The first table below looks at the demand for VisualAge skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VisualAge 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM VisualAge
Rank 530 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VisualAge 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.059% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5091 5370 6345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.205% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3176 3565
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 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 212 322
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £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% -

VisualAge
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VisualAge Jobs Demand Trend

VisualAge
Daily Rate Trend

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

VisualAge Daily Rate Trend

VisualAge
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VisualAge Hourly Rate Trend

VisualAge
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 VisualAge 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
London - 3 £500 -
England - 3 £500 -
City of London - 1 - -

VisualAge
Top 27 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) W3C
1 6 (100.00%) JSF
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) WAI
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Retail

VisualAge
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) JSF
1 6 (100.00%) HTML5
1 6 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) HTML Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Atlassian