The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Coverity products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Coverity 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 Vendors for the South East 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 Coverity.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Coverity
Rank 221 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Coverity 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.026% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.052% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3883 5089 5129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 49.69% 50.10% 49.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1898 2223 2014
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 380 413
Average hourly rate £19.63 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.02% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.34 £11.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Coverity
England

Coverity
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Coverity across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South East Coverity Jobs Demand Trend

Coverity
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Coverity Daily Rate Trend

Coverity
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Coverity within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hampshire - 2 £300 -
Coverity
England

Coverity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Coverity 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 Coverity.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
1 2 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Hudson
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GDB
2 1 (50.00%) FindBugs
2 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (50.00%) GoogleTest
2 1 (50.00%) CppUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) PyUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture

Coverity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Swing
2 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
2 1 (50.00%) Motif
2 1 (50.00%) JMX
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) wxWidgets
2 1 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Doxygen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 2 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 2 (100.00%) Hudson
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) GDB
2 1 (50.00%) FindBugs
2 1 (50.00%) GoogleTest
2 1 (50.00%) Checkstyle
2 1 (50.00%) CppUnit
2 1 (50.00%) PyUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) AOP
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cognizant