Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JUnit 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 JUnit over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the London region.

 JUnit
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank126223210
Rank change year-on-year
Up+97Down-13
Matching contract IT job ads34776262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London1.340 %0.460 %0.715 %
As % of the Development Applications category14.21 %6.032 %9.334 %
Daily rates quoted1983096
Average daily rate£525£400£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.25 %-5.880 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£250£330
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£323£328£373
% change year-on-year
-1.520 %-12.19 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.00£36.50£42.50
% change year-on-year
-4.100 %-14.11 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
244212602807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London9.427 %7.633 %7.660 %
Daily rates quoted13385631107
Average daily rate£425£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£290£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£301£340£350
% change year-on-year
-11.61 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted452786
Average hourly rate£35.00£32.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.690 %+8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.50£20.00£15.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.00£31.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.080 %-9.280 %
JUnit EnglandJUnit
England

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.

JUnit
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JUnit across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

London JUnit Demand Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

London JUnit Daily Rate Trend

JUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JUnit across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London JUnit Daily Rate Histogram

JUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London JUnit Hourly Rate Trend

JUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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 LondonUp+45154£550+37.50 %
Canary WharfDown-1813£550-4.34 %
UxbridgeNew entry-6£400-
Docklands, LondonNew entry-2£475-
FelthamNew entry-1--
JUnit EnglandJUnit
England

JUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing JUnit 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 JUnit.

1557 (96.37 %)Java
2289 (50.00 %)Spring
3252 (43.60 %)Banking
4229 (39.62 %)Hibernate
5202 (34.95 %)Oracle
6199 (34.43 %)SQL
7173 (29.93 %)Investment Banking
8166 (28.72 %)XML
9153 (26.47 %)UNIX
10147 (25.43 %)Derivative
11138 (23.88 %)J2EE
12136 (23.53 %)TDD
13135 (23.36 %)Agile Software Development
14125 (21.63 %)Linux
15120 (20.76 %)Continuous Integration
16113 (19.55 %)Subversion
17112 (19.38 %)Finance
18106 (18.34 %)OO
19103 (17.82 %)Unit Testing
2099 (17.13 %)Sybase
2198 (16.96 %)Front Office
2296 (16.61 %)Ant
2393 (16.09 %)Maven
2484 (14.53 %)Tomcat
2582 (14.19 %)MVC
2681 (14.01 %)JDBC
2773 (12.63 %)C#
2870 (12.11 %)JavaScript
2969 (11.94 %)JSP
3067 (11.59 %)TIBCO

JUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing JUnit 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 JUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1289 (50.00 %)Spring
2229 (39.62 %)Hibernate
3166 (28.72 %)XML
4138 (23.88 %)J2EE
581 (14.01 %)JDBC
669 (11.94 %)JSP
767 (11.59 %)Struts
866 (11.42 %)HTML
963 (10.90 %)CSS
1062 (10.73 %)Web Services
1161 (10.55 %)Swing
1259 (10.21 %)JMS
1350 (8.651 %)AJAX
1444 (7.612 %)Middleware
1539 (6.747 %)XSLT
1633 (5.709 %).NET
1732 (5.536 %)J2SE
1732 (5.536 %)Spring MVC
1830 (5.190 %)EJB
1830 (5.190 %)SOAP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
184 (14.53 %)Tomcat
251 (8.824 %)Apache
336 (6.228 %)TIBCO EMS
431 (5.363 %)WebLogic
521 (3.633 %)Rendezvous
612 (2.076 %)Alfresco
76 (1.038 %)WebLogic Portal
85 (0.865 %)Oracle Application Server
85 (0.865 %)Oracle 10gAS
85 (0.865 %)Oracle Service Bus
93 (0.519 %)MQSeries
93 (0.519 %)IIS
93 (0.519 %)LiveCycle
102 (0.346 %)ATG Dynamo
102 (0.346 %)Documentum
102 (0.346 %)SharePoint
102 (0.346 %)WebSphere Application Server
111 (0.173 %)WebSphere MQ
111 (0.173 %)ActiveMQ
111 (0.173 %)CMS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (0.519 %)MS Project
13 (0.519 %)MS Visio
13 (0.519 %)MS PowerPoint
22 (0.346 %)MS Excel
31 (0.173 %)MS Office
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (1.038 %)BusinessWorks
25 (0.865 %)FENICS FX
32 (0.346 %)RMDS
41 (0.173 %)Oracle 11i
41 (0.173 %)Summit
41 (0.173 %)Google Analytics
41 (0.173 %)Kondor+
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (1.557 %)HTTP
26 (1.038 %)LDAP
34 (0.692 %)Wi-Fi
34 (0.692 %)Broadband
43 (0.519 %)ISDN
43 (0.519 %)PSTN
43 (0.519 %)TCP/IP
43 (0.519 %)Firewall
52 (0.346 %)SSH
52 (0.346 %)Internet
61 (0.173 %)FTP
61 (0.173 %)SNMP
61 (0.173 %)SSL
61 (0.173 %)Wireless
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
136 (6.228 %)RDBMS
231 (5.363 %)SQL Server
325 (4.325 %)Oracle Reports
421 (3.633 %)Oracle 10g
512 (2.076 %)Oracle 8/8i
512 (2.076 %)DB2
611 (1.903 %)MySQL
73 (0.519 %)BusinessObjects
82 (0.346 %)Datawarehouse
82 (0.346 %)ETL
91 (0.173 %)Oracle 9i
91 (0.173 %)Sybase IQ
91 (0.173 %)PostgreSQL
91 (0.173 %)KDB
91 (0.173 %)Reference Data
91 (0.173 %)JasperReports
91 (0.173 %)Sybase ASE
91 (0.173 %)DB2 UDB
91 (0.173 %)Pentaho
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1113 (19.55 %)Subversion
296 (16.61 %)Ant
393 (16.09 %)Maven
460 (10.38 %)jMock
558 (10.03 %)Eclipse
654 (9.343 %)FitNesse
753 (9.170 %)Selenium
842 (7.266 %)TeamCity
939 (6.747 %)NUnit
1035 (6.055 %)EasyMock
1127 (4.671 %)TestNG
1224 (4.152 %)IntelliJ
1323 (3.979 %)ClearCase
1323 (3.979 %)QuickTest Pro
1323 (3.979 %)CruiseControl
1421 (3.633 %)FlexUnit
1513 (2.249 %)WebDriver
1610 (1.730 %)JMeter
177 (1.211 %)Oracle Forms
177 (1.211 %)DbUnit
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1252 (43.60 %)Banking
2173 (29.93 %)Investment Banking
3112 (19.38 %)Finance
498 (16.96 %)Front Office
538 (6.574 %)Back Office
619 (3.287 %)Health
77 (1.211 %)Games
86 (1.038 %)Publishing
95 (0.865 %)Government
104 (0.692 %)Insurance
104 (0.692 %)Mobile Games
104 (0.692 %)Telecoms
113 (0.519 %)Multimedia
113 (0.519 %)Online Betting
122 (0.346 %)Home Office
131 (0.173 %)Retail
131 (0.173 %)Law
131 (0.173 %)Education
131 (0.173 %)Marketing
131 (0.173 %)Music
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1472 (81.66 %)Developer
2382 (66.09 %)Java Developer
368 (11.76 %)Senior Developer
458 (10.03 %)Senior Java Developer
549 (8.478 %)J2EE Developer
643 (7.439 %)Java/J2EE Developer
738 (6.574 %)C# Developer
835 (6.055 %)Agile Java Developer
933 (5.709 %)Analyst
1024 (4.152 %)Java Swing Developer
1121 (3.633 %)Software Engineer
1217 (2.941 %)Flex Developer
1316 (2.768 %)Middleware Developer
1413 (2.249 %)Java Software Engineer
1413 (2.249 %)Test Analyst
1512 (2.076 %)Tester
1611 (1.903 %)Senior Software Engineer
1611 (1.903 %)Analyst Developer
1611 (1.903 %)Team Leader
1611 (1.903 %)SQL Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1147 (25.43 %)Derivative
263 (10.90 %)Fixed Income
357 (9.862 %)Equities
437 (6.401 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
530 (5.190 %)Market Risk
629 (5.017 %)Equity Derivative
724 (4.152 %)Client/Server
820 (3.460 %)Multithreading
918 (3.114 %)Open Source
1017 (2.941 %)Credit Derivative
1116 (2.768 %)Grid Computing
1213 (2.249 %)STB
1312 (2.076 %)Interest Rate Derivative
147 (1.211 %)Management Information System
156 (1.038 %)DTCC
165 (0.865 %)N-Tier
165 (0.865 %)Handset
174 (0.692 %)iPhone
174 (0.692 %)Dependency Injection
174 (0.692 %)Computer Science
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1153 (26.47 %)UNIX
2125 (21.63 %)Linux
344 (7.612 %)Windows
442 (7.266 %)Solaris
512 (2.076 %)Windows XP
67 (1.211 %)Red Hat Linux
75 (0.865 %)Android
83 (0.519 %)CentOS
91 (0.173 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.173 %)MVS
91 (0.173 %)Windows Server 2003
91 (0.173 %)Debian
91 (0.173 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1136 (23.53 %)TDD
2135 (23.36 %)Agile Software Development
3120 (20.76 %)Continuous Integration
4106 (18.34 %)OO
5103 (17.82 %)Unit Testing
682 (14.19 %)MVC
750 (8.651 %)Scrum
841 (7.093 %)Automated Testing
937 (6.401 %)OOD
1036 (6.228 %)UML
1134 (5.882 %)Electronic Trading
1230 (5.190 %)User Acceptance Testing
1329 (5.017 %)E-Commerce
1426 (4.498 %)Asset Management
1426 (4.498 %)Risk Management
1523 (3.979 %)OOA/OOD
1622 (3.806 %)Web Development
1720 (3.460 %)AOP
1819 (3.287 %)Configuration Management
1917 (2.941 %)Regression Testing
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1557 (96.37 %)Java
2199 (34.43 %)SQL
373 (12.63 %)C#
470 (12.11 %)JavaScript
552 (8.997 %)Shell Script
638 (6.574 %)Perl
723 (3.979 %)PL/SQL
723 (3.979 %)C++
810 (1.730 %)C
98 (1.384 %)XPath
98 (1.384 %)T-SQL
106 (1.038 %)Python
115 (0.865 %)Groovy
115 (0.865 %)Bash shell
122 (0.346 %)ActionScript 3.0
122 (0.346 %)VBScript
122 (0.346 %)VB
122 (0.346 %)ActionScript
122 (0.346 %)PHP
131 (0.173 %)COBOL
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
114 (2.422 %)Security Cleared
213 (2.249 %)SC Cleared
311 (1.903 %)Degree
45 (0.865 %)Sun Certification
53 (0.519 %)ISEB
61 (0.173 %)ISEB Practitioner
61 (0.173 %)DV Cleared
61 (0.173 %)ISTQB
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
129 (5.017 %)QA
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.173 %)Oracle RAC
11 (0.173 %)Hadoop
11 (0.173 %)VMware Infrastructure
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (0.865 %)CONTROL-M
21 (0.173 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1202 (34.95 %)Oracle
299 (17.13 %)Sybase
367 (11.59 %)TIBCO
419 (3.287 %)JBoss
515 (2.595 %)Google
614 (2.422 %)Adobe
78 (1.384 %)IBM
78 (1.384 %)Red Hat
87 (1.211 %)Sun
87 (1.211 %)Tangosol
95 (0.865 %)Reuters
95 (0.865 %)Bloomberg
95 (0.865 %)Algorithmics
95 (0.865 %)DataSynapse
104 (0.692 %)Motorola
104 (0.692 %)Nokia
113 (0.519 %)Business Objects
113 (0.519 %)ATG
122 (0.346 %)Perforce
122 (0.346 %)Calypso