The first table below looks at the demand for Firebug skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Firebug over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Firebug
Rank 522 557 582
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +25
Contract jobs citing Firebug 8 21 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.036% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.158% 0.391% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 6
Average daily rate £350 £330 £353
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -6.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £208 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £512 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £225 £205
% change year-on-year
+66.66% +9.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5077 5364 6467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.204% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3208 3177 3632
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 211 325
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Firebug
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Firebug Jobs Demand Trend

Firebug
Daily Rate Trend

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

Firebug Daily Rate Trend

Firebug
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Firebug Hourly Rate Trend

Firebug
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebug within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +33 5 £313 -3.84%
London +12 3 £313 -5.30%
Scotland - 3 £375 -
South East +23 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 - -
City of London +12 1 - -
Stirling - 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 - -

Firebug
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Firebug 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 Firebug.

1 20 (83.33%) XML
2 18 (75.00%) CSS
3 17 (70.83%) JSON
4 16 (66.67%) HTML
4 16 (66.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (58.33%) Selenium
6 12 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (50.00%) Java
7 11 (45.83%) Web Services
7 11 (45.83%) Ajax
7 11 (45.83%) jQuery
8 9 (37.50%) Subversion
9 8 (33.33%) Fiddler
9 8 (33.33%) OO
9 8 (33.33%) HTTP
10 7 (29.17%) .NET
10 7 (29.17%) TDD
10 7 (29.17%) Scrum
10 7 (29.17%) RESTful
10 7 (29.17%) HTML5
10 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
10 7 (29.17%) BDD
10 7 (29.17%) CSS3
11 6 (25.00%) Hudson
11 6 (25.00%) MVC
11 6 (25.00%) Spring
11 6 (25.00%) WebSphere
11 6 (25.00%) Photoshop
11 6 (25.00%) JSP
11 6 (25.00%) Apache

Firebug
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Firebug 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 Firebug. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (83.33%) XML
2 18 (75.00%) CSS
3 17 (70.83%) JSON
4 16 (66.67%) HTML
5 11 (45.83%) Web Services
5 11 (45.83%) Ajax
5 11 (45.83%) jQuery
6 7 (29.17%) RESTful
6 7 (29.17%) CSS3
6 7 (29.17%) HTML5
6 7 (29.17%) .NET
7 6 (25.00%) JSP
7 6 (25.00%) WebSphere
7 6 (25.00%) Spring
8 5 (20.83%) J2EE
9 4 (16.67%) REST
9 4 (16.67%) JSTL
9 4 (16.67%) Spring MVC
10 3 (12.50%) Semantic HTML
10 3 (12.50%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) Apache
2 5 (20.83%) Tomcat
3 4 (16.67%) IIS
4 3 (12.50%) CMS
5 2 (8.333%) Drupal
5 2 (8.333%) WordPress
5 2 (8.333%) Liferay
6 1 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (12.50%) Fireworks
3 2 (8.333%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (8.333%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.167%) SAN
2 1 (4.167%) NAS
2 1 (4.167%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) MySQL
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Selenium
2 9 (37.50%) Subversion
3 8 (33.33%) Fiddler
4 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
5 6 (25.00%) Hudson
6 5 (20.83%) WebDriver
6 5 (20.83%) Git (software)
6 5 (20.83%) JUnit
6 5 (20.83%) Eclipse
7 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
8 3 (12.50%) GitHub
8 3 (12.50%) JMeter
8 3 (12.50%) Maven
8 3 (12.50%) FitNesse
9 2 (8.333%) TestNG
9 2 (8.333%) Log4j
9 2 (8.333%) NUnit
9 2 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (8.333%) Jtest
9 2 (8.333%) WATIR
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
1 3 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Banking
2 1 (4.167%) Retail
2 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (8.333%) UI Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Automation Specialist
3 2 (8.333%) UI Programmer
3 2 (8.333%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.333%) Test Specialist
4 1 (4.167%) Web Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Web Test Analyst
4 1 (4.167%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.167%) Development Specialist
4 1 (4.167%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.167%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Software Testing Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.167%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Semantic Web
2 3 (12.50%) iDTV
2 3 (12.50%) Wiki
3 2 (8.333%) Blog
3 2 (8.333%) Social Network
3 2 (8.333%) Open Source
3 2 (8.333%) Mobile App
3 2 (8.333%) N-Tier
4 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.167%) iPhone
4 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.167%) Interactive TV
4 1 (4.167%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) UNIX
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.333%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.167%) SUSE
3 1 (4.167%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (4.167%) Android
3 1 (4.167%) bada
3 1 (4.167%) Maemo
3 1 (4.167%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (33.33%) OO
3 7 (29.17%) TDD
3 7 (29.17%) Scrum
3 7 (29.17%) BDD
4 6 (25.00%) MVC
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Web Development
7 3 (12.50%) Refactoring
7 3 (12.50%) RDF
7 3 (12.50%) Web Accessibility
7 3 (12.50%) Progressive Enhancement
7 3 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 3 (12.50%) Compatibility Testing
7 3 (12.50%) ATDD
7 3 (12.50%) Graceful Degradation
8 2 (8.333%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 12 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Ruby
4 4 (16.67%) Perl
5 3 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.333%) Groovy
6 2 (8.333%) PHP
7 1 (4.167%) Python
7 1 (4.167%) C
7 1 (4.167%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (4.167%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) IBM
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
1 3 (12.50%) Citrix
2 2 (8.333%) Adobe
2 2 (8.333%) Sun
2 2 (8.333%) Zend
2 2 (8.333%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.333%) Intel
3 1 (4.167%) Advent
3 1 (4.167%) HP
3 1 (4.167%) Perforce
3 1 (4.167%) JBoss
3 1 (4.167%) Symbian