The first table below looks at the demand for Hudson skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hudson 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hudson (HudsonCI)
Rank 375 372 280
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -92
Contract jobs citing Hudson 169 202 364
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.365% 0.346% 0.587%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.315% 3.791% 5.561%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 119 212
Average daily rate £418 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £300 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £539 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £388
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -10.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 9
Average hourly rate £45.70 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5098 5328 6545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 11.00% 9.128% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3142 3691
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £269 £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 142 221 320
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% -

Hudson
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hudson Jobs Demand Trend

Hudson
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hudson Daily Rate Trend

Hudson
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Hudson Daily Rate Histogram

Hudson
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hudson Hourly Rate Trend

Hudson
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hudson 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 +5 154 £423 +12.66%
London +31 118 £425 -
City of London +4 15 £431 +1.47%
South East +21 13 £328 +9.16%
Yorkshire +5 9 £355 +29.09%
Hampshire - 9 £330 -
Canary Wharf 0 6 £650 +13.63%
Scotland -8 6 £383 -
North Yorkshire - 6 £354 -
York - 6 £354 -
Glasgow - 6 £383 -
Harrow - 5 £283 -
South West +7 4 £450 +24.13%
North West -4 4 £325 -14.75%
Bromley - 4 £425 -
Gloucestershire +32 3 £450 -
Manchester +9 3 £325 -14.75%
Brentford -7 3 £400 -11.11%
Nottingham - 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 - -
Nottinghamshire - 3 - -
West Yorkshire +2 2 £375 +15.38%
Hounslow -4 2 £450 +36.36%
Leeds -5 2 £375 +15.38%
Eastleigh - 2 - -
Gloucester +26 1 - -
Berkshire +16 1 £375 +20.96%
East of England +14 1 - -
Hertfordshire +6 1 - -
Wiltshire 0 1 - -

Hudson
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 220 (61.11%) Java
2 177 (49.17%) Jenkins
3 165 (45.83%) Linux
4 150 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 141 (39.17%) Subversion
6 136 (37.78%) Maven
7 120 (33.33%) TDD
8 104 (28.89%) Agile Software Development
9 103 (28.61%) JavaScript
10 102 (28.33%) Spring
11 101 (28.06%) Git (software)
12 96 (26.67%) JUnit
12 96 (26.67%) OO
13 93 (25.83%) UNIX
14 91 (25.28%) Oracle
15 90 (25.00%) HTML
16 89 (24.72%) XML
17 88 (24.44%) SQL
18 83 (23.06%) J2EE
19 81 (22.50%) Hibernate
20 77 (21.39%) Selenium
20 77 (21.39%) BDD
21 74 (20.56%) CSS
21 74 (20.56%) Tomcat
22 71 (19.72%) Scrum
23 65 (18.06%) Web Services
24 64 (17.78%) Ant
24 64 (17.78%) SOA
25 62 (17.22%) Cucumber
26 59 (16.39%) MySQL

Hudson
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 102 (28.33%) Spring
2 90 (25.00%) HTML
3 89 (24.72%) XML
4 83 (23.06%) J2EE
5 81 (22.50%) Hibernate
6 74 (20.56%) CSS
7 65 (18.06%) Web Services
8 49 (13.61%) SOAP
9 48 (13.33%) JSON
10 47 (13.06%) RESTful
11 44 (12.22%) jQuery
11 44 (12.22%) REST
12 39 (10.83%) Ajax
13 35 (9.722%) JMS
14 29 (8.056%) Java EE
14 29 (8.056%) .NET
15 28 (7.778%) JPA
16 26 (7.222%) WebSphere
17 22 (6.111%) DHTML
18 21 (5.833%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 74 (20.56%) Tomcat
2 51 (14.17%) Apache
3 26 (7.222%) WebLogic
4 24 (6.667%) CMS
5 20 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
6 19 (5.278%) Adobe CQ
7 14 (3.889%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (3.056%) GlassFish
9 10 (2.778%) Liferay
10 9 (2.500%) Jetty
10 9 (2.500%) Alfresco
11 6 (1.667%) Confluence
11 6 (1.667%) Oracle Coherence
12 5 (1.389%) IIS
13 4 (1.111%) WebSphere MQ
13 4 (1.111%) WebSphere Process Server
13 4 (1.111%) Oracle Application Server
13 4 (1.111%) ESB
14 3 (0.833%) Drupal
15 2 (0.556%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (3.056%) Mingle
2 6 (1.667%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.556%) MS Office
3 2 (0.556%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 7 (1.944%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.278%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.278%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.278%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.278%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 49 (13.61%) HTTP
2 25 (6.944%) SSL
3 24 (6.667%) DNS
4 20 (5.556%) NAS
4 20 (5.556%) SAN
5 15 (4.167%) Firewall
6 12 (3.333%) RTP
6 12 (3.333%) RTSP
6 12 (3.333%) Network Security
7 11 (3.056%) LDAP
7 11 (3.056%) SMTP
8 8 (2.222%) DHCP
8 8 (2.222%) SNMP
8 8 (2.222%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.222%) HTTPS
8 8 (2.222%) iSCSI
9 5 (1.389%) SSH
9 5 (1.389%) TELNET
9 5 (1.389%) tcpdump
10 3 (0.833%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.39%) MySQL
2 35 (9.722%) SQL Server
3 32 (8.889%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (5.556%) MongoDB
5 18 (5.000%) RDBMS
5 18 (5.000%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
6 15 (4.167%) Redis
7 13 (3.611%) CouchDB
8 11 (3.056%) Ingres
9 7 (1.944%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.389%) Oracle 11g
10 5 (1.389%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.111%) Oracle 10g
12 3 (0.833%) JasperReports
12 3 (0.833%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.833%) MarkLogic
13 2 (0.556%) Big Data
13 2 (0.556%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.556%) GIS
Development Applications
1 177 (49.17%) Jenkins
2 141 (39.17%) Subversion
3 136 (37.78%) Maven
4 101 (28.06%) Git (software)
5 96 (26.67%) JUnit
6 77 (21.39%) Selenium
7 64 (17.78%) Ant
8 62 (17.22%) Cucumber
9 52 (14.44%) JIRA
10 37 (10.28%) CruiseControl
11 36 (10.00%) WebDriver
12 34 (9.444%) Eclipse
13 30 (8.333%) TeamCity
13 30 (8.333%) Mockito
14 28 (7.778%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 20 (5.556%) JBehave
16 17 (4.722%) JMeter
17 16 (4.444%) Team Foundation Server
18 15 (4.167%) ClearCase
19 14 (3.889%) dbdeploy
General
1 39 (10.83%) Finance
2 38 (10.56%) Banking
3 20 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 17 (4.722%) Front Office
5 11 (3.056%) Publishing
6 7 (1.944%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.389%) Retail
8 3 (0.833%) Marketing
9 2 (0.556%) Back Office
9 2 (0.556%) Music
10 1 (0.278%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.278%) Electronics
10 1 (0.278%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 190 (52.78%) Developer
2 98 (27.22%) Java Developer
3 17 (4.722%) Build Manager
3 17 (4.722%) Software Engineer
4 16 (4.444%) Analyst
5 15 (4.167%) Agile Java Developer
5 15 (4.167%) Build Engineer
5 15 (4.167%) Web Developer
5 15 (4.167%) Administrator
6 14 (3.889%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (3.889%) Tester
6 14 (3.889%) Linux Administrator
7 12 (3.333%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 11 (3.056%) Java Web Developer
8 11 (3.056%) Test Analyst
8 11 (3.056%) Systems Administrator
9 10 (2.778%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 10 (2.778%) Deployment Manager
10 9 (2.500%) Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.50%) Open Source
2 27 (7.500%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (3.889%) iPhone
4 12 (3.333%) Computer Science
5 10 (2.778%) Taxonomies
5 10 (2.778%) Ontologies
6 8 (2.222%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.667%) New Media
7 6 (1.667%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.389%) Cryptography
8 5 (1.389%) Grid Computing
8 5 (1.389%) Clustering
8 5 (1.389%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.111%) iPad
9 4 (1.111%) DataPower
9 4 (1.111%) Wiki
10 3 (0.833%) Derivative
10 3 (0.833%) Digital Media
11 2 (0.556%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.556%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 165 (45.83%) Linux
2 93 (25.83%) UNIX
3 31 (8.611%) Windows
4 22 (6.111%) Apple iOS
5 9 (2.500%) Solaris
6 8 (2.222%) AIX
6 8 (2.222%) SUSE
6 8 (2.222%) Android
7 3 (0.833%) Windows Vista
7 3 (0.833%) CentOS
7 3 (0.833%) Windows XP
7 3 (0.833%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.556%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.556%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.556%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.556%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.278%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.278%) Debian
9 1 (0.278%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
2 120 (33.33%) TDD
3 104 (28.89%) Agile Software Development
4 96 (26.67%) OO
5 77 (21.39%) BDD
6 71 (19.72%) Scrum
7 64 (17.78%) SOA
8 35 (9.722%) MVC
9 33 (9.167%) Multithreading
10 31 (8.611%) E-Commerce
11 28 (7.778%) Workflow
12 26 (7.222%) Content Management
13 25 (6.944%) Kanban
13 25 (6.944%) Performance Testing
14 24 (6.667%) Software Engineering
15 21 (5.833%) Configuration Management
16 20 (5.556%) Pair Programming
16 20 (5.556%) OOD
17 18 (5.000%) Unit Testing
18 17 (4.722%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 220 (61.11%) Java
2 103 (28.61%) JavaScript
3 88 (24.44%) SQL
4 50 (13.89%) Ruby
5 43 (11.94%) Shell Script
6 42 (11.67%) Bash shell
7 40 (11.11%) PHP
8 35 (9.722%) Groovy
8 35 (9.722%) Perl
9 31 (8.611%) C
9 31 (8.611%) C++
10 29 (8.056%) Python
11 21 (5.833%) C#
12 14 (3.889%) Korn
13 11 (3.056%) Objective-C
14 10 (2.778%) PL/SQL
15 8 (2.222%) VBA
16 5 (1.389%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.389%) AWK
16 5 (1.389%) sed
Qualifications
1 26 (7.222%) Security Cleared
2 15 (4.167%) Degree
3 14 (3.889%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.222%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.111%) ISEB
6 3 (0.833%) BC Cleared
6 3 (0.833%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (0.833%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.278%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.278%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (12.22%) QA
2 13 (3.611%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.833%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.556%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (3.333%) Samba
1 12 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.222%) NFS
2 8 (2.222%) Squid
2 8 (2.222%) Postfix
3 5 (1.389%) Nmap
4 4 (1.111%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.556%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.278%) Xen
6 1 (0.278%) XenServer
6 1 (0.278%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.278%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.278%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.278%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (10.83%) Puppet
2 23 (6.389%) Nagios
3 18 (5.000%) BladeLogic
4 10 (2.778%) ZABBIX
5 8 (2.222%) OpenView
6 3 (0.833%) NetBackup
6 3 (0.833%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (0.556%) HP SiteScope
8 1 (0.278%) Cobbler
8 1 (0.278%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 91 (25.28%) Oracle
2 39 (10.83%) JBoss
3 24 (6.667%) Red Hat
4 19 (5.278%) IBM
4 19 (5.278%) Adobe
4 19 (5.278%) Perforce
4 19 (5.278%) VMware
5 17 (4.722%) HP
6 15 (4.167%) Google
7 13 (3.611%) Microsoft
8 10 (2.778%) Rackspace
9 9 (2.500%) Coverity
9 9 (2.500%) SAP
9 9 (2.500%) RightScale
10 8 (2.222%) EMC
10 8 (2.222%) NetApp
10 8 (2.222%) ATG
11 7 (1.944%) BMC
11 7 (1.944%) Akamai
12 6 (1.667%) Informatica
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