The first table below looks at the demand for sed 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 sed 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 Programming Languages 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
sed
Rank - 244 250
Contract jobs citing sed 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 0.033% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 £453
% change year-on-year
- -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2637 3034 3475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 33.29% 29.87% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1295 1477 1507
Average daily rate £342 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.23% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 202 294
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -2.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.91 £20.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
sed
England

sed
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East sed Jobs Demand Trend

sed
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East sed Daily Rate Trend

sed
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East sed Hourly Rate Trend

sed
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (100.00%) Perl
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) AWK
2 4 (50.00%) Teradata
2 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
2 4 (50.00%) Nmap
2 4 (50.00%) Squid
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) WPF
2 4 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (50.00%) TELNET
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Clustering
2 4 (50.00%) NUnit
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 4 (50.00%) JDBC
2 4 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Apache

sed
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) WCF
1 4 (50.00%) WPF
1 4 (50.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (50.00%) JDBC
1 4 (50.00%) XML
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) XML Schema
2 1 (12.50%) WSDL
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 4 (50.00%) Liferay
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
1 4 (50.00%) TELNET
1 4 (50.00%) LDAP
1 4 (50.00%) SMTP
1 4 (50.00%) DHCP
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
1 4 (50.00%) SNMP
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
1 4 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 4 (50.00%) NAS
1 4 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (12.50%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) NUnit
1 4 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (50.00%) Moq
1 4 (50.00%) Hudson
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Administrator
1 4 (50.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Software Design Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
2 1 (12.50%) Physics
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) SOA
1 4 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Perl
1 8 (100.00%) AWK
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Nmap
1 4 (50.00%) Squid
1 4 (50.00%) NFS
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Nagios
1 4 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Teradata
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 4 (50.00%) JBoss
2 4 (50.00%) EMC
2 4 (50.00%) NetApp
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) WSO2