The first table below looks at the demand for PowerHouse skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerHouse over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Cognos PowerHouse
Rank 546 576 578
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +2
Contract jobs citing PowerHouse 8 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.016% 0.022% 0.014%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.044% 0.064% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
Average daily rate £450 £395 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.92% -8.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £295 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £532 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £335 -
% change year-on-year
+34.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
18280 20299 23493
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.55% 34.96% 37.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11212 12044 13861
Average daily rate £395 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.33% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 737 850
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.51 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00

PowerHouse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

PowerHouse Jobs Demand Trend

PowerHouse
Daily Rate Trend

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

PowerHouse Daily Rate Trend

PowerHouse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PowerHouse within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

PowerHouse Daily Rate Histogram

PowerHouse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PowerHouse Hourly Rate Trend

PowerHouse
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PowerHouse within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +8 7 £450 +13.92% 5
London +16 3 £513 +19.18% 4
City of London +8 2 £425 +30.76% 1
North West +12 1 £400 +45.45%
South East - 1 £500 -
South Wales - - - -
Wales - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Surrey - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Cardiff - - - -
Dorking - - - -
Haywards Heath - - - -

PowerHouse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse.

1 13 (38.24%) UNIX
2 10 (29.41%) CSS
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 9 (26.47%) HTML
3 9 (26.47%) SQL
4 8 (23.53%) HTML5
5 7 (20.59%) CSS3
5 7 (20.59%) Finance
5 7 (20.59%) Ajax
6 6 (17.65%) QuickTest Pro
6 6 (17.65%) Pascal
6 6 (17.65%) Linux
6 6 (17.65%) OO
6 6 (17.65%) OpenVMS
6 6 (17.65%) C
6 6 (17.65%) C++
6 6 (17.65%) Business Objects
6 6 (17.65%) JSP
6 6 (17.65%) XML
6 6 (17.65%) JSON
6 6 (17.65%) Web Design
6 6 (17.65%) Front Office
6 6 (17.65%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (17.65%) REST
6 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (14.71%) DCL
7 5 (14.71%) VMS
8 4 (11.76%) IBM
9 3 (8.824%) Automotive
9 3 (8.824%) CMS

PowerHouse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing PowerHouse 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 PowerHouse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (29.41%) CSS
2 9 (26.47%) HTML
3 8 (23.53%) HTML5
4 7 (20.59%) CSS3
4 7 (20.59%) Ajax
5 6 (17.65%) JSON
5 6 (17.65%) JSP
5 6 (17.65%) XML
5 6 (17.65%) REST
6 3 (8.824%) jQuery
7 2 (5.882%) Mason
7 2 (5.882%) Visualforce
7 2 (5.882%) Django
8 1 (2.941%) Symfony
8 1 (2.941%) Flash
8 1 (2.941%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) CMS
2 2 (5.882%) Force.com
3 1 (2.941%) ExpressionEngine
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Adobe Premiere
1 1 (2.941%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) SAP PP
1 1 (2.941%) SAP PM
1 1 (2.941%) SAP PP-PI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.941%) PowerMart
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (5.882%) Git (software)
3 1 (2.941%) LSMW
3 1 (2.941%) eCATT
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 6 (17.65%) Front Office
3 3 (8.824%) Automotive
4 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.941%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Analyst
2 8 (23.53%) Programmer
3 7 (20.59%) Architect
4 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (17.65%) Analyst Programmer
4 6 (17.65%) PowerHouse Analyst Programmer
4 6 (17.65%) PowerHouse Programmer
5 5 (14.71%) Front-End Developer
6 4 (11.76%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (8.824%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.941%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Programme Manager
8 1 (2.941%) Consultant
8 1 (2.941%) UI Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Content Editor
8 1 (2.941%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.941%) Informatica Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (5.882%) SaaS
2 1 (2.941%) Social Media
2 1 (2.941%) Open Source
2 1 (2.941%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) UNIX
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) OpenVMS
3 5 (14.71%) VMS
4 1 (2.941%) HPUX
4 1 (2.941%) Android
4 1 (2.941%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) OO
1 6 (17.65%) Web Design
1 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
1 6 (17.65%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (5.882%) BDD
2 2 (5.882%) TDD
3 1 (2.941%) Content Management
3 1 (2.941%) Data Analysis
3 1 (2.941%) Use Case
3 1 (2.941%) Unit Testing
3 1 (2.941%) Test Scripting
3 1 (2.941%) Information Security
3 1 (2.941%) ETL
3 1 (2.941%) Project Management
3 1 (2.941%) Identity Management
3 1 (2.941%) MVC
3 1 (2.941%) Workflow
3 1 (2.941%) Validation
3 1 (2.941%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) C
3 6 (17.65%) C++
3 6 (17.65%) Pascal
4 5 (14.71%) DCL
5 2 (5.882%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.882%) Java
5 2 (5.882%) Python
6 1 (2.941%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (2.941%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.941%) COBOL
6 1 (2.941%) PHP
6 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.941%) ABAP
6 1 (2.941%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Business Objects
2 4 (11.76%) IBM
3 2 (5.882%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (5.882%) Google
4 1 (2.941%) Twitter
4 1 (2.941%) Adobe
4 1 (2.941%) Informatica
4 1 (2.941%) SAP
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