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This section looks at the demand for Apache Velocity skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Velocity over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkApache Velocity
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank210192
Rank change on same period last yearDown-18
Matching contract IT job ads107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.013 %0.007 %
As % of the category below0.465 %0.433 %
Daily rates quoted106
Average minimum daily rate£405£303
Average daily rate£463£324
% change on same period last year+42.67 %
Average maximum daily rate£520£345
UK excluding London average daily rate£190£306
% change on same period last year-37.95 %
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-£60.00
% change on same period last year-
Application Development City of LondonApplication Development
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads21501617
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled2.835 %1.715 %
Daily rates quoted1189704
Average minimum daily rate£401£457
Average daily rate£436£493
% change on same period last year-11.47 %
Average maximum daily rate£471£529
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£336
% change on same period last year+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted4829
Average minimum hourly rate£28.48£26.98
Average hourly rate£30.45£30.26
% change on same period last year+0.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate£32.42£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.44£33.08
% change on same period last year-1.93 %
Velocity LondonVelocity
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.

Velocity
Demand Trend

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

City of London Velocity Demand Trend

Velocity
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Velocity Daily Rate Trend

Velocity
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Velocity across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

City of London Velocity Daily Rate Histogram

Velocity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Velocity 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 Velocity.

114 (63.64 %)Java
212 (54.55 %)Banking
212 (54.55 %)Investment Banking
311 (50.00 %)Spring
311 (50.00 %)Equities
311 (50.00 %)J2EE
311 (50.00 %)JDBC
311 (50.00 %)Hibernate
410 (45.45 %)Back Office
410 (45.45 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
410 (45.45 %)Oracle
410 (45.45 %)WebLogic
59 (40.91 %)JavaScript
68 (36.36 %)HTML
68 (36.36 %)CSS
68 (36.36 %)W3C
68 (36.36 %)XHTML
68 (36.36 %)WCAG
68 (36.36 %)WAI
76 (27.27 %)AJAX
85 (22.73 %)Usability Testing
85 (22.73 %)Flash
85 (22.73 %)DOM
94 (18.18 %)XML
103 (13.64 %)FreeMarker
103 (13.64 %)Business Analysis
103 (13.64 %)Derivative
103 (13.64 %)Equity Derivative
112 (9.091 %)Interest Rate Derivative
112 (9.091 %)SQL

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Velocity 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 Velocity. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
111 (50.00 %)J2EE
111 (50.00 %)JDBC
111 (50.00 %)Hibernate
111 (50.00 %)Spring
28 (36.36 %)CSS
28 (36.36 %)HTML
28 (36.36 %)XHTML
36 (27.27 %)AJAX
45 (22.73 %)DOM
54 (18.18 %)XML
63 (13.64 %)FreeMarker
71 (4.545 %)GWT
71 (4.545 %)DWR
71 (4.545 %)Taglibs
71 (4.545 %)Ext JS
71 (4.545 %)J2SE
71 (4.545 %)JSP
71 (4.545 %)Servlets
Application Platforms
110 (45.45 %)WebLogic
21 (4.545 %)Lotus Notes
21 (4.545 %)Lotus Domino
Development Applications
15 (22.73 %)Flash
General
112 (54.55 %)Banking
112 (54.55 %)Investment Banking
210 (45.45 %)Back Office
31 (4.545 %)Legal
31 (4.545 %)Marketing
Job Titles
117 (77.27 %)Developer
28 (36.36 %)Java Developer
37 (31.82 %)Web Developer
44 (18.18 %)Analyst
52 (9.091 %)HTML Developer
61 (4.545 %)Equity Analyst
61 (4.545 %)Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
61 (4.545 %)Business Analyst
61 (4.545 %)Analyst Programmer
61 (4.545 %)Programmer
61 (4.545 %)Team Leader
61 (4.545 %)Java Analyst Programmer
61 (4.545 %)Java Team Leader
61 (4.545 %)Java Programmer
Miscellaneous
111 (50.00 %)Equities
210 (45.45 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
38 (36.36 %)W3C
43 (13.64 %)Derivative
43 (13.64 %)Equity Derivative
52 (9.091 %)Interest Rate Derivative
61 (4.545 %)Web 2.0
Operating Systems
11 (4.545 %)Unix
Processes & Methodologies
15 (22.73 %)Usability Testing
23 (13.64 %)Business Analysis
31 (4.545 %)AOP
31 (4.545 %)Kanban
31 (4.545 %)OOA/OOD
31 (4.545 %)Data Modelling
31 (4.545 %)OOD
31 (4.545 %)SOA
31 (4.545 %)Configuration Management
31 (4.545 %)Workflow
31 (4.545 %)Scrum
31 (4.545 %)Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
114 (63.64 %)Java
29 (40.91 %)JavaScript
32 (9.091 %)SQL
41 (4.545 %)DHTML
41 (4.545 %)PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
18 (36.36 %)WCAG
18 (36.36 %)WAI
Vendors
110 (45.45 %)Oracle
21 (4.545 %)Lotus
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