The first table below looks at the demand for Firebug 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 Firebug 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
Firebug
Rank 374 404 440
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +36
Contract jobs citing Firebug 3 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.041% 0.006%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.115% 0.427% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £313 £330 £465
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.30% -29.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £323 £357
10% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £519 £573
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £225 £205
% change year-on-year
+66.66% +9.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
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% -
Firebug
England

Firebug
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Firebug Jobs Demand Trend

Firebug
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Firebug Daily Rate Trend

Firebug
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebug 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 +15 1 - -
Firebug
England

Firebug
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (90.91%) XML
1 10 (90.91%) JSON
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
3 8 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (63.64%) HTML
5 6 (54.55%) jQuery
6 5 (45.45%) Web Services
6 5 (45.45%) RESTful
6 5 (45.45%) Selenium
6 5 (45.45%) OO
6 5 (45.45%) Subversion
6 5 (45.45%) HTTP
6 5 (45.45%) BDD
6 5 (45.45%) CSS3
7 4 (36.36%) Apache
7 4 (36.36%) Web Development
7 4 (36.36%) HTML5
8 3 (27.27%) Semantic Web
8 3 (27.27%) Web Accessibility
8 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
8 3 (27.27%) Ruby
8 3 (27.27%) Ajax
8 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
8 3 (27.27%) Java
8 3 (27.27%) .NET
8 3 (27.27%) Photoshop
8 3 (27.27%) iDTV
8 3 (27.27%) RDF
8 3 (27.27%) MVC

Firebug
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (90.91%) XML
1 10 (90.91%) JSON
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
3 7 (63.64%) HTML
4 6 (54.55%) jQuery
5 5 (45.45%) Web Services
5 5 (45.45%) RESTful
5 5 (45.45%) CSS3
6 4 (36.36%) HTML5
7 3 (27.27%) Ajax
7 3 (27.27%) .NET
7 3 (27.27%) Semantic HTML
8 2 (18.18%) REST
8 2 (18.18%) Zend Framework
9 1 (9.091%) Velocity
9 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
9 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
9 1 (9.091%) JSTL
9 1 (9.091%) JSP
9 1 (9.091%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) CMS
3 2 (18.18%) IIS
3 2 (18.18%) Drupal
3 2 (18.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Photoshop
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (18.18%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) HTTP
2 1 (9.091%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
1 5 (45.45%) Subversion
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
2 2 (18.18%) Hudson
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) JBehave
2 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
2 2 (18.18%) TestNG
2 2 (18.18%) Fiddler
3 1 (9.091%) Maven
General
1 3 (27.27%) Games
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Semantic Web
1 3 (27.27%) iDTV
2 2 (18.18%) N-Tier
3 1 (9.091%) Wiki
3 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (45.45%) OO
2 5 (45.45%) BDD
3 4 (36.36%) Web Development
4 3 (27.27%) Web Accessibility
4 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
4 3 (27.27%) RDF
4 3 (27.27%) MVC
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 3 (27.27%) ATDD
4 3 (27.27%) Progressive Enhancement
4 3 (27.27%) Graceful Degradation
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
6 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
6 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
6 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Ruby
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe
1 2 (18.18%) Zend
1 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.091%) JBoss