Mercurial Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Mercurial 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 Mercurial over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mercurial
Rank 185 217 239
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +22
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 14 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.220% 0.025% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.779% 0.306% 0.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 4
Average daily rate £400 £395 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.26% +3.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £395 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £395 £569
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £365 £340
% change year-on-year
-34.93% +7.35%
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		 787 653 1030
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.39% 8.295% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 487 777
Average daily rate £413 £428 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -10.00%
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% -
Mercurial
London

Mercurial
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Mercurial Jobs Demand Trend

Mercurial
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Mercurial Daily Rate Trend

Mercurial
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial.

1 18 (94.74%) Git (software)
2 17 (89.47%) Subversion
3 15 (78.95%) Java
4 14 (73.68%) OO
5 12 (63.16%) MVC
6 11 (57.89%) Maven
7 10 (52.63%) Ant
8 9 (47.37%) OOP
8 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
9 8 (42.11%) Mobile App
9 8 (42.11%) JUnit
10 7 (36.84%) XML
10 7 (36.84%) Finance
10 7 (36.84%) Blackberry
10 7 (36.84%) Android
11 6 (31.58%) JSON
11 6 (31.58%) SQLite
11 6 (31.58%) REST
11 6 (31.58%) Web Services
11 6 (31.58%) Linux
11 6 (31.58%) Apache
11 6 (31.58%) MySQL
11 6 (31.58%) SQL
12 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
12 4 (21.05%) Mobile Banking
12 4 (21.05%) Banking
12 4 (21.05%) QA
12 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (21.05%) .NET

Mercurial
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Mercurial 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 Mercurial. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (36.84%) XML
2 6 (31.58%) JSON
2 6 (31.58%) REST
2 6 (31.58%) Web Services
3 4 (21.05%) .NET
3 4 (21.05%) XHTML
4 3 (15.79%) J2EE
4 3 (15.79%) RESTful
4 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
4 3 (15.79%) iOS SDK
5 2 (10.53%) Google Maps API
5 2 (10.53%) Java ME
5 2 (10.53%) WML
5 2 (10.53%) XSL
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) SOAP
5 2 (10.53%) Cocoa
6 1 (5.263%) WinForms
6 1 (5.263%) Middleware
6 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Apache
2 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
3 3 (15.79%) WebLogic
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Azure
4 1 (5.263%) OpenStack
4 1 (5.263%) Kafka
4 1 (5.263%) Apache Pig
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) NFC
2 2 (10.53%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQLite
1 6 (31.58%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.263%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.263%) HBase
3 1 (5.263%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.263%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.263%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (5.263%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.263%) Big Data
3 1 (5.263%) Hypertable
Development Applications
1 18 (94.74%) Git (software)
2 17 (89.47%) Subversion
3 11 (57.89%) Maven
4 10 (52.63%) Ant
5 8 (42.11%) JUnit
6 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
7 3 (15.79%) Xcode
7 3 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (15.79%) AnthillPro
7 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
7 3 (15.79%) JIRA
7 3 (15.79%) Trac
7 3 (15.79%) Gerrit
7 3 (15.79%) FishEye
8 2 (10.53%) Redmine
8 2 (10.53%) FogBugz
8 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
9 1 (5.263%) GitHub
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Android Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Blackberry Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Deployment Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.79%) iOS Developer
5 2 (10.53%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Release Manager
6 1 (5.263%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Mobile App
2 7 (36.84%) Blackberry
3 4 (21.05%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (15.79%) Java Card
5 2 (10.53%) Video on Demand
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) iPhone
5 2 (10.53%) Open Source
6 1 (5.263%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Android
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Debian
3 3 (15.79%) UNIX
3 3 (15.79%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Apple iOS
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) OO
2 12 (63.16%) MVC
3 9 (47.37%) OOP
3 9 (47.37%) Multithreading
4 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
4 4 (21.05%) OOD
5 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (15.79%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) SOA
5 3 (15.79%) ETL
5 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) Project Management
7 1 (5.263%) TDD
7 1 (5.263%) RDF
7 1 (5.263%) Migration
7 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
7 1 (5.263%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Objective-C
3 3 (15.79%) PHP
3 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) C++
3 3 (15.79%) Bash shell
4 2 (10.53%) PHP5
4 2 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.263%) Ruby
5 1 (5.263%) C#
5 1 (5.263%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 14443
2 1 (5.263%) ISO/IEC 7816
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) vCloud
2 1 (5.263%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) VMware
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Zend
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (5.263%) Perforce
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