The first table below looks at the demand for JBehave 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 JBehave over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBehave
Rank 206 205 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing JBehave 4 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.059% 0.090% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.511% 0.945% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 0
Average daily rate £375 £800 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
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
783 741 1019
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.55% 9.572% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 569 787
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 £318 £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 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 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
JBehave
London

JBehave
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London JBehave Jobs Demand Trend

JBehave
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London JBehave Daily Rate Trend

JBehave
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JBehave 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 JBehave.

1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
1 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) QA
3 4 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) JUnit
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (25.00%) Maven
5 2 (25.00%) Subversion
5 2 (25.00%) XML
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) Ant
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Hudson

JBehave
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing JBehave 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 JBehave. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) soapUI
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) JSP
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe CQ
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 5 (62.50%) Cucumber
3 4 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
4 3 (37.50%) JUnit
5 2 (25.00%) Maven
5 2 (25.00%) Subversion
5 2 (25.00%) Ant
5 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (25.00%) Hudson
5 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (12.50%) Mockito
6 1 (12.50%) TestNG
6 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
6 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
6 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
6 1 (12.50%) JMeter
6 1 (12.50%) WATIR
6 1 (12.50%) Firebug
6 1 (12.50%) Fiddler
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) QA Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) Wiki
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (12.50%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) BDD
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Product Management
6 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Kanban
6 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 1 (12.50%) SOA
6 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) OOP
6 1 (12.50%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle