The first table below looks at the demand for Hudson 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 Hudson 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
Hudson (HudsonCI)
Rank 109 111 108
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs citing Hudson 6 28 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.293% 0.845% 0.321%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.830% 7.778% 2.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 3
Average daily rate £450 £363 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.13% -14.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £345 £390
% change year-on-year
+2.46% -11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
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% -
Hudson
England

Hudson
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Hudson Jobs Demand Trend

Hudson
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Hudson Daily Rate Trend

Hudson
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Hudson Hourly Rate Trend

Hudson
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hudson within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +29 5 £450 -
Wiltshire +5 1 - -
Hudson
England

Hudson
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (78.57%) UNIX
1 11 (78.57%) Git (software)
2 10 (71.43%) Maven
3 8 (57.14%) Shell Script
3 8 (57.14%) Apache
3 8 (57.14%) C
3 8 (57.14%) J2EE
3 8 (57.14%) Ant
3 8 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
4 7 (50.00%) Content Management
4 7 (50.00%) JBoss
5 5 (35.71%) Linux
5 5 (35.71%) PHP
6 3 (21.43%) MySQL
6 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) Solaris
6 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
6 3 (21.43%) Mercator
6 3 (21.43%) LAMP
6 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
6 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
6 3 (21.43%) Puppet
6 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Kanban
7 2 (14.29%) RESTful
7 2 (14.29%) WebDriver

Hudson
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (57.14%) J2EE
2 3 (21.43%) LAMP
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Wireless
1 1 (7.143%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Git (software)
2 10 (71.43%) Maven
3 8 (57.14%) Ant
4 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
5 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
5 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 2 (14.29%) WATIR
5 2 (14.29%) Selenium
5 2 (14.29%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) UNIX
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Content Management
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Testing
3 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (14.29%) TDD
3 2 (14.29%) Kanban
3 2 (14.29%) BDD
3 2 (14.29%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C
1 8 (57.14%) Shell Script
2 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Ruby
4 1 (7.143%) C#
4 1 (7.143%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) NetBackup
1 3 (21.43%) Puppet
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) JBoss
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 3 (21.43%) Mercator
2 3 (21.43%) VMware