The first table below looks at the demand for Code Coverage 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 Code Coverage over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Code Coverage
Rank 377 396 425
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +29
Contract jobs citing Code Coverage 4 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.018% 0.022% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.031% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 7
Average daily rate £598 £388 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.19% -13.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16184 19288 21901
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.60% 71.83% 71.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11116 12664 14439
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 329 346
Average hourly rate £32.29 £28.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.29% +3.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £49.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Code Coverage
England

Code Coverage
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Code Coverage Jobs Demand Trend

Code Coverage
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Code Coverage Daily Rate Trend

Code Coverage
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Coverage within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +17 2 £625 +61.29%
Code Coverage
England

Code Coverage
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Code Coverage 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 Code Coverage.

1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 16 (51.61%) Unit Testing
3 14 (45.16%) Market Risk
4 13 (41.94%) TDD
4 13 (41.94%) C#
4 13 (41.94%) Finance
5 12 (38.71%) Oracle
6 11 (35.48%) Change Management
6 11 (35.48%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (35.48%) Release Management
6 11 (35.48%) Project Planning
6 11 (35.48%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (35.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (32.26%) PowerPivot
7 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
8 9 (29.03%) .NET
8 9 (29.03%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (29.03%) MSTest
8 9 (29.03%) Rhino Mocks
8 9 (29.03%) CQRS
8 9 (29.03%) WCF
8 9 (29.03%) WPF
9 8 (25.81%) WF
9 8 (25.81%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (25.81%) Data Modelling
10 6 (19.35%) N-Tier
10 6 (19.35%) Web Services
10 6 (19.35%) Java
10 6 (19.35%) Degree
11 5 (16.13%) Subversion

Code Coverage
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (29.03%) .NET
1 9 (29.03%) WCF
1 9 (29.03%) WPF
2 8 (25.81%) WF
3 6 (19.35%) Web Services
4 4 (12.90%) SOAP
5 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET
5 3 (9.677%) Java EE
5 3 (9.677%) RESTful
6 2 (6.452%) Swing
6 2 (6.452%) CSS
6 2 (6.452%) J2EE
7 1 (3.226%) HTML
7 1 (3.226%) XML
7 1 (3.226%) XHTML
7 1 (3.226%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.226%) JSON
7 1 (3.226%) jQuery
7 1 (3.226%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) CMS
2 1 (3.226%) Confluence
2 1 (3.226%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Internet
2 2 (6.452%) HTTP
3 1 (3.226%) SSL
3 1 (3.226%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.226%) MySQL
3 1 (3.226%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) MSTest
1 9 (29.03%) Rhino Mocks
1 9 (29.03%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (16.13%) Subversion
3 4 (12.90%) Git (software)
4 3 (9.677%) Maven
4 3 (9.677%) Ant
5 2 (6.452%) Eclipse
5 2 (6.452%) Jenkins
5 2 (6.452%) JProfiler
6 1 (3.226%) FindBugs
6 1 (3.226%) StyleCop
6 1 (3.226%) NUnit
6 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.226%) JIRA
6 1 (3.226%) ReSharper
6 1 (3.226%) Selenium
6 1 (3.226%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 2 (6.452%) Banking
2 2 (6.452%) Front Office
3 1 (3.226%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (90.32%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) C# Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Market Risk Developer
5 2 (6.452%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Analyst
6 1 (3.226%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.226%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (3.226%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Informatica Developer
6 1 (3.226%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (3.226%) GUI Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Java Swing Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Market Risk
2 6 (19.35%) N-Tier
3 5 (16.13%) Derivative
4 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.677%) Economics
5 3 (9.677%) Mathematics
5 3 (9.677%) Management Information System
5 3 (9.677%) Open Source
6 1 (3.226%) Fixed Income
6 1 (3.226%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Unit Testing
2 13 (41.94%) TDD
3 11 (35.48%) Project Planning
3 11 (35.48%) Change Management
3 11 (35.48%) Release Management
3 11 (35.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (29.03%) CQRS
5 8 (25.81%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (25.81%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
7 3 (9.677%) E-Commerce
7 3 (9.677%) OOD
7 3 (9.677%) SOA
7 3 (9.677%) UML
7 3 (9.677%) OO
8 2 (6.452%) Scrum
8 2 (6.452%) Web Development
8 2 (6.452%) Multithreading
9 1 (3.226%) System Testing
9 1 (3.226%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 13 (41.94%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) Java
4 3 (9.677%) VB.NET
5 2 (6.452%) VBA
5 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.452%) C++
6 1 (3.226%) Perl
6 1 (3.226%) Python
6 1 (3.226%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.226%) VB6
6 1 (3.226%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.226%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 1 (3.226%) ISEB
2 1 (3.226%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.677%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) NDS
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle
2 2 (6.452%) Cognizant
3 1 (3.226%) Informatica
3 1 (3.226%) Open Text
3 1 (3.226%) RedDot
3 1 (3.226%) Sybase