The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Serena products and/or services 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 Serena over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Serena Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Serena
Rank 198 - 241
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Serena 5 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% - 0.041%
As % of the Vendors category 0.173% - 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £350 - £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £300 £200
% change year-on-year
+41.66% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.50 £28.50 £37.25
% change year-on-year
+42.10% -23.48%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2893 3319 4124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.35% 42.20% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2051 2268 2847
Average daily rate £431 £425 £489
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 101 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Serena
London

Serena
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Serena Jobs Demand Trend

Serena
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Serena Daily Rate Trend

Serena
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Serena 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 Serena.

1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (88.89%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
3 7 (77.78%) SQL
4 6 (66.67%) Change Management
5 5 (55.56%) Asset Management
5 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
5 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
6 3 (33.33%) Remedy
6 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
6 3 (33.33%) Windows
6 3 (33.33%) Finance
7 2 (22.22%) Back Office
7 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
7 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
7 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
7 2 (22.22%) Linux
7 2 (22.22%) MS Office
7 2 (22.22%) CRM
7 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
7 2 (22.22%) N-Tier
7 2 (22.22%) IBM
7 2 (22.22%) SUSE
7 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (22.22%) Serena SBM
7 2 (22.22%) Banking
7 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (22.22%) System Testing
7 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
7 2 (22.22%) PowerShell

Serena
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Serena 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 Serena. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (11.11%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (22.22%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (22.22%) Serena SBM
2 2 (22.22%) Hudson
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (11.11%) Subversion
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Back Office
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Release Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Testing Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Configuration Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Environment Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Release Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) N-Tier
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) SUSE
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Change Management
2 5 (55.56%) Asset Management
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) System Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Remedy
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) ATG