The first table below looks at the demand for MarkLogic skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MarkLogic 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
MarkLogic Corporation
Rank 517 548 553
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +5
Contract jobs citing MarkLogic 24 17 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.052% 0.029% 0.053%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.249% 0.153% 0.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 17
Average daily rate £415 £575 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.82% +43.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £400 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £324 £575 £400
% change year-on-year
-43.69% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9625 11115 12673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.77% 19.04% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5819 6381 7051
Average daily rate £388 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £255 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 267 393
Average hourly rate £25.85 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.55 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

MarkLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MarkLogic within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MarkLogic Jobs Demand Trend

MarkLogic
Daily Rate Trend

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

MarkLogic Daily Rate Trend

MarkLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MarkLogic Daily Rate Histogram

MarkLogic
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 MarkLogic 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 +51 24 £415 -27.82%
London +54 22 £415 +3.75%
City of London +30 11 £375 -6.25%
North West - 2 £324 -
Salford - 2 £324 -
Manchester - 2 £324 -

MarkLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 43 (58.90%) XQuery
2 38 (52.05%) Java
3 32 (43.84%) TDD
4 30 (41.10%) XML
5 28 (38.36%) Publishing
6 27 (36.99%) .NET
6 27 (36.99%) RESTful
7 25 (34.25%) NoSQL
8 24 (32.88%) Web Services
8 24 (32.88%) Scrum
9 23 (31.51%) MVC
9 23 (31.51%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (28.77%) SQL Server
10 21 (28.77%) XSLT
11 20 (27.40%) HTTP
11 20 (27.40%) REST
12 19 (26.03%) Spring
12 19 (26.03%) C#
13 18 (24.66%) CMS
14 17 (23.29%) Finance
14 17 (23.29%) Semantic Web
15 16 (21.92%) Apache
16 14 (19.18%) XML Schema
16 14 (19.18%) Agile Software Development
16 14 (19.18%) BDD
17 13 (17.81%) Linux
17 13 (17.81%) CSS
18 12 (16.44%) RDF
18 12 (16.44%) jQuery
18 12 (16.44%) XPath

MarkLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 30 (41.10%) XML
2 27 (36.99%) .NET
2 27 (36.99%) RESTful
3 24 (32.88%) Web Services
4 21 (28.77%) XSLT
5 20 (27.40%) REST
6 19 (26.03%) Spring
7 14 (19.18%) XML Schema
8 13 (17.81%) CSS
9 12 (16.44%) jQuery
10 11 (15.07%) JMS
10 11 (15.07%) J2EE
11 10 (13.70%) Middleware
11 10 (13.70%) Spring MVC
12 9 (12.33%) ASP.NET
12 9 (12.33%) Struts
12 9 (12.33%) HTML
13 8 (10.96%) JSP
13 8 (10.96%) JSTL
13 8 (10.96%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 18 (24.66%) CMS
2 16 (21.92%) Apache
3 8 (10.96%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (6.849%) Jetty
5 4 (5.479%) Tomcat
6 3 (4.110%) TIBCO EMS
6 3 (4.110%) WebLogic
6 3 (4.110%) IIS
7 2 (2.740%) Mule
7 2 (2.740%) Drupal
7 2 (2.740%) Umbraco
7 2 (2.740%) Joomla!
8 1 (1.370%) ESB
8 1 (1.370%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 4 (5.479%) XMetaL
1 4 (5.479%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (27.40%) HTTP
2 4 (5.479%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.740%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.25%) NoSQL
2 21 (28.77%) SQL Server
3 11 (15.07%) Big Data
4 10 (13.70%) MySQL
5 8 (10.96%) MongoDB
6 6 (8.219%) Hadoop
7 3 (4.110%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (4.110%) CouchDB
8 2 (2.740%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (1.370%) KDB
9 1 (1.370%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.370%) Couchbase
9 1 (1.370%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) JIRA
2 11 (15.07%) SpecFlow
3 9 (12.33%) JUnit
4 5 (6.849%) Mockito
5 4 (5.479%) Maven
5 4 (5.479%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.110%) jMock
6 3 (4.110%) Rhino Mocks
6 3 (4.110%) Moq
6 3 (4.110%) EasyMock
6 3 (4.110%) Hudson
6 3 (4.110%) Ant
6 3 (4.110%) NUnit
7 2 (2.740%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.740%) Git (software)
7 2 (2.740%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.370%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.370%) Subversion
8 1 (1.370%) Log4j
General
1 28 (38.36%) Publishing
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 6 (8.219%) Banking
4 4 (5.479%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.370%) Front Office
5 1 (1.370%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (67.12%) Developer
2 20 (27.40%) Java Developer
3 11 (15.07%) Architect
3 11 (15.07%) Consultant
4 10 (13.70%) Technical Architect
4 10 (13.70%) C# Developer
5 5 (6.849%) XML Developer
5 5 (6.849%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.479%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.479%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.479%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.110%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (2.740%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (2.740%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (2.740%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.740%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (2.740%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.740%) Development Manager
8 2 (2.740%) Java Consultant
8 2 (2.740%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Semantic Web
2 5 (6.849%) Ontologies
2 5 (6.849%) Open Source
3 4 (5.479%) Computer Science
4 3 (4.110%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.110%) Mathematics
4 3 (4.110%) Physics
4 3 (4.110%) Linked Data
4 3 (4.110%) Clustering
5 2 (2.740%) Streaming Video
5 2 (2.740%) Interactive TV
6 1 (1.370%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.370%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.370%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.370%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.81%) Linux
2 10 (13.70%) UNIX
3 6 (8.219%) Windows
4 4 (5.479%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.84%) TDD
2 24 (32.88%) Scrum
3 23 (31.51%) MVC
3 23 (31.51%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (19.18%) Agile Software Development
4 14 (19.18%) BDD
5 12 (16.44%) RDF
6 9 (12.33%) Domain-Driven Design
6 9 (12.33%) Kanban
6 9 (12.33%) OO
7 6 (8.219%) SOA
7 6 (8.219%) Benchmarking
7 6 (8.219%) Waterfall
8 5 (6.849%) Multithreading
9 4 (5.479%) Content Management
9 4 (5.479%) Project Planning
9 4 (5.479%) E-Commerce
10 3 (4.110%) Data Protection
10 3 (4.110%) Dependency Injection
10 3 (4.110%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) XQuery
2 38 (52.05%) Java
3 19 (26.03%) C#
4 12 (16.44%) XPath
5 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.96%) SQL
7 7 (9.589%) C++
8 5 (6.849%) SPARQL
9 4 (5.479%) Perl
9 4 (5.479%) VBA
9 4 (5.479%) Bash shell
10 2 (2.740%) Korn
10 2 (2.740%) Ruby
10 2 (2.740%) Scala
10 2 (2.740%) C-shell
11 1 (1.370%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.370%) PowerHouse
11 1 (1.370%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.219%) CIPD
1 6 (8.219%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.740%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.589%) Squid
2 3 (4.110%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.110%) NFS
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Sitecore
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
3 7 (9.589%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.479%) TIBCO
4 4 (5.479%) Veritas
4 4 (5.479%) Red Hat
4 4 (5.479%) Google
5 3 (4.110%) VMware
6 2 (2.740%) HP
7 1 (1.370%) Tableau
7 1 (1.370%) 29West
7 1 (1.370%) Cognos
7 1 (1.370%) Mercator