The first table below looks at the demand for Erlang 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 Erlang over the 3 months to 17 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 Programming Languages 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Erlang
Rank 495 538 565
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +27
Contract jobs citing Erlang 15 20 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.037% 0.012%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.096% 0.106% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 3
Average daily rate £400 £143 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+180.70% -54.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £138 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £254 £342
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £310 £310
% change year-on-year
+37.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15581 18915 21575
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.48% 35.45% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9811 11457 12674
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 673 891
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.51
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Erlang
UK

Erlang
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Erlang Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

England Erlang Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Erlang across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Erlang Daily Rate Histogram

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Erlang within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
East of England - 10 £400 -
London +5 3 £500 +257.14%
Yorkshire - 1 £110 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Erlang
UK

Erlang
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Erlang 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 Erlang.

1 15 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 12 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 12 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (27.78%) Telecoms
3 10 (27.78%) Haskell
4 9 (25.00%) Clojure
4 9 (25.00%) Ruby
4 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (25.00%) OO
5 8 (22.22%) Python
5 8 (22.22%) CSS
5 8 (22.22%) Ajax
5 8 (22.22%) NoSQL
6 7 (19.44%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (19.44%) Groovy
6 7 (19.44%) JSON
7 6 (16.67%) Scrum
7 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (16.67%) Subversion
7 6 (16.67%) XML
7 6 (16.67%) XSLT
7 6 (16.67%) HTML
7 6 (16.67%) XHTML
7 6 (16.67%) RAD
7 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 6 (16.67%) Grails

Erlang
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Erlang 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 Erlang. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (22.22%) CSS
1 8 (22.22%) Ajax
2 7 (19.44%) JSON
3 6 (16.67%) Grails
3 6 (16.67%) Django
3 6 (16.67%) jQuery
3 6 (16.67%) Ext JS
3 6 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
3 6 (16.67%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (16.67%) HTML
3 6 (16.67%) XML
3 6 (16.67%) XSLT
3 6 (16.67%) XHTML
4 4 (11.11%) HTML5
5 2 (5.556%) REST
5 2 (5.556%) CSS3
5 2 (5.556%) J2EE
6 1 (2.778%) Java EE
6 1 (2.778%) Servlets
6 1 (2.778%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (2.778%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.778%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.778%) Mathematica
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 8 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (16.67%) Riak
4 3 (8.333%) CouchDB
5 2 (5.556%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.556%) Redis
6 1 (2.778%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.778%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.778%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 6 (16.67%) Subversion
3 2 (5.556%) Maven
4 1 (2.778%) Gradle
4 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (27.78%) Telecoms
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 1 (2.778%) Publishing
3 1 (2.778%) Games
3 1 (2.778%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Senior Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Python Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Django Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.333%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.333%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Designer
8 1 (2.778%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.778%) Scala Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Server Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) Front-End Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Tester
8 1 (2.778%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 6 (16.67%) PaaS
1 6 (16.67%) IaaS
2 3 (8.333%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.556%) Open Source
4 1 (2.778%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.556%) UNIX
2 1 (2.778%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.00%) OO
2 6 (16.67%) RAD
2 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 6 (16.67%) Kanban
2 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
2 6 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (5.556%) Multithreading
4 2 (5.556%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.556%) Data Modelling
4 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (5.556%) TDD
5 1 (2.778%) Parallel Computing
5 1 (2.778%) MVVM
5 1 (2.778%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (2.778%) SOA
5 1 (2.778%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) Haskell
3 9 (25.00%) Ruby
3 9 (25.00%) Clojure
3 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (22.22%) Python
5 7 (19.44%) Groovy
6 5 (13.89%) Scala
7 4 (11.11%) C++
8 3 (8.333%) SQL
8 3 (8.333%) C#
9 2 (5.556%) Perl
9 2 (5.556%) Lisp
9 2 (5.556%) F#
10 1 (2.778%) R
10 1 (2.778%) MATLAB
10 1 (2.778%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.778%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.778%) Xen
Vendors
1 2 (5.556%) Microsoft
London
Essential skills: Core Java. J2EE. Related tools like Spring, Hibernate, REST, SOAP, Maven, Gradle, etc... Multithreading. Nice-to-haves: Groovy. Another functional language - F#, Erlang, Matlab. Javascript, HTML5,...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: £400 per day for 6 months
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
Erlang Developer Programmer Software Engineer... Leading Software Consultancy working with high profile client base urgently expanding their team require 2 experienced Erlang Developers! Based from their London Consulting...
Pro-Quest Resourcing Ltd
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Erlang Developer... Leading Software Consultancy working with high profile client base urgently expanding their team require 2 experienced Erlang Developers! Based from their London Consulting office you’ll...
Pro-Quest Resourcing Ltd
Rate: From £300 to £400 per annum £negotiable
Posted: 14 May 2013