The first table below looks at the demand for Memory Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Memory Management 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Memory Management
Rank 460 547 497
Rank change year-on-year
+87 -50
Contract jobs citing Memory Management 74 39 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.157% 0.066% 0.148%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.221% 0.097% 0.219%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 20 50
Average daily rate £400 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £325 £335
% change year-on-year
-11.53% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
33412 40209 40724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.90% 67.83% 67.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19968 23081 23144
Average daily rate £413 £401 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 1304 1455
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.78 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Memory Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Memory Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Memory Management Jobs Demand Trend

Memory Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Memory Management Daily Rate Trend

Memory Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Memory Management Daily Rate Histogram

Memory Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Memory Management Hourly Rate Trend

Memory Management
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Memory Management 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 +83 63 £500 +53.84%
London +53 43 £500 -
City of London +30 25 £500 -13.04%
South East +28 14 £295 -
Hampshire - 10 £295 -
Southampton - 3 £200 -
Berkshire - 3 - -
Surbiton - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Surrey +16 1 £425 -
North West +1 1 £350 +7.69%
Canary Wharf -2 1 - -
Scotland -16 1 £280 -
Glasgow -17 1 £280 -
South West - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Telford - 1 - -
Salford - 1 £350 -
Manchester - 1 £350 -
Bristol - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 - -

Memory Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 96 (64.43%) OO
2 82 (55.03%) Multithreading
3 64 (42.95%) SQL
4 53 (35.57%) XML
5 51 (34.23%) Apple iOS
6 47 (31.54%) Banking
7 46 (30.87%) C++
8 44 (29.53%) Objective-C
9 42 (28.19%) C#
10 41 (27.52%) .NET
11 38 (25.50%) SQL Server
12 37 (24.83%) C
12 37 (24.83%) Web Services
13 35 (23.49%) Linux
13 35 (23.49%) WCF
14 30 (20.13%) Scrum
15 29 (19.46%) Continuous Integration
15 29 (19.46%) Android
16 28 (18.79%) Red Hat
17 27 (18.12%) MVC
17 27 (18.12%) JSON
18 25 (16.78%) OOD
18 25 (16.78%) UNIX
18 25 (16.78%) OOP
19 24 (16.11%) Computer Science
20 23 (15.44%) Xcode
20 23 (15.44%) Windows
20 23 (15.44%) Java
20 23 (15.44%) Mobile App
21 22 (14.77%) UML

Memory Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 53 (35.57%) XML
2 41 (27.52%) .NET
3 37 (24.83%) Web Services
4 35 (23.49%) WCF
5 27 (18.12%) JSON
6 21 (14.09%) Motif
7 19 (12.75%) WPF
8 17 (11.41%) Cocoa Touch
8 17 (11.41%) wxWidgets
9 16 (10.74%) Cocoa
10 15 (10.07%) WebSphere
10 15 (10.07%) NHibernate
10 15 (10.07%) .NET Remoting
10 15 (10.07%) Lucene
10 15 (10.07%) Spring.NET
10 15 (10.07%) Unity DI Container
11 14 (9.396%) RESTful
12 12 (8.054%) OpenGL
12 12 (8.054%) OpenGL ES
13 11 (7.383%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 15 (10.07%) WebSphere MQ
1 15 (10.07%) MSMQ
2 9 (6.040%) Tomcat
3 7 (4.698%) Apache
4 6 (4.027%) CoreMedia CMS
5 5 (3.356%) Liferay
6 1 (0.671%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 22 (14.77%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.396%) HTTP
2 13 (8.725%) TCP/IP
3 9 (6.040%) Internet
4 7 (4.698%) TELNET
4 7 (4.698%) SMTP
4 7 (4.698%) DHCP
4 7 (4.698%) SSL
4 7 (4.698%) SNMP
4 7 (4.698%) tcpdump
5 6 (4.027%) NAS
5 6 (4.027%) SAN
6 5 (3.356%) DNS
6 5 (3.356%) LDAP
6 5 (3.356%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.342%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.671%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (25.50%) SQL Server
2 22 (14.77%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (13.42%) MySQL
4 17 (11.41%) Ingres
5 2 (1.342%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.671%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.671%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.671%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.671%) SQLite
6 1 (0.671%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 23 (15.44%) Xcode
2 20 (13.42%) ClearCase
3 19 (12.75%) Subversion
4 18 (12.08%) NUnit
4 18 (12.08%) GoogleTest
5 17 (11.41%) ClearQuest
5 17 (11.41%) Ant
5 17 (11.41%) CruiseControl
5 17 (11.41%) CppUnit
6 15 (10.07%) Rhino Mocks
7 11 (7.383%) Rational Rose
8 10 (6.711%) Git (software)
9 7 (4.698%) Hudson
9 7 (4.698%) Jenkins
10 4 (2.685%) MTASC
11 3 (2.013%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.342%) PhoneGap
13 1 (0.671%) GitHub
13 1 (0.671%) NetBeans
General
1 47 (31.54%) Banking
2 22 (14.77%) Front Office
3 18 (12.08%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.369%) Finance
5 7 (4.698%) Games
6 4 (2.685%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.013%) Back Office
8 2 (1.342%) Retail
8 2 (1.342%) Legal
9 1 (0.671%) Electronics
9 1 (0.671%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 116 (77.85%) Developer
2 41 (27.52%) iOS Developer
3 26 (17.45%) Software Developer
4 24 (16.11%) C# Developer
5 17 (11.41%) C# Software Developer
6 15 (10.07%) .NET Developer
7 11 (7.383%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.369%) Administrator
9 7 (4.698%) Linux Administrator
9 7 (4.698%) Mobile Developer
10 6 (4.027%) Android Developer
11 5 (3.356%) C++ Developer
12 4 (2.685%) iPad Developer
12 4 (2.685%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 4 (2.685%) Senior iOS Developer
12 4 (2.685%) ActionScript Developer
12 4 (2.685%) Senior C# Developer
12 4 (2.685%) Flash Developer
13 3 (2.013%) Software Engineer
13 3 (2.013%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.11%) Computer Science
2 23 (15.44%) Mobile App
3 22 (14.77%) iPad
4 21 (14.09%) iPhone
4 21 (14.09%) Derivative
5 19 (12.75%) Open Source
6 17 (11.41%) N-Tier
7 15 (10.07%) Inversion of Control
8 9 (6.040%) Cryptography
9 7 (4.698%) Clustering
10 6 (4.027%) Social Media
11 5 (3.356%) Fixed Income
11 5 (3.356%) Animation
12 4 (2.685%) New Media
12 4 (2.685%) Equities
12 4 (2.685%) Blackberry
12 4 (2.685%) Embedded Systems
13 3 (2.013%) Device Driver
13 3 (2.013%) Client/Server
13 3 (2.013%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 51 (34.23%) Apple iOS
2 35 (23.49%) Linux
3 29 (19.46%) Android
4 25 (16.78%) UNIX
5 23 (15.44%) Windows
6 18 (12.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.013%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.342%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.342%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (1.342%) SUSE
8 2 (1.342%) Debian
9 1 (0.671%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.671%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.671%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (64.43%) OO
2 82 (55.03%) Multithreading
3 30 (20.13%) Scrum
4 29 (19.46%) Continuous Integration
5 27 (18.12%) MVC
6 25 (16.78%) OOD
6 25 (16.78%) OOP
7 22 (14.77%) UML
8 21 (14.09%) Agile Software Development
8 21 (14.09%) Software Engineering
8 21 (14.09%) Configuration Management
9 18 (12.08%) TDD
10 17 (11.41%) Project Management
10 17 (11.41%) Use Case
11 15 (10.07%) Integration Testing
12 11 (7.383%) Unified Process
12 11 (7.383%) RUP
13 8 (5.369%) Disaster Recovery
14 7 (4.698%) Load Balancing
15 6 (4.027%) Image Processing
Programming Languages
1 64 (42.95%) SQL
2 46 (30.87%) C++
3 44 (29.53%) Objective-C
4 42 (28.19%) C#
5 37 (24.83%) C
6 23 (15.44%) Java
7 17 (11.41%) Python
8 9 (6.040%) sed
8 9 (6.040%) AWK
9 8 (5.369%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.698%) Perl
10 7 (4.698%) Bash shell
11 6 (4.027%) JavaScript
11 6 (4.027%) ActionScript
12 4 (2.685%) ActionScript 2.0
13 3 (2.013%) F#
14 2 (1.342%) Groovy
14 2 (1.342%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.342%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.671%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 22 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.75%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.74%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (4.698%) Nmap
2 5 (3.356%) NFS
2 5 (3.356%) Squid
2 5 (3.356%) Postfix
2 5 (3.356%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.342%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.342%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.671%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 7 (4.698%) Puppet
2 5 (3.356%) Nagios
3 1 (0.671%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 28 (18.79%) Red Hat
2 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.711%) Apple
3 10 (6.711%) Facebook
3 10 (6.711%) Twitter
4 9 (6.040%) JBoss
5 7 (4.698%) Oracle
6 6 (4.027%) SAP
7 5 (3.356%) NetApp
7 5 (3.356%) VMware
7 5 (3.356%) EMC
7 5 (3.356%) Google
8 1 (0.671%) Adobe
8 1 (0.671%) JD Edwards
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