The first table below looks at the demand for Parallel Programming skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Parallel Programming over the 3 months to 23 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Parallel Programming
Rank 540 564 581
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +17
Contract jobs citing Parallel Programming 1 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.002% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.003% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £475 £575 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.39% +4.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32894 39591 41969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.99% 67.83% 67.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19661 22733 23826
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 1284 1487
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.68 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%

Parallel Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Parallel Programming within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Parallel Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Parallel Programming
Daily Rate Trend

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

Parallel Programming Daily Rate Trend

Parallel Programming
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 Parallel Programming within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +44 1 £475 -17.39%
London +33 1 £475 -17.39%

Parallel Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Parallel Programming 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 Parallel Programming.

1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) Games
4 2 (28.57%) Objective-C
4 2 (28.57%) Grid Computing
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Ajax
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) JBoss
4 2 (28.57%) Apache
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) OpenGL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) OOP
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
4 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
4 2 (28.57%) iOS SDK
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) HBase
4 2 (28.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
4 2 (28.57%) Facebook
4 2 (28.57%) Inversion of Control

Parallel Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Parallel Programming 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 Parallel Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) Ajax
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) OpenGL
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) iOS SDK
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) HBase
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) NetBeans
General
1 3 (42.86%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Grid Computing
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (14.29%) Social Gaming
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (14.29%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Objective-C
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) JBoss
1 2 (28.57%) Facebook