The first table below looks at the demand for Motif 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 Motif 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Motif
Rank 88 - 104
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Motif 15 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.983% - 0.054%
As % of the Application Development category 3.386% - 0.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £295 - £270
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 - £275
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
443 442 515
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.03% 27.78% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 191 208
Average daily rate £350 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £465 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 50 72
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%
Motif
South East

Motif
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Motif Jobs Demand Trend

Motif
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Motif Daily Rate Trend

Motif
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Motif Hourly Rate Trend

Motif
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (100.00%) C
1 17 (100.00%) C++
1 17 (100.00%) UNIX
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
1 17 (100.00%) UML
1 17 (100.00%) OOD
2 16 (94.12%) ClearCase
3 15 (88.24%) XML
4 13 (76.47%) SQL
4 13 (76.47%) Ant
4 13 (76.47%) NUnit
4 13 (76.47%) CppUnit
4 13 (76.47%) GoogleTest
5 11 (64.71%) CruiseControl
5 11 (64.71%) Configuration Management
5 11 (64.71%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (64.71%) wxWidgets
5 11 (64.71%) Ingres
6 10 (58.82%) Rational Rose
6 10 (58.82%) RUP
6 10 (58.82%) Python
6 10 (58.82%) Unified Process
6 10 (58.82%) ClearQuest
7 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
7 9 (52.94%) Subversion
7 9 (52.94%) Multithreading
7 9 (52.94%) OO
8 8 (47.06%) Memory Management
9 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared

Motif
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (88.24%) XML
2 11 (64.71%) wxWidgets
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (64.71%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 16 (94.12%) ClearCase
2 13 (76.47%) Ant
2 13 (76.47%) NUnit
2 13 (76.47%) CppUnit
2 13 (76.47%) GoogleTest
3 11 (64.71%) CruiseControl
4 10 (58.82%) Rational Rose
4 10 (58.82%) ClearQuest
5 9 (52.94%) Subversion
6 1 (5.882%) PyUnit
6 1 (5.882%) Hudson
6 1 (5.882%) GDB
6 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
1 11 (64.71%) C++ Developer
2 2 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (100.00%) UNIX
1 17 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) UML
1 17 (100.00%) OOD
2 11 (64.71%) Configuration Management
2 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (58.82%) RUP
3 10 (58.82%) Unified Process
4 9 (52.94%) Multithreading
4 9 (52.94%) OO
5 8 (47.06%) Memory Management
6 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Project Management
7 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
7 4 (23.53%) Use Case
7 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
8 1 (5.882%) Code Coverage
8 1 (5.882%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C
1 17 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (76.47%) SQL
3 10 (58.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.882%) Coverity