The first table below looks at the demand for Mustache skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mustache 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mustache
Rank 532 553 583
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +30
Contract jobs citing Mustache 9 12 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.021% 0.005%
As % of the Application Development category 0.071% 0.081% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 3
Average daily rate £425 £500 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +53.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 363 389 578
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 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Mustache
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mustache Jobs Demand Trend

Mustache
Daily Rate Trend

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

Mustache Daily Rate Trend

Mustache
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Mustache Daily Rate Histogram

Mustache
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 Mustache 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 +41 9 £425 -15.00%
London +26 5 £425 -15.00%
Buckinghamshire - 3 - -
South East - 3 - -
City of London +14 2 £250 -41.17%
East of England - 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
High Wycombe - 1 - -

Mustache
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 22 (100.00%) jQuery
2 21 (95.45%) CSS
3 20 (90.91%) HTML
4 16 (72.73%) OO
4 16 (72.73%) TDD
4 16 (72.73%) HTML5
4 16 (72.73%) CSS3
5 15 (68.18%) Web Services
6 14 (63.64%) Git (software)
7 13 (59.09%) Ajax
7 13 (59.09%) Apache
7 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (54.55%) Varnish
8 12 (54.55%) Linux
8 12 (54.55%) MySQL
8 12 (54.55%) Subversion
8 12 (54.55%) Ruby on Rails
8 12 (54.55%) Ruby
8 12 (54.55%) nginx
8 12 (54.55%) RESTful
9 11 (50.00%) Degree
9 11 (50.00%) W3C
10 10 (45.45%) Games
10 10 (45.45%) Online Games
10 10 (45.45%) Computer Science
11 5 (22.73%) MVC
12 4 (18.18%) Spring
12 4 (18.18%) Java
12 4 (18.18%) Node.js

Mustache
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 22 (100.00%) jQuery
2 21 (95.45%) CSS
3 20 (90.91%) HTML
4 16 (72.73%) HTML5
4 16 (72.73%) CSS3
5 15 (68.18%) Web Services
6 13 (59.09%) Ajax
7 12 (54.55%) Ruby on Rails
7 12 (54.55%) RESTful
8 4 (18.18%) Spring
8 4 (18.18%) Node.js
9 3 (13.64%) Semantic HTML
9 3 (13.64%) Spring MVC
9 3 (13.64%) FreeMarker
10 2 (9.091%) JSON
10 2 (9.091%) .NET
10 2 (9.091%) Underscore.js
11 1 (4.545%) REST
11 1 (4.545%) Backbone.js
11 1 (4.545%) Guava
Application Platforms
1 13 (59.09%) Apache
2 12 (54.55%) nginx
3 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Git (software)
2 12 (54.55%) Subversion
3 3 (13.64%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.545%) Hudson
4 1 (4.545%) Mockito
4 1 (4.545%) Mocha
4 1 (4.545%) QUnit
4 1 (4.545%) ClearCase
4 1 (4.545%) JUnit
4 1 (4.545%) Maven
4 1 (4.545%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (45.45%) Games
2 1 (4.545%) Marketing
2 1 (4.545%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (59.09%) Web Developer
3 10 (45.45%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 7 (31.82%) UI Developer
4 7 (31.82%) UI Programmer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior UI Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Ruby Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (4.545%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) W3C
2 10 (45.45%) Online Games
2 10 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.091%) SaaS
4 1 (4.545%) Heroku
4 1 (4.545%) Semantic Web
4 1 (4.545%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) OO
1 16 (72.73%) TDD
2 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (22.73%) MVC
4 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.091%) Web Development
5 1 (4.545%) User Stories
5 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.545%) SOA
5 1 (4.545%) UML
5 1 (4.545%) AOP
5 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (54.55%) Ruby
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (4.545%) C#
4 1 (4.545%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Varnish
2 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (4.545%) Perforce
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle
1 1 (4.545%) Sybase
1 1 (4.545%) Endeca
1 1 (4.545%) Google