The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Taxonomies in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Taxonomies 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
Taxonomy
Rank 487 528 552
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +24
Contract jobs citing Taxonomies 54 51 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.089% 0.061%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.410% 0.363% 0.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 24
Average daily rate £370 £375 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £238 £322
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £643
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £268 £375
% change year-on-year
+34.39% -28.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%

Taxonomies
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taxonomies Jobs Demand Trend

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Trend

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

Taxonomies Daily Rate Trend

Taxonomies
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Taxonomies Daily Rate Histogram

Taxonomies
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Taxonomies Hourly Rate Trend

Taxonomies
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Taxonomies 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 +28 42 £413 +4.43% 14
London +18 29 £425 +6.25% 10
Scotland -11 12 £360 +46.93%
South East +26 7 £330 +20.00% 1
City of London -1 6 £425 +7.59% 3
Berkshire +9 2 £320 -
Glasgow - 2 £360 -
Aberdeen - 1 £375 -
Hampshire - 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Merseyside - - - -
North West - - - -
Chester - - - -
Edinburgh - - - -
Havant - - - - 1
Liverpool - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Newbury - - - -
Oxford - - - -
Ringwood - - - -
Westminster - - - -

Taxonomies
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 28 (37.33%) SharePoint
2 25 (33.33%) XML
3 21 (28.00%) .NET
4 18 (24.00%) Migration
5 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
5 17 (22.67%) Document Management
5 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
6 15 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
6 15 (20.00%) Oracle
6 15 (20.00%) HTML
7 14 (18.67%) JavaScript
7 14 (18.67%) MS Office
7 14 (18.67%) Windows
7 14 (18.67%) Information Architecture
8 13 (17.33%) Git (software)
8 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
8 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
8 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (17.33%) Apache
8 13 (17.33%) MS Excel
8 13 (17.33%) MySQL
9 12 (16.00%) Management Information System
9 12 (16.00%) LAMP
9 12 (16.00%) PHP
9 12 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
9 12 (16.00%) Rackspace
10 11 (14.67%) Security Architecture
10 11 (14.67%) Windows 7
10 11 (14.67%) Open Source

Taxonomies
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 25 (33.33%) XML
2 21 (28.00%) .NET
3 15 (20.00%) HTML
4 12 (16.00%) LAMP
5 11 (14.67%) Ajax
5 11 (14.67%) .NET Framework
5 11 (14.67%) XML Schema
6 10 (13.33%) HTML5
7 9 (12.00%) REST
8 8 (10.67%) Flash
8 8 (10.67%) DHTML
8 8 (10.67%) J2EE
8 8 (10.67%) CSS
8 8 (10.67%) SOAP
8 8 (10.67%) Java EE
8 8 (10.67%) WSRP
8 8 (10.67%) JSR 168
9 5 (6.667%) jQuery
9 5 (6.667%) ASP.NET
10 4 (5.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 28 (37.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
3 13 (17.33%) Apache
4 12 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (13.33%) SharePoint 2010
6 9 (12.00%) Amazon AWS
7 5 (6.667%) Drupal
8 4 (5.333%) CMS
8 4 (5.333%) Alfresco
8 4 (5.333%) Apache Solr
9 3 (4.000%) Documentum
10 2 (2.667%) FileNet
11 1 (1.333%) SharePoint 2013
11 1 (1.333%) LiveSite
11 1 (1.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (18.67%) MS Office
2 13 (17.33%) MS Excel
3 5 (6.667%) InfoPath
4 3 (4.000%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.333%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.667%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.67%) HTTP
1 8 (10.67%) DNS
1 8 (10.67%) SSL
1 8 (10.67%) RTP
1 8 (10.67%) SAN
1 8 (10.67%) Firewall
1 8 (10.67%) NAS
1 8 (10.67%) RTSP
1 8 (10.67%) Network Security
2 4 (5.333%) Intranet
3 3 (4.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) MySQL
2 12 (16.00%) MongoDB
3 11 (14.67%) SQL Server
4 9 (12.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 8 (10.67%) RDBMS
5 8 (10.67%) Redis
5 8 (10.67%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.67%) CouchDB
6 5 (6.667%) EDRMS
7 2 (2.667%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.667%) GIS
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.333%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (17.33%) Git (software)
2 8 (10.67%) Hudson
2 8 (10.67%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.67%) Maven
2 8 (10.67%) JIRA
2 8 (10.67%) Selenium
3 5 (6.667%) Subversion
4 4 (5.333%) PHPUnit
5 2 (2.667%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.333%) Capybara
6 1 (1.333%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.333%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.333%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.333%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.333%) IntelliJ
General
1 8 (10.67%) Finance
2 4 (5.333%) Banking
2 4 (5.333%) Legal
3 3 (4.000%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.667%) Advertising
4 2 (2.667%) Law
5 1 (1.333%) Marketing
5 1 (1.333%) French Language
5 1 (1.333%) Publishing
5 1 (1.333%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.333%) Retail
5 1 (1.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (17.33%) Analyst
2 12 (16.00%) Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Architect
3 10 (13.33%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Build Engineer
5 7 (9.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (9.333%) Consultant
6 6 (8.000%) SharePoint Developer
6 6 (8.000%) Designer
7 5 (6.667%) Senior Build Engineer
7 5 (6.667%) User Experience Designer
7 5 (6.667%) Senior Desktop Engineer
7 5 (6.667%) Drupal Developer
7 5 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.333%) Information Architect
9 3 (4.000%) Management Consultant
10 2 (2.667%) Coordinator
10 2 (2.667%) Process Analyst
10 2 (2.667%) Business Process Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (14.67%) Open Source
2 11 (14.67%) Cryptography
3 8 (10.67%) Ontologies
4 2 (2.667%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.667%) Wiki
5 1 (1.333%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.333%) SaaS
5 1 (1.333%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.333%) Informatics
5 1 (1.333%) Blog
5 1 (1.333%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.333%) NHS
5 1 (1.333%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.67%) Windows
2 11 (14.67%) Windows 7
2 11 (14.67%) Windows XP
3 9 (12.00%) Linux
4 5 (6.667%) UNIX
5 3 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.333%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.333%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.00%) Migration
2 17 (22.67%) Document Management
3 14 (18.67%) Information Architecture
4 13 (17.33%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (14.67%) Security Architecture
5 11 (14.67%) Service Management
6 8 (10.67%) SOA
6 8 (10.67%) DRM
6 8 (10.67%) Content Management
6 8 (10.67%) Penetration Testing
6 8 (10.67%) Load Balancing
7 7 (9.333%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.000%) Information Security
8 6 (8.000%) Workflow
8 6 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (6.667%) BDD
9 5 (6.667%) Business Analysis
9 5 (6.667%) TDD
9 5 (6.667%) Scrum
9 5 (6.667%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.67%) JavaScript
2 13 (17.33%) PowerShell
3 12 (16.00%) PHP
4 11 (14.67%) SQL
4 11 (14.67%) VBScript
5 10 (13.33%) C#
6 9 (12.00%) Java
7 8 (10.67%) Perl
8 7 (9.333%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.333%) C
9 1 (1.333%) VBA
9 1 (1.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (13.33%) MCP
5 7 (9.333%) MCSE
6 6 (8.000%) CISSP
7 4 (5.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.667%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.67%) Samba
2 7 (9.333%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (5.333%) Varnish
4 1 (1.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.667%) Puppet
2 1 (1.333%) ZABBIX
2 1 (1.333%) Nagios
2 1 (1.333%) OpenView
Vendors
1 17 (22.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.00%) Oracle
3 12 (16.00%) Rackspace
4 8 (10.67%) JBoss
5 4 (5.333%) Open Text
5 4 (5.333%) Joyent
6 3 (4.000%) Adobe
7 2 (2.667%) EMC
7 2 (2.667%) IBM
7 2 (2.667%) Remedy
7 2 (2.667%) BMC
7 2 (2.667%) Telerik
7 2 (2.667%) Kofax
8 1 (1.333%) RightScale
Bristol, South West
Frontend Developer with SharePoint 2010/2013 - Bristol - 2-4 Months - £Market Rates... My Client is in urgent need for a front end developer with SharePoint 2010/2013 for...
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Frontend Developer with SharePoint 2010/2013 - Bristol - 2-4 Months - £Market Rates... § HTML § CSS § Javascript § SharePoint 2010/2013 This is an immediate requirement with interviews happening this week...
Computer Futures
Posted: 4 June 2013
Warwickshire
My market leading client are recruiting for a SharePoint Business Analyst to join their team ASAP. The ideal candidate must be experienced in the following: - 2 Years experience...
Reed Technology
Rate: £300 - £330 per day + negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Desired & Required Skills: Must be knowledgeable in Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations, exposure in the implementation of Knowledge Management processes and procedures, and the BMC Remedy Ticketing...
Advanced Resource Managers
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hounslow, South East
You will be an expert in website usability, working with the development teams and other stakeholders to ensure changes to the website embody usability best practice and are...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
West London
Experis IT
Rate: £135.00 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West London
Experis IT
Rate: £135.00 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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