The first table below looks at the demand for QUnit 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 QUnit over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
QUnit
Rank 198 212 232
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +20
Contract jobs citing QUnit 3 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.047% 0.102% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.382% 1.221% 0.406%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
Average daily rate £400 £445 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% +20.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
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
786 655 986
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.44% 8.388% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 483 739
Average daily rate £413 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -10.52%
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 10 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 £15.80 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.60 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QUnit
London

QUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London QUnit Jobs Demand Trend

QUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London QUnit Daily Rate Trend

QUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) HTML5
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) CSS3
2 5 (83.33%) Jasmine
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) OO
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 4 (66.67%) JSON
4 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Kanban
4 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 3 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) XML
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) JUnit
5 2 (33.33%) ASP
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (33.33%) HTTP
5 2 (33.33%) Mac OS X

QUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) HTML5
2 5 (83.33%) CSS3
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) JSON
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) XML
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) ASP
5 2 (33.33%) Spring
5 2 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
5 2 (33.33%) Grails
6 1 (16.67%) YUI
6 1 (16.67%) MooTools
6 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (16.67%) Node.js
6 1 (16.67%) REST
6 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jasmine
2 3 (50.00%) JUnit
2 3 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) Hudson
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) JSUnit
4 1 (16.67%) MSTest
4 1 (16.67%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (16.67%) Mocha
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) UI Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Applications Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Mac OS X
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) OO
2 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) Groovy
2 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA