The first table below looks at the demand for Adobe CQ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adobe CQ over the 3 months to 19 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 Application Platforms category.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe CQ (formerly Day CQ Communiqué CQ5)
Rank 403 532 584
Rank change year-on-year
+129 +52
Contract jobs citing Adobe CQ 138 38 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.287% 0.065% 0.027%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.631% 0.402% 0.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 22 13
Average daily rate £375 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £351 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 - £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8463 9460 9995
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.30% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4776 5322 5437
Average daily rate £358 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 441 559
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%

Adobe CQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Adobe CQ within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Adobe CQ Jobs Demand Trend

Adobe CQ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Adobe CQ within the UK.

Adobe CQ Daily Rate Trend

Adobe CQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Adobe CQ within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Adobe CQ Daily Rate Histogram

Adobe CQ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Adobe CQ within the UK.

Adobe CQ Hourly Rate Trend

Adobe CQ
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adobe CQ within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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
England +104 129 £375 -16.66% 20
London +82 90 £375 -16.66% 14
City of London +16 24 £375 -15.49% 2
Yorkshire - 20 £250 -
Leeds - 19 £250 -
West Yorkshire - 19 £250 -
South East +34 10 £500 - 2
Surrey +24 7 £575 -
East of England - 6 £400 - 3
Scotland - 5 - - 3
Essex - 5 £400 - 2
Harlow - 3 £438 -
West Midlands +7 2 £240 -
Edinburgh - 2 - - 2
Bromley - 1 £325 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £200 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £200 -
Atherstone - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Glasgow - - - -
Kent - - - - 1
Warwickshire - - - -

Adobe CQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Adobe CQ 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 Adobe CQ.

1 187 (78.90%) Adobe
2 127 (53.59%) Java
3 98 (41.35%) CMS
4 65 (27.43%) HTML
5 58 (24.47%) CSS
5 58 (24.47%) Content Management
6 56 (23.63%) E-Commerce
7 55 (23.21%) JavaScript
8 43 (18.14%) J2EE
9 40 (16.88%) Web Services
10 38 (16.03%) Publishing
11 34 (14.35%) TDD
11 34 (14.35%) Spring
12 33 (13.92%) jQuery
12 33 (13.92%) Telecoms
13 32 (13.50%) Marketing
14 31 (13.08%) Hibernate
15 29 (12.24%) JSP
15 29 (12.24%) SOAP
16 28 (11.81%) hybris
16 28 (11.81%) REST
17 27 (11.39%) BDD
18 26 (10.97%) HTML5
18 26 (10.97%) Maven
19 24 (10.13%) Flash
19 24 (10.13%) SOA
20 23 (9.705%) Migration
20 23 (9.705%) Git (software)
21 22 (9.283%) Ajax
21 22 (9.283%) Internet

Adobe CQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Adobe CQ 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 Adobe CQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 65 (27.43%) HTML
2 58 (24.47%) CSS
3 43 (18.14%) J2EE
4 40 (16.88%) Web Services
5 34 (14.35%) Spring
6 33 (13.92%) jQuery
7 31 (13.08%) Hibernate
8 29 (12.24%) JSP
8 29 (12.24%) SOAP
9 28 (11.81%) REST
10 26 (10.97%) HTML5
11 24 (10.13%) Flash
12 22 (9.283%) Ajax
12 22 (9.283%) XML
13 17 (7.173%) Servlets
14 15 (6.329%) RESTful
15 14 (5.907%) Java EE
16 13 (5.485%) OSGi
17 12 (5.063%) CSS3
18 9 (3.797%) Apache Sling
Application Platforms
1 98 (41.35%) CMS
2 18 (7.595%) Amazon AWS
3 17 (7.173%) Apache
4 14 (5.907%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (5.907%) Amazon S3
5 13 (5.485%) Route 53
6 9 (3.797%) Tomcat
7 8 (3.376%) Apache Solr
8 7 (2.954%) nginx
9 6 (2.532%) WebLogic
10 5 (2.110%) SAS
11 4 (1.688%) IIS
12 3 (1.266%) Alfresco
12 3 (1.266%) WebSphere Portal
13 2 (0.844%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.844%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.844%) FileNet
13 2 (0.844%) Documentum
14 1 (0.422%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.422%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (8.017%) Photoshop
2 17 (7.173%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.422%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.422%) InDesign
3 1 (0.422%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 13 (5.485%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.688%) Misys Equation
2 4 (1.688%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.422%) Tridion
3 1 (0.422%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.422%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.422%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.283%) Internet
2 12 (5.063%) HTTP
3 8 (3.376%) Intranet
4 7 (2.954%) DNS
5 1 (0.422%) Broadband
5 1 (0.422%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.907%) MongoDB
2 13 (5.485%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (5.485%) Redis
2 13 (5.485%) MySQL
3 5 (2.110%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.266%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.422%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.422%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.422%) Amazon DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (10.97%) Maven
2 23 (9.705%) Git (software)
3 19 (8.017%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.907%) Selenium
5 13 (5.485%) JUnit
6 10 (4.219%) Hudson
7 9 (3.797%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.797%) Mockito
7 9 (3.797%) Subversion
7 9 (3.797%) JBehave
7 9 (3.797%) WebDriver
7 9 (3.797%) TeamCity
7 9 (3.797%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (3.376%) Eclipse
9 4 (1.688%) JIRA
10 3 (1.266%) Xcode
11 2 (0.844%) Ant
12 1 (0.422%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 38 (16.03%) Publishing
2 33 (13.92%) Telecoms
3 32 (13.50%) Marketing
4 17 (7.173%) Legal
5 15 (6.329%) Retail
6 10 (4.219%) Banking
7 9 (3.797%) Finance
8 4 (1.688%) Private Banking
8 4 (1.688%) Games
9 3 (1.266%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.844%) Portuguese Language
10 2 (0.844%) Billing
11 1 (0.422%) Electronics
11 1 (0.422%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.422%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.422%) Advertising
11 1 (0.422%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (61.18%) Developer
2 51 (21.52%) Java Developer
3 23 (9.705%) Architect
4 17 (7.173%) Web Producer
4 17 (7.173%) Programmer
5 14 (5.907%) CMS Developer
5 14 (5.907%) Consultant
6 13 (5.485%) Web Developer
7 10 (4.219%) Senior Developer
8 8 (3.376%) UI Developer
8 8 (3.376%) UI Programmer
9 7 (2.954%) Android Developer
9 7 (2.954%) Coordinator
9 7 (2.954%) Content Editor
10 5 (2.110%) Analyst
11 4 (1.688%) Senior Android Developer
11 4 (1.688%) Content Manager
11 4 (1.688%) Test Analyst
11 4 (1.688%) Tester
11 4 (1.688%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.485%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (5.485%) Client/Server
2 5 (2.110%) Online Banking
2 5 (2.110%) Digital Media
3 4 (1.688%) iSeries
3 4 (1.688%) iPhone
3 4 (1.688%) AS400
4 3 (1.266%) Computer Science
5 2 (0.844%) SaaS
5 2 (0.844%) Social Media
5 2 (0.844%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.844%) Mathematics
5 2 (0.844%) Clustering
5 2 (0.844%) Statistics
5 2 (0.844%) Replication
6 1 (0.422%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.422%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.422%) DTV
6 1 (0.422%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.422%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.595%) Linux
2 13 (5.485%) Android
3 8 (3.376%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.844%) UNIX
5 1 (0.422%) AIX
5 1 (0.422%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.47%) Content Management
2 56 (23.63%) E-Commerce
3 34 (14.35%) TDD
4 27 (11.39%) BDD
5 24 (10.13%) SOA
6 23 (9.705%) Migration
7 20 (8.439%) OO
7 20 (8.439%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (7.595%) Agile Software Development
9 17 (7.173%) Scrum
10 16 (6.751%) Workflow
11 15 (6.329%) Project Management
11 15 (6.329%) Web Development
11 15 (6.329%) Web Design
12 13 (5.485%) Security Testing
13 11 (4.641%) Test Automation
14 9 (3.797%) Software Engineering
15 8 (3.376%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (3.376%) OOD
16 7 (2.954%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 127 (53.59%) Java
2 55 (23.21%) JavaScript
3 13 (5.485%) Ruby
4 12 (5.063%) SQL
5 10 (4.219%) Python
6 9 (3.797%) C++
6 9 (3.797%) Perl
6 9 (3.797%) PHP
7 7 (2.954%) Bash shell
8 6 (2.532%) Scala
9 4 (1.688%) Groovy
9 4 (1.688%) RPG
10 3 (1.266%) C
10 3 (1.266%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.422%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.422%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.422%) Jython
11 1 (0.422%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 17 (7.173%) Degree
2 5 (2.110%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.422%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.532%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.844%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.688%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 187 (78.90%) Adobe
2 28 (11.81%) hybris
3 21 (8.861%) Oracle
4 13 (5.485%) Percona
5 8 (3.376%) IBM
6 7 (2.954%) Omniture
7 5 (2.110%) FatWire
8 4 (1.688%) Elastic Path
8 4 (1.688%) Alterian
8 4 (1.688%) Endeca
8 4 (1.688%) Misys
8 4 (1.688%) SAP
9 2 (0.844%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.844%) Google
9 2 (0.844%) JBoss
10 1 (0.422%) ATG
10 1 (0.422%) Interwoven
10 1 (0.422%) Apple
10 1 (0.422%) Open Text
10 1 (0.422%) Demandware
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