The first table below looks at the demand for FitNesse 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 FitNesse 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FitNesse
Rank 463 493 395
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -98
Contract jobs citing FitNesse 49 64 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.116% 0.120% 0.296%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.046% 1.272% 2.782%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 48 122
Average daily rate £425 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £300 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4684 5033 5895
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.07% 9.407% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2996 3048 3394
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 £260
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 137 204 313
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £24.00
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% -
FitNesse
UK

FitNesse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England FitNesse Jobs Demand Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Trend

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

England FitNesse Daily Rate Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England FitNesse Daily Rate Histogram

FitNesse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England FitNesse Hourly Rate Trend

FitNesse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FitNesse 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 +15 40 £450 -
South East +23 7 £353 +17.50%
North West +16 2 £250 -20.00%
FitNesse
UK

FitNesse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 89 (77.39%) Selenium
2 70 (60.87%) Java
3 57 (49.57%) Agile Software Development
3 57 (49.57%) Cucumber
4 42 (36.52%) QA
4 42 (36.52%) TDD
5 35 (30.43%) BDD
6 34 (29.57%) WebDriver
6 34 (29.57%) Finance
7 32 (27.83%) C#
8 30 (26.09%) Scrum
9 29 (25.22%) Hibernate
10 28 (24.35%) Spring
10 28 (24.35%) SQL
11 24 (20.87%) JavaScript
11 24 (20.87%) Maven
11 24 (20.87%) Ruby
11 24 (20.87%) Test Automation
12 23 (20.00%) Automated Testing
13 22 (19.13%) JUnit
14 21 (18.26%) Web Services
15 20 (17.39%) E-Commerce
15 20 (17.39%) WATIR
16 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
17 17 (14.78%) XML
18 16 (13.91%) .NET
18 16 (13.91%) OO
18 16 (13.91%) Web Testing
19 15 (13.04%) Jenkins
19 15 (13.04%) Automation Testing

FitNesse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 29 (25.22%) Hibernate
2 28 (24.35%) Spring
3 21 (18.26%) Web Services
4 17 (14.78%) XML
5 16 (13.91%) .NET
6 14 (12.17%) HTML
7 13 (11.30%) SOAP
8 12 (10.43%) J2EE
8 12 (10.43%) Java EE
8 12 (10.43%) soapUI
9 11 (9.565%) CSS
10 9 (7.826%) REST
11 7 (6.087%) JSP
12 6 (5.217%) Grails
13 5 (4.348%) WCF
14 4 (3.478%) Struts
14 4 (3.478%) Ajax
14 4 (3.478%) RESTful
14 4 (3.478%) Struts2
14 4 (3.478%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 12 (10.43%) Tomcat
2 10 (8.696%) Apache
3 5 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (4.348%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.478%) Alfresco
4 4 (3.478%) Liferay
5 3 (2.609%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.739%) WebSphere Process Server
6 2 (1.739%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.870%) Confluence
7 1 (0.870%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.739%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.870%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.609%) HTTP
2 1 (0.870%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.217%) MySQL
2 5 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.739%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.739%) DB2
3 2 (1.739%) BusinessObjects XI
3 2 (1.739%) Hazelcast
3 2 (1.739%) Redis
3 2 (1.739%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.870%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.870%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.870%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.870%) Big Data
4 1 (0.870%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 89 (77.39%) Selenium
2 57 (49.57%) Cucumber
3 34 (29.57%) WebDriver
4 24 (20.87%) Maven
5 22 (19.13%) JUnit
6 20 (17.39%) WATIR
7 15 (13.04%) Jenkins
8 13 (11.30%) Visual Studio
9 11 (9.565%) QuickTest Pro
9 11 (9.565%) Ant
10 10 (8.696%) Concordion
10 10 (8.696%) SpecFlow
10 10 (8.696%) Hudson
11 8 (6.957%) TestNG
12 7 (6.087%) TeamCity
13 6 (5.217%) Subversion
13 6 (5.217%) Jasmine
14 5 (4.348%) JMeter
15 4 (3.478%) Eclipse
15 4 (3.478%) Fiddler
General
1 34 (29.57%) Finance
2 14 (12.17%) Banking
3 9 (7.826%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.217%) Front Office
5 3 (2.609%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.739%) Games
7 1 (0.870%) Marketing
7 1 (0.870%) Billing
7 1 (0.870%) Electronics
7 1 (0.870%) Back Office
7 1 (0.870%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.870%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Developer
1 34 (29.57%) Analyst
2 32 (27.83%) Test Analyst
3 20 (17.39%) Java Developer
4 14 (12.17%) Automation Analyst
5 13 (11.30%) Automation Test Analyst
6 12 (10.43%) Tester
7 9 (7.826%) QA Engineer
7 9 (7.826%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.957%) Team Leader
8 8 (6.957%) Test Engineer
9 7 (6.087%) Test Team Leader
10 6 (5.217%) Agile Test Analyst
11 5 (4.348%) Agile Java Developer
11 5 (4.348%) JavaScript Developer
12 4 (3.478%) Automation Tester
12 4 (3.478%) Automation Engineer
13 3 (2.609%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 3 (2.609%) Technical Architect
13 3 (2.609%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.17%) Open Source
2 6 (5.217%) Equities
3 5 (4.348%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.478%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.478%) Data Integration
4 4 (3.478%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.739%) SaaS
6 1 (0.870%) Social Gaming
6 1 (0.870%) Social Network
6 1 (0.870%) Online Games
6 1 (0.870%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (0.870%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.870%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.17%) Linux
2 10 (8.696%) UNIX
3 2 (1.739%) Android
4 1 (0.870%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.870%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (49.57%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (36.52%) TDD
3 35 (30.43%) BDD
4 30 (26.09%) Scrum
5 24 (20.87%) Test Automation
6 23 (20.00%) Automated Testing
7 20 (17.39%) E-Commerce
8 18 (15.65%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (13.91%) OO
9 16 (13.91%) Web Testing
10 15 (13.04%) Automation Testing
11 11 (9.565%) Test Strategy
12 10 (8.696%) SOA
12 10 (8.696%) Software Testing
12 10 (8.696%) Test Scripting
12 10 (8.696%) Kanban
13 9 (7.826%) User Stories
14 6 (5.217%) OOP
14 6 (5.217%) Workflow
14 6 (5.217%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 70 (60.87%) Java
2 32 (27.83%) C#
3 28 (24.35%) SQL
4 24 (20.87%) JavaScript
4 24 (20.87%) Ruby
5 10 (8.696%) C++
5 10 (8.696%) Perl
5 10 (8.696%) Python
6 7 (6.087%) PHP
6 7 (6.087%) C
7 6 (5.217%) Groovy
8 2 (1.739%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.739%) Scala
9 1 (0.870%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (5.217%) ISEB
1 6 (5.217%) Degree
2 4 (3.478%) ISTQB
3 3 (2.609%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (36.52%) QA
2 1 (0.870%) Solvency II
2 1 (0.870%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (3.478%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.696%) Oracle
3 5 (4.348%) HP
4 3 (2.609%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.870%) SmartStream
5 1 (0.870%) SAP
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