The first table below looks at the demand for FitNesse 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 FitNesse 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
FitNesse
Rank 338 376 308
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -68
Contract jobs citing FitNesse 39 39 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.180% 0.145% 0.441%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.489% 1.515% 3.860%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 33 100
Average daily rate £450 £450 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £325 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
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
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% -
FitNesse
England

FitNesse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London FitNesse Daily Rate Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FitNesse across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London FitNesse Daily Rate Histogram

FitNesse
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing FitNesse across the London region.

London FitNesse Hourly Rate Trend

FitNesse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FitNesse 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 +21 14 £400 -15.78%
FitNesse
England

FitNesse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 57 (78.08%) Selenium
2 40 (54.79%) Cucumber
3 39 (53.42%) Agile Software Development
4 38 (52.05%) Java
5 29 (39.73%) Finance
5 29 (39.73%) QA
6 24 (32.88%) C#
7 22 (30.14%) WebDriver
8 21 (28.77%) Test Automation
9 20 (27.40%) TDD
10 18 (24.66%) Ruby
11 17 (23.29%) Scrum
11 17 (23.29%) SQL
11 17 (23.29%) BDD
12 16 (21.92%) OO
12 16 (21.92%) Hibernate
13 15 (20.55%) Spring
14 14 (19.18%) E-Commerce
15 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
15 13 (17.81%) Visual Studio
15 13 (17.81%) Maven
15 13 (17.81%) Automated Testing
15 13 (17.81%) Banking
15 13 (17.81%) Web Testing
16 12 (16.44%) JUnit
16 12 (16.44%) .NET
16 12 (16.44%) Automation Testing
17 11 (15.07%) Open Source
18 10 (13.70%) Concordion
19 9 (12.33%) Linux

FitNesse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 16 (21.92%) Hibernate
2 15 (20.55%) Spring
3 12 (16.44%) .NET
4 7 (9.589%) J2EE
5 6 (8.219%) soapUI
6 5 (6.849%) XML
7 4 (5.479%) REST
8 3 (4.110%) EJB 3.0
8 3 (4.110%) Grails
8 3 (4.110%) XML Schema
8 3 (4.110%) COM
8 3 (4.110%) EJB
8 3 (4.110%) CSS
8 3 (4.110%) SOAP
9 2 (2.740%) DHTML
9 2 (2.740%) HTML
9 2 (2.740%) Ehcache
9 2 (2.740%) Java EE
9 2 (2.740%) WebSphere
9 2 (2.740%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.110%) Apache
2 2 (2.740%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.740%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.740%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (1.370%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.740%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.370%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.370%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.740%) DB2
1 2 (2.740%) MySQL
1 2 (2.740%) BusinessObjects XI
1 2 (2.740%) Redis
1 2 (2.740%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (2.740%) Hazelcast
2 1 (1.370%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.370%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.370%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.370%) Big Data
2 1 (1.370%) CouchDB
2 1 (1.370%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.370%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (78.08%) Selenium
2 40 (54.79%) Cucumber
3 22 (30.14%) WebDriver
4 13 (17.81%) Visual Studio
4 13 (17.81%) Maven
5 12 (16.44%) JUnit
6 10 (13.70%) Concordion
7 8 (10.96%) Hudson
7 8 (10.96%) Ant
7 8 (10.96%) QuickTest Pro
7 8 (10.96%) TestNG
8 6 (8.219%) WATIR
8 6 (8.219%) Jenkins
9 5 (6.849%) TeamCity
10 4 (5.479%) JMeter
10 4 (5.479%) SpecFlow
11 3 (4.110%) MSBuild
11 3 (4.110%) HttpUnit
11 3 (4.110%) JIRA
11 3 (4.110%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 29 (39.73%) Finance
2 13 (17.81%) Banking
3 8 (10.96%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.219%) Front Office
5 2 (2.740%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.370%) Marketing
6 1 (1.370%) Electronics
6 1 (1.370%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.370%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Analyst
2 22 (30.14%) Test Analyst
3 15 (20.55%) Developer
4 14 (19.18%) Automation Analyst
5 13 (17.81%) Automation Test Analyst
6 10 (13.70%) Java Developer
7 8 (10.96%) Tester
7 8 (10.96%) Test Engineer
8 7 (9.589%) QA Engineer
8 7 (9.589%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.849%) Agile Test Analyst
10 4 (5.479%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.479%) Automation Tester
11 3 (4.110%) Technical Architect
11 3 (4.110%) Architect
12 2 (2.740%) Test Automation Engineer
13 1 (1.370%) Automated Test Engineer
13 1 (1.370%) Test Automation Analyst
13 1 (1.370%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 1 (1.370%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Open Source
2 6 (8.219%) Equities
3 5 (6.849%) Digital Media
4 3 (4.110%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.370%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.370%) Social Gaming
5 1 (1.370%) Social Network
5 1 (1.370%) Online Games
5 1 (1.370%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.740%) Android
3 1 (1.370%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.370%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (53.42%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (28.77%) Test Automation
3 20 (27.40%) TDD
4 17 (23.29%) Scrum
4 17 (23.29%) BDD
5 16 (21.92%) OO
6 14 (19.18%) E-Commerce
7 13 (17.81%) Automated Testing
7 13 (17.81%) Web Testing
8 12 (16.44%) Automation Testing
9 9 (12.33%) Test Strategy
10 8 (10.96%) Software Testing
11 6 (8.219%) OOP
11 6 (8.219%) Test Scripting
12 5 (6.849%) Kanban
12 5 (6.849%) Multithreading
12 5 (6.849%) Data Modelling
12 5 (6.849%) SOA
13 4 (5.479%) Regression Testing
13 4 (5.479%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.05%) Java
2 24 (32.88%) C#
3 18 (24.66%) Ruby
4 17 (23.29%) SQL
5 5 (6.849%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.849%) Perl
6 3 (4.110%) Groovy
6 3 (4.110%) PHP
6 3 (4.110%) C++
7 2 (2.740%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.740%) Python
8 1 (1.370%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (8.219%) Degree
2 4 (5.479%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (39.73%) QA
2 1 (1.370%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (4.110%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.849%) HP
2 5 (6.849%) Oracle
3 1 (1.370%) SmartStream
3 1 (1.370%) SAP
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