The first table below looks at the demand for Mercurial skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mercurial 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 for the Buckinghamshire 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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercurial
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £365 -
% change year-on-year
-38.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 - -
All Development Applications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
59 68 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 7.384% 6.739% 6.831%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 44 32
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Mercurial
South East

Mercurial
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Mercurial across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Buckinghamshire Mercurial Jobs Demand Trend

Mercurial
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Mercurial across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Mercurial Hourly Rate Trend

Mercurial
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial.

1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
1 7 (100.00%) NUnit
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (100.00%) Moq
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 7 (100.00%) FogBugz

Mercurial
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) NUnit
1 7 (100.00%) Moq
1 7 (100.00%) FogBugz
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Web Developer
2 6 (85.71%) C# Developer
2 6 (85.71%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript