Refactoring Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring 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 Refactoring 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Refactoring
Rank 215 228 239
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +11
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 9 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.115% 0.108% 0.135%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.170% 0.167% 0.209%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 6
Average daily rate £425 £343 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.08% +24.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £309
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
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All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 5291 6603 6683
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.89% 65.08% 64.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2748 3170 3050
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 323 365
Average hourly rate £26.98 £26.25 £34.41
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.76% -23.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Refactoring across the South East region.

South East Refactoring Hourly Rate Trend

Refactoring
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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 -4 7 - -
Berkshire +16 2 £425 +21.42%
Refactoring
England

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

1 9 (69.23%) UML
1 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (61.54%) UNIX
2 8 (61.54%) OO
2 8 (61.54%) XML
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 7 (53.85%) Ant
3 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) Linux
3 7 (53.85%) ClearCase
3 7 (53.85%) OOD
3 7 (53.85%) Ingres
3 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
3 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (53.85%) Multithreading
3 7 (53.85%) CruiseControl
3 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 6 (46.15%) Python
5 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 5 (38.46%) Java
5 5 (38.46%) C
5 5 (38.46%) C++
5 5 (38.46%) Use Case
5 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
6 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (30.77%) CppUnit
6 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) XML
2 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 4 (30.77%) wxWidgets
2 4 (30.77%) JDBC
2 4 (30.77%) Motif
3 3 (23.08%) Swing
4 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) J2EE
4 2 (15.38%) HTML
4 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 1 (7.692%) Java RMI
5 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.692%) JMX
5 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET
5 1 (7.692%) DOM
5 1 (7.692%) JSP
5 1 (7.692%) Servlets
5 1 (7.692%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Documentum
1 1 (7.692%) WebLogic
1 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.692%) ESB
1 1 (7.692%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) GPRS
1 1 (7.692%) GSM
1 1 (7.692%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Ingres
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) GIS
2 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Ant
1 7 (53.85%) ClearCase
1 7 (53.85%) CruiseControl
2 4 (30.77%) CppUnit
2 4 (30.77%) Subversion
2 4 (30.77%) GoogleTest
2 4 (30.77%) NUnit
2 4 (30.77%) JUnit
2 4 (30.77%) Rational Rose
2 4 (30.77%) ClearQuest
3 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
3 3 (23.08%) NetBeans
3 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) FindBugs
3 3 (23.08%) Mockito
3 3 (23.08%) Hudson
4 1 (7.692%) Log4j
4 1 (7.692%) Checkstyle
4 1 (7.692%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Team Leader
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Architect
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Leader
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Derivative
2 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) UNIX
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) UML
1 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (61.54%) OO
3 7 (53.85%) OOD
3 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
3 7 (53.85%) Multithreading
3 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Use Case
5 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Integration Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Software Architecture
5 4 (30.77%) Memory Management
5 4 (30.77%) Unified Process
5 4 (30.77%) RUP
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Code Coverage
6 3 (23.08%) TDD
6 3 (23.08%) AOP
6 3 (23.08%) Analytics
6 3 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) C
3 5 (38.46%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.692%) Embedded C
5 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Red Hat
3 3 (23.08%) Cognizant
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Coverity
JavaScript Developer
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
The JavaScript Developer will be required to lead the team to code and test the JavaScript components with an eye towards constant refactoring for performance and maintainability, utilising...
Interact Consulting
Rate: 300-350
Posted: 24 May 2013
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