The first table below looks at the demand for Code Coverage skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Code Coverage 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Code Coverage
Rank 197 215 244
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +29
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 2 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.051% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.071% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £625 £388 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.29% -38.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
-10.71% -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Code Coverage
London

Code Coverage
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Code Coverage across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Code Coverage Jobs Demand Trend

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Code Coverage across the City of London region.

City of London Code Coverage Daily Rate Trend

Code Coverage
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Code Coverage 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 Code Coverage.

1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
2 4 (44.44%) Subversion
2 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
3 3 (33.33%) WCF
3 3 (33.33%) WPF
3 3 (33.33%) WF
3 3 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (33.33%) MSTest
3 3 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 3 (33.33%) CQRS
3 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (22.22%) Cognizant
4 2 (22.22%) Internet
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) Swing
4 2 (22.22%) SOAP
4 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
4 2 (22.22%) OOD
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Linux

Code Coverage
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Code Coverage 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 Code Coverage. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) WCF
2 3 (33.33%) WPF
2 3 (33.33%) WF
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) Swing
3 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) Java EE
3 2 (22.22%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (33.33%) MSTest
2 3 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
3 2 (22.22%) Ant
3 2 (22.22%) Maven
3 2 (22.22%) JProfiler
3 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Swing Developer
3 1 (11.11%) GUI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Market Risk Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
2 2 (22.22%) Market Risk
3 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) TDD
1 4 (44.44%) Unit Testing
2 3 (33.33%) CQRS
2 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (22.22%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
3 2 (22.22%) OOD
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) Web Development
3 2 (22.22%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) UML
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) VB6
3 1 (11.11%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) NDS
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cognizant
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle