The first table below looks at the demand for Parsley skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Parsley 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
Spicefactory Parsley
Rank 498 539 514
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -25
Contract jobs citing Parsley 43 26 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.093% 0.045% 0.116%
As % of the Application Development category 0.340% 0.175% 0.421%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 45
Average daily rate £475 £500 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £475 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £553 £620 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 - £225
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
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%

Parsley
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Parsley Jobs Demand Trend

Parsley
Daily Rate Trend

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

Parsley Daily Rate Trend

Parsley
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Parsley Daily Rate Histogram

Parsley
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 Parsley 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
Glasgow - 25 £500 -
Scotland - 25 £500 -
England +36 18 £450 -10.00%
London +21 14 £450 -10.00%
Hampshire - 2 - -
Havant - 2 - -
South West - 2 £350 -
South East - 2 - -
City of London +20 1 £575 +4.54%
Wiltshire - 1 £350 -

Parsley
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 46 (93.88%) Apache Flex
2 42 (85.71%) Adobe
2 42 (85.71%) Java
3 35 (71.43%) Cairngorm
4 30 (61.22%) HTML5
4 30 (61.22%) JavaScript
5 21 (42.86%) Fixed Income
6 20 (40.82%) Finance
7 18 (36.73%) Sencha
8 13 (26.53%) MVC
8 13 (26.53%) CSS
9 12 (24.49%) Banking
10 11 (22.45%) Maven
10 11 (22.45%) OOP
11 10 (20.41%) Front Office
11 10 (20.41%) Dependency Injection
11 10 (20.41%) FlexUnit
12 9 (18.37%) UML
12 9 (18.37%) Adobe AIR
12 9 (18.37%) JIRA
13 8 (16.33%) Business Analysis
14 7 (14.29%) Unit Testing
14 7 (14.29%) Windows
14 7 (14.29%) BlazeDS
14 7 (14.29%) Investment Management
14 7 (14.29%) Confluence
15 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
15 5 (10.20%) Spring
15 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
16 4 (8.163%) RIA

Parsley
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 46 (93.88%) Apache Flex
2 35 (71.43%) Cairngorm
3 30 (61.22%) HTML5
4 13 (26.53%) CSS
5 9 (18.37%) Adobe AIR
6 7 (14.29%) BlazeDS
7 5 (10.20%) Spring
8 4 (8.163%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.122%) Ember.js
9 3 (6.122%) CSS3
9 3 (6.122%) Hibernate
10 2 (4.082%) Flash
10 2 (4.082%) J2EE
10 2 (4.082%) PureMVC
10 2 (4.082%) Robotlegs
11 1 (2.041%) Sencha Touch
11 1 (2.041%) Apache CXF
11 1 (2.041%) Ext JS
11 1 (2.041%) JSP
11 1 (2.041%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (4.082%) WebLogic
2 2 (4.082%) LiveCycle
3 1 (2.041%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.122%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.041%) DB2
1 1 (2.041%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.041%) KDB
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Maven
2 10 (20.41%) FlexUnit
3 9 (18.37%) JIRA
4 2 (4.082%) CruiseControl
5 1 (2.041%) Aptana Studio
5 1 (2.041%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.041%) IntelliJ
General
1 20 (40.82%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Banking
3 10 (20.41%) Front Office
4 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.082%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.082%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (93.88%) Developer
2 45 (91.84%) Flex Developer
3 18 (36.73%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Designer
5 3 (6.122%) User Experience Designer
5 3 (6.122%) Senior Flex Developer
5 3 (6.122%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Lead Developer
6 1 (2.041%) Lead Designer
6 1 (2.041%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (42.86%) Fixed Income
2 4 (8.163%) RIA
3 3 (6.122%) Graphic Design
4 2 (4.082%) Informatics
4 2 (4.082%) SaaS
4 2 (4.082%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.041%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.041%) Mathematics
5 1 (2.041%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.041%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) MVC
2 11 (22.45%) OOP
3 10 (20.41%) Dependency Injection
4 9 (18.37%) UML
5 8 (16.33%) Business Analysis
6 7 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 7 (14.29%) Investment Management
7 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (8.163%) OO
8 4 (8.163%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (6.122%) Information Architecture
9 3 (6.122%) TDD
10 2 (4.082%) Scrum
10 2 (4.082%) Automated Testing
10 2 (4.082%) Configuration Management
10 2 (4.082%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (4.082%) ERP
10 2 (4.082%) Analytics
11 1 (2.041%) AOP
11 1 (2.041%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (85.71%) Java
2 30 (61.22%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.163%) ActionScript
4 1 (2.041%) C#
4 1 (2.041%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.082%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.082%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.041%) Degree
Vendors
1 42 (85.71%) Adobe
2 18 (36.73%) Sencha
3 3 (6.122%) Oracle
4 2 (4.082%) Sybase
4 2 (4.082%) JBoss
Birmingham, West Midlands
A Birmingham CC based software house is currently recruiting for a very strong, commercially experienced contract Java / Adobe Flex developer. You will be using Java object orientated development...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
A Birmingham CC based software house is currently recruiting for a very strong, commercially experienced contract Java / Adobe Flex developer. You will be using Java object orientated development...
Computer Futures
Rate: £330 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Knowledge of Spring, AOP, and Spring security... Experience with Python, especially object oriented programming using Python. Experience with relational database technologies including Oracle, Sybase etc. Experience of middleware.
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013