The first table below looks at the demand for CouchDB skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CouchDB 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache CouchDB
Rank 511 557 584
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +27
Contract jobs citing CouchDB 22 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.047% 0.027% 0.007%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.227% 0.144% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 3
Average daily rate £416 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.92% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £270 £385
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £443 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £180 £450 -
% change year-on-year
-60.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9689 11092 12251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.82% 19.01% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5838 6349 6799
Average daily rate £385 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 402
Average hourly rate £25.70 £27.50 £31.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% -13.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

CouchDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CouchDB within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

CouchDB Jobs Demand Trend

CouchDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

CouchDB Daily Rate Trend

CouchDB
Daily Rate Histogram

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

CouchDB Daily Rate Histogram

CouchDB
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CouchDB 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 +69 22 £416 +18.92%
London +25 19 £423 +20.71%
City of London +21 3 £400 -3.03%
North West - 1 £250 -
South East - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 £110 -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £250 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £110 -
Yorkshire - 1 £110 -

CouchDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 36 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 34 (70.83%) Java
3 31 (64.58%) JavaScript
3 31 (64.58%) NoSQL
4 26 (54.17%) MySQL
5 24 (50.00%) HTML
6 23 (47.92%) Linux
6 23 (47.92%) HTML5
7 21 (43.75%) SOAP
7 21 (43.75%) PHP
7 21 (43.75%) REST
8 20 (41.67%) Git (software)
8 20 (41.67%) Oracle
9 18 (37.50%) XML
9 18 (37.50%) Apache
9 18 (37.50%) HTTP
9 18 (37.50%) Redis
10 17 (35.42%) Network Security
10 17 (35.42%) Maven
11 16 (33.33%) TDD
11 16 (33.33%) J2EE
11 16 (33.33%) Flash
11 16 (33.33%) Perl
11 16 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (31.25%) Selenium
12 15 (31.25%) NAS
12 15 (31.25%) Hudson
12 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
12 15 (31.25%) CSS
12 15 (31.25%) JBoss

CouchDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 24 (50.00%) HTML
2 23 (47.92%) HTML5
3 21 (43.75%) SOAP
3 21 (43.75%) REST
4 18 (37.50%) XML
5 16 (33.33%) J2EE
5 16 (33.33%) Flash
6 15 (31.25%) CSS
7 14 (29.17%) Web Services
7 14 (29.17%) Ajax
8 12 (25.00%) WSRP
8 12 (25.00%) JSR 168
8 12 (25.00%) Java EE
8 12 (25.00%) .NET
8 12 (25.00%) DHTML
9 11 (22.92%) Spring
10 10 (20.83%) jQuery
11 7 (14.58%) LAMP
12 6 (12.50%) Hibernate
12 6 (12.50%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 18 (37.50%) Apache
2 14 (29.17%) Amazon AWS
3 13 (27.08%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (25.00%) Tomcat
5 4 (8.333%) Apache Pig
6 2 (4.167%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.167%) CMS
6 2 (4.167%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.083%) ESB
7 1 (2.083%) Joomla!
7 1 (2.083%) Drupal
7 1 (2.083%) GlassFish
7 1 (2.083%) Umbraco
7 1 (2.083%) Mule
7 1 (2.083%) Apache Solr
7 1 (2.083%) LiveSite
7 1 (2.083%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) HTTP
2 17 (35.42%) Network Security
3 15 (31.25%) NAS
3 15 (31.25%) RTP
3 15 (31.25%) Firewall
3 15 (31.25%) RTSP
3 15 (31.25%) DNS
3 15 (31.25%) SSL
3 15 (31.25%) SAN
4 5 (10.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 31 (64.58%) NoSQL
3 26 (54.17%) MySQL
4 18 (37.50%) Redis
5 14 (29.17%) RDBMS
6 13 (27.08%) Hadoop
7 12 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 12 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
8 11 (22.92%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (12.50%) Big Data
10 5 (10.42%) Apache Hive
10 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (4.167%) SQLite
11 2 (4.167%) MarkLogic
11 2 (4.167%) Couchbase
11 2 (4.167%) Neo4j
11 2 (4.167%) Hazelcast
12 1 (2.083%) Sqoop
12 1 (2.083%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 20 (41.67%) Git (software)
2 17 (35.42%) Maven
3 15 (31.25%) Selenium
3 15 (31.25%) Hudson
3 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
4 14 (29.17%) JIRA
5 3 (6.250%) Ant
5 3 (6.250%) Gradle
6 2 (4.167%) PHPUnit
6 2 (4.167%) QUnit
6 2 (4.167%) Subversion
6 2 (4.167%) Capistrano
7 1 (2.083%) FitNesse
7 1 (2.083%) TestNG
7 1 (2.083%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.083%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.083%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (2.083%) Moq
7 1 (2.083%) NUnit
General
1 6 (12.50%) Games
2 3 (6.250%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.167%) Publishing
3 2 (4.167%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.083%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.58%) Web Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior Web Engineer
6 4 (8.333%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Database Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Web Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Architect
7 2 (4.167%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (4.167%) iOS Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Ruby on Rails Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Storage Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Taxonomies
1 12 (25.00%) Ontologies
2 10 (20.83%) Open Source
3 6 (12.50%) Mobile App
4 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.333%) IPTV
6 3 (6.250%) Interactive TV
6 3 (6.250%) MHEG
7 2 (4.167%) iPhone
7 2 (4.167%) Semantic Web
7 2 (4.167%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (4.167%) iPad
7 2 (4.167%) Heroku
7 2 (4.167%) Linked Data
7 2 (4.167%) Smartphone
7 2 (4.167%) Client/Server
7 2 (4.167%) BBC
8 1 (2.083%) Cryptography
8 1 (2.083%) Blog
8 1 (2.083%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Linux
2 11 (22.92%) UNIX
3 4 (8.333%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.250%) Windows
5 2 (4.167%) Mac OS X
5 2 (4.167%) Android
6 1 (2.083%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.083%) CentOS
6 1 (2.083%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) TDD
1 16 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (31.25%) Penetration Testing
3 14 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (25.00%) DRM
4 12 (25.00%) SOA
4 12 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 12 (25.00%) Information Architecture
5 10 (20.83%) E-Commerce
5 10 (20.83%) Scrum
6 6 (12.50%) MVC
6 6 (12.50%) OOP
7 5 (10.42%) BDD
7 5 (10.42%) Software Testing
8 4 (8.333%) Software Engineering
8 4 (8.333%) Refactoring
8 4 (8.333%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.333%) Change Management
8 4 (8.333%) Analytics
8 4 (8.333%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Java
2 31 (64.58%) JavaScript
3 21 (43.75%) PHP
4 16 (33.33%) Perl
5 12 (25.00%) SQL
6 8 (16.67%) Ruby
7 4 (8.333%) ActionScript 3.0
7 4 (8.333%) ActionScript 2.0
7 4 (8.333%) ActionScript
8 3 (6.250%) C#
8 3 (6.250%) C++
8 3 (6.250%) Erlang
8 3 (6.250%) Scala
9 2 (4.167%) XPath
9 2 (4.167%) Objective-C
10 1 (2.083%) C
10 1 (2.083%) Haskell
10 1 (2.083%) Groovy
10 1 (2.083%) F#
10 1 (2.083%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) Sun Certification
3 1 (2.083%) CCNA
3 1 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Samba
2 1 (2.083%) Xen
2 1 (2.083%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (25.00%) Nagios
2 11 (22.92%) ZABBIX
2 11 (22.92%) OpenView
3 8 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Oracle
2 15 (31.25%) JBoss
3 13 (27.08%) Rackspace
4 8 (16.67%) RightScale
5 3 (6.250%) OpenTV
6 2 (4.167%) Zend
6 2 (4.167%) Apple
6 2 (4.167%) Cisco
7 1 (2.083%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.083%) Nortel
7 1 (2.083%) Genesys
7 1 (2.083%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.083%) Cloudera
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