The first table below looks at the demand for Gradle skills 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 Gradle over the 3 months to 21 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 Development Applications category 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gradle
Rank - 244 -
Contract jobs citing Gradle 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.010% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.110% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
847 910 1055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.69% 8.958% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 469 425
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 54 116
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Gradle
England

Gradle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Gradle Jobs Demand Trend

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Gradle Daily Rate Trend

Gradle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Gradle 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 Gradle.

1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JProfiler
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Checkstyle
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVC

Gradle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Gradle 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 Gradle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Grails
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss