The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of ATG products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATG 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 Vendors for the Watford region.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within ATG (Art Technology Group).

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ATG
Rank - 19 -
Contract jobs citing ATG 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 2.885% -
As % of the Vendors category - 5.769% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £363 £450
% change year-on-year
+17.24% -19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 -
All Vendors
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
24 52 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 34.29% 50.00% 62.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 24
Average daily rate £375 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £290 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -26.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
ATG
Hertfordshire

ATG
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ATG across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Watford ATG Jobs Demand Trend

ATG
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ATG across the Watford region.

Watford ATG Daily Rate Trend

ATG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing ATG 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 ATG.

1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse

ATG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing ATG 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 ATG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Log4j
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Path