The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Blue Martini products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blue Martini over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the North West 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Blue Martini Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Martini
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Martini 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - -
As % of the Vendors 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 Vendors
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1106 1565 1394
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 45.89% 51.40% 45.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 719 695
Average daily rate £334 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 88 98
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.76 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.46% -1.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.69 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.17 £30.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Blue Martini
England

Blue Martini
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Blue Martini across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

North West Blue Martini Jobs Demand Trend

Blue Martini
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Blue Martini 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 Blue Martini.

1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) HPUX
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (100.00%) XHTML
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) ATG
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 5 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (80.00%) Elastic Path
2 4 (80.00%) XMLBeans
2 4 (80.00%) XPath
2 4 (80.00%) JSTL
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 4 (80.00%) Interwoven

Blue Martini
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Blue Martini 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 Blue Martini. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) JDBC
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
1 5 (100.00%) XHTML
1 5 (100.00%) Ajax
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (80.00%) JSTL
2 4 (80.00%) JMS
2 4 (80.00%) XMLBeans
2 4 (80.00%) EJB
2 4 (80.00%) JSP
2 4 (80.00%) Servlets
2 4 (80.00%) Struts
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (80.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) DB2
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Ant
1 4 (80.00%) JUnit
1 4 (80.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (80.00%) Log4j
1 4 (80.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Retail
2 4 (80.00%) Games
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) HPUX
1 5 (100.00%) Solaris
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 4 (80.00%) UML
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) Bash shell
2 4 (80.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) ATG
2 4 (80.00%) Elastic Path
2 4 (80.00%) Interwoven