The first table below looks at the demand for JBehave 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 JBehave 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
JBehave
Rank 484 528 571
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +43
Contract jobs citing JBehave 26 30 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.063% 0.056% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.564% 0.595% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 1
Average daily rate £400 £575 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.43% +4.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
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
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% -
JBehave
UK

JBehave
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England JBehave Jobs Demand Trend

JBehave
Daily Rate Trend

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

England JBehave Daily Rate Trend

JBehave
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JBehave across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England JBehave Daily Rate Histogram

JBehave
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBehave 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 +10 15 £406 -29.34%
South East - 6 £388 -
East of England +17 5 £400 -
JBehave
UK

JBehave
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 70 (88.61%) BDD
2 69 (87.34%) Selenium
3 67 (84.81%) Java
4 53 (67.09%) Cucumber
5 49 (62.03%) WebDriver
6 45 (56.96%) Continuous Integration
7 44 (55.70%) JUnit
8 39 (49.37%) JavaScript
8 39 (49.37%) Git (software)
9 37 (46.84%) HTML
10 35 (44.30%) CSS
11 34 (43.04%) TDD
11 34 (43.04%) Mockito
12 31 (39.24%) Agile Software Development
12 31 (39.24%) OO
13 28 (35.44%) Linux
13 28 (35.44%) XML
14 25 (31.65%) SQL
15 24 (30.38%) Subversion
15 24 (30.38%) CMS
16 23 (29.11%) Hudson
17 22 (27.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 22 (27.85%) TeamCity
17 22 (27.85%) Workflow
18 21 (26.58%) Scrum
18 21 (26.58%) Adobe
18 21 (26.58%) SOA
18 21 (26.58%) Adobe CQ
18 21 (26.58%) Enterprise Software
19 20 (25.32%) JSON

JBehave
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 37 (46.84%) HTML
2 35 (44.30%) CSS
3 28 (35.44%) XML
4 20 (25.32%) JSON
5 19 (24.05%) Web Services
5 19 (24.05%) SOAP
6 18 (22.78%) Spring
7 17 (21.52%) REST
8 16 (20.25%) Java EE
8 16 (20.25%) Hibernate
9 14 (17.72%) JMS
9 14 (17.72%) EJB
9 14 (17.72%) jQuery
9 14 (17.72%) JPA
9 14 (17.72%) soapUI
10 13 (16.46%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 13 (16.46%) Spring Web Flow
10 13 (16.46%) JTA
10 13 (16.46%) Spring MVC
10 13 (16.46%) Spring Security
Application Platforms
1 24 (30.38%) CMS
2 21 (26.58%) Adobe CQ
3 9 (11.39%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (5.063%) Confluence
5 2 (2.532%) Apache Solr
5 2 (2.532%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.266%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.063%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.266%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.063%) HTTP
2 2 (2.532%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 13 (16.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 13 (16.46%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.797%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.532%) Big Data
4 2 (2.532%) DB2
4 2 (2.532%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.266%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.266%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (87.34%) Selenium
2 53 (67.09%) Cucumber
3 49 (62.03%) WebDriver
4 44 (55.70%) JUnit
5 39 (49.37%) Git (software)
6 34 (43.04%) Mockito
7 24 (30.38%) Subversion
8 23 (29.11%) Hudson
9 22 (27.85%) TeamCity
9 22 (27.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 17 (21.52%) Maven
11 7 (8.861%) JIRA
12 6 (7.595%) RSpec
13 5 (6.329%) Jenkins
14 4 (5.063%) Behat
15 3 (3.797%) Ant
15 3 (3.797%) SpecFlow
15 3 (3.797%) TestNG
15 3 (3.797%) FitNesse
15 3 (3.797%) JMeter
General
1 14 (17.72%) Finance
2 3 (3.797%) Banking
3 2 (2.532%) Retail
3 2 (2.532%) Front Office
4 1 (1.266%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.266%) Advertising
4 1 (1.266%) Games
Job Titles
1 49 (62.03%) Developer
2 34 (43.04%) Java Developer
3 11 (13.92%) Technical Leader
4 8 (10.13%) QA Engineer
5 6 (7.595%) Analyst
5 6 (7.595%) Tester
5 6 (7.595%) Consultant
6 5 (6.329%) Test Consultant
6 5 (6.329%) Test Automation Consultant
6 5 (6.329%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.063%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.797%) Test Analyst
8 3 (3.797%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.797%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.797%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (3.797%) Technical Developer
9 2 (2.532%) Development Engineer
9 2 (2.532%) Automation Analyst
9 2 (2.532%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (2.532%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.58%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.063%) Open Source
2 4 (5.063%) Derivative
2 4 (5.063%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (1.266%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.266%) Wiki
3 1 (1.266%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 28 (35.44%) Linux
2 5 (6.329%) Android
3 2 (2.532%) Windows
3 2 (2.532%) AIX
4 1 (1.266%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (88.61%) BDD
2 45 (56.96%) Continuous Integration
3 34 (43.04%) TDD
4 31 (39.24%) OO
4 31 (39.24%) Agile Software Development
5 22 (27.85%) Workflow
6 21 (26.58%) Scrum
6 21 (26.58%) SOA
7 15 (18.99%) Automated Testing
8 14 (17.72%) UML
8 14 (17.72%) OOD
9 13 (16.46%) MVC
9 13 (16.46%) Web Development
9 13 (16.46%) Software Architecture
10 12 (15.19%) Pair Programming
11 10 (12.66%) E-Commerce
11 10 (12.66%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.39%) Dependency Injection
13 5 (6.329%) Test Scripting
13 5 (6.329%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (84.81%) Java
2 39 (49.37%) JavaScript
3 25 (31.65%) SQL
4 6 (7.595%) Python
5 5 (6.329%) Ruby
5 5 (6.329%) C#
5 5 (6.329%) C++
5 5 (6.329%) Scala
6 2 (2.532%) Groovy
6 2 (2.532%) Perl
7 1 (1.266%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.063%) ISEB
1 4 (5.063%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (15.19%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.532%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) Adobe
2 14 (17.72%) JBoss
3 13 (16.46%) Twitter
4 7 (8.861%) Oracle
5 2 (2.532%) Capita
5 2 (2.532%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.266%) Coverity
6 1 (1.266%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.266%) Google
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