The first table below looks at the demand for Gradle skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Gradle over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gradle
Rank 524 585 585
Rank change year-on-year
+61 0
Contract jobs citing Gradle 10 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.194% 0.018% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £400 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -3.61%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5152 5423 6348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.93% 9.148% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3252 3202 3576
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £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 141 221 316
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% -

Gradle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gradle Jobs Demand Trend

Gradle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gradle Daily Rate Trend

Gradle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Gradle within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Gradle Daily Rate Histogram

Gradle
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Gradle within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +65 10 £350 -12.50%
North West - 6 £350 -
Cheshire - 3 £250 -
Stockport - 3 £350 -
Manchester - 3 £350 -
South West - 2 £290 -
Dorset - 2 £290 -
London - 2 £438 -
Bournemouth - 2 £290 -

Gradle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Gradle 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 Gradle.

1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (68.18%) Spring
3 13 (59.09%) Linux
4 12 (54.55%) Hibernate
4 12 (54.55%) MVC
5 11 (50.00%) TDD
5 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (50.00%) J2EE
6 10 (45.45%) Web Services
6 10 (45.45%) Maven
6 10 (45.45%) Spring MVC
6 10 (45.45%) Groovy
7 9 (40.91%) jQuery
7 9 (40.91%) Oracle
7 9 (40.91%) Ant
8 8 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (31.82%) JBoss
9 7 (31.82%) SOAP
9 7 (31.82%) Git (software)
10 6 (27.27%) Ajax
10 6 (27.27%) REST
10 6 (27.27%) BDD
10 6 (27.27%) Eclipse
10 6 (27.27%) SQL
10 6 (27.27%) Scrum
10 6 (27.27%) Pair Programming
11 5 (22.73%) Subversion
11 5 (22.73%) Finance
11 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
11 5 (22.73%) Apache

Gradle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Gradle 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 Gradle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (68.18%) Spring
2 12 (54.55%) Hibernate
3 11 (50.00%) J2EE
4 10 (45.45%) Web Services
4 10 (45.45%) Spring MVC
5 9 (40.91%) jQuery
6 7 (31.82%) SOAP
7 6 (27.27%) Ajax
7 6 (27.27%) REST
8 4 (18.18%) CSS
9 3 (13.64%) JSP
9 3 (13.64%) Servlets
9 3 (13.64%) XML
9 3 (13.64%) XSD
9 3 (13.64%) EJB
9 3 (13.64%) Struts
9 3 (13.64%) WSDL
9 3 (13.64%) JMS
9 3 (13.64%) HTML5
9 3 (13.64%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Apache
2 4 (18.18%) ESB
2 4 (18.18%) WebLogic
3 3 (13.64%) Tomcat
3 3 (13.64%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (9.091%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) HTTP
1 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MongoDB
1 5 (22.73%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) CouchDB
3 2 (9.091%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.545%) Hazelcast
4 1 (4.545%) Big Data
4 1 (4.545%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Maven
2 9 (40.91%) Ant
3 7 (31.82%) Git (software)
4 6 (27.27%) Eclipse
5 5 (22.73%) Subversion
5 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
6 3 (13.64%) JUnit
6 3 (13.64%) ClearCase
6 3 (13.64%) Mockito
6 3 (13.64%) Selenium
7 2 (9.091%) Cucumber
7 2 (9.091%) FitNesse
7 2 (9.091%) jMock
7 2 (9.091%) JProfiler
7 2 (9.091%) WebDriver
7 2 (9.091%) EasyMock
7 2 (9.091%) Checkstyle
7 2 (9.091%) LoadRunner
7 2 (9.091%) IntelliJ
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 2 (9.091%) Games
4 1 (4.545%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
1 19 (86.36%) Java Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Java Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) PMI
2 1 (4.545%) Online Gambling
2 1 (4.545%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Linux
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) MVC
2 11 (50.00%) TDD
3 8 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (27.27%) BDD
4 6 (27.27%) Scrum
4 6 (27.27%) Pair Programming
5 5 (22.73%) RUP
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) PRINCE2
7 3 (13.64%) SOA
7 3 (13.64%) Project Management
7 3 (13.64%) PRINCE
7 3 (13.64%) CMMI
7 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
8 2 (9.091%) Load Testing
8 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
8 2 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
9 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
9 1 (4.545%) Multithreading
9 1 (4.545%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (45.45%) Groovy
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
5 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
6 4 (18.18%) Scala
7 3 (13.64%) Clojure
8 1 (4.545%) MATLAB
8 1 (4.545%) F#
8 1 (4.545%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) PMI Certification
1 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) JBoss
3 3 (13.64%) Chordiant
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Posted: 3 May 2013