The first table below looks at the demand for Confluence 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 Confluence over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Platforms 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Confluence
Rank 311 367 380
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 73 43 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.320% 0.162% 0.200%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.768% 0.968% 1.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 31 43
Average daily rate £451 £450 £470
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -4.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £338 £380
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £230 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
-29.23% -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £53.00 - -
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4129 4444 4928
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.11% 16.71% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2625 2841 3059
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £244 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £558
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 144 181
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £40.50 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
Confluence
England

Confluence
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Confluence Jobs Demand Trend

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Confluence Daily Rate Trend

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Confluence across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Confluence Daily Rate Histogram

Confluence
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +4 14 £438 +20.68% 2
Ealing - - - -
Confluence
England

Confluence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Confluence 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 Confluence.

1 91 (82.73%) JIRA
2 53 (48.18%) Finance
3 41 (37.27%) Java
4 38 (34.55%) SQL
5 37 (33.64%) Derivative
6 34 (30.91%) UNIX
7 33 (30.00%) Maven
8 32 (29.09%) Banking
8 32 (29.09%) Subversion
9 31 (28.18%) Linux
9 31 (28.18%) SQL Server
9 31 (28.18%) Microsoft
10 29 (26.36%) Investment Banking
11 26 (23.64%) QA
11 26 (23.64%) .NET
11 26 (23.64%) JavaScript
12 25 (22.73%) Wiki
13 24 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
13 24 (21.82%) Windows
14 22 (20.00%) Git (software)
15 19 (17.27%) JUnit
15 19 (17.27%) CSS
15 19 (17.27%) Scrum
16 18 (16.36%) TDD
17 17 (15.45%) Spring
17 17 (15.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 16 (14.55%) Front Office
18 16 (14.55%) Tomcat
19 15 (13.64%) JMS
19 15 (13.64%) UML

Confluence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Confluence 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 Confluence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (23.64%) .NET
2 19 (17.27%) CSS
3 17 (15.45%) Spring
4 15 (13.64%) JMS
5 14 (12.73%) Web Services
6 12 (10.91%) .NET Framework
6 12 (10.91%) XML
7 11 (10.00%) HTML
7 11 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 10 (9.091%) EJB
9 9 (8.182%) JPA
9 9 (8.182%) J2EE
10 8 (7.273%) Apache Flex
10 8 (7.273%) Adobe AIR
10 8 (7.273%) jQuery
10 8 (7.273%) Parsley
11 7 (6.364%) HTML5
11 7 (6.364%) WSH
11 7 (6.364%) Ajax
11 7 (6.364%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 16 (14.55%) Tomcat
2 10 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 10 (9.091%) Apache
3 8 (7.273%) IIS
4 7 (6.364%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.727%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (0.909%) Lync
6 1 (0.909%) ElasticSearch
6 1 (0.909%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.909%) Jetty
6 1 (0.909%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.909%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 10 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.727%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.727%) MS Office
3 1 (0.909%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (0.909%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.909%) MS Project
3 1 (0.909%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.909%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (3.636%) Sophis RISQUE
2 1 (0.909%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (0.909%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.909%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.455%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.636%) SSL
3 3 (2.727%) HTTP
3 3 (2.727%) DNS
3 3 (2.727%) Wireshark
3 3 (2.727%) SSH
4 2 (1.818%) Internet
5 1 (0.909%) Firewall
5 1 (0.909%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.18%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.00%) MySQL
3 7 (6.364%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (6.364%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (5.455%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.636%) Oracle OLAP
5 4 (3.636%) OLAP
6 2 (1.818%) DB2
6 2 (1.818%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.818%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.909%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.909%) Redis
7 1 (0.909%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.909%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.909%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (0.909%) QlikView
7 1 (0.909%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 91 (82.73%) JIRA
2 33 (30.00%) Maven
3 32 (29.09%) Subversion
4 22 (20.00%) Git (software)
5 19 (17.27%) JUnit
6 9 (8.182%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (7.273%) Bugzilla
7 8 (7.273%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (7.273%) FlexUnit
7 8 (7.273%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.455%) EasyMock
8 6 (5.455%) Hudson
9 5 (4.545%) jMock
10 4 (3.636%) Ant
10 4 (3.636%) ClearCase
10 4 (3.636%) Eclipse
11 3 (2.727%) Redmine
11 3 (2.727%) Jenkins
12 2 (1.818%) Rational Rose
12 2 (1.818%) Mockito
General
1 53 (48.18%) Finance
2 32 (29.09%) Banking
3 29 (26.36%) Investment Banking
4 16 (14.55%) Front Office
5 11 (10.00%) Back Office
6 3 (2.727%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.909%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.909%) Publishing
7 1 (0.909%) Marketing
7 1 (0.909%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (28.18%) Developer
2 30 (27.27%) Analyst
3 15 (13.64%) Java Developer
4 11 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 10 (9.091%) QA Analyst
6 8 (7.273%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.273%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 8 (7.273%) Flex Developer
6 8 (7.273%) Test Analyst
7 7 (6.364%) Senior QA Analyst
8 6 (5.455%) QA Engineer
8 6 (5.455%) Consultant
9 5 (4.545%) Tester
9 5 (4.545%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.636%) SQL Database Developer
10 4 (3.636%) Oracle Database Developer
10 4 (3.636%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.636%) Database Developer
10 4 (3.636%) SQL Developer
10 4 (3.636%) PL/SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.64%) Derivative
2 25 (22.73%) Wiki
3 17 (15.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (13.64%) Equities
5 12 (10.91%) Open Source
6 9 (8.182%) Fixed Income
7 7 (6.364%) Digital Media
8 5 (4.545%) IIBA
8 5 (4.545%) Equity Derivative
8 5 (4.545%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (3.636%) Computer Science
10 3 (2.727%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.818%) Replication
11 2 (1.818%) BBC
12 1 (0.909%) IaaS
12 1 (0.909%) Data Integration
12 1 (0.909%) iPhone
12 1 (0.909%) Social Media
12 1 (0.909%) Blackberry
12 1 (0.909%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (30.91%) UNIX
2 31 (28.18%) Linux
3 24 (21.82%) Windows
4 11 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.091%) Solaris
5 10 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (7.273%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (6.364%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.727%) Android
8 3 (2.727%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (17.27%) Scrum
3 18 (16.36%) TDD
4 15 (13.64%) UML
4 15 (13.64%) OO
4 15 (13.64%) Regression Testing
5 14 (12.73%) Unit Testing
5 14 (12.73%) Test Automation
6 13 (11.82%) Performance Testing
7 12 (10.91%) Configuration Management
8 10 (9.091%) Business Analysis
8 10 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (9.091%) MVC
8 10 (9.091%) Investment Management
8 10 (9.091%) BDD
9 9 (8.182%) OOP
9 9 (8.182%) Automated Testing
10 8 (7.273%) Validation
10 8 (7.273%) Software Engineering
10 8 (7.273%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (37.27%) Java
2 38 (34.55%) SQL
3 26 (23.64%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.91%) Perl
5 11 (10.00%) Python
6 10 (9.091%) C#
7 9 (8.182%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.182%) Shell Script
7 9 (8.182%) C++
8 8 (7.273%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.455%) Ruby
10 5 (4.545%) PHP
10 5 (4.545%) T-SQL
11 4 (3.636%) VB6
11 4 (3.636%) VB
11 4 (3.636%) VBA
12 2 (1.818%) Groovy
13 1 (0.909%) F#
13 1 (0.909%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.909%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (7.273%) ISEB
3 5 (4.545%) CBAP
4 3 (2.727%) RHCE
4 3 (2.727%) RHCT
5 2 (1.818%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.909%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.64%) QA
2 1 (0.909%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (5.455%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (5.455%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.909%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.909%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (10.91%) Puppet
2 9 (8.182%) HP Quality Center
2 9 (8.182%) BladeLogic
3 7 (6.364%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 6 (5.455%) Splunk
5 5 (4.545%) Nagios
6 3 (2.727%) YUM
7 1 (0.909%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.909%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.909%) Cacti
7 1 (0.909%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 31 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 13 (11.82%) Oracle
4 9 (8.182%) HP
4 9 (8.182%) Adobe
5 8 (7.273%) BMC
6 7 (6.364%) Red Hat
7 6 (5.455%) VMware
7 6 (5.455%) Zend
7 6 (5.455%) NetIQ
8 5 (4.545%) Sybase
9 4 (3.636%) Sophis
9 4 (3.636%) Perforce
9 4 (3.636%) JBoss
9 4 (3.636%) Tableau
10 3 (2.727%) TIBCO
10 3 (2.727%) Reuters
10 3 (2.727%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.818%) Apple
11 2 (1.818%) Fidessa
City, London
My client, based in Central London is urgently looking for a Javascript Developer who has strong experience with Backbone.js to join them on a 6 month contract...
Fusion People
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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