The first table below looks at the demand for FishEye 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 FishEye over the 3 months to 17 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 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian FishEye
Rank 196 210 241
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +31
Contract jobs citing FishEye 5 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.079% 0.039% 0.051%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.638% 0.462% 0.497%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
Average daily rate £550 £425 £663
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.41% -35.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £425 £503
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £425 £735
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
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
784 649 1007
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.45% 8.342% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 476 751
Average daily rate £413 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £15.80 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.20 £39.60 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
FishEye
London

FishEye
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London FishEye Jobs Demand Trend

FishEye
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London FishEye Daily Rate Trend

FishEye
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Maven
2 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Ant
2 4 (80.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (80.00%) Apache
2 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Debian
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 3 (60.00%) MySQL
3 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (60.00%) Mercurial
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (60.00%) Bash shell
3 3 (60.00%) Puppet

FishEye
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (20.00%) JAX-WS
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSL
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) WebLogic
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (20.00%) Rendezvous
3 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Maven
2 4 (80.00%) Ant
2 4 (80.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (60.00%) Mercurial
3 3 (60.00%) Gerrit
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) AnthillPro
4 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
4 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) vCloud
2 1 (20.00%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) 29West
3 1 (20.00%) TIBCO