The first table below looks at the demand for Guava 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 Guava over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Development 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Guava
Rank 509 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Guava 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.080% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £550 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £26.40 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11298 13988 16114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.21% 26.19% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7248 8388 9560
Average daily rate £375 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 367 558
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -6.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Guava
UK

Guava
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Guava Jobs Demand Trend

Guava
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Guava Daily Rate Trend

Guava
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Guava across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Guava Daily Rate Histogram

Guava
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Guava Hourly Rate Trend

Guava
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Guava within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 - 9 £550 -
Guava
UK

Guava
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Guava 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 Guava.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) SOAP
3 6 (54.55%) French Language
3 6 (54.55%) German Language
3 6 (54.55%) Google
3 6 (54.55%) XML
3 6 (54.55%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (45.45%) Web Services
4 5 (45.45%) Apache
4 5 (45.45%) Subversion
4 5 (45.45%) Spring
5 4 (36.36%) Maven
5 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (36.36%) TDD
5 4 (36.36%) Degree
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) Hudson
5 4 (36.36%) Finance
6 3 (27.27%) Perforce
6 3 (27.27%) UML
6 3 (27.27%) OO
6 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
6 3 (27.27%) ClearCase
6 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) SOA
6 3 (27.27%) WSDL
6 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
6 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
6 3 (27.27%) HTML
6 3 (27.27%) CSS

Guava
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Guava 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 Guava. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (81.82%) SOAP
2 6 (54.55%) XML
2 6 (54.55%) Protocol Buffers
3 5 (45.45%) Web Services
3 5 (45.45%) Spring
4 3 (27.27%) WSDL
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 2 (18.18%) Apache CXF
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) JAXB
5 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
5 2 (18.18%) Spring Batch
6 1 (9.091%) Mustache
6 1 (9.091%) Underscore.js
6 1 (9.091%) DHTML
6 1 (9.091%) DOM
6 1 (9.091%) GWT
6 1 (9.091%) jQuery
6 1 (9.091%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Subversion
2 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 4 (36.36%) Hudson
3 3 (27.27%) ClearCase
4 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
4 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
4 2 (18.18%) Mockito
4 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) JUnit
General
1 6 (54.55%) French Language
1 6 (54.55%) German Language
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 1 (9.091%) Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
1 9 (81.82%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Programmer
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) UI Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Open Source
2 1 (9.091%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (36.36%) TDD
1 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) UML
2 3 (27.27%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) SOA
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) AOP
3 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
3 2 (18.18%) BDD
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) Objective-C
4 1 (9.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Perforce
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Sybase
2 3 (27.27%) Endeca