East of England Subversion Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Subversion (SVN) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Subversion over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Subversion (SVN)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Fareham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Lancashire London Macclesfield Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wakefield Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	133	130
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	14	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	3.118 %	4.267 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£190
Average daily rate	£318	£193
% change on same period last year	+65.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£309
% change on same period last year	+1.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£33.15
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£34.65
% change on same period last year	-20.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£36.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	£28.40
% change on same period last year	+5.63 %
Development Applications East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	449	539
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.598 %	0.545 %
Daily rates quoted	122	180
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£347
Average daily rate	£346	£367
% change on same period last year	-5.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.82	£30.48
Average hourly rate	£31.87	£32.13
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.91	£33.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Subversion England

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.

Subversion
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Subversion across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Subversion
Daily Rate Trend

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

Subversion
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Subversion across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Subversion
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Subversion
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Subversion within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridgeshire	0	6	£300	+55.84 %
Hertfordshire	+7	5	£445	-
Norfolk	-	2	£200	-
Suffolk	-	1	-	-

Subversion England

Subversion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Subversion 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 Subversion.

1 36 (70.59 %) Java 2 31 (60.78 %) Oracle 3 24 (47.06 %) J2EE 4 23 (45.10 %) SQL 4 23 (45.10 %) JUnit 5 21 (41.18 %) UML 6 19 (37.25 %) WebServices 7 18 (35.29 %) Spring 7 18 (35.29 %) Finance 7 18 (35.29 %) Hibernate 8 17 (33.33 %) OO 8 17 (33.33 %) Eclipse 9 16 (31.37 %) Windows 9 16 (31.37 %) Linux 10 15 (29.41 %) SOA

10 15 (29.41 %) JIRA 11 14 (27.45 %) PL/SQL 12 13 (25.49 %) Banking 13 12 (23.53 %) Java EE 13 12 (23.53 %) Back Office 13 12 (23.53 %) UNIX 13 12 (23.53 %) RAD 14 10 (19.61 %) JBoss 15 9 (17.65 %) C 16 8 (15.69 %) C++ 16 8 (15.69 %) Apache 16 8 (15.69 %) PKI 17 7 (13.73 %) Red Hat 17 7 (13.73 %) MySQL 18 6 (11.76 %) .NET

Subversion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Subversion 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 Subversion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (47.06 %) J2EE 2 19 (37.25 %) WebServices 3 18 (35.29 %) Hibernate 3 18 (35.29 %) Spring 4 12 (23.53 %) Java EE 5 6 (11.76 %) .NET 6 5 (9.804 %) CSS 7 4 (7.843 %) HTML 8 3 (5.882 %) JDBC 8 3 (5.882 %) JSP 8 3 (5.882 %) XHTML 9 2 (3.922 %) JSF 10 1 (1.961 %) Tapestry 10 1 (1.961 %) Ruby on Rails 10 1 (1.961 %) WAP 10 1 (1.961 %) XML 10 1 (1.961 %) STL 10 1 (1.961 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 10 (19.61 %) JBoss 2 8 (15.69 %) Apache 3 4 (7.843 %) WebLogic 4 3 (5.882 %) Tomcat 4 3 (5.882 %) MQSeries 5 2 (3.922 %) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.843 %) HTTP 2 3 (5.882 %) Firewall 3 2 (3.922 %) DHCP 3 2 (3.922 %) DNS 4 1 (1.961 %) Wireless 4 1 (1.961 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (1.961 %) VPN 4 1 (1.961 %) SMS 4 1 (1.961 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (13.73 %) MySQL 2 5 (9.804 %) Oracle Reports 3 4 (7.843 %) TOAD 4 3 (5.882 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (5.882 %) SQL Server 4 3 (5.882 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 23 (45.10 %) JUnit 2 17 (33.33 %) Eclipse 3 15 (29.41 %) JIRA 4 6 (11.76 %) Ant 5 5 (9.804 %) Bugzilla 6 4 (7.843 %) ClearCase 6 4 (7.843 %) ClearQuest 7 3 (5.882 %) Rational Robot 7 3 (5.882 %) IntelliJ 8 2 (3.922 %) Visual Studio 8 2 (3.922 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 2 (3.922 %) Log4j 9 1 (1.961 %) NUnit 9 1 (1.961 %) FitNesse	General 1 18 (35.29 %) Finance 2 13 (25.49 %) Banking 3 12 (23.53 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.961 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.961 %) Government 4 1 (1.961 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 32 (62.75 %) Developer 2 26 (50.98 %) Java Developer 3 7 (13.73 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 6 (11.76 %) J2EE Developer 5 5 (9.804 %) Senior Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) Analyst 6 4 (7.843 %) Release Manager 6 4 (7.843 %) Technical Manager 6 4 (7.843 %) C++/Java Developer 6 4 (7.843 %) Senior Java Developer 7 3 (5.882 %) Delphi Developer 7 3 (5.882 %) IT Support Engineer 7 3 (5.882 %) Lead Java Developer 7 3 (5.882 %) Support Engineer 7 3 (5.882 %) Lead Developer 7 3 (5.882 %) Test Analyst 8 2 (3.922 %) IT Manager 8 2 (3.922 %) Web Developer 8 2 (3.922 %) Systems Engineer 8 2 (3.922 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (15.69 %) PKI 2 4 (7.843 %) Cryptography 3 3 (5.882 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.961 %) Blackberry 4 1 (1.961 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 16 (31.37 %) Windows 1 16 (31.37 %) Linux 2 12 (23.53 %) UNIX 3 3 (5.882 %) SUSE 4 2 (3.922 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.961 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (41.18 %) UML 2 17 (33.33 %) OO 3 15 (29.41 %) SOA 4 12 (23.53 %) RAD 5 3 (5.882 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (5.882 %) Change Management 5 3 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (5.882 %) Release Management 5 3 (5.882 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (3.922 %) TDD 6 2 (3.922 %) Extreme Programming 6 2 (3.922 %) OOP 7 1 (1.961 %) OOD 7 1 (1.961 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (1.961 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.961 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (1.961 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.961 %) Resource Management 7 1 (1.961 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (1.961 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 36 (70.59 %) Java 2 23 (45.10 %) SQL 3 14 (27.45 %) PL/SQL 4 9 (17.65 %) C 5 8 (15.69 %) C++ 6 6 (11.76 %) C# 7 5 (9.804 %) Python 8 4 (7.843 %) Delphi 8 4 (7.843 %) Perl 9 3 (5.882 %) PHP 9 3 (5.882 %) JavaScript 10 2 (3.922 %) DHTML 11 1 (1.961 %) Embedded C 11 1 (1.961 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 1 (1.961 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.961 %) Degree
System Software 1 5 (9.804 %) Active Directory 2 2 (3.922 %) NFS	Vendors 1 31 (60.78 %) Oracle 2 7 (13.73 %) Red Hat 3 5 (9.804 %) Microsoft 4 3 (5.882 %) IBM 5 2 (3.922 %) NetApp 6 1 (1.961 %) Cisco