The first table below looks at the demand for Pattern Recognition skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pattern Recognition over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pattern Recognition
Rank 527 - 583
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Pattern Recognition 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
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
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
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 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Pattern Recognition
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Pattern Recognition Jobs Demand Trend

Pattern Recognition
Daily Rate Trend

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

Pattern Recognition Daily Rate Trend

Pattern Recognition
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Pattern Recognition Hourly Rate Trend

Pattern Recognition
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 Pattern Recognition within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 - 2 £550 -
London - 2 £550 -

Pattern Recognition
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Pattern Recognition 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 Pattern Recognition.

1 3 (75.00%) Process Management
1 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Complex Event Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) StreamBase
1 3 (75.00%) Esper
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (25.00%) Physics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) SIMUL8
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Pattern Recognition
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Pattern Recognition 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 Pattern Recognition. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
1 3 (75.00%) Esper
2 1 (25.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (25.00%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Physics
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Process Management
1 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Complex Event Processing
1 3 (75.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) StreamBase
2 1 (25.00%) SIMUL8
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft