The first table below looks at the demand for RavenDB 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 RavenDB over the 3 months to 17 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RavenDB
Rank 384 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing RavenDB 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.022% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £600 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 - £260
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4514 4988 6187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.91% 18.63% 19.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3132 3217 3949
Average daily rate £438 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 40 57
Average hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.46% -1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £18.20 £16.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
RavenDB
England

RavenDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RavenDB across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

London RavenDB Jobs Demand Trend

RavenDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

London RavenDB Daily Rate Trend

RavenDB
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RavenDB 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 RavenDB.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Lucene
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) NServiceBus
3 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Equities
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (33.33%) NUnit

RavenDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing RavenDB 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 RavenDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Lucene
2 2 (66.67%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
2 1 (33.33%) NServiceBus
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
1 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Umbraco Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Equities
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree