The first table below looks at the demand for Synon skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Synon over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synon
Rank - 577 567
Contract jobs citing Synon 0 1 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.002% 0.034%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.019% 0.325%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5077 5364 6467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.204% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3208 3177 3632
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 211 325
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Synon
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Synon Jobs Demand Trend

Synon
Daily Rate Trend

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

Synon Daily Rate Trend

Synon
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Synon Hourly Rate Trend

Synon
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Synon 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 Synon.

1 3 (75.00%) AS400
1 3 (75.00%) Synon Analyst Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) iSeries
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) COBOL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) MS Office
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) COOL2E
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Music

Synon
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Synon 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 Synon. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) Synon Analyst Programmer
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) COOL2E
General
1 1 (25.00%) Music
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Programmer
2 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Analyst Programmer
3 2 (50.00%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) COBOL Analyst Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) COBOL Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) Senior Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) COBOL Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) AS400
2 2 (50.00%) iSeries
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) COBOL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft