The first table below looks at the demand for Concordion skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Concordion over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Concordion
Rank 526 581 581
Rank change year-on-year
+55 0
Contract jobs citing Concordion 3 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.005% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.059% 0.056% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £303 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.23% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
5093 5313 6437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.98% 9.110% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3197 3137 3627
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 217 316
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.33 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Concordion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Concordion Jobs Demand Trend

Concordion
Daily Rate Trend

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

Concordion Daily Rate Trend

Concordion
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 Concordion within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +45 2 £400 +32.23%
London +37 2 £400 +32.23%
City of London +16 2 £400 +45.45%
Scotland - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -

Concordion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Concordion 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 Concordion.

1 12 (92.31%) Selenium
2 11 (84.62%) Cucumber
2 11 (84.62%) Finance
3 10 (76.92%) Visual Studio
3 10 (76.92%) C#
3 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (76.92%) FitNesse
4 9 (69.23%) Web Testing
5 8 (61.54%) Ruby
6 3 (23.08%) Java
7 2 (15.38%) COM
7 2 (15.38%) Java EE
7 2 (15.38%) TDD
7 2 (15.38%) Open Source
7 2 (15.38%) JUnit
8 1 (7.692%) BDD
8 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
8 1 (7.692%) DbUnit
8 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
8 1 (7.692%) FindBugs
8 1 (7.692%) PowerMock
8 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
8 1 (7.692%) dbdeploy
8 1 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (7.692%) Groovy
8 1 (7.692%) TestNG
8 1 (7.692%) TeamCity
8 1 (7.692%) EasyMock
8 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
8 1 (7.692%) Product Management

Concordion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Concordion 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 Concordion. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) COM
1 2 (15.38%) Java EE
2 1 (7.692%) PowerMock
2 1 (7.692%) JSF
2 1 (7.692%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (7.692%) JSP
2 1 (7.692%) Servlets
2 1 (7.692%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) HTTP
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.692%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) Selenium
2 11 (84.62%) Cucumber
3 10 (76.92%) Visual Studio
3 10 (76.92%) FitNesse
4 2 (15.38%) JUnit
5 1 (7.692%) DbUnit
5 1 (7.692%) FindBugs
5 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.692%) dbdeploy
5 1 (7.692%) TestNG
5 1 (7.692%) TeamCity
5 1 (7.692%) EasyMock
5 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
5 1 (7.692%) Maven
5 1 (7.692%) Checkstyle
5 1 (7.692%) WATIR
5 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
5 1 (7.692%) Ant
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Automation Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Test Analyst
1 9 (69.23%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Automation Tester
2 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
2 1 (7.692%) Tester
2 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
1 1 (7.692%) Windows
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
1 1 (7.692%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Web Testing
2 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 1 (7.692%) BDD
3 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.692%) Product Management
3 1 (7.692%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) OO
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 8 (61.54%) Ruby
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
4 1 (7.692%) Groovy
4 1 (7.692%) AWK
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft