The first table below looks at the demand for FitNesse skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FitNesse 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 of the Development Applications category for the South West 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
FitNesse
Rank - 138 108
Contract jobs citing FitNesse 0 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - 0.030% 0.321%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.278% 2.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
Average daily rate - £175 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -39.13%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £19.00
All Development Applications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
212 360 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 10.35% 10.86% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 220 127
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £288 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 27 48
Average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £23.88 £32.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £40.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
FitNesse
England

FitNesse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West FitNesse Jobs Demand Trend

FitNesse
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West FitNesse Daily Rate Trend

FitNesse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West FitNesse Hourly Rate Trend

FitNesse
Top 28 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Ruby
2 4 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) WATIR
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Hudson
3 2 (33.33%) Web Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) ISEB

FitNesse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Selenium
2 4 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 4 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (66.67%) WATIR
3 2 (33.33%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) Hudson
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 2 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Web Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) BDD
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Testing
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA