The first table below looks at the demand for jMock skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited jMock 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
jMock
Rank 513 552 507
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -45
Contract jobs citing jMock 16 32 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.055% 0.126%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.314% 0.602% 1.196%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 48
Average daily rate £475 £525 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.52% +8.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £400 £435
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £600 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -
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% -

jMock
Jobs Demand Trend

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

jMock Jobs Demand Trend

jMock
Daily Rate Trend

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

jMock Daily Rate Trend

jMock
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing jMock within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

jMock Daily Rate Histogram

jMock
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing jMock 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 +30 16 £475 -9.52%
London +19 11 £500 -9.09%
York - 3 £354 -
Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
South West +28 2 £278 -30.62%
Barnstaple - 2 £278 -
Devon - 2 £278 -
City of London +10 1 £475 +18.75%
Bromley - 1 - -

jMock
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (95.45%) JUnit
3 37 (84.09%) Spring
4 34 (77.27%) Maven
5 28 (63.64%) Oracle
6 26 (59.09%) Finance
7 25 (56.82%) Hibernate
8 23 (52.27%) J2EE
9 22 (50.00%) JMS
10 19 (43.18%) Web Services
10 19 (43.18%) Spring MVC
10 19 (43.18%) Multithreading
11 17 (38.64%) TDD
12 16 (36.36%) JDBC
12 16 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (36.36%) EasyMock
13 15 (34.09%) SQL
13 15 (34.09%) Banking
14 14 (31.82%) Ant
14 14 (31.82%) XML
15 13 (29.55%) Tomcat
16 12 (27.27%) CruiseControl
16 12 (27.27%) Subversion
16 12 (27.27%) MVC
16 12 (27.27%) TeamCity
16 12 (27.27%) Mockito
17 11 (25.00%) Ajax
18 10 (22.73%) UNIX
18 10 (22.73%) WebLogic
18 10 (22.73%) PL/SQL

jMock
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 37 (84.09%) Spring
2 25 (56.82%) Hibernate
3 23 (52.27%) J2EE
4 22 (50.00%) JMS
5 19 (43.18%) Web Services
5 19 (43.18%) Spring MVC
6 16 (36.36%) JDBC
7 14 (31.82%) XML
8 11 (25.00%) Ajax
9 9 (20.45%) JPA
10 8 (18.18%) Servlets
11 7 (15.91%) Struts
11 7 (15.91%) XSLT
11 7 (15.91%) EJB
11 7 (15.91%) WebSphere
12 6 (13.64%) jQuery
12 6 (13.64%) HTML
13 5 (11.36%) JSP
13 5 (11.36%) Middleware
13 5 (11.36%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 13 (29.55%) Tomcat
2 10 (22.73%) WebLogic
3 7 (15.91%) Apache
3 7 (15.91%) WebSphere MQ
4 5 (11.36%) TIBCO EMS
5 4 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (6.818%) Jetty
7 2 (4.545%) GlassFish
7 2 (4.545%) Confluence
7 2 (4.545%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (2.273%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 4 (9.091%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.273%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) Big Data
2 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.091%) TOAD
3 4 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (9.091%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (6.818%) JasperReports
4 3 (6.818%) MarkLogic
4 3 (6.818%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.545%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (95.45%) JUnit
2 34 (77.27%) Maven
3 16 (36.36%) EasyMock
4 14 (31.82%) Ant
5 12 (27.27%) CruiseControl
5 12 (27.27%) Subversion
5 12 (27.27%) TeamCity
5 12 (27.27%) Mockito
6 9 (20.45%) Eclipse
7 6 (13.64%) Jenkins
7 6 (13.64%) JIRA
8 5 (11.36%) Selenium
8 5 (11.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (9.091%) TestNG
10 3 (6.818%) Log4j
10 3 (6.818%) Hudson
10 3 (6.818%) Subclipse
10 3 (6.818%) Git (software)
11 2 (4.545%) Gradle
11 2 (4.545%) IntelliJ
General
1 26 (59.09%) Finance
2 15 (34.09%) Banking
3 8 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Front Office
5 4 (9.091%) Back Office
5 4 (9.091%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.818%) Retail
7 2 (4.545%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.273%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (81.82%) Java Developer
1 36 (81.82%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Senior Developer
2 12 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 7 (15.91%) J2EE Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (6.818%) Architect
5 3 (6.818%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.545%) Java Consultant
6 2 (4.545%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.545%) Consultant
6 2 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.545%) Analyst
6 2 (4.545%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.273%) Tester
7 1 (2.273%) Java Architect
7 1 (2.273%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Credit Risk
2 7 (15.91%) Market Risk
3 6 (13.64%) Mathematics
4 4 (9.091%) Open Source
5 3 (6.818%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (6.818%) Derivative
5 3 (6.818%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (6.818%) Physics
5 3 (6.818%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.818%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.545%) SWIFT
7 1 (2.273%) Equities
7 1 (2.273%) New Media
7 1 (2.273%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.73%) UNIX
2 6 (13.64%) Linux
3 4 (9.091%) Windows
4 1 (2.273%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (43.18%) Multithreading
2 17 (38.64%) TDD
3 16 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (27.27%) MVC
5 9 (20.45%) OO
5 9 (20.45%) Unit Testing
6 8 (18.18%) Scrum
6 8 (18.18%) UML
7 7 (15.91%) Business Analysis
7 7 (15.91%) Domain-Driven Design
8 5 (11.36%) ETL
8 5 (11.36%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Data Architecture
8 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
9 4 (9.091%) Kanban
9 4 (9.091%) Risk Management
9 4 (9.091%) E-Commerce
10 3 (6.818%) Project Management
10 3 (6.818%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 10 (22.73%) PL/SQL
4 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.091%) Shell Script
6 3 (6.818%) C++
6 3 (6.818%) XQuery
6 3 (6.818%) XPath
7 2 (4.545%) Scala
7 2 (4.545%) Groovy
7 2 (4.545%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 3 (6.818%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.818%) Basel II
1 3 (6.818%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) MOM
Vendors
1 28 (63.64%) Oracle
2 5 (11.36%) Informatica
2 5 (11.36%) TIBCO
3 4 (9.091%) Perforce
3 4 (9.091%) IBM
4 3 (6.818%) JBoss