The first table below looks at the demand for Firebug 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 Firebug over the 3 months to 17 June 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 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firebug
Rank 203 219 245
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +26
Contract jobs citing Firebug 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.058% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.499% 0.138% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £425 £205
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +107.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
801 724 1012
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.63% 9.373% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 553 782
Average daily rate £400 £445 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% -7.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
Average hourly rate £42.50 £34.00 £33.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.99% +2.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £23.80 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.30 £39.20 £81.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
Firebug
London

Firebug
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Firebug Jobs Demand Trend

Firebug
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Firebug Daily Rate Trend

Firebug
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Firebug 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 Firebug.

1 4 (80.00%) Web Development
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) OO
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Google
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) PHP5
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Stress Testing
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Underscore.js
4 1 (20.00%) Fiddler
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) WordPress

Firebug
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Firebug 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 Firebug. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) Modernizr
4 1 (20.00%) Underscore.js
4 1 (20.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Fiddler
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
2 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (20.00%) JBehave
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Web Designer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) HTML Developer
3 1 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) OO
1 4 (80.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Stress Testing
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) PHP5
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Zend
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
City, London
Required Skill Set: PHP 5+ (Object Oriented programming knowledge and experience essential) Javascript, JQuery and AJAX (essential) AngularJS by Google (not essential but nice to have) HTML, CSS...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
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