The first table below looks at the demand for FishEye 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 FishEye 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
Atlassian FishEye
Rank 508 543 535
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -8
Contract jobs citing FishEye 5 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.030% 0.064%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.108% 0.322% 0.599%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 22
Average daily rate £500 £450 £470
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £425 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £450 £610
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
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% -
FishEye
UK

FishEye
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England FishEye Jobs Demand Trend

FishEye
Daily Rate Trend

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

England FishEye Daily Rate Trend

FishEye
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England FishEye Daily Rate Histogram

FishEye
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FishEye 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 +31 5 £500 +11.11%
FishEye
UK

FishEye
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
2 9 (90.00%) Subversion
3 8 (80.00%) .NET
4 7 (70.00%) Java
4 7 (70.00%) Oracle
4 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (60.00%) Ant
5 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
5 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
5 6 (60.00%) UNIX
5 6 (60.00%) Apache
5 6 (60.00%) Tomcat
5 6 (60.00%) Maven
5 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (60.00%) TeamCity
6 5 (50.00%) Git (software)
6 5 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (50.00%) AnthillPro
6 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (50.00%) Mercurial
6 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (50.00%) Bash shell
6 5 (50.00%) Puppet
6 5 (50.00%) Gerrit
6 5 (50.00%) vCloud
6 5 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (50.00%) QA
6 5 (50.00%) WebSphere

FishEye
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 5 (50.00%) J2EE
3 3 (30.00%) WPF
3 3 (30.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (20.00%) WCF
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) JSP
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) XSL
5 1 (10.00%) JAXB
5 1 (10.00%) Middleware
5 1 (10.00%) WinForms
5 1 (10.00%) JMS
5 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (60.00%) Apache
1 6 (60.00%) Tomcat
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (20.00%) IIS
4 1 (10.00%) Rendezvous
4 1 (10.00%) TIBCO EMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
2 9 (90.00%) Subversion
3 6 (60.00%) Ant
3 6 (60.00%) Maven
3 6 (60.00%) TeamCity
4 5 (50.00%) Git (software)
4 5 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (50.00%) AnthillPro
4 5 (50.00%) Mercurial
4 5 (50.00%) Gerrit
4 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (20.00%) JUnit
6 1 (10.00%) Selenium
6 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1 (10.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (20.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) Debian
2 5 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (50.00%) SOA
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Change Control
4 2 (20.00%) MVVM
5 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) OO
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) OOD
5 1 (10.00%) AOP
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) vCloud
2 1 (10.00%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Puppet
2 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Sybase
4 1 (10.00%) 29West
4 1 (10.00%) TIBCO