The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Redknee products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Redknee over the 3 months to 19 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Redknee, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Redknee
Rank 538 569 -
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -
Contract jobs citing Redknee 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.002% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £318 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22661 27024 29251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.10% 46.57% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12046 13666 14795
Average daily rate £396 £388 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.19% -4.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1322 1627
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.20 £11.11
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%

Redknee
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redknee Jobs Demand Trend

Redknee
Daily Rate Trend

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

Redknee Daily Rate Trend

Redknee
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Redknee 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 Redknee.

1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Solaris
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) WAP
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
3 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 3 (37.50%) Crossbeam
3 3 (37.50%) F5
3 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (25.00%) Fault Management
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) Firewall
4 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
4 2 (25.00%) Sun
4 2 (25.00%) Citrix
4 2 (25.00%) DNS
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (25.00%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (12.50%) SLA
5 1 (12.50%) HTTP
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (12.50%) CCNA

Redknee
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Redknee 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 Redknee. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) WAP
2 2 (25.00%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) HTTP
2 1 (12.50%) DAB
2 1 (12.50%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
1 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
1 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (12.50%) Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
1 1 (12.50%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) IP Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) OSS Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) OSS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 3 (37.50%) Solaris
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Fault Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
1 3 (37.50%) Crossbeam
1 3 (37.50%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Sun
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle