The first table below looks at the demand for DbUnit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DbUnit over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DbUnit
Rank 531 553 577
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +24
Contract jobs citing DbUnit 10 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.021% 0.015%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.196% 0.225% 0.138%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 8
Average daily rate - £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £375 £200
% change year-on-year
- +87.50%
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
5098 5328 6545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 11.00% 9.128% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3142 3691
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £269 £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 142 221 320
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 £23.88 £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% -

DbUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DbUnit Jobs Demand Trend

DbUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

DbUnit Daily Rate Trend

DbUnit
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DbUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +41 9 - -
South East +27 9 - -
Surrey - 9 - -
Camberley - 9 - -

DbUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DbUnit 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 DbUnit.

1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 14 (51.85%) Jenkins
3 12 (44.44%) TestNG
3 12 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (40.74%) Ant
4 11 (40.74%) Hibernate
4 11 (40.74%) Spring
5 10 (37.04%) Maven
5 10 (37.04%) GWT
5 10 (37.04%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (37.04%) Groovy
5 10 (37.04%) Mockito
5 10 (37.04%) Guice
6 8 (29.63%) Spring Batch
6 8 (29.63%) Infobright
6 8 (29.63%) Spring Security
7 7 (25.93%) MySQL
7 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
7 7 (25.93%) Talend
7 7 (25.93%) Talend Open Studio
8 6 (22.22%) ETL
9 5 (18.52%) TDD
9 5 (18.52%) Change Management
9 5 (18.52%) Benchmarking
9 5 (18.52%) ITIL
10 4 (14.81%) Oracle
10 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (14.81%) SQL
10 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE

DbUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DbUnit 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 DbUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (40.74%) Hibernate
1 11 (40.74%) Spring
2 10 (37.04%) GWT
2 10 (37.04%) Guice
3 8 (29.63%) Spring Batch
3 8 (29.63%) Spring Security
4 1 (3.704%) Apache CXF
4 1 (3.704%) JPA
4 1 (3.704%) Ehcache
4 1 (3.704%) RESTful
4 1 (3.704%) Servlets
4 1 (3.704%) Web Services
4 1 (3.704%) J2EE
4 1 (3.704%) JAXB
4 1 (3.704%) Lucene
4 1 (3.704%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.407%) ESB
2 1 (3.704%) Liferay
2 1 (3.704%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.704%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.704%) Apache
2 1 (3.704%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (3.704%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (25.93%) MySQL
2 7 (25.93%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (11.11%) OLAP
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (7.407%) RDBMS
4 2 (7.407%) TOAD
5 1 (3.704%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.704%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) Jenkins
2 12 (44.44%) TestNG
3 11 (40.74%) Ant
4 10 (37.04%) Maven
4 10 (37.04%) Mockito
5 7 (25.93%) Talend Open Studio
6 3 (11.11%) Selenium
7 2 (7.407%) JUnit
8 1 (3.704%) Concordion
8 1 (3.704%) FindBugs
8 1 (3.704%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.704%) Gerrit
8 1 (3.704%) dbdeploy
8 1 (3.704%) TeamCity
8 1 (3.704%) EasyMock
8 1 (3.704%) Git (software)
8 1 (3.704%) JBehave
8 1 (3.704%) WebDriver
8 1 (3.704%) Checkstyle
General
1 3 (11.11%) Finance
1 3 (11.11%) Banking
1 3 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (7.407%) Back Office
3 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Database Architect
2 6 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (7.407%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (7.407%) ETL Developer
3 2 (7.407%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (7.407%) Senior Developer
3 2 (7.407%) OBIEE Developer
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (3.704%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (3.704%) Analyst
4 1 (3.704%) Test Analyst
4 1 (3.704%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.407%) Derivative
2 2 (7.407%) Fixed Income
2 2 (7.407%) Equities
3 1 (3.704%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.704%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) UNIX
2 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.704%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (22.22%) ETL
3 5 (18.52%) TDD
3 5 (18.52%) Change Management
3 5 (18.52%) Benchmarking
3 5 (18.52%) ITIL
4 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (11.11%) OO
5 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.407%) MVC
7 1 (3.704%) BDD
7 1 (3.704%) Data Architecture
7 1 (3.704%) Product Management
7 1 (3.704%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.704%) Information Management
7 1 (3.704%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.704%) Systems Analysis
7 1 (3.704%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) Java
2 10 (37.04%) Groovy
3 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
3 4 (14.81%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Infobright
2 7 (25.93%) Talend
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle
4 2 (7.407%) Google
5 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.704%) Remedy