The first table below looks at the demand for Memory Management 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 Memory Management 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Memory Management
Rank 457 526 489
Rank change year-on-year
+69 -37
Contract jobs citing Memory Management 61 36 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.147% 0.067% 0.147%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.206% 0.099% 0.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 20 51
Average daily rate £500 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £325 £335
% change year-on-year
-11.53% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36514 38847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.38% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18132 21436 22477
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 906 1198 1411
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.27 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Memory Management
UK

Memory Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Memory Management across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Memory Management Jobs Demand Trend

Memory Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Memory Management Daily Rate Trend

Memory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Memory Management Daily Rate Histogram

Memory Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Memory Management Hourly Rate Trend

Memory Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Memory Management 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 +55 43 £500 -
South East +28 12 £295 -
West Midlands - 2 - -
North West +5 1 £350 +7.69%
South West - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Memory Management
UK

Memory Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 82 (62.12%) OO
2 67 (50.76%) Multithreading
3 51 (38.64%) SQL
4 48 (36.36%) Apple iOS
5 47 (35.61%) Banking
6 42 (31.82%) Objective-C
7 41 (31.06%) C#
8 40 (30.30%) .NET
9 39 (29.55%) XML
10 37 (28.03%) SQL Server
10 37 (28.03%) Web Services
11 35 (26.52%) WCF
12 33 (25.00%) C++
13 29 (21.97%) Scrum
14 27 (20.45%) Android
15 26 (19.70%) JSON
15 26 (19.70%) MVC
16 25 (18.94%) OOP
17 24 (18.18%) C
18 23 (17.42%) Java
18 23 (17.42%) Computer Science
19 22 (16.67%) Front Office
19 22 (16.67%) Linux
19 22 (16.67%) Mobile App
20 21 (15.91%) Xcode
21 20 (15.15%) MySQL
21 20 (15.15%) Agile Software Development
21 20 (15.15%) iPad
22 19 (14.39%) iPhone
22 19 (14.39%) Open Source

Memory Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 40 (30.30%) .NET
2 39 (29.55%) XML
3 37 (28.03%) Web Services
4 35 (26.52%) WCF
5 26 (19.70%) JSON
6 19 (14.39%) WPF
7 15 (11.36%) Lucene
7 15 (11.36%) NHibernate
7 15 (11.36%) WebSphere
7 15 (11.36%) .NET Remoting
7 15 (11.36%) Spring.NET
7 15 (11.36%) Unity DI Container
8 14 (10.61%) Cocoa Touch
8 14 (10.61%) RESTful
9 13 (9.848%) Cocoa
10 11 (8.333%) OpenGL
10 11 (8.333%) OpenGL ES
11 10 (7.576%) iOS SDK
12 8 (6.061%) Motif
13 7 (5.303%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 15 (11.36%) MSMQ
1 15 (11.36%) WebSphere MQ
2 9 (6.818%) Tomcat
3 7 (5.303%) Apache
4 5 (3.788%) Liferay
4 5 (3.788%) CoreMedia CMS
5 1 (0.758%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 19 (14.39%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.61%) HTTP
2 12 (9.091%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.818%) Internet
4 7 (5.303%) SSL
4 7 (5.303%) SNMP
4 7 (5.303%) SMTP
4 7 (5.303%) DHCP
4 7 (5.303%) TELNET
4 7 (5.303%) tcpdump
5 6 (4.545%) NAS
5 6 (4.545%) SAN
6 5 (3.788%) DNS
6 5 (3.788%) LDAP
6 5 (3.788%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.515%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.758%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.03%) SQL Server
2 20 (15.15%) MySQL
3 9 (6.818%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.030%) Ingres
5 2 (1.515%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.758%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.758%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.758%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.758%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.758%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (15.91%) Xcode
2 15 (11.36%) Subversion
2 15 (11.36%) Rhino Mocks
3 10 (7.576%) Git (software)
4 8 (6.061%) Rational Rose
5 7 (5.303%) ClearCase
5 7 (5.303%) Hudson
5 7 (5.303%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.788%) NUnit
6 5 (3.788%) GoogleTest
7 4 (3.030%) CruiseControl
7 4 (3.030%) MTASC
7 4 (3.030%) CppUnit
7 4 (3.030%) ClearQuest
7 4 (3.030%) Ant
8 3 (2.273%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.515%) PhoneGap
10 1 (0.758%) NetBeans
10 1 (0.758%) GitHub
General
1 47 (35.61%) Banking
2 22 (16.67%) Front Office
3 18 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 7 (5.303%) Games
4 7 (5.303%) Finance
5 4 (3.030%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.273%) Back Office
7 2 (1.515%) Retail
7 2 (1.515%) Legal
8 1 (0.758%) Electronics
8 1 (0.758%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 103 (78.03%) Developer
2 38 (28.79%) iOS Developer
3 23 (17.42%) C# Developer
4 17 (12.88%) Software Developer
4 17 (12.88%) C# Software Developer
5 15 (11.36%) .NET Developer
6 10 (7.576%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.061%) Administrator
8 7 (5.303%) Linux Administrator
8 7 (5.303%) Mobile Developer
9 6 (4.545%) Android Developer
10 5 (3.788%) C++ Developer
11 4 (3.030%) Flash Developer
11 4 (3.030%) ActionScript Developer
11 4 (3.030%) iPad Developer
11 4 (3.030%) Senior iOS Developer
11 4 (3.030%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 3 (2.273%) Programmer
12 3 (2.273%) Systems Administrator
12 3 (2.273%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.42%) Computer Science
2 22 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 20 (15.15%) iPad
4 19 (14.39%) iPhone
4 19 (14.39%) Open Source
5 17 (12.88%) N-Tier
6 15 (11.36%) Inversion of Control
7 11 (8.333%) Derivative
8 9 (6.818%) Cryptography
9 7 (5.303%) Clustering
10 6 (4.545%) Social Media
11 5 (3.788%) Fixed Income
11 5 (3.788%) Animation
12 4 (3.030%) New Media
12 4 (3.030%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (3.030%) Equities
12 4 (3.030%) Blackberry
13 3 (2.273%) Client/Server
13 3 (2.273%) Device Driver
13 3 (2.273%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 48 (36.36%) Apple iOS
2 27 (20.45%) Android
3 22 (16.67%) Linux
4 12 (9.091%) UNIX
5 10 (7.576%) Windows
6 5 (3.788%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.273%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.515%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.515%) SUSE
8 2 (1.515%) Debian
9 1 (0.758%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.758%) CentOS
9 1 (0.758%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (62.12%) OO
2 67 (50.76%) Multithreading
3 29 (21.97%) Scrum
4 26 (19.70%) MVC
5 25 (18.94%) OOP
6 20 (15.15%) Agile Software Development
7 17 (12.88%) TDD
8 15 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (9.091%) OOD
10 9 (6.818%) UML
11 8 (6.061%) Unified Process
11 8 (6.061%) Configuration Management
11 8 (6.061%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (6.061%) RUP
12 7 (5.303%) Software Engineering
12 7 (5.303%) Load Balancing
13 5 (3.788%) Image Processing
13 5 (3.788%) Performance Testing
13 5 (3.788%) Integration Testing
14 4 (3.030%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.64%) SQL
2 42 (31.82%) Objective-C
3 41 (31.06%) C#
4 33 (25.00%) C++
5 24 (18.18%) C
6 23 (17.42%) Java
7 9 (6.818%) AWK
7 9 (6.818%) sed
8 8 (6.061%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.303%) Perl
9 7 (5.303%) Bash shell
10 6 (4.545%) ActionScript
10 6 (4.545%) JavaScript
11 4 (3.030%) ActionScript 2.0
11 4 (3.030%) Python
12 3 (2.273%) F#
13 2 (1.515%) Groovy
13 2 (1.515%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.515%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.758%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 15 (11.36%) Degree
2 9 (6.818%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.545%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (5.303%) Nmap
2 5 (3.788%) NFS
2 5 (3.788%) Postfix
2 5 (3.788%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.788%) Squid
3 2 (1.515%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.515%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.758%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 7 (5.303%) Puppet
2 5 (3.788%) Nagios
3 1 (0.758%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (11.36%) Red Hat
2 10 (7.576%) Facebook
2 10 (7.576%) Twitter
2 10 (7.576%) Apple
3 9 (6.818%) JBoss
4 7 (5.303%) Oracle
5 6 (4.545%) SAP
6 5 (3.788%) EMC
6 5 (3.788%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.788%) NetApp
6 5 (3.788%) VMware
6 5 (3.788%) Google
7 1 (0.758%) Adobe
7 1 (0.758%) JD Edwards
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