The first table below looks at the demand for Firebug 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 Firebug 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firebug
Rank 505 538 566
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +28
Contract jobs citing Firebug 5 20 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.037% 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.108% 0.397% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 6
Average daily rate £313 £325 £353
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -7.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £199 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £523 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £225 £205
% change year-on-year
+66.66% +9.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4612 5040 6025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.10% 9.447% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2954 3058 3462
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 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 200 317
Average hourly rate £37.80 £36.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £23.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Firebug
UK

Firebug
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Firebug Jobs Demand Trend

Firebug
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Firebug Daily Rate Trend

Firebug
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Firebug Hourly Rate Trend

Firebug
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebug 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
London +12 3 £313 -5.30%
South East +23 2 - -
Firebug
UK

Firebug
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (77.78%) XML
1 14 (77.78%) JSON
2 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (66.67%) CSS
3 11 (61.11%) Selenium
4 10 (55.56%) HTML
5 9 (50.00%) Web Services
5 9 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (44.44%) Fiddler
7 7 (38.89%) Scrum
8 6 (33.33%) Java
8 6 (33.33%) Subversion
8 6 (33.33%) Ajax
8 6 (33.33%) jQuery
8 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
8 6 (33.33%) BDD
9 5 (27.78%) SQL
9 5 (27.78%) OO
9 5 (27.78%) HTTP
9 5 (27.78%) RESTful
9 5 (27.78%) WebDriver
9 5 (27.78%) HTML5
9 5 (27.78%) CSS3
10 4 (22.22%) .NET
10 4 (22.22%) Apache
10 4 (22.22%) TDD
10 4 (22.22%) Ruby
10 4 (22.22%) Web Development
10 4 (22.22%) Semantic Web
10 4 (22.22%) Git (software)

Firebug
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (77.78%) XML
1 14 (77.78%) JSON
2 12 (66.67%) CSS
3 10 (55.56%) HTML
4 9 (50.00%) Web Services
5 6 (33.33%) Ajax
5 6 (33.33%) jQuery
6 5 (27.78%) RESTful
6 5 (27.78%) HTML5
6 5 (27.78%) CSS3
7 4 (22.22%) .NET
8 3 (16.67%) soapUI
8 3 (16.67%) Semantic HTML
9 2 (11.11%) REST
9 2 (11.11%) XSL
9 2 (11.11%) Zend Framework
10 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
10 1 (5.556%) JSTL
10 1 (5.556%) Velocity
10 1 (5.556%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) CMS
2 3 (16.67%) IIS
3 2 (11.11%) Drupal
3 2 (11.11%) WordPress
4 1 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (11.11%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Selenium
2 8 (44.44%) Fiddler
3 6 (33.33%) Subversion
3 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 5 (27.78%) WebDriver
5 4 (22.22%) Git (software)
6 3 (16.67%) FitNesse
6 3 (16.67%) JMeter
6 3 (16.67%) GitHub
6 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
6 3 (16.67%) Hudson
7 2 (11.11%) JUnit
7 2 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (11.11%) TestNG
7 2 (11.11%) NUnit
7 2 (11.11%) JBehave
8 1 (5.556%) RSpec
8 1 (5.556%) Xcode
8 1 (5.556%) Maven
8 1 (5.556%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.556%) Web Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Web Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Team Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Semantic Web
2 3 (16.67%) iDTV
3 2 (11.11%) N-Tier
4 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.556%) Interactive TV
4 1 (5.556%) Smartphone
4 1 (5.556%) Wiki
4 1 (5.556%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Mac OS X
2 1 (5.556%) SUSE
2 1 (5.556%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (5.556%) Android
2 1 (5.556%) bada
2 1 (5.556%) Maemo
2 1 (5.556%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (38.89%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) BDD
4 5 (27.78%) OO
5 4 (22.22%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) Web Development
6 3 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 3 (16.67%) MVC
6 3 (16.67%) RDF
6 3 (16.67%) Progressive Enhancement
6 3 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
6 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) ATDD
6 3 (16.67%) Graceful Degradation
6 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Integration Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) Ruby
5 2 (11.11%) Groovy
5 2 (11.11%) PHP
6 1 (5.556%) Python
6 1 (5.556%) Perl
6 1 (5.556%) C
6 1 (5.556%) C#
6 1 (5.556%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (5.556%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Adobe
1 2 (11.11%) Zend
1 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.556%) JBoss
2 1 (5.556%) Symbian