Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SAX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAX over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkSimple API for XML (SAX)
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank471-601
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching contract IT job ads1605
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.033 %-0.006 %
As % of the Application Development category0.125 %-0.025 %
Daily rates quoted402
Average daily rate£312-£413
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300-£363
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£517-£463
UK excluding London average daily rate£300-£350
Hourly rates quoted300
Average hourly rate£14.50--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.50--
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12795873519862
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.65 %22.08 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted652530156461
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4244941256
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.00£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-7.690 %

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.

SAX
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SAX Demand Trend

SAX
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAX Daily Rate Trend

SAX
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAX within the UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

SAX Daily Rate Histogram

SAX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAX Hourly Rate Trend

SAX
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAX within the UK over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandNew entry-14£462-
LondonNew entry-9£600-
GlasgowNew entry-2£300-
LeedsNew entry-2--
HertfordshireNew entry-2--
West YorkshireNew entry-2--
YorkshireNew entry-2--
ScotlandNew entry-2£300-
East of EnglandNew entry-2--
City of LondonNew entry-1£600-
Docklands, LondonNew entry-1--
North EastNew entry-1£324-
Tyne and WearNew entry-1£324-
Newcastle Upon TyneNew entry-1£324-

SAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SAX 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 SAX.

117 (80.95 %)XML
215 (71.43 %)XSLT
314 (66.67 %)DOM
411 (52.38 %)XML Schema
510 (47.62 %)XPath
69 (42.86 %)Java
77 (33.33 %)JDBC
77 (33.33 %)Front Office
77 (33.33 %)Workflow
77 (33.33 %)Finance
86 (28.57 %)Banking
86 (28.57 %)Mathematics
86 (28.57 %)UNIX
86 (28.57 %)JavaScript
86 (28.57 %)SQL
86 (28.57 %)VBA
95 (23.81 %)C#
95 (23.81 %)C++
95 (23.81 %)Sybase
95 (23.81 %)JUnit
95 (23.81 %)Eclipse
95 (23.81 %)Change Management
104 (19.05 %)Investment Banking
104 (19.05 %)JMS
104 (19.05 %)RDBMS
104 (19.05 %)XQuery
113 (14.29 %)PolarLake
113 (14.29 %)HP
113 (14.29 %)FpML
113 (14.29 %)Tomcat

SAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SAX 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 SAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
117 (80.95 %)XML
215 (71.43 %)XSLT
314 (66.67 %)DOM
411 (52.38 %)XML Schema
57 (33.33 %)JDBC
64 (19.05 %)JMS
73 (14.29 %)FpML
82 (9.524 %)Boost C++ Libraries
82 (9.524 %)MIDP
82 (9.524 %)Hibernate
82 (9.524 %)Spring
82 (9.524 %)J2ME
82 (9.524 %)J2EE
82 (9.524 %)JSP
82 (9.524 %)EJB
82 (9.524 %)Struts
91 (4.762 %)Web Services
91 (4.762 %)CSS
91 (4.762 %)Servlets
91 (4.762 %)SOAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (14.29 %)Tomcat
13 (14.29 %)AquaLogic
13 (14.29 %)ESB
13 (14.29 %)Mule
22 (9.524 %)Apache
31 (4.762 %)WebLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (9.524 %)Spreadsheet
12 (9.524 %)MS Excel
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (4.762 %)Internet
11 (4.762 %)LDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (19.05 %)RDBMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (23.81 %)JUnit
15 (23.81 %)Eclipse
23 (14.29 %)NUnit
32 (9.524 %)Log4j
41 (4.762 %)Ant
41 (4.762 %)ClearCase
41 (4.762 %)IntelliJ
41 (4.762 %)Subversion
41 (4.762 %)Selenium
41 (4.762 %)jMock
41 (4.762 %)MyEclipse
41 (4.762 %)EasyMock
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17 (33.33 %)Front Office
17 (33.33 %)Finance
26 (28.57 %)Banking
34 (19.05 %)Investment Banking
43 (14.29 %)Construction
52 (9.524 %)Games
52 (9.524 %)Advertising
52 (9.524 %)Back Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19 (42.86 %)Developer
24 (19.05 %)Analyst
33 (14.29 %)Business Analyst
33 (14.29 %)C++ Developer
33 (14.29 %)Technical Analyst
42 (9.524 %)Excel VBA Developer
42 (9.524 %)Java Programmer
42 (9.524 %)VBA Developer
42 (9.524 %)Excel Developer
42 (9.524 %)Technical Business Analyst
42 (9.524 %)Programmer
42 (9.524 %)Systems Engineer
51 (4.762 %)Front Office Developer
51 (4.762 %)Credit Analyst
51 (4.762 %)J2EE Developer
51 (4.762 %)Java Developer
51 (4.762 %)Banking Business Analyst
51 (4.762 %)Murex Analyst
51 (4.762 %)Java/J2EE Developer
51 (4.762 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (28.57 %)Mathematics
23 (14.29 %)Fixed Income
32 (9.524 %)Blackberry
41 (4.762 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
41 (4.762 %)Grid Computing
41 (4.762 %)Open Source
41 (4.762 %)Data Integration
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (28.57 %)UNIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (33.33 %)Workflow
25 (23.81 %)Change Management
33 (14.29 %)TDD
33 (14.29 %)Migration
33 (14.29 %)Business Analysis
42 (9.524 %)Interactive Advertising
42 (9.524 %)Continuous Integration
42 (9.524 %)Risk Management
42 (9.524 %)OO
51 (4.762 %)Data Modelling
51 (4.762 %)MVC
51 (4.762 %)Scrum
51 (4.762 %)Extreme Programming
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
110 (47.62 %)XPath
29 (42.86 %)Java
36 (28.57 %)JavaScript
36 (28.57 %)SQL
36 (28.57 %)VBA
45 (23.81 %)C#
45 (23.81 %)C++
54 (19.05 %)XQuery
61 (4.762 %)Perl
61 (4.762 %)PL/SQL
61 (4.762 %)Shell Script
61 (4.762 %)C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (14.29 %)Degree
22 (9.524 %)MCSE
22 (9.524 %)Microsoft Certification
22 (9.524 %)MCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (4.762 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (23.81 %)Sybase
23 (14.29 %)PolarLake
23 (14.29 %)HP
32 (9.524 %)Perforce
32 (9.524 %)Oracle
41 (4.762 %)JBoss
41 (4.762 %)Murex
41 (4.762 %)Sun