The first table below looks at the demand for Checkstyle skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Checkstyle 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.

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
Checkstyle
Rank 524 575 574
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -1
Contract jobs citing Checkstyle 6 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.005% 0.023%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.118% 0.056% 0.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £356 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5077 5364 6467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.204% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3208 3177 3632
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 211 325
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Checkstyle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Checkstyle Jobs Demand Trend

Checkstyle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Checkstyle Daily Rate Trend

Checkstyle
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Checkstyle within the UK 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
England +51 4 £425 -
London - 3 £425 -
South East +24 1 - -
City of London - 1 £425 -
Hampshire - 1 - -

Checkstyle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Checkstyle 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 Checkstyle.

1 12 (100.00%) JUnit
2 10 (83.33%) FindBugs
3 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (75.00%) Java
4 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (50.00%) TDD
5 6 (50.00%) Ant
5 6 (50.00%) Code Coverage
5 6 (50.00%) BDD
5 6 (50.00%) Hudson
5 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (41.67%) J2EE
6 5 (41.67%) OO
6 5 (41.67%) Spring
6 5 (41.67%) Maven
7 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (33.33%) Java EE
7 4 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
7 4 (33.33%) TestNG
7 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
8 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (25.00%) BC Cleared
8 3 (25.00%) Coverity
8 3 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (25.00%) Mockito
8 3 (25.00%) PowerMock
8 3 (25.00%) Analytics
8 3 (25.00%) AOP
8 3 (25.00%) Multithreading

Checkstyle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Checkstyle 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 Checkstyle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (41.67%) J2EE
1 5 (41.67%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Java EE
3 3 (25.00%) PowerMock
3 3 (25.00%) JDBC
3 3 (25.00%) XML
3 3 (25.00%) Swing
3 3 (25.00%) Java RMI
3 3 (25.00%) JMX
4 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 2 (16.67%) SOAP
4 2 (16.67%) Web Services
4 2 (16.67%) Ajax
4 2 (16.67%) Grails
4 2 (16.67%) jQuery
4 2 (16.67%) Apache CXF
4 2 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Ingres
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) JUnit
2 10 (83.33%) FindBugs
3 9 (75.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (50.00%) Ant
4 6 (50.00%) Hudson
5 5 (41.67%) Maven
6 4 (33.33%) TestNG
6 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
6 4 (33.33%) Cucumber
7 3 (25.00%) Mockito
7 3 (25.00%) NetBeans
7 3 (25.00%) CruiseControl
7 3 (25.00%) AppScan
7 3 (25.00%) ClearCase
7 3 (25.00%) Eclipse
8 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
8 2 (16.67%) Selenium
8 2 (16.67%) FitNesse
8 2 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Java Developer
3 5 (41.67%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Applications Developer
4 3 (25.00%) J2EE Applications Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
6 1 (8.333%) Agile Java Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Java Engineer
6 1 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (50.00%) BDD
2 6 (50.00%) Code Coverage
2 6 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) OO
4 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) UML
5 3 (25.00%) OOD
5 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (25.00%) AOP
6 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
6 2 (16.67%) Load Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) PHP
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) BC Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Coverity
2 1 (8.333%) Cognizant