The first table below looks at the demand for Pascal skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pascal 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 of the Programming Languages 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
Pascal
Rank 527 570 586
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +16
Contract jobs citing Pascal 6 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.005% 0.003%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.035% 0.015% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £265 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £34.00 -
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17391 20142 22575
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.38% 34.53% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10706 11939 13056
Average daily rate £382 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.93% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £562 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 705 925
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.67 £17.50 £19.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

Pascal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Pascal Jobs Demand Trend

Pascal
Daily Rate Trend

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

Pascal Daily Rate Trend

Pascal
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Pascal Daily Rate Histogram

Pascal
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Pascal Hourly Rate Trend

Pascal
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pascal 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 +64 3 £265 -
East Midlands - 2 £260 -
North West - 1 £400 -
Derbyshire - 1 £255 -

Pascal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (90.00%) C
2 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) C++
2 6 (60.00%) OpenVMS
2 6 (60.00%) PowerHouse
3 5 (50.00%) DCL
3 5 (50.00%) VMS
4 4 (40.00%) IBM
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (30.00%) Automotive
6 2 (20.00%) VB
6 2 (20.00%) Delphi
6 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
6 2 (20.00%) ASIC
6 2 (20.00%) Lotus
7 1 (10.00%) NHS
7 1 (10.00%) Firmware
7 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
7 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (10.00%) COBOL
7 1 (10.00%) Oracle
7 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (10.00%) UNIX
7 1 (10.00%) HPUX
7 1 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 1 (10.00%) Migration
7 1 (10.00%) CMS
7 1 (10.00%) Clustering
7 1 (10.00%) Verilog

Pascal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
General
1 3 (30.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Report Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) ASIC
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Verilog
2 1 (10.00%) ASIC Verification
2 1 (10.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) OpenVMS
2 5 (50.00%) VMS
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
3 1 (10.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C
2 6 (60.00%) C++
2 6 (60.00%) PowerHouse
3 5 (50.00%) DCL
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
5 2 (20.00%) VB
5 2 (20.00%) Delphi
6 1 (10.00%) Assembly Language
6 1 (10.00%) COBOL
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Lotus
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle