The first table below looks at the demand for Resque 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 Resque 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 Application Development 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
Resque
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Resque 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 107 136
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.95 £17.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Resque
England

Resque
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Resque Jobs Demand Trend

Resque
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Resque Daily Rate Trend

Resque
Top 29 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
2 2 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) Gentoo
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) nginx
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Solr
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Varnish
2 2 (50.00%) Capistrano
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Active Record
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
2 2 (50.00%) Apple

Resque
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (50.00%) PostGIS
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) nginx
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
2 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Capistrano
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Gentoo
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Active Record
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) C++
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Varnish
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Apple