The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Percona products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Percona over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Percona, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Percona
Rank 495 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Percona 35 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.075% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.161% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 29 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Percona
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Percona Jobs Demand Trend

Percona
Daily Rate Trend

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

Percona Daily Rate Trend

Percona
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Percona within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Percona Daily Rate Histogram

Percona
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 Percona within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 - 35 £250 -
Yorkshire - 27 £275 -
West Yorkshire - 27 £275 -
Leeds - 27 £275 -
London - 7 £238 -
City of London - 6 £238 -
East of England - 1 £325 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £325 -

Percona
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Percona 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 Percona.

1 35 (100.00%) MySQL
2 34 (97.14%) Oracle
2 34 (97.14%) Web Services
2 34 (97.14%) Internet
2 34 (97.14%) Security Testing
2 34 (97.14%) Amazon EC2
2 34 (97.14%) Amazon S3
2 34 (97.14%) Amazon AWS
2 34 (97.14%) MongoDB
2 34 (97.14%) Redis
2 34 (97.14%) Route 53
2 34 (97.14%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (68.57%) Jenkins
3 24 (68.57%) BDD
3 24 (68.57%) HTML5
3 24 (68.57%) Git (software)
3 24 (68.57%) jQuery
3 24 (68.57%) Scrum
3 24 (68.57%) TDD
3 24 (68.57%) Oracle EBS
3 24 (68.57%) JavaScript
4 23 (65.71%) Client/Server
4 23 (65.71%) Java
5 18 (51.43%) Linux
5 18 (51.43%) CSS
5 18 (51.43%) CSS3
6 17 (48.57%) Bash shell
6 17 (48.57%) Node.js
6 17 (48.57%) Perl
6 17 (48.57%) PHP

Percona
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Percona 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 Percona. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (97.14%) Web Services
2 24 (68.57%) jQuery
2 24 (68.57%) HTML5
3 18 (51.43%) CSS3
3 18 (51.43%) CSS
4 17 (48.57%) Node.js
5 13 (37.14%) REST
5 13 (37.14%) J2EE
5 13 (37.14%) SOAP
5 13 (37.14%) Hibernate
5 13 (37.14%) Spring
6 11 (31.43%) Ajax
6 11 (31.43%) JSON
7 6 (17.14%) Java EE
8 1 (2.857%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 34 (97.14%) Amazon EC2
1 34 (97.14%) Amazon S3
1 34 (97.14%) Amazon AWS
1 34 (97.14%) Route 53
2 17 (48.57%) Apache
2 17 (48.57%) nginx
3 13 (37.14%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (20.00%) Apache Solr
4 7 (20.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 24 (68.57%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (97.14%) Internet
2 17 (48.57%) DNS
3 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
4 10 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
4 10 (28.57%) SSL
4 10 (28.57%) DHCP
5 7 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (100.00%) MySQL
2 34 (97.14%) MongoDB
2 34 (97.14%) Redis
2 34 (97.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 24 (68.57%) Git (software)
1 24 (68.57%) Jenkins
2 13 (37.14%) Maven
3 11 (31.43%) Selenium
General
1 17 (48.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Java Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Web Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Front-End Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Front-End Web Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Mobile Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Administrator
4 3 (8.571%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (2.857%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.857%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 23 (65.71%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 18 (51.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.857%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (97.14%) Security Testing
2 24 (68.57%) BDD
2 24 (68.57%) Scrum
2 24 (68.57%) TDD
3 17 (48.57%) Kanban
3 17 (48.57%) Test Automation
4 13 (37.14%) SOA
5 11 (31.43%) Configuration Management
5 11 (31.43%) Automated Testing
6 10 (28.57%) Incident Management
6 10 (28.57%) Load Balancing
6 10 (28.57%) Capacity Management
7 7 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) JavaScript
2 23 (65.71%) Java
3 17 (48.57%) C++
3 17 (48.57%) Perl
3 17 (48.57%) PHP
3 17 (48.57%) Python
3 17 (48.57%) Ruby
3 17 (48.57%) Bash shell
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (97.14%) Oracle
2 13 (37.14%) Adobe
2 13 (37.14%) hybris
3 1 (2.857%) VMware
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