The first table below looks at the demand for Behat skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Behat 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 Development Applications category for the London 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
Behat
Rank 370 407 -
Rank change year-on-year
+37 -
Contract jobs citing Behat 7 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.030% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.267% 0.311% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 0
Average daily rate £375 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £313 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2619 2575 3549
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.09% 9.559% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1928 1748 2418
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 31
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £29.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +20.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Behat
England

Behat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Behat Jobs Demand Trend

Behat
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Behat Daily Rate Trend

Behat
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Behat within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +16 2 £375 +7.14%
Behat
England

Behat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (80.00%) TDD
1 8 (80.00%) BDD
2 7 (70.00%) PHP
3 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (60.00%) Zend
4 5 (50.00%) Zend Framework
4 5 (50.00%) XML
4 5 (50.00%) OO
5 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (40.00%) CSS
5 4 (40.00%) jQuery
5 4 (40.00%) HTML5
5 4 (40.00%) REST
5 4 (40.00%) Gherkin
6 3 (30.00%) Backbone.js
6 3 (30.00%) RESTful
6 3 (30.00%) Ruby
6 3 (30.00%) JSON
6 3 (30.00%) Web Services
6 3 (30.00%) HTML
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Publishing
7 2 (20.00%) CMS
7 2 (20.00%) Content Management
7 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
7 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (20.00%) C#
7 2 (20.00%) C++
7 2 (20.00%) SQL

Behat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) Zend Framework
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) CSS
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
2 4 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (30.00%) Backbone.js
3 3 (30.00%) RESTful
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) Symfony
5 1 (10.00%) YUI
5 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
5 1 (10.00%) XForms
5 1 (10.00%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) PHPUnit
2 2 (20.00%) RSpec
2 2 (20.00%) JBehave
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Cactus
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Phing
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Trac
General
1 2 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (10.00%) Open Source
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) CentOS
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
1 8 (80.00%) BDD
2 5 (50.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Content Management
4 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (20.00%) OOP
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Information Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) User Experience Design
5 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (10.00%) Pair Programming
5 1 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) PHP
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) Ruby
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) XPath
5 1 (10.00%) XQuery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Zend
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat