The first table below looks at the demand for SVG skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SVG over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Rank 524 569 568
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -1
Contract jobs citing SVG 9 4 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.007% 0.033%
As % of the Application Development category 0.071% 0.027% 0.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 6
Average daily rate £350 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £310 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £470 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £371
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
12726 14946 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.35% 25.62% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7952 8777 9622
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
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 381 376 569
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 £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

SVG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SVG Jobs Demand Trend

SVG
Daily Rate Trend

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

SVG Daily Rate Trend

SVG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SVG within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

SVG Daily Rate Histogram

SVG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SVG Hourly Rate Trend

SVG
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SVG within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +68 9 £350 -1.40%
London +26 9 £350 -1.40%
City of London +20 3 £350 +12.90%

SVG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SVG 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 SVG.

1 16 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 12 (66.67%) HTML
2 12 (66.67%) CSS
3 10 (55.56%) OO
4 9 (50.00%) JSON
4 9 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 8 (44.44%) HTML5
5 8 (44.44%) Ajax
5 8 (44.44%) Flash
6 6 (33.33%) MVC
6 6 (33.33%) Web Services
6 6 (33.33%) CSS3
7 5 (27.78%) ActionScript
7 5 (27.78%) Apache
7 5 (27.78%) jQuery
7 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
7 5 (27.78%) Ext JS
8 4 (22.22%) RIA
8 4 (22.22%) TDD
9 3 (16.67%) SproutCore
9 3 (16.67%) WebKit
9 3 (16.67%) New Media
9 3 (16.67%) Raphaël
9 3 (16.67%) Sass
9 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (16.67%) Spring
9 3 (16.67%) YUI
9 3 (16.67%) Dojo
9 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
9 3 (16.67%) Java

SVG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (66.67%) HTML
1 12 (66.67%) CSS
2 9 (50.00%) JSON
2 9 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 8 (44.44%) Ajax
3 8 (44.44%) Flash
3 8 (44.44%) HTML5
4 6 (33.33%) Web Services
4 6 (33.33%) CSS3
5 5 (27.78%) jQuery
5 5 (27.78%) Ext JS
6 3 (16.67%) Dojo
6 3 (16.67%) YUI
6 3 (16.67%) SproutCore
6 3 (16.67%) WebKit
6 3 (16.67%) DOM
6 3 (16.67%) Spring
6 3 (16.67%) Sass
6 3 (16.67%) Raphaël
7 2 (11.11%) Ember.js
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.556%) Google App Engine
3 1 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) MySQL
1 1 (5.556%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) JSUnit
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
1 2 (11.11%) Balsamiq Mockups
1 2 (11.11%) Jasmine
2 1 (5.556%) Maven
2 1 (5.556%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Web Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Web Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Design Authority
4 1 (5.556%) Graphics Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Android Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Scala Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.556%) HTML Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) RIA
2 3 (16.67%) New Media
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.556%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
4 1 (5.556%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (5.556%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) OO
2 6 (33.33%) MVC
3 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
4 4 (22.22%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) OOP
6 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Release Management
7 1 (5.556%) Web Development
7 1 (5.556%) Responsive Web Design
7 1 (5.556%) Analytics
7 1 (5.556%) Content Management
7 1 (5.556%) Scrum
7 1 (5.556%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 5 (27.78%) ActionScript
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (5.556%) C#
5 1 (5.556%) C++
5 1 (5.556%) Ruby
5 1 (5.556%) Haskell
5 1 (5.556%) Scala
5 1 (5.556%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (5.556%) GLSL
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Sencha
2 1 (5.556%) Facebook
2 1 (5.556%) Twitter
2 1 (5.556%) Adobe
2 1 (5.556%) Omniture
2 1 (5.556%) Google