 (0.750%) Sun
12 3 (0.750%) Cisco
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