The first table below looks at the demand for jMock 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 jMock over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
jMock
Rank 204 209 231
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +22
Contract jobs citing jMock 1 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.075% 0.103%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.126% 0.898% 1.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 8
Average daily rate £475 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
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
794 668 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.35% 8.372% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 499 749
Average daily rate £405 £438 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £290
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 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% -
jMock
London

jMock
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London jMock Jobs Demand Trend

jMock
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London jMock Daily Rate Trend

jMock
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing jMock 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 jMock.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) JAXB
3 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking

jMock
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing jMock 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 jMock. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) JAXB
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) iBATIS
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) Guice
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Integration
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) EasyMock
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Derivative
2 1 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (33.33%) SWIFT
2 1 (33.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle