Moodle Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Moodle skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Moodle over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

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Location City of London Derby Derbyshire East Midlands England Halifax London Oxfordshire South East UK West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 17 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	464	437	605
Rank change year-on-year	-27 +168
Matching contract IT job ads	10	8	1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	0.021 %	0.020 %	0.001 %
As % of the Application Platforms category	0.147 %	0.141 %	0.009 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0	0
Average daily rate	£225	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£210	-	-
Hourly rates quoted	3	2	0
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£95.00	-
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-89.47 % -
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£95.00	-
% change year-on-year	-81.57 % -
All Application Platforms UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Application Platforms category	6825	5668	10904
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	14.11 %	14.26 %	13.35 %
Daily rates quoted	2950	1777	3136
Average daily rate	£360	£350	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.850 % -12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£215	£210	£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£500	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£344	£375
% change year-on-year	-5.380 % -8.400 %
Hourly rates quoted	458	452	976
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£22.50	£20.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.55 % +10.29 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£12.39	£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£36.18	£40.50	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£22.50	£20.00
% change year-on-year	-22.22 % +12.50 %

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Moodle 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 Moodle within the UK.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Moodle within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Moodle within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Moodle within the UK over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. 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	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	-43	10	£225	-
London	-	6	£300	-
Yorkshire	0	2	£210	-
West Yorkshire	-	2	£210	-
East Midlands	-1	1	-	-
South East	-	1	-	-
City of London	-	1	-	-
Halifax	-	1	-	-
Derby	-	1	-	-
Oxfordshire	-	1	-	-
Derbyshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Moodle 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 Moodle.

1 13 (54.17 %) VLE 2 12 (50.00 %) PHP 3 11 (45.83 %) MySQL 4 8 (33.33 %) LAMP 4 8 (33.33 %) E-Learning 4 8 (33.33 %) Linux 5 7 (29.17 %) Apache 6 6 (25.00 %) HTML 7 5 (20.83 %) SQL 7 5 (20.83 %) Web Services 8 4 (16.67 %) Education 8 4 (16.67 %) CSS 9 3 (12.50 %) Web Development 9 3 (12.50 %) Degree 9 3 (12.50 %) Drupal

9 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 9 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 9 3 (12.50 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 10 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 10 2 (8.333 %) Web Accessibility 10 2 (8.333 %) Learning Management System 10 2 (8.333 %) Intranet 10 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 10 2 (8.333 %) XML 10 2 (8.333 %) .NET 10 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 10 2 (8.333 %) PHP5 10 2 (8.333 %) WordPress 10 2 (8.333 %) Joomla! 10 2 (8.333 %) Computer Science

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Moodle 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 Moodle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (33.33 %) LAMP 2 6 (25.00 %) HTML 3 5 (20.83 %) Web Services 4 4 (16.67 %) CSS 5 2 (8.333 %) XML 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET 5 2 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (4.167 %) XSL 6 1 (4.167 %) Flash 6 1 (4.167 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (29.17 %) Apache 2 3 (12.50 %) Drupal 3 2 (8.333 %) SharePoint 3 2 (8.333 %) WordPress 3 2 (8.333 %) Joomla! 3 2 (8.333 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Spreadsheet 1 1 (4.167 %) Photoshop 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.167 %) Acrobat	Communications & Networking 1 2 (8.333 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (45.83 %) MySQL 2 3 (12.50 %) SQL Server 3 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (4.167 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) Subversion 1 1 (4.167 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (4.167 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 4 (16.67 %) Education 2 1 (4.167 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 10 (41.67 %) Developer 2 4 (16.67 %) Administrator 2 4 (16.67 %) PHP Developer 3 3 (12.50 %) Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) DBA 4 2 (8.333 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Support Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Web Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Network Support 5 1 (4.167 %) Software Support Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) PHP Web Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) LAMP Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Drupal Developer 5 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (4.167 %) Web Manager
Miscellaneous 1 13 (54.17 %) VLE 2 8 (33.33 %) E-Learning 3 2 (8.333 %) Learning Management System 3 2 (8.333 %) Computer Science 3 2 (8.333 %) Wiki 4 1 (4.167 %) Client/Server 4 1 (4.167 %) W3C 4 1 (4.167 %) Open Source	Operating Systems 1 8 (33.33 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (12.50 %) Web Development 1 3 (12.50 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 2 2 (8.333 %) Web Accessibility 3 1 (4.167 %) Web Design 3 1 (4.167 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (4.167 %) MVC 3 1 (4.167 %) SEO 3 1 (4.167 %) Time Management 3 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 3 1 (4.167 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 12 (50.00 %) PHP 2 5 (20.83 %) SQL 3 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 4 2 (8.333 %) PHP5 5 1 (4.167 %) PHP4 5 1 (4.167 %) C 5 1 (4.167 %) C# 5 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET 5 1 (4.167 %) ActionScript 5 1 (4.167 %) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications 1 3 (12.50 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (4.167 %) Zend 1 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft 1 1 (4.167 %) Adobe