The first table below looks at the demand for HttpUnit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HttpUnit over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HttpUnit
Rank 523 579 572
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -7
Contract jobs citing HttpUnit 6 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.118% 0.094% 0.186%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
Average daily rate £414 £200 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+106.87% -55.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £186 £342
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £375 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5093 5313 6437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.98% 9.110% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3197 3137 3627
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 142 217 316
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 £23.33 £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% -

HttpUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

HttpUnit Jobs Demand Trend

HttpUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

HttpUnit Daily Rate Trend

HttpUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

HttpUnit Hourly Rate Trend

HttpUnit
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HttpUnit within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +46 5 £414 +106.87%
South Coast - 3 - -
London +35 2 £414 +106.87%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Belfast - 1 - -
County Antrim - 1 - -

HttpUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HttpUnit 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 HttpUnit.

1 7 (100.00%) JUnit
1 7 (100.00%) XML
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Ant
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 3 (42.86%) UML
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
4 3 (42.86%) EJB
4 3 (42.86%) Workflow
4 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
4 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) SOA
4 3 (42.86%) XML Schema
4 3 (42.86%) Internet
4 3 (42.86%) Ruby
4 3 (42.86%) FitNesse
4 3 (42.86%) RESTful
4 3 (42.86%) Windows Azure
4 3 (42.86%) EJB 3.0
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) TestNG
4 3 (42.86%) XMLUnit
4 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture

HttpUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HttpUnit 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 HttpUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) EJB
3 3 (42.86%) XML Schema
3 3 (42.86%) RESTful
3 3 (42.86%) EJB 3.0
3 3 (42.86%) soapUI
3 3 (42.86%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
5 1 (14.29%) JDBC
5 1 (14.29%) J2EE
5 1 (14.29%) XSL
5 1 (14.29%) Java EE
5 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Azure
2 2 (28.57%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
3 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Data Services
1 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects XI
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) JUnit
2 4 (57.14%) Ant
3 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 3 (42.86%) FitNesse
3 3 (42.86%) TestNG
3 3 (42.86%) XMLUnit
4 2 (28.57%) Rational Rose
5 1 (14.29%) Subversion
5 1 (14.29%) Maven
5 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) UML
3 3 (42.86%) Workflow
3 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) SOA
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Jaspersoft