The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills 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 Drools 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 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Drools
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Drools 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £225 £405
% change year-on-year
+74.44% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Drools
England

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Drools Daily Rate Trend

Drools
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Drools 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 Drools.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSD
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
1 3 (100.00%) EAI
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO Hawk
1 3 (100.00%) BusinessWorks
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Equities
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO EMS
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSD
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Esper
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO EMS
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) BusinessWorks
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LDAP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (100.00%) Equities
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) EAI
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) TIBCO