The first table below looks at the demand for Memcached skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Memcached over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Development 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Memcached
Rank 514 578 572
Rank change year-on-year
+64 -6
Contract jobs citing Memcached 20 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.042% 0.013% 0.023%
As % of the Application Development category 0.156% 0.053% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 8
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £296 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £421 £650 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £343
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Memcached
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Memcached Jobs Demand Trend

Memcached
Daily Rate Trend

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

Memcached Daily Rate Trend

Memcached
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Memcached within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Memcached Daily Rate Histogram

Memcached
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Memcached Hourly Rate Trend

Memcached
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 Memcached within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +71 20 £325 -17.46%
London +40 12 £369 -18.05%
East of England - 7 £325 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £325 -
Hertfordshire - 3 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
City of London +11 2 £381 +12.96%
Cambridge - 2 £280 -
South West - 1 - -
Devon - 1 - -

Memcached
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Memcached 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 Memcached.

1 23 (60.53%) PHP
2 22 (57.89%) Apache
3 21 (55.26%) Linux
3 21 (55.26%) JavaScript
3 21 (55.26%) MySQL
4 20 (52.63%) Java
5 19 (50.00%) HTML
6 18 (47.37%) Redis
7 15 (39.47%) CSS
8 14 (36.84%) OO
9 13 (34.21%) Subversion
10 12 (31.58%) JSON
10 12 (31.58%) jQuery
11 11 (28.95%) MongoDB
12 10 (26.32%) Ajax
12 10 (26.32%) CMS
13 9 (23.68%) Agile Software Development
13 9 (23.68%) SQL
13 9 (23.68%) Varnish
13 9 (23.68%) Git (software)
14 8 (21.05%) RESTful
14 8 (21.05%) Unit Testing
14 8 (21.05%) Web Services
14 8 (21.05%) Web Development
14 8 (21.05%) Symfony
14 8 (21.05%) TDD
15 7 (18.42%) MVC
15 7 (18.42%) Zend
15 7 (18.42%) OOP
15 7 (18.42%) PHP5

Memcached
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Memcached 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 Memcached. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (50.00%) HTML
2 15 (39.47%) CSS
3 12 (31.58%) JSON
3 12 (31.58%) jQuery
4 10 (26.32%) Ajax
5 8 (21.05%) RESTful
5 8 (21.05%) Web Services
5 8 (21.05%) Symfony
6 6 (15.79%) XML
6 6 (15.79%) J2EE
7 5 (13.16%) Hibernate
7 5 (13.16%) Spring
7 5 (13.16%) Java EE
7 5 (13.16%) .NET
7 5 (13.16%) SOAP
7 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET
7 5 (13.16%) Django
7 5 (13.16%) Node.js
8 4 (10.53%) HTML5
8 4 (10.53%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 22 (57.89%) Apache
2 10 (26.32%) CMS
3 7 (18.42%) nginx
4 5 (13.16%) Drupal
4 5 (13.16%) Apache Solr
4 5 (13.16%) concrete5
5 4 (10.53%) WordPress
6 2 (5.263%) Windows Azure
6 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
6 2 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (5.263%) Tomcat
7 1 (2.632%) Mule
7 1 (2.632%) GlassFish
7 1 (2.632%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.632%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (2.632%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 3 (7.895%) SMTP
2 3 (7.895%) FTP
2 3 (7.895%) HTTP
2 3 (7.895%) SAN
3 2 (5.263%) iSCSI
3 2 (5.263%) Internet
3 2 (5.263%) SNMP
3 2 (5.263%) HTTPS
3 2 (5.263%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) IPsec
4 1 (2.632%) VLAN
4 1 (2.632%) DHCP
4 1 (2.632%) SSL
4 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.632%) VRRP
4 1 (2.632%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) MySQL
2 18 (47.37%) Redis
3 11 (28.95%) MongoDB
4 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.895%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.895%) Neo4j
6 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.632%) Jackrabbit
7 1 (2.632%) Hadoop
7 1 (2.632%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.632%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Subversion
2 9 (23.68%) Git (software)
3 3 (7.895%) Eclipse
3 3 (7.895%) Capybara
3 3 (7.895%) RSpec
3 3 (7.895%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.632%) JIRA
5 1 (2.632%) Jasmine
5 1 (2.632%) GitHub
5 1 (2.632%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 3 (7.895%) Finance
1 3 (7.895%) Law
1 3 (7.895%) Retail
2 1 (2.632%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) PHP Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (7.895%) Ruby on Rails Developer
5 3 (7.895%) Head of Development
5 3 (7.895%) Head of Web Development
5 3 (7.895%) PHP MySQL Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.263%) Web Developer
6 2 (5.263%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.263%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.263%) Administrator
7 1 (2.632%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.632%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.632%) UNIX Consultant
7 1 (2.632%) Senior UNIX Consultant
7 1 (2.632%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Mobile Payment
1 4 (10.53%) Mathematics
1 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 3 (7.895%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.895%) Open Source
3 1 (2.632%) Clustering
3 1 (2.632%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (55.26%) Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 3 (7.895%) Debian
4 2 (5.263%) UNIX
4 2 (5.263%) Windows
5 1 (2.632%) Fedora
5 1 (2.632%) OpenBSD
5 1 (2.632%) FreeBSD
5 1 (2.632%) CentOS
5 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) OO
2 9 (23.68%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (21.05%) Unit Testing
3 8 (21.05%) Web Development
3 8 (21.05%) TDD
4 7 (18.42%) MVC
4 7 (18.42%) OOP
5 6 (15.79%) SEO
6 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.53%) Change Management
6 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
6 4 (10.53%) OOD
6 4 (10.53%) Refactoring
6 4 (10.53%) Scrum
7 3 (7.895%) Identity Management
7 3 (7.895%) SOA
7 3 (7.895%) ERP
7 3 (7.895%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.895%) B2C
7 3 (7.895%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) PHP
2 21 (55.26%) JavaScript
3 20 (52.63%) Java
4 9 (23.68%) SQL
5 7 (18.42%) PHP5
6 6 (15.79%) Python
6 6 (15.79%) Ruby
7 3 (7.895%) Bash shell
8 2 (5.263%) PowerShell
8 2 (5.263%) C#
8 2 (5.263%) Perl
9 1 (2.632%) Korn
9 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.632%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) CCNA
1 1 (2.632%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.895%) QA
3 1 (2.632%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Varnish
2 3 (7.895%) Samba
2 3 (7.895%) NFS
2 3 (7.895%) Postfix
3 2 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.632%) Squid
4 1 (2.632%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (2.632%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Puppet
2 4 (10.53%) Nagios
3 1 (2.632%) Ganglia
3 1 (2.632%) Splunk
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Zend
2 3 (7.895%) Google
2 3 (7.895%) Oracle
2 3 (7.895%) Facebook
3 2 (5.263%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.263%) VMware
4 1 (2.632%) Tripwire
4 1 (2.632%) Cisco
4 1 (2.632%) NetApp
4 1 (2.632%) Veritas
4 1 (2.632%) Twitter
4 1 (2.632%) Cloudera
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