The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tandem in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tandem over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tandem
Rank 507 505 506
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing Tandem 34 74 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.070% 0.129% 0.135%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.258% 0.527% 0.488%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 50
Average daily rate £450 £400 £391
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +2.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £227 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £306 £400 £383
% change year-on-year
-23.43% +4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
13177 14046 17216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.95% 24.57% 27.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7944 8170 10388
Average daily rate £425 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 682 685
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.18
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £12.00 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%

Tandem
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tandem Jobs Demand Trend

Tandem
Daily Rate Trend

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

Tandem Daily Rate Trend

Tandem
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Tandem Daily Rate Histogram

Tandem
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Tandem Hourly Rate Trend

Tandem
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tandem within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -5 32 £450 +9.09% 29
London +4 16 £450 +12.50% 10
North West -6 10 - - 6
Cheshire +6 9 - - 1
East of England +19 3 £275 -31.25% 1
Essex - 3 £275 -
South West - 2 £313 -
South East +23 1 £320 -24.70% 3
Manchester -3 1 - - 1
Bristol - 1 £325 -
Chertsey - - - -
Edinburgh - - - - 2
Gloucester - - - -
Harrogate - - - - 1
Hinckley - - - -
Kendal - - - - 1
Leeds - - - -
Nairn - - - -
Newbury - - - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - - - - 2
Northampton - - - -
Norwich - - - -
Nottingham - - - - 2
Penrith - - - - 2
Reading - - - - 2
Windsor - - - -
Berkshire - - - - 2
Tyne and Wear - - - - 2
Cumbria - - - - 3
Basildon - - - -

Tandem
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Tandem 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 Tandem.

1 20 (43.48%) Banking
2 16 (34.78%) Windows
3 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
3 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
4 14 (30.43%) SQL
5 13 (28.26%) .NET
6 12 (26.09%) COBOL
7 11 (23.91%) Middleware
7 11 (23.91%) Mainframe
8 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (21.74%) IBM
8 10 (21.74%) MCP
8 10 (21.74%) MCAD
8 10 (21.74%) MCSD
8 10 (21.74%) UNIX
8 10 (21.74%) MCTS
8 10 (21.74%) IBM Mainframe
9 9 (19.57%) SWIFT
9 9 (19.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (17.39%) Finance
10 8 (17.39%) XML
10 8 (17.39%) T-SQL
10 8 (17.39%) C#
10 8 (17.39%) Information Security
11 7 (15.22%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET
12 6 (13.04%) Migration
12 6 (13.04%) MVC
12 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
12 6 (13.04%) SQL Server 2012

Tandem
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (28.26%) .NET
2 11 (23.91%) Middleware
3 8 (17.39%) XML
4 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET
5 5 (10.87%) WCF
5 5 (10.87%) WinForms
5 5 (10.87%) NHibernate
6 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (6.522%) Castle Windsor
7 3 (6.522%) Razor View Engine
7 3 (6.522%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 3 (6.522%) MonoRail
7 3 (6.522%) XHTML
8 2 (4.348%) Web Services
8 2 (4.348%) LINQ
9 1 (2.174%) Unity DI Container
9 1 (2.174%) SCSS
9 1 (2.174%) WPF
9 1 (2.174%) Silverlight
9 1 (2.174%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.174%) MQSeries
1 1 (2.174%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.174%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) Internet
1 1 (2.174%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (13.04%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (10.87%) GIS
5 3 (6.522%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.348%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (2.174%) DB2
7 1 (2.174%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.174%) Informix
Development Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (6.522%) NUnit
General
1 20 (43.48%) Banking
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Developer
2 10 (21.74%) .NET Developer
2 10 (21.74%) Designer
3 8 (17.39%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Solutions Designer
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Developer
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Server Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Programmer
6 5 (10.87%) Analyst Programmer
6 5 (10.87%) VB.NET Developer
6 5 (10.87%) COBOL Developer
7 2 (4.348%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Applications Support
7 2 (4.348%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.348%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.348%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Designer
8 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
8 1 (2.174%) E-Commerce Web Developer
8 1 (2.174%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Mainframe
2 10 (21.74%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (19.57%) SWIFT
3 9 (19.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.522%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.174%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.174%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (34.78%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) UNIX
3 1 (2.174%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Information Security
2 6 (13.04%) Migration
2 6 (13.04%) MVC
2 6 (13.04%) Risk Management
3 5 (10.87%) Time Management
3 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
3 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (8.696%) ITIL
4 4 (8.696%) TDD
4 4 (8.696%) Web Application Development
5 3 (6.522%) E-Commerce
5 3 (6.522%) Data Modelling
5 3 (6.522%) Scrum
6 2 (4.348%) ERP
6 2 (4.348%) Business Analysis
6 2 (4.348%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (4.348%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.174%) BDD
7 1 (2.174%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 14 (30.43%) SQL
2 12 (26.09%) COBOL
3 8 (17.39%) T-SQL
3 8 (17.39%) C#
4 5 (10.87%) VB
4 5 (10.87%) VB.NET
4 5 (10.87%) Java
5 1 (2.174%) XPath
5 1 (2.174%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.174%) XQuery
5 1 (2.174%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (21.74%) MCP
1 10 (21.74%) MCAD
1 10 (21.74%) MCSD
1 10 (21.74%) MCTS
2 2 (4.348%) ISEB
3 1 (2.174%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 2 (4.348%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) IBM
3 2 (4.348%) Dell
4 1 (2.174%) Teradata
4 1 (2.174%) Sybase
4 1 (2.174%) Oracle
4 1 (2.174%) Citrix
4 1 (2.174%) HP
4 1 (2.174%) VMware
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