Mambo Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Mambo skills across the UK with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Mambo over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire England Reading South East UK	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	581	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.037 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£500	-
Average daily rate	£500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£500	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Platforms UK
Matching contract IT job ads	10708	13221
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	14.27 %	13.38 %
Daily rates quoted	3168	3325
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£357
Average daily rate	£376	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	1125	1315
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.47	£22.68
Average hourly rate	£24.05	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-0.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.63	£25.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.28	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Mambo within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 4 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mambo within the UK over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	-	4	£500	-
South East	-	4	£500	-
England	-	4	£500	-
Reading	-	2	£500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mambo 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 Mambo.

1 9 (81.82 %) PHP 2 8 (72.73 %) AJAX 3 6 (54.55 %) CSS 3 6 (54.55 %) XHTML 3 6 (54.55 %) Joomla! 4 5 (45.45 %) MySQL 4 5 (45.45 %) Telecoms 4 5 (45.45 %) CMS 5 4 (36.36 %) FatWire 5 4 (36.36 %) Ruby 5 4 (36.36 %) W3C 5 4 (36.36 %) JavaScript 5 4 (36.36 %) XML 5 4 (36.36 %) Web 2.0 5 4 (36.36 %) Web Development

5 4 (36.36 %) Movable Type 6 3 (27.27 %) DOM 6 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic 6 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic Portal 6 3 (27.27 %) BEA 6 3 (27.27 %) Content Management 6 3 (27.27 %) Web Design 7 2 (18.18 %) Multimedia 7 2 (18.18 %) SMTP 7 2 (18.18 %) SMPP 7 2 (18.18 %) Linux 7 2 (18.18 %) Apache 7 2 (18.18 %) J2SE 7 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 7 2 (18.18 %) HTML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mambo 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 Mambo. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (72.73 %) AJAX 2 6 (54.55 %) XHTML 2 6 (54.55 %) CSS 3 4 (36.36 %) XML 4 3 (27.27 %) DOM 5 2 (18.18 %) HTML 5 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 5 2 (18.18 %) J2SE 5 2 (18.18 %) Drupal 6 1 (9.091 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 6 (54.55 %) Joomla! 2 5 (45.45 %) CMS 3 4 (36.36 %) Movable Type 4 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic Portal 4 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic 5 2 (18.18 %) Apache 5 2 (18.18 %) Alfresco
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) SMTP 1 2 (18.18 %) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (45.45 %) MySQL	General 1 5 (45.45 %) Telecoms 2 2 (18.18 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Developer 2 4 (36.36 %) Web Developer 3 3 (27.27 %) Web Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Development Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Programmer 4 1 (9.091 %) PHP Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) PHP Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (36.36 %) W3C 1 4 (36.36 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (9.091 %) Social Network
Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Linux 2 1 (9.091 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (36.36 %) Web Development 2 3 (27.27 %) Web Design 2 3 (27.27 %) Content Management 3 1 (9.091 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 9 (81.82 %) PHP 2 4 (36.36 %) Ruby 2 4 (36.36 %) JavaScript 3 2 (18.18 %) Java 3 2 (18.18 %) PHP5 4 1 (9.091 %) PHP4	Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) FatWire 2 3 (27.27 %) BEA