The first table below looks at the demand for Memcached 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 Memcached 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Memcached
Rank 493 554 555
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +1
Contract jobs citing Memcached 20 5 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.048% 0.009% 0.028%
As % of the Application Development category 0.176% 0.036% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
Average daily rate £325 £394 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.46% +21.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £318 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £421 £800 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £343
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11342 13944 15844
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.28% 26.14% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7269 8358 9412
Average daily rate £375 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.00%
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 341 366 550
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
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%
Memcached
UK

Memcached
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Memcached Jobs Demand Trend

Memcached
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Memcached Daily Rate Trend

Memcached
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Memcached Daily Rate Histogram

Memcached
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Memcached Hourly Rate Trend

Memcached
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Memcached 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 +47 12 £369 -18.05%
East of England - 7 £325 -
South West - 1 - -
Memcached
UK

Memcached
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (61.11%) PHP
2 20 (55.56%) Java
2 20 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 20 (55.56%) MySQL
2 20 (55.56%) Apache
3 19 (52.78%) Linux
4 18 (50.00%) HTML
5 17 (47.22%) Redis
6 14 (38.89%) CSS
7 13 (36.11%) OO
7 13 (36.11%) Subversion
8 11 (30.56%) JSON
8 11 (30.56%) jQuery
9 10 (27.78%) CMS
9 10 (27.78%) MongoDB
10 9 (25.00%) Varnish
10 9 (25.00%) Ajax
11 8 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (22.22%) Symfony
11 8 (22.22%) Unit Testing
11 8 (22.22%) SQL
11 8 (22.22%) Web Services
11 8 (22.22%) Git (software)
11 8 (22.22%) RESTful
12 7 (19.44%) OOP
12 7 (19.44%) MVC
12 7 (19.44%) PHP5
12 7 (19.44%) Zend
12 7 (19.44%) Web Development
12 7 (19.44%) TDD

Memcached
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 18 (50.00%) HTML
2 14 (38.89%) CSS
3 11 (30.56%) JSON
3 11 (30.56%) jQuery
4 9 (25.00%) Ajax
5 8 (22.22%) Symfony
5 8 (22.22%) Web Services
5 8 (22.22%) RESTful
6 6 (16.67%) XML
6 6 (16.67%) J2EE
7 5 (13.89%) Node.js
7 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET
7 5 (13.89%) .NET
7 5 (13.89%) SOAP
7 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
7 5 (13.89%) Spring
7 5 (13.89%) Java EE
7 5 (13.89%) Django
8 4 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (11.11%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 20 (55.56%) Apache
2 10 (27.78%) CMS
3 6 (16.67%) nginx
4 5 (13.89%) Apache Solr
4 5 (13.89%) concrete5
4 5 (13.89%) Drupal
5 4 (11.11%) WordPress
6 2 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (5.556%) SharePoint
6 2 (5.556%) Tomcat
6 2 (5.556%) Windows Azure
7 1 (2.778%) Confluence
7 1 (2.778%) Mule
7 1 (2.778%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.333%) SMTP
1 3 (8.333%) FTP
1 3 (8.333%) HTTP
1 3 (8.333%) DNS
2 2 (5.556%) SAN
2 2 (5.556%) HTTPS
2 2 (5.556%) SNMP
2 2 (5.556%) Firewall
3 1 (2.778%) DHCP
3 1 (2.778%) IPsec
3 1 (2.778%) VRRP
3 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.778%) SSL
3 1 (2.778%) Internet
3 1 (2.778%) VLAN
3 1 (2.778%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (55.56%) MySQL
2 17 (47.22%) Redis
3 10 (27.78%) MongoDB
4 3 (8.333%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.556%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.556%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.556%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.778%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.778%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.778%) Big Data
6 1 (2.778%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Subversion
2 8 (22.22%) Git (software)
3 3 (8.333%) Eclipse
4 2 (5.556%) Capybara
4 2 (5.556%) RSpec
4 2 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.556%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.778%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (2.778%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.778%) GitHub
5 1 (2.778%) JIRA
General
1 3 (8.333%) Retail
1 3 (8.333%) Law
2 2 (5.556%) Finance
3 1 (2.778%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Developer
2 9 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 8 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.333%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 3 (8.333%) Head of Development
5 3 (8.333%) Head of Web Development
5 3 (8.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (8.333%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.556%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.556%) Administrator
7 1 (2.778%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.778%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.778%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.778%) Consultant
7 1 (2.778%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.778%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (2.778%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
1 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 4 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
2 3 (8.333%) Open Source
2 3 (8.333%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.778%) Social Media
3 1 (2.778%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (52.78%) Linux
2 3 (8.333%) Ubuntu
2 3 (8.333%) Debian
3 2 (5.556%) UNIX
3 2 (5.556%) Windows
4 1 (2.778%) CentOS
4 1 (2.778%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.778%) FreeBSD
4 1 (2.778%) Fedora
4 1 (2.778%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) OO
2 8 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 7 (19.44%) OOP
3 7 (19.44%) MVC
3 7 (19.44%) Web Development
3 7 (19.44%) TDD
4 6 (16.67%) SEO
5 4 (11.11%) Change Management
5 4 (11.11%) OOD
6 3 (8.333%) Analytics
6 3 (8.333%) SOA
6 3 (8.333%) E-Commerce
6 3 (8.333%) ERP
6 3 (8.333%) Identity Management
6 3 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 3 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (8.333%) B2C
6 3 (8.333%) Code Coverage
6 3 (8.333%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) PHP
2 20 (55.56%) Java
2 20 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 7 (19.44%) PHP5
5 6 (16.67%) Python
6 5 (13.89%) Ruby
7 2 (5.556%) C#
7 2 (5.556%) Perl
7 2 (5.556%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.556%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.778%) Scala
8 1 (2.778%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.778%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) PCI DSS
2 3 (8.333%) QA
3 1 (2.778%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Varnish
2 3 (8.333%) Postfix
3 2 (5.556%) Samba
3 2 (5.556%) NFS
3 2 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.778%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.778%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.778%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Puppet
2 3 (8.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Zend
2 3 (8.333%) Facebook
2 3 (8.333%) Oracle
2 3 (8.333%) Google
3 2 (5.556%) VMware
3 2 (5.556%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.778%) Twitter
4 1 (2.778%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.778%) NetApp
4 1 (2.778%) Veritas
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