The first table below looks at the demand for FreeMarker skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited FreeMarker 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 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
FreeMarker
Rank 527 557 537
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -20
Contract jobs citing FreeMarker 14 8 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.014% 0.079%
As % of the Application Development category 0.111% 0.054% 0.287%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 40
Average daily rate £350 £388 £486
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% -20.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £209 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £425 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £308 £344
% change year-on-year
+9.75% -10.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 389 578
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

FreeMarker
Jobs Demand Trend

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

FreeMarker Jobs Demand Trend

FreeMarker
Daily Rate Trend

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

FreeMarker Daily Rate Trend

FreeMarker
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing FreeMarker within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

FreeMarker Daily Rate Histogram

FreeMarker
Hourly Rate Trend

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

FreeMarker Hourly Rate Trend

FreeMarker
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FreeMarker 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 +52 14 £350 -12.50%
South East - 6 £313 -
London +34 4 £450 +12.50%
Basingstoke - 3 - -
York - 3 £354 -
Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
Hampshire - 3 - -
Berkshire - 2 £350 -
Reading - 2 £350 -
Manchester +12 1 £275 -26.66%
North West +11 1 £275 -26.66%

FreeMarker
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 29 (85.29%) JavaScript
1 29 (85.29%) CSS
2 26 (76.47%) HTML
3 20 (58.82%) JSP
4 19 (55.88%) Ajax
5 17 (50.00%) Java
6 16 (47.06%) CMS
6 16 (47.06%) jQuery
7 14 (41.18%) Adobe CQ
7 14 (41.18%) JSF
8 8 (23.53%) Spring
9 7 (20.59%) XHTML
10 6 (17.65%) OO
10 6 (17.65%) Spring MVC
10 6 (17.65%) W3C
10 6 (17.65%) MVC
10 6 (17.65%) TDD
10 6 (17.65%) CSS3
10 6 (17.65%) HTML5
10 6 (17.65%) Velocity
11 5 (14.71%) Git (software)
11 5 (14.71%) RESTful
11 5 (14.71%) Jasmine
11 5 (14.71%) Content Management
11 5 (14.71%) Maven
11 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
12 4 (11.76%) JMS
12 4 (11.76%) XSL
12 4 (11.76%) JUnit
12 4 (11.76%) Tomcat

FreeMarker
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 29 (85.29%) CSS
2 26 (76.47%) HTML
3 20 (58.82%) JSP
4 19 (55.88%) Ajax
5 16 (47.06%) jQuery
6 14 (41.18%) JSF
7 8 (23.53%) Spring
8 7 (20.59%) XHTML
9 6 (17.65%) Spring MVC
9 6 (17.65%) CSS3
9 6 (17.65%) HTML5
9 6 (17.65%) Velocity
10 5 (14.71%) RESTful
11 4 (11.76%) JMS
11 4 (11.76%) XSL
11 4 (11.76%) Hibernate
12 3 (8.824%) Apache Axis
12 3 (8.824%) Ehcache
12 3 (8.824%) Node.js
12 3 (8.824%) Mustache
Application Platforms
1 16 (47.06%) CMS
2 14 (41.18%) Adobe CQ
3 4 (11.76%) Tomcat
3 4 (11.76%) Jetty
4 3 (8.824%) WebLogic
4 3 (8.824%) Apache
5 1 (2.941%) WordPress
5 1 (2.941%) Joomla!
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.941%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.824%) JasperReports
2 1 (2.941%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git (software)
1 5 (14.71%) Jasmine
1 5 (14.71%) Maven
2 4 (11.76%) JUnit
3 3 (8.824%) TestNG
3 3 (8.824%) EasyMock
3 3 (8.824%) Subclipse
3 3 (8.824%) Hudson
3 3 (8.824%) Log4j
3 3 (8.824%) Subversion
3 3 (8.824%) JIRA
3 3 (8.824%) jMock
3 3 (8.824%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.941%) Ant
General
1 1 (2.941%) Banking
1 1 (2.941%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (97.06%) Developer
2 19 (55.88%) Web Developer
2 19 (55.88%) UI Developer
3 17 (50.00%) UI Programmer
4 14 (41.18%) CMS Developer
5 6 (17.65%) Java Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Front-End Developer
7 3 (8.824%) Senior UI Developer
7 3 (8.824%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Front-End Web Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) W3C
2 4 (11.76%) Open Source
3 3 (8.824%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.941%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.941%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.824%) Linux
2 1 (2.941%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) OO
1 6 (17.65%) MVC
1 6 (17.65%) TDD
2 5 (14.71%) Content Management
2 5 (14.71%) E-Commerce
3 3 (8.824%) Project Management
3 3 (8.824%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (8.824%) AOP
4 2 (5.882%) Web Development
4 2 (5.882%) Web Application Development
5 1 (2.941%) BDD
5 1 (2.941%) OWASP
5 1 (2.941%) Performance Testing
5 1 (2.941%) Integration Testing
5 1 (2.941%) Multithreading
5 1 (2.941%) Time Management
5 1 (2.941%) Analytics
5 1 (2.941%) Use Case
5 1 (2.941%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (2.941%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (85.29%) JavaScript
2 17 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (5.882%) SQL
4 1 (2.941%) Bash shell
4 1 (2.941%) XPath
4 1 (2.941%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (8.824%) JBoss
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