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The table below looks at the demand for Refactoring skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Refactoring over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkRefactoring
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank205189
Rank change on same period last yearDown-16
Matching contract IT job ads14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.004 %
As % of the category below0.023 %0.112 %
Daily rates quoted01
Average minimum daily rate-£150
Average daily rate-£165
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate-£180
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£329
% change on same period last year+3.29 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.25-
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads43883572
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled6.178 %3.610 %
Daily rates quoted25451503
Average minimum daily rate£419£440
Average daily rate£459£470
% change on same period last year-2.46 %
Average maximum daily rate£498£501
UK excluding London average daily rate£377£370
% change on same period last year+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted8694
Average minimum hourly rate£24.22£23.36
Average hourly rate£25.84£25.31
% change on same period last year+2.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.47£27.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.44£30.00
% change on same period last year-1.89 %
Refactoring LondonRefactoring
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Refactoring
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Refactoring across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Refactoring Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

15 (41.67 %)Scrum
24 (33.33 %)Games
24 (33.33 %)Agile Software Development
24 (33.33 %)SQL Server Integration Services
24 (33.33 %)Selenium
24 (33.33 %)FitNesse
24 (33.33 %)Unit Testing
24 (33.33 %)Microsoft
24 (33.33 %)QuickTest Pro
24 (33.33 %)Java
24 (33.33 %)SQL
24 (33.33 %)SQL Server
33 (25.00 %)C#
33 (25.00 %)PL/SQL
33 (25.00 %)OO
33 (25.00 %)SQL Server 2005
33 (25.00 %)TDD
33 (25.00 %)Finance
42 (16.67 %)Asset Management
42 (16.67 %)XML
42 (16.67 %)OOP
51 (8.333 %)Oracle
51 (8.333 %)C++
51 (8.333 %)Perl
51 (8.333 %)WinForms

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (16.67 %)XML
21 (8.333 %)WinForms
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (33.33 %)SQL Server
14 (33.33 %)SQL Server Integration Services
23 (25.00 %)SQL Server 2005
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
14 (33.33 %)QuickTest Pro
14 (33.33 %)Selenium
14 (33.33 %)FitNesse
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14 (33.33 %)Games
23 (25.00 %)Finance
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
110 (83.33 %)Developer
24 (33.33 %)Software Developer
24 (33.33 %)Tester
24 (33.33 %)Software Tester
32 (16.67 %)Senior Programmer
32 (16.67 %)Programmer
41 (8.333 %)C++ Developer
41 (8.333 %)SQL Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (41.67 %)Scrum
24 (33.33 %)Agile Software Development
24 (33.33 %)Unit Testing
33 (25.00 %)OO
33 (25.00 %)TDD
42 (16.67 %)Asset Management
42 (16.67 %)OOP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14 (33.33 %)Java
14 (33.33 %)SQL
23 (25.00 %)PL/SQL
23 (25.00 %)C#
31 (8.333 %)C++
31 (8.333 %)Perl
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
14 (33.33 %)Microsoft
21 (8.333 %)Oracle