The first table below looks at the demand for FitNesse skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FitNesse 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 of the Development Applications category for the East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FitNesse
Rank - 131 124
Contract jobs citing FitNesse 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - 0.034% 0.113%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.290% 0.833%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £314
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
242 345 360
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 11.31% 11.68% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 135
Average daily rate £325 £345 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.79% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 55 63
Average hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.25 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
FitNesse
England

FitNesse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England FitNesse Jobs Demand Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing FitNesse across the East of England region.

East of England FitNesse Daily Rate Trend

FitNesse
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FitNesse across the East of England region.

East of England FitNesse Hourly Rate Trend

FitNesse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing FitNesse 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 FitNesse.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

FitNesse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy