The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Heroku 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 Heroku 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Heroku
Rank 222 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Heroku 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.065% - -
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 of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1540 1915 1982
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.71% 18.85% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 817 810
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 182
Average hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.92 £12.80 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Heroku
England

Heroku
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Heroku Jobs Demand Trend

Heroku
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Heroku 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
East Sussex - 1 - -
Heroku
England

Heroku
Top 23 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
1 4 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 4 (50.00%) Workflow
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (50.00%) jQuery
1 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) RSpec
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
1 4 (50.00%) PaaS
1 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Media
2 3 (37.50%) Force.com
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development

Heroku
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (50.00%) jQuery
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Force.com
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (50.00%) RSpec
1 4 (50.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) SaaS
1 4 (50.00%) PaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Quality Management
1 4 (50.00%) Workflow
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum
1 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 4 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
1 4 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
Guildford, Surrey
Key Skills - Modern RESTful approach to Ruby on Rails development - Using Git as part of the daily development workflow (or other distributed source control systems) - RSpec/Cucumber with...
Austin Fraser
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 16 May 2013