The first table below looks at the demand for FreeMarker skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FreeMarker 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 Reading 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
FreeMarker
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing FreeMarker 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.240% - -
As % of the Application Development category 1.000% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £308 £344
% change year-on-year
+9.75% -10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
200 160 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.95% 14.35% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 115
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
FreeMarker
Berkshire

FreeMarker
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading FreeMarker Jobs Demand Trend

FreeMarker
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Velocity
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Jetty
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX

FreeMarker
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Velocity
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Jetty
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL