The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drools 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 of the Application Development category for the Hampshire 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
Drools
Rank 100 - 104
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Drools 5 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.320% - 0.110%
As % of the Application Development category 1.078% - 0.393%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £225 £405
% change year-on-year
+74.44% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
464 437 509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.71% 27.45% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 190 207
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £471 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 50 71
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £19.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Drools
South East

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Drools Daily Rate Trend

Drools
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Drools Hourly Rate Trend

Drools
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Drools within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Eastleigh - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 - -
Drools
South East

Drools
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSL
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) DTV
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (100.00%) Lucene
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) XSL
1 5 (100.00%) JMS
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) Lucene
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) JPA
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) DVB
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 5 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) DTV
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle