RDF Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for RDF skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDF 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
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 468 505 536
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +31
Contract jobs citing RDF 73 60 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.158% 0.103% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.222% 0.152% 0.119%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 29 21
Average daily rate £395 £450 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.22% +32.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £369 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £590 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £450 £338
% change year-on-year
-28.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
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%

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDF within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

RDF Daily Rate Histogram

RDF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RDF Hourly Rate Trend

RDF
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDF 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 +66 71 £400 -11.11%
London +45 42 £400 -11.11%
North West - 9 £323 -
West Yorkshire -4 8 £550 -
Yorkshire -9 8 £550 -
City of London +20 7 £383 +10.86%
Tyne and Wear - 7 £300 -
North East - 7 £300 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £300 -
Manchester - 7 £323 -
Salford - 6 £323 -
Bradford -1 4 £550 -
East of England - 3 £340 -
Norfolk - 3 £340 -
Norwich - 3 £340 -
Leeds - 2 - -
Berkshire +17 1 £275 -28.10%
South East +16 1 £275 -28.10%
Scotland -20 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £275 -
Wokingham - 1 £275 -
Knutsford - 1 £275 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

RDF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 51 (38.06%) Finance
2 46 (34.33%) XML
3 45 (33.58%) Linux
4 37 (27.61%) UNIX
5 36 (26.87%) Banking
6 35 (26.12%) Oracle
7 34 (25.37%) Shell Script
8 33 (24.63%) SAN
8 33 (24.63%) VMware
9 32 (23.88%) Java
9 32 (23.88%) Semantic Web
10 31 (23.13%) Symmetrix DMX
10 31 (23.13%) EMC
11 30 (22.39%) Veritas
11 30 (22.39%) CSS
11 30 (22.39%) Solaris
11 30 (22.39%) SUSE
11 30 (22.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 29 (21.64%) Korn
12 29 (21.64%) Sun
13 27 (20.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 25 (18.66%) Perl
14 25 (18.66%) Sybase
14 25 (18.66%) Investment Banking
15 24 (17.91%) Migration
15 24 (17.91%) Change Management
15 24 (17.91%) AIX
15 24 (17.91%) XSLT
15 24 (17.91%) ITIL
16 23 (17.16%) Web Services

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 46 (34.33%) XML
2 30 (22.39%) CSS
3 24 (17.91%) XSLT
4 23 (17.16%) Web Services
4 23 (17.16%) JSON
4 23 (17.16%) RESTful
5 19 (14.18%) REST
5 19 (14.18%) HTML
5 19 (14.18%) Spring
6 17 (12.69%) J2EE
7 12 (8.955%) .NET
8 10 (7.463%) JAX-RS
9 9 (6.716%) XML Schema
9 9 (6.716%) XHTML
10 8 (5.970%) XSL
10 8 (5.970%) XSD
11 7 (5.224%) HTML5
12 5 (3.731%) jQuery
12 5 (3.731%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (3.731%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 20 (14.93%) SharePoint
2 11 (8.209%) Apache
3 4 (2.985%) IIS
4 3 (2.239%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (2.239%) Drupal
4 3 (2.239%) Jetty
4 3 (2.239%) CMS
5 2 (1.493%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (1.493%) Lotus Domino
5 2 (1.493%) SAS
5 2 (1.493%) MS Exchange
5 2 (1.493%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.493%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.746%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.746%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (0.746%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.746%) Amazon AWS
6 1 (0.746%) Kafka
6 1 (0.746%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.746%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.731%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.985%) XMetaL
3 3 (2.239%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.746%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (5.224%) Oracle Retail
2 3 (2.239%) RMDS
3 1 (0.746%) CODA-Financials
3 1 (0.746%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.746%) Cognos Planning
3 1 (0.746%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 33 (24.63%) SAN
2 9 (6.716%) HTTP
3 3 (2.239%) Firewall
4 1 (0.746%) Broadband
4 1 (0.746%) ISDN
4 1 (0.746%) LAN
4 1 (0.746%) PSTN
4 1 (0.746%) VoIP
4 1 (0.746%) LDAP
4 1 (0.746%) Nortel Meridian
4 1 (0.746%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.18%) Oracle Exadata
2 12 (8.955%) MarkLogic
3 10 (7.463%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.224%) Big Data
4 7 (5.224%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.478%) MySQL
5 6 (4.478%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (3.731%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (3.731%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.239%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.239%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.239%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.493%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.493%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.493%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.493%) Hypertable
9 1 (0.746%) OrientDB
9 1 (0.746%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.746%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.746%) HBase
Development Applications
1 7 (5.224%) Git (software)
1 7 (5.224%) PowerDesigner
1 7 (5.224%) Subversion
2 5 (3.731%) Cucumber
2 5 (3.731%) Hudson
3 4 (2.985%) JUnit
3 4 (2.985%) Mockito
3 4 (2.985%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.239%) Firebug
4 3 (2.239%) Mercurial
4 3 (2.239%) Ant
5 2 (1.493%) QUnit
5 2 (1.493%) PHPUnit
5 2 (1.493%) Talend Open Studio
6 1 (0.746%) Capybara
6 1 (0.746%) RSpec
6 1 (0.746%) FindBugs
6 1 (0.746%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.746%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.746%) Checkstyle
General
1 51 (38.06%) Finance
2 36 (26.87%) Banking
3 25 (18.66%) Investment Banking
4 18 (13.43%) Publishing
5 14 (10.45%) Retail
6 6 (4.478%) Retail Banking
7 5 (3.731%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (3.731%) Games
8 2 (1.493%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.493%) Legal
8 2 (1.493%) Music
9 1 (0.746%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.746%) French Language
Job Titles
1 42 (31.34%) Developer
2 24 (17.91%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 19 (14.18%) UNIX Administrator
3 19 (14.18%) Systems Administrator
3 19 (14.18%) Administrator
4 16 (11.94%) Java Developer
5 15 (11.19%) Architect
6 10 (7.463%) Analyst
7 9 (6.716%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.224%) XML Developer
8 7 (5.224%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.478%) DBA
10 5 (3.731%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.731%) Oracle DBA
11 4 (2.985%) PHP Developer
11 4 (2.985%) Senior Project Manager
11 4 (2.985%) IT Project Manager
11 4 (2.985%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.985%) Support Analyst
11 4 (2.985%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.88%) Semantic Web
2 31 (23.13%) Symmetrix DMX
3 20 (14.93%) Wiki
4 9 (6.716%) Ontologies
5 8 (5.970%) Data Conversion
6 7 (5.224%) Linked Data
7 6 (4.478%) W3C
8 5 (3.731%) Statistics
9 4 (2.985%) BBC
9 4 (2.985%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.239%) iDTV
10 3 (2.239%) Computer Science
11 2 (1.493%) 3D Graphics
11 2 (1.493%) Streaming Video
11 2 (1.493%) Smartphone
11 2 (1.493%) Interactive TV
11 2 (1.493%) Mathematics
11 2 (1.493%) Digital Media
11 2 (1.493%) Visualisation
11 2 (1.493%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 45 (33.58%) Linux
2 37 (27.61%) UNIX
3 30 (22.39%) Solaris
3 30 (22.39%) SUSE
4 24 (17.91%) AIX
5 9 (6.716%) Windows
6 5 (3.731%) HPUX
7 4 (2.985%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.493%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.493%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.91%) Migration
1 24 (17.91%) Change Management
1 24 (17.91%) ITIL
2 23 (17.16%) Problem Management
3 22 (16.42%) BDD
4 21 (15.67%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (15.67%) TDD
5 17 (12.69%) OO
6 15 (11.19%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (9.701%) Pair Programming
8 10 (7.463%) PRINCE2
8 10 (7.463%) Benchmarking
8 10 (7.463%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (7.463%) Scrum
9 9 (6.716%) MVC
9 9 (6.716%) Knowledge Management
10 8 (5.970%) Unit Testing
10 8 (5.970%) Test Automation
11 7 (5.224%) Data Migration
11 7 (5.224%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.37%) Shell Script
2 32 (23.88%) Java
3 29 (21.64%) Korn
4 25 (18.66%) Perl
5 23 (17.16%) SPARQL
6 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
6 22 (16.42%) XQuery
7 15 (11.19%) XPath
8 13 (9.701%) Ruby
9 12 (8.955%) SQL
10 11 (8.209%) PHP
10 11 (8.209%) Python
11 7 (5.224%) C#
11 7 (5.224%) C++
12 5 (3.731%) VBA
13 3 (2.239%) Groovy
13 3 (2.239%) Clojure
14 2 (1.493%) Objective-C
14 2 (1.493%) VC++
14 2 (1.493%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (6.716%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 7 (5.224%) Degree
3 5 (3.731%) ISEB
4 3 (2.239%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.493%) MBA
5 2 (1.493%) Sun Certification
5 2 (1.493%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.746%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.746%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.746%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.746%) PMP
6 1 (0.746%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.746%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.746%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.970%) SLA
2 4 (2.985%) QA
3 1 (0.746%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (22.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 27 (20.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 16 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.478%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.493%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (2.239%) Zenoss
1 3 (2.239%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.493%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.746%) SCOM
3 1 (0.746%) EMC Navisphere
Vendors
1 35 (26.12%) Oracle
2 33 (24.63%) VMware
3 31 (23.13%) EMC
4 30 (22.39%) Veritas
5 29 (21.64%) Sun
6 25 (18.66%) Sybase
7 8 (5.970%) HP
8 5 (3.731%) Microsoft
9 4 (2.985%) JBoss
10 3 (2.239%) Sitecore
10 3 (2.239%) Kalahari
10 3 (2.239%) Reuters
10 3 (2.239%) Bloomberg
10 3 (2.239%) Cisco
10 3 (2.239%) Caplin
11 2 (1.493%) Lotus
11 2 (1.493%) Apple
11 2 (1.493%) Talend
11 2 (1.493%) Zend
12 1 (0.746%) Coverity
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