The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Heroku in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Heroku over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Guildford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Heroku
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Heroku 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.455% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.564% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
39 9 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 17.73% 7.965% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 6
Average daily rate £425 £300 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% +30.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £144
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £363 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £23.38 £31.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.79% +186.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Heroku
Surrey

Heroku
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Heroku 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 Heroku.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) RSpec
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Media

Heroku
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Heroku 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 Heroku. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) RSpec
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Guildford, Surrey
Key Skills - Modern RESTful approach to Ruby on Rails development - Using Git as part of the daily development workflow (or other distributed source control systems) - RSpec/Cucumber with...
Austin Fraser
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 16 May 2013