Drools Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Drools 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 Drools over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drools
Rank 484 519 534
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +15
Contract jobs citing Drools 28 38 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.066% 0.071% 0.038%
As % of the Application Development category 0.243% 0.270% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 7
Average daily rate £500 £543 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.83% +32.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £248 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £543 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £225 £405
% change year-on-year
+74.44% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 11520 14071 15553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.23% 26.30% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7359 8460 9198
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 364 548
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Drools
UK

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Drools Daily Rate Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Drools across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Drools Daily Rate Histogram

Drools
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Drools Hourly Rate Trend

Drools
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drools within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +22 20 £500 -7.83%
South East +28 5 - -
Midlands -10 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
Drools
UK

Drools
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Drools 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 Drools.

1 65 (90.28%) Java
2 39 (54.17%) Spring
3 33 (45.83%) Hibernate
3 33 (45.83%) Linux
4 32 (44.44%) Oracle
5 23 (31.94%) JPA
6 22 (30.56%) UNIX
7 21 (29.17%) Windows
7 21 (29.17%) XML
7 21 (29.17%) J2EE
8 20 (27.78%) Banking
8 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
8 20 (27.78%) Scala
9 19 (26.39%) XSLT
10 18 (25.00%) JBoss
11 17 (23.61%) ITIL
11 17 (23.61%) MySQL
11 17 (23.61%) C
11 17 (23.61%) Benchmarking
11 17 (23.61%) Service Management
11 17 (23.61%) QlikView
11 17 (23.61%) DV Cleared
12 16 (22.22%) Investment Banking
13 15 (20.83%) SQL
14 12 (16.67%) Maven
15 11 (15.28%) Degree
15 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
16 10 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
16 10 (13.89%) JMS
17 9 (12.50%) Shell Script

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Drools 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 Drools. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (54.17%) Spring
2 33 (45.83%) Hibernate
3 23 (31.94%) JPA
4 21 (29.17%) XML
4 21 (29.17%) J2EE
5 19 (26.39%) XSLT
6 10 (13.89%) JMS
7 7 (9.722%) HTML5
7 7 (9.722%) Web Services
8 6 (8.333%) Lucene
8 6 (8.333%) XSL
8 6 (8.333%) JDBC
8 6 (8.333%) REST
9 4 (5.556%) Middleware
9 4 (5.556%) WebSphere
9 4 (5.556%) JSP
9 4 (5.556%) HTML
10 3 (4.167%) Esper
10 3 (4.167%) XSD
10 3 (4.167%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.333%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (5.556%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (5.556%) Tomcat
2 4 (5.556%) MQSeries
3 3 (4.167%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (4.167%) Oracle Coherence
3 3 (4.167%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.389%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (5.556%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (4.167%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (4.167%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) HTTP
2 6 (8.333%) DVB
2 6 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.167%) LDAP
4 1 (1.389%) DSL
4 1 (1.389%) Intranet
4 1 (1.389%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) MySQL
1 17 (23.61%) QlikView
2 3 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (2.778%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Maven
2 8 (11.11%) Eclipse
2 8 (11.11%) Git (software)
3 6 (8.333%) Cucumber
4 5 (6.944%) Subversion
5 3 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (4.167%) JUnit
6 2 (2.778%) JIRA
7 1 (1.389%) WinDbg
7 1 (1.389%) Hudson
7 1 (1.389%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (1.389%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (27.78%) Banking
2 16 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 6 (8.333%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.333%) Finance
4 5 (6.944%) Front Office
5 1 (1.389%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 39 (54.17%) Developer
2 32 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.89%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Analyst
5 7 (9.722%) Test Analyst
5 7 (9.722%) Software Manager
5 7 (9.722%) Applications Manager
6 4 (5.556%) Applications Developer
6 4 (5.556%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.167%) XML Developer
7 3 (4.167%) TIBCO Support
7 3 (4.167%) QA Analyst
7 3 (4.167%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (2.778%) QA Test Analyst
8 2 (2.778%) Lead Developer
8 2 (2.778%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (2.778%) Software Developer
9 1 (1.389%) Architect
9 1 (1.389%) Tester
9 1 (1.389%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Computer Science
2 7 (9.722%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (8.333%) DTV
4 3 (4.167%) Equities
5 2 (2.778%) Derivative
6 1 (1.389%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 33 (45.83%) Linux
2 22 (30.56%) UNIX
3 21 (29.17%) Windows
4 3 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) ITIL
1 17 (23.61%) Benchmarking
1 17 (23.61%) Service Management
2 10 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (9.722%) Multithreading
4 6 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 6 (8.333%) TDD
5 4 (5.556%) Workflow
5 4 (5.556%) Scrum
6 3 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (4.167%) Configuration Management
6 3 (4.167%) EAI
6 3 (4.167%) SOA
6 3 (4.167%) UML
6 3 (4.167%) Problem Management
6 3 (4.167%) Service Delivery
7 2 (2.778%) Workflow Management
7 2 (2.778%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (1.389%) BDD
8 1 (1.389%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (90.28%) Java
2 20 (27.78%) Scala
3 17 (23.61%) C
4 15 (20.83%) SQL
5 9 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.333%) XPath
7 3 (4.167%) XQuery
8 2 (2.778%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.778%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.778%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.389%) Perl
9 1 (1.389%) C#
9 1 (1.389%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (23.61%) DV Cleared
3 11 (15.28%) Degree
4 2 (2.778%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.333%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (5.556%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (4.167%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 32 (44.44%) Oracle
2 18 (25.00%) JBoss
3 6 (8.333%) IBM
4 4 (5.556%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.556%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.556%) Calypso
5 3 (4.167%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.778%) Murex
7 1 (1.389%) Talend
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