The first table below looks at the demand for Varnish 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 Varnish over the 3 months to 17 June 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 System Software 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Varnish
Rank 232 248 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing Varnish 6 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.074% 0.010% -
As % of the System Software category 0.559% 0.119% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1074 838 929
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 13.23% 8.328% 8.969%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 332 335
Average daily rate £340 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 168 168
Average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £16.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +3.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £41.50 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Varnish
England

Varnish
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Varnish Jobs Demand Trend

Varnish
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Varnish Daily Rate Trend

Varnish
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Varnish across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

South East Varnish Daily Rate Histogram

Varnish
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Varnish within the South East region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +18 2 £425 -
East Sussex - 2 £350 -
Surrey - - - - 1
Varnish
England

Varnish
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Drupal
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (50.00%) LAMP
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) Open Source
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) Memcached
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) SproutCore
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (33.33%) Apache
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
4 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 2 (33.33%) Alfresco
4 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Symfony
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) Omniture

Varnish
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) LAMP
1 3 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) Memcached
2 2 (33.33%) SproutCore
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Symfony
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) Drupal
2 2 (33.33%) Alfresco
2 2 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Drupal Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Drupal Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Omniture
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