The first table below looks at the demand for Subversion skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Subversion over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridge 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Subversion (SVN)
Rank 32 37 31
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -6
Contract jobs citing Subversion 5 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.488% 2.804% 1.195%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.86% 16.67% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
Average daily rate £280 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.66 £39.00
% change year-on-year
+5.15% -8.56%
All Development Applications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
28 72 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 8.333% 16.82% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 12
Average daily rate £315 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £360 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 8
Average hourly rate £40.50 £36.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.72% +90.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.65 £47.00 £32.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Subversion
Cambridgeshire

Subversion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Subversion Jobs Demand Trend

Subversion
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Subversion Daily Rate Trend

Subversion
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Subversion across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridge Subversion Daily Rate Histogram

Subversion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Subversion Hourly Rate Trend

Subversion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Subversion 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 Subversion.

1 11 (84.62%) Git (software)
2 10 (76.92%) MySQL
2 10 (76.92%) Linux
3 8 (61.54%) Apache
3 8 (61.54%) Java
3 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 8 (61.54%) MVC
3 8 (61.54%) RESTful
3 8 (61.54%) JSON
4 6 (46.15%) PHP5
4 6 (46.15%) CMS
4 6 (46.15%) PHP
4 6 (46.15%) CSS
4 6 (46.15%) OO
5 5 (38.46%) Python
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle
5 5 (38.46%) Perl
5 5 (38.46%) C#
5 5 (38.46%) TDD
5 5 (38.46%) WordPress
5 5 (38.46%) Drupal
6 4 (30.77%) Redis
6 4 (30.77%) concrete5
6 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (30.77%) Memcached
6 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
6 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (30.77%) Node.js
6 4 (30.77%) jQuery
6 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing

Subversion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Subversion 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 Subversion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) RESTful
1 8 (61.54%) JSON
2 6 (46.15%) CSS
3 4 (30.77%) Memcached
3 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 4 (30.77%) jQuery
3 4 (30.77%) Java EE
3 4 (30.77%) Ajax
3 4 (30.77%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) HTML
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
3 4 (30.77%) Web Services
3 4 (30.77%) XML
3 4 (30.77%) J2EE
3 4 (30.77%) Swing
4 3 (23.08%) Symfony
4 3 (23.08%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (15.38%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Apache
2 6 (46.15%) CMS
3 5 (38.46%) WordPress
3 5 (38.46%) Drupal
4 4 (30.77%) concrete5
4 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) WAN
1 1 (7.692%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) MySQL
2 4 (30.77%) Redis
2 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Git (software)
2 4 (30.77%) Maven
General
1 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
1 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) PHP Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Business Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
1 4 (30.77%) Informatics
2 2 (15.38%) Biology
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 2 (15.38%) LIMS
3 1 (7.692%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Debian
3 1 (7.692%) VMS
3 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) MVC
2 6 (46.15%) OO
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (30.77%) Information Management
4 4 (30.77%) SEO
4 4 (30.77%) OOP
5 2 (15.38%) Information Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) OOD
6 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.692%) Scrum
6 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) PHP5
2 6 (46.15%) PHP
3 5 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) Perl
3 5 (38.46%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) Ruby
4 4 (30.77%) Lisp
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) PhD
2 2 (15.38%) RHCE
3 1 (7.692%) RHCT
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) Postfix
2 1 (7.692%) Sendmail
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
2 1 (7.692%) Puppet
2 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Zend
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.692%) Business Objects