The first table below looks at the demand for Drools skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Drools 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 Application Development category for the Surrey 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
Drools
Rank - 98 98
Contract jobs citing Drools 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.122% 0.160%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.415% 0.547%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £123 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -69.93%
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £225 £405
% change year-on-year
+74.44% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £42.00
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
322 482 548
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.27% 29.28% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 272 295
Average daily rate £350 £348 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -3.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 14
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £17.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Drools
South East

Drools
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Drools across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Surrey Drools Jobs Demand Trend

Drools
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Drools Daily Rate Trend

Drools
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Drools Hourly Rate Trend

Drools
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Drools 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 Drools.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) XQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Extranet
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Scala

Drools
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Extranet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) XML Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) XQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared