The first table below looks at the demand for StructureMap skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited StructureMap 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 Application Development 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
StructureMap
Rank 518 570 570
Rank change year-on-year
+52 0
Contract jobs citing StructureMap 11 14 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.024% 0.023%
As % of the Application Development category 0.087% 0.094% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 12
Average daily rate £325 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +3.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £403 - £299
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

StructureMap
Jobs Demand Trend

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

StructureMap Jobs Demand Trend

StructureMap
Daily Rate Trend

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

StructureMap Daily Rate Trend

StructureMap
Hourly Rate Trend

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

StructureMap Hourly Rate Trend

StructureMap
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing StructureMap 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 +45 11 £325 -18.75%
London +41 7 £325 -18.75%
South East +17 4 £403 -
City of London +17 4 - -
Surrey - 3 £380 -
Woking - 2 - -
Hampshire -10 1 £425 -

StructureMap
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (96.15%) C#
3 18 (69.23%) ASP.NET
3 18 (69.23%) Inversion of Control
4 17 (65.38%) SQL Server
5 16 (61.54%) NHibernate
6 15 (57.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 14 (53.85%) NUnit
7 14 (53.85%) MVC
8 12 (46.15%) .NET Framework
8 12 (46.15%) OO
8 12 (46.15%) ASP.NET MVC
9 11 (42.31%) Windows
9 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
9 11 (42.31%) TDD
10 10 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (38.46%) jQuery
10 10 (38.46%) Unity DI Container
11 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
11 9 (34.62%) WPF
11 9 (34.62%) SQL
12 8 (30.77%) Oracle
12 8 (30.77%) Silverlight
12 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
12 8 (30.77%) Spring.NET
12 8 (30.77%) TeamCity
12 8 (30.77%) Castle Windsor
13 7 (26.92%) Ninject
13 7 (26.92%) WCF

StructureMap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 26 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (69.23%) ASP.NET
3 16 (61.54%) NHibernate
4 15 (57.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 12 (46.15%) .NET Framework
5 12 (46.15%) ASP.NET MVC
6 10 (38.46%) jQuery
6 10 (38.46%) Unity DI Container
7 9 (34.62%) WPF
8 8 (30.77%) Silverlight
8 8 (30.77%) Spring.NET
8 8 (30.77%) Castle Windsor
9 7 (26.92%) Ninject
9 7 (26.92%) WCF
9 7 (26.92%) CSS
9 7 (26.92%) XML
9 7 (26.92%) XML Schema
10 6 (23.08%) Spring
11 4 (15.38%) KnockoutJS
11 4 (15.38%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Documentum
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Azure
3 4 (15.38%) MSMQ
3 4 (15.38%) CMS
4 3 (11.54%) Sitefinity
4 3 (11.54%) IIS
5 2 (7.692%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (65.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (7.692%) RavenDB
4 2 (7.692%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.692%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.846%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) NUnit
2 8 (30.77%) TeamCity
3 6 (23.08%) NMock
3 6 (23.08%) MSBuild
4 5 (19.23%) MSTest
4 5 (19.23%) Moq
5 3 (11.54%) MbUnit
6 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio
6 2 (7.692%) MSI
6 2 (7.692%) NetAdvantage
6 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 2 (7.692%) ReSharper
6 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (7.692%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (23.08%) Back Office
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Marketing
4 2 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.692%) Front Office
5 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
2 19 (73.08%) C# Developer
3 9 (34.62%) .NET Developer
4 8 (30.77%) Agile C# Developer
5 7 (26.92%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (11.54%) WPF Developer
7 2 (7.692%) C# Web Developer
7 2 (7.692%) SQL Developer
7 2 (7.692%) SQL Server Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Web Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Agile .NET Developer
7 2 (7.692%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Consultant
8 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 18 (69.23%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (23.08%) RIA
3 2 (7.692%) Hedge funds
3 2 (7.692%) Open Source
3 2 (7.692%) Mathematics
3 2 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.846%) SaaS
4 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.846%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (11.54%) Windows XP
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) MVC
2 12 (46.15%) OO
3 11 (42.31%) TDD
4 10 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (34.62%) Unit Testing
6 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (30.77%) Dependency Injection
7 6 (23.08%) OOD
7 6 (23.08%) Extreme Programming
8 4 (15.38%) BDD
9 3 (11.54%) Scrum
10 2 (7.692%) OOA/OOD
10 2 (7.692%) Business Analysis
10 2 (7.692%) Risk Management
10 2 (7.692%) ETRM
10 2 (7.692%) Analytics
11 1 (3.846%) Multithreading
11 1 (3.846%) Integration Testing
11 1 (3.846%) Domain-Driven Design
11 1 (3.846%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (96.15%) C#
2 9 (34.62%) SQL
3 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 2 (7.692%) VBA
6 1 (3.846%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle
3 4 (15.38%) TIBCO
4 2 (7.692%) Infragistics