The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Django skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Django over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 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 Development 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.

Django
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank454529500
Rank change year-on-year
Up+75Down-29
Matching contract IT job ads1255236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.211 %0.085 %0.065 %
As % of the Application Development category0.824 %0.308 %0.233 %
Number of daily rates quoted802612
Average daily rate£325£335£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98 %+21.81 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£290£140
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£438£299
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£275
% change year-on-year
-3.70 %+22.72 %
Number of hourly rates quoted202
Average hourly rate£47.50-£19.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate--£16.25
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
151651690115437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.62 %27.54 %28.04 %
Number of daily rates quoted891698148183
Average daily rate£350£400£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50 %+9.58 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted380573441
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

Django
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Django within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Django Demand Trend

Django
Daily Rate Trend

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

Django Daily Rate Trend

Django
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Django within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Django Daily Rate Histogram

Django
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Django within the UK.

Django Hourly Rate Trend

Django
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Django within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. 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+80122£325-2.98 %
LondonUp+7686£344+2.61 %
South EastUp+1722£325-10.34 %
City of LondonUp+4516£338-6.89 %
South WestDown-139£275-
OxfordshireNew entry-7£313-
West SussexNew entry-6£275-
HampshireUp+45£325-13.33 %
BristolDown-175£275-
HorshamNew entry-4£288-
GlasgowNew entry-2£328-
CrawleyNew entry-2£200-
OxfordNew entry-2£275-
BerkshireNew entry-2£400-
ScotlandNew entry-2£328-
North EastDown-11£300-
Tyne and WearDown-41£300-
East of EnglandDown-51£325-
North WestDown-51£375+15.38 %
Newcastle upon TyneDown-91£300-
NorthamptonNew entry-1--
DevonNew entry-1£325-
EssexNew entry-1£325-
ReadingNew entry-1£350-
SloughNew entry-1£450-
SouthamptonNew entry-1£250-
ExeterNew entry-1£325-
BathNew entry-1£350-
BirminghamNew entry-1£350-
ManchesterNew entry-1£375-

Django
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Django 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 Django.

1181 (90.50 %)Python
286 (43.00 %)JavaScript
385 (42.50 %)HTML
469 (34.50 %)CSS
565 (32.50 %)Linux
647 (23.50 %)SQL
744 (22.00 %)XML
842 (21.00 %)jQuery
938 (19.00 %)MySQL
1036 (18.00 %)HTML5
1134 (17.00 %)Agile Software Development
1232 (16.00 %)Web Services
1330 (15.00 %)Java
1428 (14.00 %)Apache
1525 (12.50 %)Windows
1525 (12.50 %)REST
1624 (12.00 %)CRM
1624 (12.00 %)UNIX
1723 (11.50 %)SOAP
1822 (11.00 %)OOP
1822 (11.00 %)Git (software)
1918 (9.000 %)PostgreSQL
1918 (9.000 %)XSLT
1918 (9.000 %)WSDL
1918 (9.000 %)OO
1918 (9.000 %)Open Source
2017 (8.500 %)Twisted
2017 (8.500 %)PHP
2116 (8.000 %)CSS3
2215 (7.500 %)Unit Testing

Django
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Django 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 Django. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
185 (42.50 %)HTML
269 (34.50 %)CSS
344 (22.00 %)XML
442 (21.00 %)jQuery
536 (18.00 %)HTML5
632 (16.00 %)Web Services
725 (12.50 %)REST
823 (11.50 %)SOAP
918 (9.000 %)XSLT
918 (9.000 %)WSDL
1017 (8.500 %)Twisted
1116 (8.000 %)CSS3
1213 (6.500 %)JSON
1312 (6.000 %)SciPy
1312 (6.000 %)NumPy
149 (4.500 %).NET
157 (3.500 %)Ajax
157 (3.500 %)Ext JS
166 (3.000 %)Ruby on Rails
166 (3.000 %)J2EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
128 (14.00 %)Apache
28 (4.000 %)Apache Solr
28 (4.000 %)CMS
36 (3.000 %)Amazon EC2
45 (2.500 %)Force.com
54 (2.000 %)RabbitMQ
63 (1.500 %)IIS
63 (1.500 %)Amazon AWS
72 (1.000 %)Amazon S3
72 (1.000 %)Google App Engine
81 (0.500 %)MediaWiki
81 (0.500 %)Tomcat
81 (0.500 %)ColdFusion
81 (0.500 %)ESB
81 (0.500 %)nginx
81 (0.500 %)Confluence
81 (0.500 %)Drupal
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (1.500 %)Photoshop
13 (1.500 %)Adobe Illustrator
22 (1.000 %)MS Visio
22 (1.000 %)Google Apps
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (6.000 %)HTTP
26 (3.000 %)FTP
35 (2.500 %)TCP/IP
43 (1.500 %)DNS
43 (1.500 %)LAN
43 (1.500 %)WAN
52 (1.000 %)Firewall
61 (0.500 %)OpenVPN
61 (0.500 %)SMTP
61 (0.500 %)SMS
61 (0.500 %)RFID
61 (0.500 %)Internet
61 (0.500 %)SAN
61 (0.500 %)SSH
61 (0.500 %)VLAN
61 (0.500 %)OpenLDAP
61 (0.500 %)AMQP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
138 (19.00 %)MySQL
218 (9.000 %)PostgreSQL
312 (6.000 %)MongoDB
46 (3.000 %)CouchDB
46 (3.000 %)SQL Server
53 (1.500 %)Oracle 8/8i
62 (1.000 %)SQLite
62 (1.000 %)SQL Server Integration Services
62 (1.000 %)ETL
62 (1.000 %)NoSQL
71 (0.500 %)Apache Cassandra
71 (0.500 %)Mahout
71 (0.500 %)Data Mining
71 (0.500 %)Hadoop
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (11.00 %)Git (software)
29 (4.500 %)Subversion
36 (3.000 %)Mercurial
43 (1.500 %)Hudson
43 (1.500 %)Eclipse
43 (1.500 %)ClearCase
52 (1.000 %)JIRA
52 (1.000 %)Rational Rose
52 (1.000 %)Ant
52 (1.000 %)PyUnit
61 (0.500 %)PhoneGap
61 (0.500 %)FishEye
61 (0.500 %)Selenium
61 (0.500 %)Atlassian Bamboo
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
112 (6.000 %)Banking
27 (3.500 %)Finance
27 (3.500 %)Front Office
27 (3.500 %)Marketing
36 (3.000 %)Telecoms
44 (2.000 %)Retail
44 (2.000 %)Publishing
53 (1.500 %)Music
62 (1.000 %)Advertising
71 (0.500 %)Pharmaceutical
71 (0.500 %)Electronics
71 (0.500 %)Games
71 (0.500 %)Multimedia
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1179 (89.50 %)Developer
286 (43.00 %)Python Developer
355 (27.50 %)Django Developer
428 (14.00 %)Front-End Developer
522 (11.00 %)Web Developer
615 (7.500 %)Programmer
615 (7.500 %)Python Programmer
714 (7.000 %)JavaScript Developer
811 (5.500 %)Front-End Web Developer
97 (3.500 %)Technical Developer
106 (3.000 %)C++ Developer
115 (2.500 %)Analyst
115 (2.500 %)Java Developer
124 (2.000 %)Salesforce.com Developer
124 (2.000 %)PHP Developer
124 (2.000 %)Software Developer
133 (1.500 %)Project Manager
133 (1.500 %)Applications Developer
133 (1.500 %)Software Engineer
133 (1.500 %)Agile Project Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
118 (9.000 %)Open Source
213 (6.500 %)Mathematics
310 (5.000 %)Web 2.0
310 (5.000 %)Social Network
49 (4.500 %)Digital Media
56 (3.000 %)Social Media
63 (1.500 %)Data Protection Act
63 (1.500 %)Computer Science
63 (1.500 %)iPhone
63 (1.500 %)Cloud Computing
72 (1.000 %)Clustering
72 (1.000 %)Client/Server
72 (1.000 %)Arduino
81 (0.500 %)New Media
81 (0.500 %)Credit Derivative
81 (0.500 %)e-Health
81 (0.500 %)Derivative
81 (0.500 %)FMCG
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
165 (32.50 %)Linux
225 (12.50 %)Windows
324 (12.00 %)UNIX
48 (4.000 %)Ubuntu
54 (2.000 %)Mac OS X
63 (1.500 %)Mac OS
72 (1.000 %)Android
72 (1.000 %)Debian
81 (0.500 %)Apple iOS
81 (0.500 %)Solaris
81 (0.500 %)FreeBSD
81 (0.500 %)Embedded Linux
81 (0.500 %)Windows Mobile
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
134 (17.00 %)Agile Software Development
224 (12.00 %)CRM
322 (11.00 %)OOP
418 (9.000 %)OO
515 (7.500 %)Unit Testing
515 (7.500 %)TDD
612 (6.000 %)RDF
711 (5.500 %)Web Application Development
711 (5.500 %)Web Development
89 (4.500 %)MVC
89 (4.500 %)Scrum
89 (4.500 %)Test Automation
98 (4.000 %)E-Commerce
107 (3.500 %)Content Management
107 (3.500 %)Pair Programming
115 (2.500 %)Kanban
124 (2.000 %)Project Management
124 (2.000 %)UML
133 (1.500 %)DSDM
133 (1.500 %)Web Analytics
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1181 (90.50 %)Python
286 (43.00 %)JavaScript
347 (23.50 %)SQL
430 (15.00 %)Java
517 (8.500 %)PHP
614 (7.000 %)C++
614 (7.000 %)Perl
712 (6.000 %)Haskell
712 (6.000 %)Erlang
712 (6.000 %)SPARQL
712 (6.000 %)R
810 (5.000 %)Shell Script
99 (4.500 %)Ruby
106 (3.000 %)Apex Code
106 (3.000 %)C#
113 (1.500 %)C
113 (1.500 %)VC++
122 (1.000 %)ActionScript 3.0
122 (1.000 %)Bash shell
122 (1.000 %)VB
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
112 (6.000 %)SC Cleared
112 (6.000 %)Security Cleared
29 (4.500 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (1.500 %)SLA
21 (0.500 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.500 %)Varnish
11 (0.500 %)NFS
11 (0.500 %)Samba
11 (0.500 %)Squid
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
18 (4.000 %)Puppet
23 (1.500 %)Nagios
31 (0.500 %)CFEngine
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113 (6.500 %)Oracle
26 (3.000 %)Salesforce.com
33 (1.500 %)Facebook
42 (1.000 %)Zend
42 (1.000 %)Google
42 (1.000 %)Cisco
42 (1.000 %)Adobe
51 (0.500 %)Sencha
51 (0.500 %)Twitter
51 (0.500 %)Atlassian