The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring 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 Refactoring 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Refactoring
Rank 96 92 100
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +8
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 7 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.459% 0.126% 0.270%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.678% 0.197% 0.421%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £390 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £309
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1032 1014 1189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 67.63% 63.73% 64.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 476 533
Average daily rate £370 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 99 130
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £14.43 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Refactoring
South East

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Refactoring Hourly Rate Trend

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (88.89%) XML
1 8 (88.89%) UNIX
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) Multithreading
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) UML
2 7 (77.78%) OO
2 7 (77.78%) Ant
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) OOD
2 7 (77.78%) Ingres
2 7 (77.78%) ClearCase
2 7 (77.78%) Configuration Management
2 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (77.78%) CruiseControl
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 6 (66.67%) Python
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 5 (55.56%) C
4 5 (55.56%) C++
4 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
4 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
5 4 (44.44%) wxWidgets
5 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
5 4 (44.44%) NUnit
5 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
5 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (44.44%) CppUnit
5 4 (44.44%) GoogleTest

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) wxWidgets
2 4 (44.44%) JDBC
2 4 (44.44%) Spring
2 4 (44.44%) Motif
3 3 (33.33%) Swing
4 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 1 (11.11%) JMX
4 1 (11.11%) Java EE
4 1 (11.11%) Flash
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) Java RMI
4 1 (11.11%) JSP
4 1 (11.11%) Servlets
4 1 (11.11%) SOAP
4 1 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (11.11%) JPA
4 1 (11.11%) PowerMock
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) WebLogic
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) GPRS
1 1 (11.11%) GSM
1 1 (11.11%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Ingres
1 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 2 (22.22%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Ant
1 7 (77.78%) ClearCase
1 7 (77.78%) CruiseControl
2 4 (44.44%) NUnit
2 4 (44.44%) CppUnit
2 4 (44.44%) GoogleTest
2 4 (44.44%) JUnit
2 4 (44.44%) Rational Rose
2 4 (44.44%) Subversion
2 4 (44.44%) ClearQuest
3 3 (33.33%) NetBeans
3 3 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (33.33%) Hudson
3 3 (33.33%) FindBugs
3 3 (33.33%) Mockito
4 1 (11.11%) Log4j
4 1 (11.11%) Checkstyle
4 1 (11.11%) FitNesse
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) C++ Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) UNIX
2 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (77.78%) Multithreading
2 7 (77.78%) UML
2 7 (77.78%) OO
2 7 (77.78%) OOD
2 7 (77.78%) Configuration Management
2 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Memory Management
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) RUP
3 4 (44.44%) Use Case
3 4 (44.44%) Unified Process
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 4 (44.44%) Code Coverage
4 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (33.33%) AOP
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Time Management
4 3 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (33.33%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) C
3 5 (55.56%) C++
4 4 (44.44%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
3 3 (33.33%) Cognizant
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Coverity