The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Fredhopper products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fredhopper 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Fredhopper.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Fredhopper
Rank 528 576 587
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +11
Contract jobs citing Fredhopper 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.009% 0.007% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Fredhopper
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fredhopper Jobs Demand Trend

Fredhopper
Daily Rate Trend

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

Fredhopper Daily Rate Trend

Fredhopper
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fredhopper 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 +47 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Somerset - 1 - -

Fredhopper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Informix
1 2 (100.00%) DSDM
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) ATG
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) BEA
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP

Fredhopper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) JSP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSD
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Informix
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) DSDM
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) ATG
2 1 (50.00%) BEA