The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Atlassian products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Atlassian over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Atlassian Software Systems.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian
Rank 501 545 556
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +11
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 32 28 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.069% 0.048% 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.146% 0.103% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 24
Average daily rate £500 £450 £470
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -4.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £500 £474
UK excluding London average daily rate - £273 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £53.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £53.00 - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21868 27126 28034
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.50% 46.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11659 13853 14018
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1197 1299 1587
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Atlassian
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Atlassian within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Atlassian Jobs Demand Trend

Atlassian
Daily Rate Trend

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

Atlassian Daily Rate Trend

Atlassian
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Atlassian within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Atlassian Daily Rate Histogram

Atlassian
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Atlassian Hourly Rate Trend

Atlassian
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Atlassian within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +66 31 £500 +11.11%
London +24 28 £500 +11.11%
City of London +27 11 £460 +8.23%
East of England +23 3 - -
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire +13 1 - -
Cambridge +10 1 - -

Atlassian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Atlassian 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 Atlassian.

1 38 (84.44%) JIRA
2 25 (55.56%) Java
3 20 (44.44%) Confluence
4 16 (35.56%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (35.56%) Maven
5 15 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 15 (33.33%) Linux
6 13 (28.89%) Oracle
6 13 (28.89%) HTML5
7 12 (26.67%) CSS
7 12 (26.67%) Scrum
8 11 (24.44%) Configuration Management
8 11 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (22.22%) CSS3
9 10 (22.22%) Finance
9 10 (22.22%) Ant
9 10 (22.22%) Windows
10 9 (20.00%) Apache
10 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
10 9 (20.00%) Web Services
10 9 (20.00%) Banking
10 9 (20.00%) Selenium
11 8 (17.78%) BladeLogic
11 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
11 8 (17.78%) BMC
11 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
12 7 (15.56%) IIS
12 7 (15.56%) Photoshop
12 7 (15.56%) .NET
12 7 (15.56%) JavaScript

Atlassian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Atlassian 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 Atlassian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (28.89%) HTML5
2 12 (26.67%) CSS
3 10 (22.22%) CSS3
4 9 (20.00%) Web Services
5 7 (15.56%) HTML
5 7 (15.56%) .NET
6 6 (13.33%) JSP
6 6 (13.33%) JSF
6 6 (13.33%) jQuery
7 5 (11.11%) SOAP
8 4 (8.889%) XML
8 4 (8.889%) Ajax
8 4 (8.889%) JMS
8 4 (8.889%) WSH
8 4 (8.889%) Java SE
8 4 (8.889%) soapUI
8 4 (8.889%) Spring
9 3 (6.667%) REST
9 3 (6.667%) Java EE
9 3 (6.667%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 20 (44.44%) Confluence
2 9 (20.00%) Apache
3 7 (15.56%) IIS
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (4.444%) WordPress
5 2 (4.444%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.444%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.222%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (2.222%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.222%) LiveCycle
6 1 (2.222%) Windows Azure
6 1 (2.222%) WebLogic
6 1 (2.222%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Photoshop
2 2 (4.444%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.444%) Mingle
3 1 (2.222%) Acrobat
3 1 (2.222%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.222%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.889%) HTTP
2 2 (4.444%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.444%) DNS
2 2 (4.444%) Internet
2 2 (4.444%) AMQP
3 1 (2.222%) SMTP
3 1 (2.222%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.889%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (8.889%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (8.889%) MySQL
4 2 (4.444%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (4.444%) Hadoop
4 2 (4.444%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.222%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.222%) OLAP
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (84.44%) JIRA
2 16 (35.56%) Maven
3 15 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (22.22%) Ant
5 9 (20.00%) Selenium
6 8 (17.78%) Eclipse
6 8 (17.78%) Jenkins
7 6 (13.33%) Dreamweaver
7 6 (13.33%) JUnit
7 6 (13.33%) VisualAge
7 6 (13.33%) Git (software)
8 4 (8.889%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (8.889%) Subversion
9 2 (4.444%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (4.444%) CruiseControl
9 2 (4.444%) JBehave
9 2 (4.444%) WebDriver
9 2 (4.444%) Firebug
9 2 (4.444%) GitHub
9 2 (4.444%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Retail
4 3 (6.667%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.222%) French Language
5 1 (2.222%) Publishing
5 1 (2.222%) Back Office
5 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 7 (15.56%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Consultant
5 3 (6.667%) Tester
5 3 (6.667%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.667%) Team Leader
5 3 (6.667%) Agile Java Developer
5 3 (6.667%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Senior Tester
6 2 (4.444%) Automation Tester
6 2 (4.444%) Senior Automation Tester
6 2 (4.444%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Java Team Leader
6 2 (4.444%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Development Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Development Manager
6 2 (4.444%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) W3C
2 5 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 5 (11.11%) N-Tier
3 3 (6.667%) Derivative
4 1 (2.222%) iPhone
4 1 (2.222%) Open Source
4 1 (2.222%) Social Media
4 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.222%) Replication
4 1 (2.222%) NHS
4 1 (2.222%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Linux
2 10 (22.22%) Windows
3 6 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.11%) UNIX
5 4 (8.889%) Apple iOS
5 4 (8.889%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (8.889%) Solaris
5 4 (8.889%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (8.889%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (6.667%) Android
7 2 (4.444%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (26.67%) Scrum
3 11 (24.44%) Configuration Management
3 11 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (15.56%) Multithreading
5 6 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 6 (13.33%) TDD
6 5 (11.11%) MVC
6 5 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 5 (11.11%) OO
6 5 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 4 (8.889%) Automated Testing
7 4 (8.889%) BDD
8 3 (6.667%) Test Scripting
8 3 (6.667%) Web Development
9 2 (4.444%) Load Testing
9 2 (4.444%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.444%) Requirements Management
9 2 (4.444%) Integration Testing
9 2 (4.444%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) Java
2 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.33%) C#
3 6 (13.33%) Python
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 4 (8.889%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.667%) C
6 3 (6.667%) PHP
7 2 (4.444%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.222%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.222%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.222%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (8.889%) ISEB
2 2 (4.444%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.444%) MCPD
2 2 (4.444%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.444%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.222%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) WAI
2 3 (6.667%) ISO 9001
3 2 (4.444%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.889%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (8.889%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.222%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) BladeLogic
2 6 (13.33%) Puppet
3 4 (8.889%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 1 (2.222%) Splunk
4 1 (2.222%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) BMC
3 6 (13.33%) IBM
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.11%) VMware
5 4 (8.889%) NetIQ
5 4 (8.889%) HP
6 3 (6.667%) Google
6 3 (6.667%) Zend
7 2 (4.444%) Apple
7 2 (4.444%) Adobe
8 1 (2.222%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.222%) Akamai
8 1 (2.222%) Tableau
8 1 (2.222%) Facebook
8 1 (2.222%) Twitter
8 1 (2.222%) ION Trading
8 1 (2.222%) Telerik
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Duties & Responsibilities Java developer with 3+ years of proven experience of working in a Java Enterprise/ Web environment (E) Proven experience of common development tools, for example Ant,...
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Posted: 3 May 2013