Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Confluence skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Confluence over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

LinkConfluence
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank420438576
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Up+138
Matching contract IT job ads73324
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.151 %0.008 %0.029 %
As % of the Application Platforms category1.073 %0.053 %0.218 %
Daily rates quoted46018
Average daily rate£475-£475
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230-£365
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550-£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£330-£500
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
6802564411000
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK14.08 %14.31 %13.38 %
Daily rates quoted293317883170
Average daily rate£357£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.920 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£210£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£375
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-9.330 %
Hourly rates quoted465449989
Average hourly rate£19.00£22.50£20.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55 %+10.29 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£12.00£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£40.50£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %

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.

Confluence
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Confluence within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Confluence Demand Trend

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Confluence Daily Rate Trend

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Confluence Daily Rate Histogram

Confluence
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+2471£475-
LondonUp+269£475-
City of LondonDown-5119£488-
Canary WharfNew entry-5£475-
Northern IrelandNew entry-1£275-
ScotlandNew entry-1£330-
South WestNew entry-1--
South EastNew entry-1£365-
BelfastNew entry-1£275-
County AntrimNew entry-1£275-
WiltshireNew entry-1--
MiddlesexNew entry-1£365-
SwindonNew entry-1--

Confluence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Confluence 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 Confluence.

184 (77.06 %)JIRA
251 (46.79 %)Subversion
342 (38.53 %)Java
441 (37.61 %)Windows
537 (33.94 %)Wiki
630 (27.52 %)Agile Software Development
630 (27.52 %)Oracle
728 (25.69 %)Maven
823 (21.10 %)SQL
921 (19.27 %)Linux
1020 (18.35 %)Banking
1119 (17.43 %)WebSphere
1119 (17.43 %)Solaris
1119 (17.43 %)SharePoint
1119 (17.43 %)Scrum
1218 (16.51 %)Eclipse
1317 (15.60 %)C#
1317 (15.60 %)Derivative
1317 (15.60 %)Continuous Integration
1416 (14.68 %)Internet
1416 (14.68 %)VMware
1416 (14.68 %)SQL Server
1515 (13.76 %)XML
1515 (13.76 %)Equities
1515 (13.76 %)Windows Server 2003
1515 (13.76 %)Investment Banking
1614 (12.84 %)HTTP
1614 (12.84 %)IBM
1614 (12.84 %)ITIL
1713 (11.93 %)Microsoft

Confluence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Confluence 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 Confluence. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
119 (17.43 %)WebSphere
215 (13.76 %)XML
313 (11.93 %).NET
412 (11.01 %)HTML
412 (11.01 %)Web Services
510 (9.174 %)J2EE
69 (8.257 %)RSS
78 (7.339 %)WSDL
78 (7.339 %)WinForms
87 (6.422 %)Spring
96 (5.505 %)Hibernate
104 (3.670 %)CSS
113 (2.752 %)JDBC
122 (1.835 %)ASP
122 (1.835 %)ASP.NET
122 (1.835 %)AJAX
122 (1.835 %)XMPP
131 (0.917 %)RESTful
131 (0.917 %)HTML5
131 (0.917 %)WPF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
119 (17.43 %)SharePoint
28 (7.339 %)IIS
36 (5.505 %)LiveLink
45 (4.587 %)Apache
54 (3.670 %)CMS
54 (3.670 %)TIBCO EMS
63 (2.752 %)Tomcat
63 (2.752 %)WebLogic
72 (1.835 %)Drupal
81 (0.917 %)WordPress
81 (0.917 %)Liferay
81 (0.917 %)SonicMQ
81 (0.917 %)ColdFusion
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (9.174 %)MS Office
28 (7.339 %)MS Excel
28 (7.339 %)MS Visio
36 (5.505 %)MS Project
45 (4.587 %)MS PowerPoint
54 (3.670 %)Photoshop
63 (2.752 %)Paint Shop Pro
63 (2.752 %)Acrobat
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.917 %)Front Arena
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
116 (14.68 %)Internet
214 (12.84 %)HTTP
36 (5.505 %)Intranet
41 (0.917 %)DNS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
116 (14.68 %)SQL Server
26 (5.505 %)SQL Server 2005
35 (4.587 %)DB2
44 (3.670 %)SQLPlus
44 (3.670 %)Oracle 8/8i
44 (3.670 %)SQL Server 2008
53 (2.752 %)MySQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
184 (77.06 %)JIRA
251 (46.79 %)Subversion
328 (25.69 %)Maven
418 (16.51 %)Eclipse
57 (6.422 %)FitNesse
65 (4.587 %)QuickTest Pro
74 (3.670 %)TeamCity
81 (0.917 %)Atlassian Bamboo
81 (0.917 %)ClearCase
81 (0.917 %)PVCS
81 (0.917 %)VSS/SourceSafe
81 (0.917 %)Ant
81 (0.917 %)InstallShield
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
120 (18.35 %)Banking
215 (13.76 %)Investment Banking
310 (9.174 %)Finance
49 (8.257 %)Front Office
54 (3.670 %)Publishing
63 (2.752 %)Financial Institution
72 (1.835 %)Government
81 (0.917 %)Construction
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
117 (15.60 %)Developer
214 (12.84 %)Analyst
311 (10.09 %)Architect
410 (9.174 %)Author
410 (9.174 %)Technical Author
59 (8.257 %)Technical Support
68 (7.339 %)Applications Support
68 (7.339 %)Support Analyst
68 (7.339 %)GUI Developer
68 (7.339 %)C# Developer
68 (7.339 %)Applications Support Analyst
77 (6.422 %)Team Leader
86 (5.505 %)Project Manager
95 (4.587 %)Technical Manager
95 (4.587 %)Release Manager
95 (4.587 %)Technical Project Manager
104 (3.670 %)Tester
104 (3.670 %)Test Manager
104 (3.670 %)Technical Architect
113 (2.752 %)ScrumMaster
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
137 (33.94 %)Wiki
217 (15.60 %)Derivative
315 (13.76 %)Equities
410 (9.174 %)Social Network
58 (7.339 %)Fixed Income
58 (7.339 %)Equity Derivative
66 (5.505 %)Blog
75 (4.587 %)Clustering
84 (3.670 %)iDTV
84 (3.670 %)Interactive TV
84 (3.670 %)Multithreading
93 (2.752 %)Open Source
93 (2.752 %)DTV
102 (1.835 %)Credit Risk
111 (0.917 %)RIA
111 (0.917 %)Computer Science
111 (0.917 %)BBC
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
141 (37.61 %)Windows
221 (19.27 %)Linux
319 (17.43 %)Solaris
415 (13.76 %)Windows Server 2003
54 (3.670 %)UNIX
61 (0.917 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
130 (27.52 %)Agile Software Development
219 (17.43 %)Scrum
317 (15.60 %)Continuous Integration
414 (12.84 %)ITIL
513 (11.93 %)SOA
612 (11.01 %)Automated Testing
711 (10.09 %)TDD
810 (9.174 %)Workflow
810 (9.174 %)Content Management
810 (9.174 %)Web Development
99 (8.257 %)Integration Testing
108 (7.339 %)Risk Management
108 (7.339 %)Project Management
117 (6.422 %)Document Management
117 (6.422 %)User Acceptance Testing
126 (5.505 %)Test Automation
135 (4.587 %)Requirements Management
135 (4.587 %)Algorithmic Trading
135 (4.587 %)Knowledge Management
135 (4.587 %)RAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
142 (38.53 %)Java
223 (21.10 %)SQL
317 (15.60 %)C#
411 (10.09 %)C++
58 (7.339 %)JavaScript
66 (5.505 %)VBA
66 (5.505 %)Python
75 (4.587 %)VB
84 (3.670 %)Perl
84 (3.670 %)PHP
84 (3.670 %)T-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (6.422 %)DV Cleared
17 (6.422 %)Security Cleared
17 (6.422 %)ISEB
23 (2.752 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (2.752 %)SLA
21 (0.917 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17 (6.422 %)VMware Infrastructure
25 (4.587 %)Xen
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (1.835 %)MSI
21 (0.917 %)YUM
21 (0.917 %)Tivoli
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
130 (27.52 %)Oracle
216 (14.68 %)VMware
314 (12.84 %)IBM
413 (11.93 %)Microsoft
510 (9.174 %)JBoss
67 (6.422 %)Sybase
76 (5.505 %)Atlassian
84 (3.670 %)HP
84 (3.670 %)TIBCO
84 (3.670 %)Adobe
84 (3.670 %)Sun
93 (2.752 %)Calypso
102 (1.835 %)Tridion
102 (1.835 %)Perforce
102 (1.835 %)Cisco
102 (1.835 %)Foundry
111 (0.917 %)MKS
111 (0.917 %)Red Hat