The first table below looks at the demand for Firebug 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 Firebug 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firebug
Rank 102 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Firebug 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.129% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.847% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £225 £205
% change year-on-year
+66.66% +9.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Development Applications
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
236 208 252
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 15.25% 12.98% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 100 75
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £458 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 64
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £31.00 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Firebug
South East

Firebug
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Firebug Jobs Demand Trend

Firebug
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Firebug Daily Rate Trend

Firebug
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebug within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke - 1 - -
Firebug
South East

Firebug
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Fiddler
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) soapUI
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) SUSE
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (33.33%) WATIR
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing

Firebug
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) soapUI
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) Fiddler
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
3 1 (33.33%) WATIR
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Test Specialist
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Test Team Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) SOA
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA