The first table below looks at the demand for Drools 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 Drools 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 Application Development 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
Drools
Rank 189 217 241
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +24
Contract jobs citing Drools 10 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.157% 0.025% 0.040%
As % of the Application Development category 0.552% 0.099% 0.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
Average daily rate £488 £515 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.24% -6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £503 £430
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £526 £590
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £225 £405
% change year-on-year
+74.44% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Drools
London

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Drools across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Drools Daily Rate Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Drools across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Drools Daily Rate Histogram

Drools
Top 27 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 8 (80.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) XML
3 6 (60.00%) XSLT
4 4 (40.00%) Front Office
4 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (40.00%) Spring
5 3 (30.00%) SQL
6 2 (20.00%) J2EE
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) JUnit
6 2 (20.00%) Linux
6 2 (20.00%) HTTP
6 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (20.00%) jBPM
6 2 (20.00%) QA
6 2 (20.00%) Maven
6 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
6 2 (20.00%) Subversion
7 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) XML
1 6 (60.00%) XSLT
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 2 (20.00%) J2EE
3 2 (20.00%) jBPM
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JUnit
1 2 (20.00%) Maven
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 10 (100.00%) Banking
1 10 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) UAT Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
1 2 (20.00%) Workflow
1 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
2 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
City, London
My client, a top tier investment bank, is looking for a Technical Test Analyst who MUST have extensive technical knowledge of UNIX and a good understanding of associated...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013