The first table below looks at the demand for GitHub 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 GitHub over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GitHub
Rank 194 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing GitHub 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.141% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.146% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-37.50% -
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
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
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 7 11 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 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
GitHub
London

GitHub
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London GitHub Jobs Demand Trend

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London GitHub Daily Rate Trend

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GitHub across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London GitHub Daily Rate Histogram

GitHub
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GitHub 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 GitHub.

1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
1 12 (70.59%) CSS
2 10 (58.82%) jQuery
3 9 (52.94%) HTML5
4 8 (47.06%) Web Design
4 8 (47.06%) PHP
5 7 (41.18%) OO
5 7 (41.18%) Subversion
6 6 (35.29%) MySQL
6 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
7 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
7 4 (23.53%) Linux
7 4 (23.53%) MVC
7 4 (23.53%) Apache
7 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (23.53%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) Zend
8 3 (17.65%) Selenium
8 3 (17.65%) JSON
8 3 (17.65%) Xcode
8 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
8 3 (17.65%) TDD
8 3 (17.65%) Ajax
8 3 (17.65%) HTML
8 3 (17.65%) OOP
8 3 (17.65%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (17.65%) REST
8 3 (17.65%) CSS3
9 2 (11.76%) PHPUnit
9 2 (11.76%) Git (software)

GitHub
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GitHub 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 GitHub. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (70.59%) CSS
2 10 (58.82%) jQuery
3 9 (52.94%) HTML5
4 3 (17.65%) JSON
4 3 (17.65%) Ajax
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) REST
4 3 (17.65%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 2 (11.76%) XML
5 2 (11.76%) J2EE
5 2 (11.76%) LAMP
5 2 (11.76%) Zend Framework
6 1 (5.882%) Dojo
6 1 (5.882%) Google Maps API
6 1 (5.882%) MooTools
6 1 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (5.882%) Flash
6 1 (5.882%) iOS SDK
6 1 (5.882%) YUI
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Drupal
3 1 (5.882%) WordPress
3 1 (5.882%) IIS
3 1 (5.882%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MySQL
2 1 (5.882%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Subversion
2 3 (17.65%) Selenium
2 3 (17.65%) Xcode
3 2 (11.76%) PHPUnit
3 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
4 1 (5.882%) JIRA
4 1 (5.882%) Firebug
4 1 (5.882%) Maven
4 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
4 1 (5.882%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.882%) JSUnit
4 1 (5.882%) Mercurial
4 1 (5.882%) Trac
4 1 (5.882%) QUnit
4 1 (5.882%) Jasmine
General
1 2 (11.76%) Marketing
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Front-End Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Web Developer
4 3 (17.65%) PHP Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Web Applications Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Applications Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 1 (5.882%) UI Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Flash Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Drupal Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Front-End Web Developer
6 1 (5.882%) iOS Developer
6 1 (5.882%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) iPhone
2 2 (11.76%) Open Source
2 2 (11.76%) iPad
3 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX
3 1 (5.882%) Android
3 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Web Design
2 7 (41.18%) OO
3 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
4 4 (23.53%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) TDD
5 3 (17.65%) OOP
5 3 (17.65%) Mobile Application Development
6 2 (11.76%) Web Development
7 1 (5.882%) Refactoring
7 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Multithreading
7 1 (5.882%) Project Planning
7 1 (5.882%) SEO
7 1 (5.882%) OOD
7 1 (5.882%) Configuration Management
7 1 (5.882%) Memory Management
7 1 (5.882%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 8 (47.06%) PHP
3 3 (17.65%) Objective-C
4 2 (11.76%) C#
5 1 (5.882%) Ruby
5 1 (5.882%) Python
5 1 (5.882%) C++
5 1 (5.882%) Java
5 1 (5.882%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.882%) ActionScript 3.0
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Varnish
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Zend
2 1 (5.882%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.882%) Google
2 1 (5.882%) Adobe
2 1 (5.882%) Facebook
2 1 (5.882%) Twitter
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