The first table below looks at the demand for Batik skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Batik 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 Development 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
Batik
Rank 539 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Batik 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.015% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

Batik
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Batik Jobs Demand Trend

Batik
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Batik Hourly Rate Trend

Batik
Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) SVG
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
1 3 (100.00%) CouchDB
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Haskell

Batik
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) SVG
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CouchDB
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) Haskell