The first table below looks at the demand for Mingle skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mingle 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 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
ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle
Rank 513 580 567
Rank change year-on-year
+67 -13
Contract jobs citing Mingle 16 4 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.034% 0.007% 0.028%
As % of the Applications category 0.263% 0.055% 0.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 14
Average daily rate £450 £430 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.65% -18.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
6088 7253 7257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 13.12% 12.44% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3169 3712 3616
Average daily rate £340 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £513 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 677 742 877
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.56 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.82% -2.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.16 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%

Mingle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mingle Jobs Demand Trend

Mingle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Mingle Daily Rate Trend

Mingle
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mingle 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 +58 16 £450 +4.65%
London +45 10 £450 -10.00%
East of England - 4 £350 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 £350 -
Cambridge - 3 £350 -
North West +15 2 - -
Manchester +9 2 - -
Bromley - 1 - -

Mingle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (82.61%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (69.57%) Java
2 16 (69.57%) JIRA
3 14 (60.87%) Requirements Management
4 13 (56.52%) Ant
5 12 (52.17%) JUnit
5 12 (52.17%) Data Management
6 11 (47.83%) Subversion
6 11 (47.83%) Finance
6 11 (47.83%) Perforce
6 11 (47.83%) Linux
6 11 (47.83%) Tomcat
6 11 (47.83%) HP
6 11 (47.83%) Shell Script
6 11 (47.83%) Korn
6 11 (47.83%) BladeLogic
6 11 (47.83%) Bash shell
6 11 (47.83%) Hudson
6 11 (47.83%) dbdeploy
7 9 (39.13%) Python
8 8 (34.78%) QA
9 6 (26.09%) BMC
9 6 (26.09%) SQL
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (26.09%) Build Automation
10 5 (21.74%) Java EE
10 5 (21.74%) Extreme Programming
10 5 (21.74%) Maven
11 4 (17.39%) Workflow
11 4 (17.39%) SharePoint

Mingle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (21.74%) Java EE
2 3 (13.04%) JMS
2 3 (13.04%) Struts
2 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
2 3 (13.04%) Ajax
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 2 (8.696%) soapUI
4 1 (4.348%) Web Services
4 1 (4.348%) J2EE
4 1 (4.348%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.348%) jBPM
Application Platforms
1 11 (47.83%) Tomcat
2 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.04%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Project
1 1 (4.348%) MS Office
1 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.348%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Google Analytics
Development Applications
1 16 (69.57%) JIRA
2 13 (56.52%) Ant
3 12 (52.17%) JUnit
4 11 (47.83%) Subversion
4 11 (47.83%) Hudson
4 11 (47.83%) dbdeploy
5 5 (21.74%) Maven
6 2 (8.696%) WebDriver
6 2 (8.696%) Cucumber
6 2 (8.696%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (8.696%) Selenium
6 2 (8.696%) FitNesse
6 2 (8.696%) CruiseControl
6 2 (8.696%) JMeter
7 1 (4.348%) jMock
7 1 (4.348%) JBehave
7 1 (4.348%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (47.83%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Banking
3 1 (4.348%) Publishing
3 1 (4.348%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Build Manager
2 9 (39.13%) Deployment Manager
3 7 (30.43%) Analyst
4 5 (21.74%) QA Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Senior QA Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Agile Java Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Release Manager
7 1 (4.348%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (4.348%) Junior Project Manager
7 1 (4.348%) Services Delivery Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Requirements Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Web Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) Coordinator
7 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.348%) Junior
7 1 (4.348%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) NHS
1 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.348%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (60.87%) Requirements Management
3 12 (52.17%) Data Management
4 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (26.09%) Build Automation
5 5 (21.74%) Extreme Programming
6 4 (17.39%) Workflow
6 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
6 4 (17.39%) Change Management
7 3 (13.04%) Project Management
7 3 (13.04%) TDD
7 3 (13.04%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (13.04%) BDD
8 2 (8.696%) Agile Project Management
8 2 (8.696%) Test Automation
8 2 (8.696%) Automated Testing
8 2 (8.696%) Scrum
8 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
9 1 (4.348%) Programme Management
9 1 (4.348%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) Shell Script
2 11 (47.83%) Korn
2 11 (47.83%) Bash shell
3 9 (39.13%) Python
4 6 (26.09%) SQL
5 2 (8.696%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) ISEB
2 1 (4.348%) Postgraduate
2 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Perforce
1 11 (47.83%) HP
2 6 (26.09%) BMC
3 2 (8.696%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.348%) Google
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.348%) Adobe