The first table below looks at the demand for FitNesse skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FitNesse over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FitNesse
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing FitNesse 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £314
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
107 95 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 16.80% 9.784% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 40 30
Average daily rate £325 £388 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.12% +19.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 38
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £34.25 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £38.40 £39.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
FitNesse
East of England

FitNesse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire FitNesse Jobs Demand Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire FitNesse Daily Rate Trend

FitNesse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing FitNesse 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 FitNesse.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

FitNesse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing FitNesse 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 FitNesse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy