The first table below looks at the demand for Adobe CQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe CQ over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Platforms category for the 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe CQ (formerly Day CQ Communiqué CQ5)
Rank 403 507 563
Rank change year-on-year
+104 +56
Contract jobs citing Adobe CQ 129 38 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.298% 0.072% 0.030%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.681% 0.435% 0.182%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 22 13
Average daily rate £375 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £351 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7673 8733 9319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.73% 16.49% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4397 5056 5138
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 423 529
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £37.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Adobe CQ
UK

Adobe CQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe CQ across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England Adobe CQ Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe CQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Adobe CQ Daily Rate Trend

Adobe CQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Adobe CQ across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Adobe CQ Daily Rate Histogram

Adobe CQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Adobe CQ Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe CQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe CQ within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +82 90 £375 -16.66% 14
Yorkshire - 20 £250 -
South East +34 10 £500 - 2
East of England - 6 £400 - 3
West Midlands +7 2 £240 -
Adobe CQ
UK

Adobe CQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Adobe CQ 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 Adobe CQ.

1 178 (80.18%) Adobe
2 126 (56.76%) Java
3 95 (42.79%) CMS
4 62 (27.93%) HTML
5 57 (25.68%) CSS
6 54 (24.32%) JavaScript
6 54 (24.32%) E-Commerce
6 54 (24.32%) Content Management
7 43 (19.37%) J2EE
8 39 (17.57%) Web Services
9 35 (15.77%) Publishing
10 34 (15.32%) TDD
11 33 (14.86%) Spring
12 32 (14.41%) jQuery
12 32 (14.41%) Telecoms
13 30 (13.51%) Hibernate
14 29 (13.06%) JSP
14 29 (13.06%) SOAP
14 29 (13.06%) Marketing
15 28 (12.61%) hybris
15 28 (12.61%) REST
16 27 (12.16%) BDD
17 26 (11.71%) Maven
18 24 (10.81%) SOA
19 23 (10.36%) Git (software)
19 23 (10.36%) HTML5
20 22 (9.910%) Ajax
20 22 (9.910%) Internet
20 22 (9.910%) Migration
20 22 (9.910%) Flash

Adobe CQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Adobe CQ 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 Adobe CQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 62 (27.93%) HTML
2 57 (25.68%) CSS
3 43 (19.37%) J2EE
4 39 (17.57%) Web Services
5 33 (14.86%) Spring
6 32 (14.41%) jQuery
7 30 (13.51%) Hibernate
8 29 (13.06%) JSP
8 29 (13.06%) SOAP
9 28 (12.61%) REST
10 23 (10.36%) HTML5
11 22 (9.910%) Ajax
11 22 (9.910%) Flash
12 21 (9.459%) XML
13 17 (7.658%) Servlets
14 14 (6.306%) Java EE
14 14 (6.306%) RESTful
15 12 (5.405%) CSS3
15 12 (5.405%) OSGi
16 8 (3.604%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 95 (42.79%) CMS
2 18 (8.108%) Amazon AWS
3 16 (7.207%) Apache
4 14 (6.306%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (6.306%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.856%) Route 53
6 9 (4.054%) Tomcat
7 7 (3.153%) nginx
7 7 (3.153%) Apache Solr
8 6 (2.703%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.802%) IIS
10 3 (1.351%) SAS
10 3 (1.351%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.901%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.901%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.901%) FileNet
11 2 (0.901%) Documentum
12 1 (0.450%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.450%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.450%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 18 (8.108%) Photoshop
2 16 (7.207%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.450%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.450%) InDesign
3 1 (0.450%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 13 (5.856%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.802%) Misys Equation
2 4 (1.802%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.450%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.450%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.450%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.910%) Internet
2 12 (5.405%) HTTP
3 7 (3.153%) DNS
3 7 (3.153%) Intranet
4 1 (0.450%) Broadband
4 1 (0.450%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.306%) MongoDB
2 13 (5.856%) Redis
2 13 (5.856%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (5.856%) MySQL
3 5 (2.252%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.351%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.450%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.450%) Amazon DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (11.71%) Maven
2 23 (10.36%) Git (software)
3 19 (8.559%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.306%) Selenium
5 13 (5.856%) JUnit
6 10 (4.505%) Hudson
7 9 (4.054%) Cucumber
7 9 (4.054%) Mockito
7 9 (4.054%) TeamCity
7 9 (4.054%) JBehave
7 9 (4.054%) WebDriver
7 9 (4.054%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (4.054%) Subversion
8 8 (3.604%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.802%) JIRA
10 3 (1.351%) Xcode
11 2 (0.901%) Ant
12 1 (0.450%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 35 (15.77%) Publishing
2 32 (14.41%) Telecoms
3 29 (13.06%) Marketing
4 16 (7.207%) Legal
5 14 (6.306%) Retail
6 9 (4.054%) Finance
6 9 (4.054%) Banking
7 4 (1.802%) Private Banking
7 4 (1.802%) Games
8 3 (1.351%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.901%) Billing
9 2 (0.901%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.450%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.450%) Advertising
10 1 (0.450%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.450%) Electronics
10 1 (0.450%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 133 (59.91%) Developer
2 51 (22.97%) Java Developer
3 23 (10.36%) Architect
4 17 (7.658%) Programmer
5 16 (7.207%) Web Producer
6 14 (6.306%) CMS Developer
7 13 (5.856%) Web Developer
8 12 (5.405%) Consultant
9 8 (3.604%) UI Developer
9 8 (3.604%) UI Programmer
10 7 (3.153%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.153%) Coordinator
10 7 (3.153%) Android Developer
10 7 (3.153%) Content Editor
11 5 (2.252%) Analyst
12 4 (1.802%) Senior Android Developer
12 4 (1.802%) Content Manager
12 4 (1.802%) Tester
12 4 (1.802%) Test Analyst
12 4 (1.802%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.856%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (5.856%) Client/Server
2 5 (2.252%) Online Banking
2 5 (2.252%) Digital Media
3 4 (1.802%) iPhone
3 4 (1.802%) iSeries
3 4 (1.802%) AS400
4 2 (0.901%) Social Media
4 2 (0.901%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.901%) Statistics
4 2 (0.901%) Computer Science
4 2 (0.901%) SaaS
4 2 (0.901%) Clustering
4 2 (0.901%) Replication
5 1 (0.450%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.450%) E-Learning
5 1 (0.450%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.450%) DTV
5 1 (0.450%) PaaS
5 1 (0.450%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.108%) Linux
2 13 (5.856%) Android
3 8 (3.604%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.901%) UNIX
5 1 (0.450%) AIX
5 1 (0.450%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (24.32%) E-Commerce
1 54 (24.32%) Content Management
2 34 (15.32%) TDD
3 27 (12.16%) BDD
4 24 (10.81%) SOA
5 22 (9.910%) Migration
6 20 (9.009%) Continuous Integration
7 19 (8.559%) OO
8 17 (7.658%) Agile Software Development
8 17 (7.658%) Scrum
9 15 (6.757%) Web Design
10 14 (6.306%) Workflow
10 14 (6.306%) Project Management
11 13 (5.856%) Security Testing
12 12 (5.405%) Web Development
13 11 (4.955%) Test Automation
14 8 (3.604%) Software Engineering
14 8 (3.604%) OOD
15 7 (3.153%) Data Modelling
15 7 (3.153%) UML
Programming Languages
1 126 (56.76%) Java
2 54 (24.32%) JavaScript
3 13 (5.856%) Ruby
4 12 (5.405%) SQL
5 10 (4.505%) Python
6 9 (4.054%) C++
6 9 (4.054%) Perl
6 9 (4.054%) PHP
7 7 (3.153%) Bash shell
8 6 (2.703%) Scala
9 4 (1.802%) Groovy
9 4 (1.802%) RPG
10 3 (1.351%) C
10 3 (1.351%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.450%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.450%) Jython
11 1 (0.450%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.450%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 16 (7.207%) Degree
2 5 (2.252%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.450%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.703%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.901%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.802%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 178 (80.18%) Adobe
2 28 (12.61%) hybris
3 20 (9.009%) Oracle
4 13 (5.856%) Percona
5 7 (3.153%) Omniture
6 6 (2.703%) IBM
7 5 (2.252%) FatWire
8 4 (1.802%) Elastic Path
8 4 (1.802%) Endeca
8 4 (1.802%) Misys
8 4 (1.802%) SAP
9 3 (1.351%) Alterian
10 2 (0.901%) Sitecore
10 2 (0.901%) JBoss
11 1 (0.450%) ATG
11 1 (0.450%) Interwoven
11 1 (0.450%) Apple
11 1 (0.450%) Google
11 1 (0.450%) Open Text
11 1 (0.450%) Demandware
Essex
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