Skills in Demand Outside IR35
Outside Spy crunches through the latest 1457 IT Contract vacancies advertised as “Outside IR35” on February 2nd to reveal the skills most in demand.
As our regular readers will know, Outside Spy has been monitoring the level of IT contract vacancies since the start of 2020, when we first launched our service to bring all the relevant advertised vacancies “Outside IR35” to the attention of our members in one easy-to-search database.
We are often asked by individual contractors considering our service questions along the lines of “How many vacancies have you discovered with my skillset?” Whilst it is impossible to run individual queries with perhaps multiple skillsets to order, we set about analysing the full database of current vacancies to help answer queries of this nature.
The method was to analyse all 1457 roles
and see which keywords were specified most often by advertisers in the Job
Title. Keywords were a mixture of skills (eg Python, Java) and roles (eg Project
Manager). The analysis was restricted to the Job Title rather than include the
job description, as this often features an advertisers “wish list” of skills
rather than absolute requirements.
|
Keyword in Job Title |
Number of Jobs |
% of all Adverts |
|
Developer |
377 |
25.875 |
|
Data |
140 |
9.609 |
|
DevOps |
120 |
8.236 |
|
Architect |
119 |
8.167 |
|
Azure |
94 |
6.452 |
|
Business Analyst |
79 |
5.422 |
|
Project Manager |
75 |
5.148 |
|
AWS |
69 |
4.736 |
|
.net |
67 |
4.598 |
|
Java/Javascript |
61 |
4.187 |
|
C# |
53 |
3.638 |
|
react |
47 |
3.226 |
|
BI/Business Intelligence |
35 |
2.402 |
|
SQL |
23 |
1.579 |
|
Ruby |
19 |
1.304 |
|
Salesforce |
14 |
0.961 |
|
Cyber Security |
13 |
0.892 |
|
Network |
13 |
0.892 |
|
SAP |
9 |
0.618 |
|
iOS |
9 |
0.618 |
|
ServiceNow |
9 |
0.618 |
|
PMO |
5 |
0.343 |
|
Programme Manager |
3 |
0.206 |
|
Trainer |
3 |
0.206 |
Reviewing this analysis, the co-founder
of Outside Spy, Brian Stalley commented;
“I think the numbers demonstrate that advertised
Outside IR35 vacancies feature quite a wide spread of roles and technologies,
and this should provide some encouragement to IT Contractors, particularly
those with niche skills, who are looking to retain their Personal Service
Companies beyond April this year.”