The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Visualisation in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Visualisation over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Visualisation
Rank 391 480 506
Rank change year-on-year
+89 +26
Contract jobs citing Visualisation 151 85 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.326% 0.146% 0.129%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.230% 0.594% 0.458%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 46 39
Average daily rate £450 £365 £470
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.28% -22.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £281 £348
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £560 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £15.75 £18.00 £27.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -35.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- -35.13%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12277 14313 17463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.50% 24.52% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7372 8397 10373
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 663 738
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%

Visualisation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Visualisation Jobs Demand Trend

Visualisation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Visualisation Daily Rate Trend

Visualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Visualisation within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Visualisation Daily Rate Histogram

Visualisation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Visualisation Hourly Rate Trend

Visualisation
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 Visualisation within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +102 143 £450 +23.28%
London +84 116 £450 +21.62%
City of London +39 38 £450 -10.00%
South East +25 14 £313 -10.71%
Docklands, London - 9 £600 -
South West +35 7 £470 -
Scotland - 7 £370 -
Berkshire +21 6 £313 -10.71%
Surrey +21 6 £200 -52.94%
Wiltshire - 5 £488 -
Guildford - 5 - -
Edinburgh - 4 £450 -
Slough - 4 £313 -
Manchester +14 3 - -
West Midlands +10 3 - -
North West +9 3 - -
Canary Wharf - 3 £250 -
Bristol +14 2 £373 -
Livingston - 2 £360 -
West Lothian - 2 £360 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £370 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Erskine - 1 £370 -
Corsham - 1 £470 -

Visualisation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Visualisation 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 Visualisation.

1 117 (41.79%) SQL
2 76 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (20.36%) Analytics
4 56 (20.00%) Finance
5 54 (19.29%) C#
6 51 (18.21%) SQL Server
6 51 (18.21%) Banking
7 46 (16.43%) JavaScript
8 44 (15.71%) Investment Banking
9 42 (15.00%) Microsoft
10 41 (14.64%) Degree
11 40 (14.29%) Derivative
12 39 (13.93%) Data Analysis
12 39 (13.93%) Data Mining
13 38 (13.57%) Fixed Income
14 36 (12.86%) Spotfire
15 35 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 35 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
15 35 (12.50%) Business Objects
16 33 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
17 31 (11.07%) CSS
18 30 (10.71%) Java
18 30 (10.71%) TIBCO
18 30 (10.71%) Front Office
19 29 (10.36%) .NET
20 28 (10.00%) Windows
20 28 (10.00%) Data Modelling
20 28 (10.00%) Computer Science
21 27 (9.643%) C++
21 27 (9.643%) Risk Management

Visualisation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Visualisation 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 Visualisation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (11.07%) CSS
2 29 (10.36%) .NET
3 19 (6.786%) HTML5
4 18 (6.429%) HTML
5 13 (4.643%) jQuery
6 12 (4.286%) WPF
6 12 (4.286%) CSS3
7 11 (3.929%) OpenGL
8 10 (3.571%) WebGL
8 10 (3.571%) XML
9 9 (3.214%) DirectX
10 8 (2.857%) Ajax
10 8 (2.857%) MapReduce
11 7 (2.500%) ASP
11 7 (2.500%) Flash
11 7 (2.500%) Web Services
11 7 (2.500%) JSON
12 6 (2.143%) MDX
12 6 (2.143%) Raphaël
13 5 (1.786%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 16 (5.714%) SAS
2 13 (4.643%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.857%) Apache Pig
4 6 (2.143%) Apache
5 4 (1.429%) CMS
6 3 (1.071%) Windows Azure
7 2 (0.714%) Drupal
7 2 (0.714%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.357%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.357%) Rendezvous
8 1 (0.357%) CICS
8 1 (0.357%) FileNet
8 1 (0.357%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.357%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.357%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.357%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.357%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.357%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.357%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 26 (9.286%) MS Excel
1 26 (9.286%) Spreadsheet
2 20 (7.143%) Photoshop
3 12 (4.286%) MS Visio
4 10 (3.571%) SPSS
5 9 (3.214%) Adobe Illustrator
6 8 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
6 8 (2.857%) MS Office
7 4 (1.429%) Gephi
8 3 (1.071%) MS Project
8 3 (1.071%) Acrobat
8 3 (1.071%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.714%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.714%) CATIA
9 2 (0.714%) InDesign
9 2 (0.714%) Fireworks
10 1 (0.357%) QuarkXPress
10 1 (0.357%) Simulink
10 1 (0.357%) S-PLUS
10 1 (0.357%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 4 (1.429%) Google Analytics
2 3 (1.071%) WebTrends
2 3 (1.071%) SiteCatalyst
3 1 (0.357%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.357%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.357%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.571%) HTTP
2 6 (2.143%) Internet
3 4 (1.429%) Intranet
4 2 (0.714%) Firewall
4 2 (0.714%) SAN
4 2 (0.714%) DNS
5 1 (0.357%) CTI
5 1 (0.357%) SNMP
5 1 (0.357%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.357%) VPN
5 1 (0.357%) VoIP
5 1 (0.357%) SMTP
5 1 (0.357%) FTP
5 1 (0.357%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.357%) IPsec
5 1 (0.357%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.21%) SQL Server
2 39 (13.93%) Data Mining
3 36 (12.86%) Spotfire
4 35 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 33 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
6 25 (8.929%) Hadoop
7 23 (8.214%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 20 (7.143%) Big Data
8 20 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 20 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (6.071%) Xcelsius
10 16 (5.714%) BusinessObjects XI
11 14 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
11 14 (5.000%) Apache Hive
11 14 (5.000%) OLAP
12 11 (3.929%) BusinessObjects
12 11 (3.929%) QlikView
13 10 (3.571%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
14 8 (2.857%) SAP BW
14 8 (2.857%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (3.929%) Visual Studio
2 6 (2.143%) Git (software)
3 5 (1.786%) Dreamweaver
3 5 (1.786%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (1.429%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.071%) Subversion
5 3 (1.071%) Jasmine
6 2 (0.714%) Selenium
6 2 (0.714%) WiX
6 2 (0.714%) Balsamiq Mockups
6 2 (0.714%) JSUnit
7 1 (0.357%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.357%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.357%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.357%) Mocha
7 1 (0.357%) GitHub
General
1 56 (20.00%) Finance
2 51 (18.21%) Banking
3 44 (15.71%) Investment Banking
4 30 (10.71%) Front Office
5 19 (6.786%) Financial Institution
6 14 (5.000%) Telecoms
7 12 (4.286%) Marketing
8 8 (2.857%) Military
9 7 (2.500%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.500%) Games
10 6 (2.143%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.429%) Retail
11 4 (1.429%) Legal
11 4 (1.429%) Electronics
12 3 (1.071%) Interactive Media
13 2 (0.714%) Music
13 2 (0.714%) Advertising
13 2 (0.714%) Publishing
14 1 (0.357%) Law
14 1 (0.357%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 100 (35.71%) Developer
2 63 (22.50%) Analyst
3 24 (8.571%) Business Analyst
4 22 (7.857%) Designer
5 21 (7.500%) C# Developer
6 14 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 13 (4.643%) Business Developer
8 11 (3.929%) Architect
9 10 (3.571%) Banking Business Analyst
9 10 (3.571%) Systems Analyst
9 10 (3.571%) Web Developer
9 10 (3.571%) Web Designer
9 10 (3.571%) Data Scientist
10 9 (3.214%) Report Developer
11 8 (2.857%) Creative Web Designer
11 8 (2.857%) DBA
12 7 (2.500%) Consultant
12 7 (2.500%) TIBCO Analyst
13 6 (2.143%) Solutions Analyst
13 6 (2.143%) Research Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.29%) Derivative
2 38 (13.57%) Fixed Income
3 35 (12.50%) Credit Derivative
4 28 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 18 (6.429%) Exotic Derivative
6 16 (5.714%) Mathematics
7 15 (5.357%) Statistics
8 13 (4.643%) Management Information System
9 11 (3.929%) 3D Graphics
10 10 (3.571%) Graphic Design
11 9 (3.214%) Neural Network
12 7 (2.500%) Equities
12 7 (2.500%) Open Source
12 7 (2.500%) Ergonomics
13 6 (2.143%) Physics
13 6 (2.143%) Contract for Difference
13 6 (2.143%) Social Network
13 6 (2.143%) Economics
13 6 (2.143%) SaaS
13 6 (2.143%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.00%) Windows
2 5 (1.786%) UNIX
3 4 (1.429%) Windows 8
4 3 (1.071%) Linux
5 1 (0.357%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.357%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.357%) Android
5 1 (0.357%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.357%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.357%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
2 57 (20.36%) Analytics
3 39 (13.93%) Data Analysis
4 28 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 27 (9.643%) Risk Management
6 26 (9.286%) Data Analytics
7 25 (8.929%) Data Visualisation
7 25 (8.929%) Multithreading
8 23 (8.214%) Agile Software Development
9 19 (6.786%) Scrum
10 17 (6.071%) Software Engineering
11 16 (5.714%) Statistical Analysis
12 15 (5.357%) ETL
12 15 (5.357%) MVC
13 14 (5.000%) ITIL
13 14 (5.000%) OO
14 12 (4.286%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (4.286%) Systems Analysis
14 12 (4.286%) Business Analysis
14 12 (4.286%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 117 (41.79%) SQL
2 54 (19.29%) C#
3 46 (16.43%) JavaScript
4 30 (10.71%) Java
5 27 (9.643%) C++
6 22 (7.857%) Python
7 15 (5.357%) C
8 14 (5.000%) Scala
9 11 (3.929%) Perl
10 10 (3.571%) PL/SQL
10 10 (3.571%) VBA
11 9 (3.214%) R
12 8 (2.857%) Ruby
12 8 (2.857%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.143%) PowerShell
13 6 (2.143%) MATLAB
14 5 (1.786%) VB.NET
14 5 (1.786%) PHP
15 4 (1.429%) Shell Script
16 3 (1.071%) VC++
Qualifications
1 41 (14.64%) Degree
2 16 (5.714%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.571%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.500%) PhD
5 6 (2.143%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.429%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.429%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.071%) MCDBA
7 3 (1.071%) MCSE
7 3 (1.071%) MBA
8 2 (0.714%) MCITP
8 2 (0.714%) MCTS
8 2 (0.714%) CISSP
8 2 (0.714%) MCP
9 1 (0.357%) MCSD
9 1 (0.357%) MCSA
9 1 (0.357%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.429%) SLA
2 2 (0.714%) QA
3 1 (0.357%) GxP
3 1 (0.357%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.357%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.357%) WAI
System Software
1 5 (1.786%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.071%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.714%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.357%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.357%) vSphere
4 1 (0.357%) XenApp
4 1 (0.357%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (1.786%) Netcool
2 1 (0.357%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.357%) Nagios
2 1 (0.357%) Foglight
2 1 (0.357%) Cacti
Vendors
1 42 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.50%) Business Objects
3 30 (10.71%) TIBCO
4 26 (9.286%) Tableau
5 25 (8.929%) Oracle
6 13 (4.643%) SAP
7 10 (3.571%) MicroStrategy
8 9 (3.214%) Cognos
9 8 (2.857%) IBM
10 5 (1.786%) Sybase
10 5 (1.786%) Google
11 4 (1.429%) Xilinx
11 4 (1.429%) Adobe
11 4 (1.429%) Remedy
12 3 (1.071%) Citrix
12 3 (1.071%) VMware
12 3 (1.071%) Omniture
13 2 (0.714%) Twitter
13 2 (0.714%) Sencha
14 1 (0.357%) NetApp
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