The first table below looks at the demand for FitNesse 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 FitNesse over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FitNesse
Rank 204 205 196
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -9
Contract jobs citing FitNesse 11 9 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.160% 0.118% 0.419%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.389% 1.238% 4.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 32
Average daily rate £425 £475 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% +26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £418 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £530 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £336
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
792 727 1025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.49% 9.554% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 559 796
Average daily rate £400 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% -6.31%
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 £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 6
Average hourly rate £43.00 £34.00 £33.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.45% +2.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £23.80 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.10 £39.20 £81.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
FitNesse
London

FitNesse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London FitNesse Jobs Demand Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London FitNesse Daily Rate Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FitNesse across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London FitNesse Daily Rate Histogram

FitNesse
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FitNesse across the City of London region.

City of London FitNesse Hourly Rate Trend

FitNesse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing FitNesse 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 FitNesse.

1 26 (81.25%) Selenium
2 24 (75.00%) Finance
3 18 (56.25%) Cucumber
4 16 (50.00%) C#
5 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
6 12 (37.50%) Visual Studio
6 12 (37.50%) Web Testing
7 10 (31.25%) Concordion
7 10 (31.25%) Ruby
8 9 (28.13%) Banking
8 9 (28.13%) SQL
9 8 (25.00%) Java
10 7 (21.88%) Scrum
11 6 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (18.75%) .NET
11 6 (18.75%) Oracle
11 6 (18.75%) QA
12 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
12 5 (15.63%) Open Source
12 5 (15.63%) TDD
13 4 (12.50%) Hibernate
13 4 (12.50%) Maven
13 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
13 4 (12.50%) Ant
13 4 (12.50%) JUnit
13 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
13 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
13 4 (12.50%) BDD
14 3 (9.375%) MSBuild
14 3 (9.375%) WebDriver

FitNesse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (18.75%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (9.375%) Grails
3 3 (9.375%) Spring
4 2 (6.250%) J2EE
4 2 (6.250%) DHTML
4 2 (6.250%) HTML
4 2 (6.250%) COM
4 2 (6.250%) CSS
4 2 (6.250%) XML
5 1 (3.125%) REST
5 1 (3.125%) Gherkin
5 1 (3.125%) RESTful
5 1 (3.125%) Web Services
5 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.125%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.250%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.125%) ElasticSearch
2 1 (3.125%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.125%) Apache
2 1 (3.125%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (3.125%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 26 (81.25%) Selenium
2 18 (56.25%) Cucumber
3 12 (37.50%) Visual Studio
4 10 (31.25%) Concordion
5 4 (12.50%) Maven
5 4 (12.50%) Ant
5 4 (12.50%) JUnit
6 3 (9.375%) MSBuild
6 3 (9.375%) WebDriver
7 2 (6.250%) JMeter
7 2 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (6.250%) WATIR
7 2 (6.250%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (6.250%) Hudson
8 1 (3.125%) SpecFlow
8 1 (3.125%) MonkeyTalk
8 1 (3.125%) Robotium
8 1 (3.125%) JIRA
8 1 (3.125%) TeamCity
8 1 (3.125%) NUnit
General
1 24 (75.00%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.125%) Marketing
4 1 (3.125%) Electronics
4 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.125%) Front Office
4 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Analyst
1 17 (53.13%) Test Analyst
2 12 (37.50%) Automation Analyst
2 12 (37.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Tester
4 4 (12.50%) Agile Test Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 3 (9.375%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Test Automation Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Developer Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Open Source
2 3 (9.375%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.125%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.125%) DTV
3 1 (3.125%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.125%) Android
1 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Web Testing
2 7 (21.88%) Scrum
3 6 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
4 5 (15.63%) TDD
5 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 4 (12.50%) BDD
6 3 (9.375%) Risk Analysis
6 3 (9.375%) User Experience Design
6 3 (9.375%) Automated Testing
6 3 (9.375%) Asset Management
6 3 (9.375%) Regression Testing
7 2 (6.250%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.250%) SOA
7 2 (6.250%) ITIL
7 2 (6.250%) Cash Management
7 2 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.250%) Test Strategy
7 2 (6.250%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) C#
2 10 (31.25%) Ruby
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
4 8 (25.00%) Java
5 3 (9.375%) Groovy
5 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.250%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.125%) Scala
7 1 (3.125%) C++
7 1 (3.125%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (9.375%) Degree
1 3 (9.375%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (9.375%) HP
4 1 (3.125%) SmartStream
4 1 (3.125%) SAP
4 1 (3.125%) Endeca
4 1 (3.125%) Google
City of London
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Posted: 31 May 2013