The first table below looks at the demand for Build Forge 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 Build Forge 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 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
IBM Rational Build Forge
Rank 506 558 563
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +5
Contract jobs citing Build Forge 7 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.017% 0.002% 0.014%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.151% 0.020% 0.133%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
Average daily rate £500 £475 £493
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -3.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £475 £427
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £475 £559
UK excluding London average daily rate £444 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4623 4974 6010
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.12% 9.325% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2946 3009 3467
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 205 309
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Build Forge
UK

Build Forge
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Build Forge Jobs Demand Trend

Build Forge
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Build Forge Daily Rate Trend

Build Forge
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Build Forge across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Build Forge Daily Rate Histogram

Build Forge
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Build Forge within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
London +41 4 £553 +16.31%
Yorkshire - 2 £444 -
East of England - 1 - -
Build Forge
UK

Build Forge
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Build Forge 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 Build Forge.

1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 10 (55.56%) C++
2 10 (55.56%) Multithreading
2 10 (55.56%) Hudson
2 10 (55.56%) Risk Management
2 10 (55.56%) CruiseControl
3 9 (50.00%) Front Office
3 9 (50.00%) MVC
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (50.00%) C
4 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (44.44%) STL
4 8 (44.44%) Linux
4 8 (44.44%) OOP
4 8 (44.44%) OO
4 8 (44.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 8 (44.44%) Finance
4 8 (44.44%) WebSphere
5 6 (33.33%) IBM
5 6 (33.33%) Perl
5 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Process Server
6 5 (27.78%) Migration
6 5 (27.78%) Jython
6 5 (27.78%) Ant
6 5 (27.78%) UNIX
7 4 (22.22%) Windows
7 4 (22.22%) VBA
7 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
7 4 (22.22%) IBM Certification
7 4 (22.22%) Lombardi

Build Forge
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (44.44%) STL
1 8 (44.44%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 8 (44.44%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.556%) Java EE
2 1 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Process Server
3 2 (11.11%) Documentum
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (11.11%) ESB
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Hudson
1 10 (55.56%) CruiseControl
2 5 (27.78%) Ant
3 1 (5.556%) Rational Application Developer
3 1 (5.556%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (50.00%) Front Office
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Front Office Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Excel Developer
5 2 (11.11%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.556%) Grid Computing
2 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) UNIX
3 4 (22.22%) Windows
4 3 (16.67%) AIX
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Multithreading
1 10 (55.56%) Risk Management
2 9 (50.00%) MVC
2 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (44.44%) OOP
3 8 (44.44%) OO
4 5 (27.78%) Migration
5 1 (5.556%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Analytics
5 1 (5.556%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C++
2 9 (50.00%) C
3 6 (33.33%) Perl
4 5 (27.78%) Jython
5 4 (22.22%) VBA
6 3 (16.67%) Java
7 2 (11.11%) Python
7 2 (11.11%) C#
8 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) IBM Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.556%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) IBM
2 4 (22.22%) Lombardi
3 2 (11.11%) Siebel
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe
4 1 (5.556%) Red Hat