The first table below looks at the demand for GitHub 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 GitHub over the 3 months to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GitHub
Rank 428 554 584
Rank change year-on-year
+126 +30
Contract jobs citing GitHub 102 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.232% 0.013% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.072% 0.138% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 4 0
Average daily rate £375 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - -
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
4922 5059 6248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.19% 9.698% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3126 3058 3736
Average daily rate £390 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £558 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 197 276
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £25.00 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England GitHub Jobs Demand Trend

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend

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

England GitHub Daily Rate Trend

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GitHub across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England GitHub Daily Rate Histogram

GitHub
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +113 97 £400 +10.34% 17
South West - 2 £275 -
East of England - 1 £300 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £340 - 1
East Midlands - - - -
North West - - - - 3
South East - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing GitHub 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 GitHub.

1 56 (42.42%) CSS
2 53 (40.15%) JavaScript
3 52 (39.39%) Java
4 45 (34.09%) OO
4 45 (34.09%) Open Source
5 44 (33.33%) Subversion
6 43 (32.58%) Web Services
7 36 (27.27%) Apple iOS
8 35 (26.52%) Android
9 33 (25.00%) Git (software)
9 33 (25.00%) HTML
10 32 (24.24%) Objective-C
10 32 (24.24%) REST
11 31 (23.48%) HTML5
11 31 (23.48%) JSON
12 29 (21.97%) Xcode
12 29 (21.97%) Agile Software Development
13 26 (19.70%) jQuery
13 26 (19.70%) iOS SDK
13 26 (19.70%) Mobile App
14 24 (18.18%) TDD
15 21 (15.91%) PHP
15 21 (15.91%) Node.js
16 19 (14.39%) E-Commerce
16 19 (14.39%) OOP
17 18 (13.64%) C++
17 18 (13.64%) Digital Media
18 17 (12.88%) BDD
18 17 (12.88%) Mercurial
18 17 (12.88%) Continuous Integration

GitHub
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 56 (42.42%) CSS
2 43 (32.58%) Web Services
3 33 (25.00%) HTML
4 32 (24.24%) REST
5 31 (23.48%) HTML5
5 31 (23.48%) JSON
6 26 (19.70%) jQuery
6 26 (19.70%) iOS SDK
7 21 (15.91%) Node.js
8 13 (9.848%) XML
9 11 (8.333%) RESTful
10 10 (7.576%) .NET
10 10 (7.576%) CSS3
10 10 (7.576%) LESS
11 9 (6.818%) UIKit
11 9 (6.818%) Cocoa
11 9 (6.818%) Ajax
12 8 (6.061%) J2EE
12 8 (6.061%) SOAP
12 8 (6.061%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.576%) Drupal
2 9 (6.818%) Apache
3 6 (4.545%) IIS
4 5 (3.788%) CMS
5 4 (3.030%) Tomcat
5 4 (3.030%) Amazon AWS
5 4 (3.030%) ElasticSearch
6 2 (1.515%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.515%) WordPress
6 2 (1.515%) Confluence
7 1 (0.758%) Liferay
7 1 (0.758%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.758%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.758%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.758%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (10.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.758%) Google Analytics
1 1 (0.758%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.788%) Internet
2 3 (2.273%) HTTP
3 2 (1.515%) FTP
4 1 (0.758%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.758%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) MySQL
1 14 (10.61%) Big Data
2 8 (6.061%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.545%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.788%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.788%) Redis
5 2 (1.515%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.758%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (33.33%) Subversion
2 33 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 29 (21.97%) Xcode
4 17 (12.88%) Mercurial
4 17 (12.88%) Trac
5 14 (10.61%) Balsamiq Mockups
6 13 (9.848%) Jenkins
7 12 (9.091%) Eclipse
8 10 (7.576%) Selenium
9 9 (6.818%) PHPUnit
10 7 (5.303%) JIRA
11 6 (4.545%) Hudson
12 5 (3.788%) Maven
13 4 (3.030%) SpecFlow
13 4 (3.030%) QUnit
13 4 (3.030%) Jasmine
14 3 (2.273%) JsTestDriver
14 3 (2.273%) Bitbucket
14 3 (2.273%) TeamCity
14 3 (2.273%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (11.36%) Finance
2 7 (5.303%) Publishing
3 4 (3.030%) Retail
4 3 (2.273%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (68.18%) Developer
2 24 (18.18%) iOS Developer
3 12 (9.091%) Senior Developer
4 11 (8.333%) Architect
5 10 (7.576%) Android Developer
6 9 (6.818%) Front-End Developer
7 8 (6.061%) PHP Developer
8 7 (5.303%) Consultant
9 6 (4.545%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.545%) Applications Architect
9 6 (4.545%) Drupal Developer
9 6 (4.545%) Mobile Developer
10 5 (3.788%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.788%) Programmer
11 4 (3.030%) Security Consultant
11 4 (3.030%) Web Developer
11 4 (3.030%) .NET Developer
11 4 (3.030%) PHP Drupal Developer
11 4 (3.030%) UI Developer
11 4 (3.030%) Ruby Developer
Miscellaneous
1 45 (34.09%) Open Source
2 26 (19.70%) Mobile App
3 18 (13.64%) Digital Media
4 15 (11.36%) Social Media
5 14 (10.61%) Graphic Design
6 12 (9.091%) iPhone
7 11 (8.333%) iPad
8 7 (5.303%) Blog
9 6 (4.545%) Data Integration
10 5 (3.788%) Computer Science
10 5 (3.788%) RIA
10 5 (3.788%) N-Tier
11 4 (3.030%) Mathematics
12 2 (1.515%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.758%) Augmented Reality
13 1 (0.758%) Visualisation
13 1 (0.758%) Statistics
13 1 (0.758%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (27.27%) Apple iOS
2 35 (26.52%) Android
3 8 (6.061%) Linux
4 5 (3.788%) UNIX
5 3 (2.273%) Windows
6 1 (0.758%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.758%) Solaris
6 1 (0.758%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (34.09%) OO
2 29 (21.97%) Agile Software Development
3 24 (18.18%) TDD
4 19 (14.39%) E-Commerce
4 19 (14.39%) OOP
5 17 (12.88%) BDD
5 17 (12.88%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (12.88%) OOD
6 15 (11.36%) Scrum
6 15 (11.36%) Web Design
6 15 (11.36%) Multithreading
7 12 (9.091%) Time Management
8 11 (8.333%) MVC
9 10 (7.576%) Unit Testing
10 8 (6.061%) Software Engineering
10 8 (6.061%) Mobile Application Development
11 7 (5.303%) SEO
12 6 (4.545%) Risk Assessment
12 6 (4.545%) B2B
13 5 (3.788%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (40.15%) JavaScript
2 52 (39.39%) Java
3 32 (24.24%) Objective-C
4 21 (15.91%) PHP
5 18 (13.64%) C++
6 17 (12.88%) Python
7 13 (9.848%) Ruby
8 11 (8.333%) C#
9 7 (5.303%) SQL
10 5 (3.788%) Scala
11 3 (2.273%) Groovy
11 3 (2.273%) ActionScript
12 2 (1.515%) C
12 2 (1.515%) Haskell
12 2 (1.515%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.758%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (9.091%) Degree
2 1 (0.758%) ISEB
2 1 (0.758%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.576%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.758%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (1.515%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.758%) Puppet
2 1 (0.758%) Munin
2 1 (0.758%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (6.061%) Apple
2 7 (5.303%) Zend
3 3 (2.273%) JBoss
4 2 (1.515%) HP
4 2 (1.515%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.515%) RightScale
4 2 (1.515%) Sencha
5 1 (0.758%) Twitter
5 1 (0.758%) GigaSpaces
5 1 (0.758%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.758%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.758%) Oracle
5 1 (0.758%) Google
5 1 (0.758%) Perforce
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