The first table below looks at the demand for Task Parallel Library skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Task Parallel Library over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Task Parallel Library (TPL)
Rank 537 561 -
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -
Contract jobs citing Task Parallel Library 4 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.016% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.030% 0.060% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
Average daily rate £376 £484 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.41% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - -
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
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Task Parallel Library
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Task Parallel Library Jobs Demand Trend

Task Parallel Library
Daily Rate Trend

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

Task Parallel Library Daily Rate Trend

Task Parallel Library
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Task Parallel Library within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Task Parallel Library Daily Rate Histogram

Task Parallel Library
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Task Parallel Library within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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 +8 4 £376 -22.41% 1
London +20 3 £488 +0.77% 1
South East - 1 £375 -
Kent - - - -
City of London - - - - 1

Task Parallel Library
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Task Parallel Library 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 Task Parallel Library.

1 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 12 (75.00%) Multithreading
4 10 (62.50%) MVVM
5 9 (56.25%) Windows
5 9 (56.25%) WCF
6 8 (50.00%) WPF
6 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
7 7 (43.75%) MVC
7 7 (43.75%) TDD
8 6 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (37.50%) .NET Framework
8 6 (37.50%) Windows Azure
8 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (31.25%) BDD
9 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (31.25%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 5 (31.25%) LINQ
9 5 (31.25%) Scrum
9 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
9 5 (31.25%) OO
9 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
10 4 (25.00%) Finance
10 4 (25.00%) Degree
10 4 (25.00%) jQuery
10 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
11 3 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (18.75%) Kanban
11 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC

Task Parallel Library
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Task Parallel Library 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 Task Parallel Library. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (56.25%) WCF
3 8 (50.00%) WPF
4 6 (37.50%) .NET Framework
5 5 (31.25%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (31.25%) LINQ
5 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
6 4 (25.00%) jQuery
7 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (18.75%) LINQ to SQL
7 3 (18.75%) REST
7 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 3 (18.75%) HTML5
7 3 (18.75%) JSON
7 3 (18.75%) WF
7 3 (18.75%) Lucene
7 3 (18.75%) CSS
7 3 (18.75%) Web Services
7 3 (18.75%) XML
7 3 (18.75%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) Windows Azure
2 3 (18.75%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (6.250%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.250%) KDB
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (18.75%) Moq
1 3 (18.75%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.250%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Investment Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) WPF Developer
6 1 (6.250%) GUI Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Lead Architect
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Architect
6 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Architect
6 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PaaS
1 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
2 2 (12.50%) Derivative
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.250%) CUDA
3 1 (6.250%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (6.250%) Physics
3 1 (6.250%) Market Risk
3 1 (6.250%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.250%) Equities
3 1 (6.250%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 10 (62.50%) MVVM
3 7 (43.75%) MVC
3 7 (43.75%) TDD
4 6 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (31.25%) BDD
5 5 (31.25%) Scrum
5 5 (31.25%) OO
6 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Kanban
7 3 (18.75%) Workflow
8 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
9 1 (6.250%) Test Automation
9 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (6.250%) Stress Testing
9 1 (6.250%) Analytics
9 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
9 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
9 1 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (6.250%) C++
5 1 (6.250%) Java
5 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Dublin Core
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Tableau
3 1 (6.250%) DataSynapse
3 1 (6.250%) Perforce
3 1 (6.250%) TIBCO