The first table below looks at the demand for PVCS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PVCS 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 of the Development 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PVCS (Polytron Version Control System)
Rank 515 560 527
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -33
Contract jobs citing PVCS 15 18 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.031% 0.100%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.295% 0.336% 0.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 36
Average daily rate £325 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £292 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £450 £825
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £303 £295
% change year-on-year
+5.78% +2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £24.00
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5077 5364 6467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.204% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3208 3177 3632
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 211 325
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

PVCS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

PVCS Jobs Demand Trend

PVCS
Daily Rate Trend

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

PVCS Daily Rate Trend

PVCS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

PVCS Hourly Rate Trend

PVCS
Top 29 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PVCS 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 +44 12 £338 -15.62%
South East +25 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £319 -
Scotland -15 2 £315 +21.15%
Glasgow -19 2 £315 +21.15%
North West - 2 - -
South West - 2 - -
Cheshire - 2 - -
West Sussex +17 1 - -
London +14 1 £350 -17.64%
East of England +13 1 - -
Worthing -2 1 - -
East Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
Wales - 1 £325 -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
South Wales - 1 £325 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 £338 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Cheltenham - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -
Southend-on-Sea - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 £338 -
Reading - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Knutsford - 1 - -
Hull - 1 £300 -

PVCS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (68.75%) SQL
2 12 (37.50%) Scrum
2 12 (37.50%) Oracle
3 11 (34.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 11 (34.38%) Progress
3 11 (34.38%) WebSpeed
4 10 (31.25%) JIRA
4 10 (31.25%) Sculptor
5 8 (25.00%) XML
6 7 (21.88%) C#
6 7 (21.88%) PL/SQL
6 7 (21.88%) OpenEdge
6 7 (21.88%) Progress 4GL
6 7 (21.88%) UNIX
7 6 (18.75%) .NET
7 6 (18.75%) Subversion
8 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
8 5 (15.63%) HTML
8 5 (15.63%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (15.63%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
8 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
9 4 (12.50%) Finance
9 4 (12.50%) TestDirector
9 4 (12.50%) TOAD
9 4 (12.50%) Windows
9 4 (12.50%) UML
9 4 (12.50%) Ant
9 4 (12.50%) Web Services
9 4 (12.50%) Java

PVCS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (25.00%) XML
2 6 (18.75%) .NET
3 5 (15.63%) HTML
4 4 (12.50%) Web Services
4 4 (12.50%) J2EE
4 4 (12.50%) JSP
4 4 (12.50%) Servlets
5 3 (9.375%) JMS
5 3 (9.375%) Spring
5 3 (9.375%) JSF
5 3 (9.375%) Hibernate
5 3 (9.375%) .NET Framework
6 2 (6.250%) Tapestry
6 2 (6.250%) JSTL
6 2 (6.250%) JPA
6 2 (6.250%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 2 (6.250%) ASP.NET
6 2 (6.250%) EJB
7 1 (3.125%) CSS
7 1 (3.125%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 7 (21.88%) OpenEdge
2 3 (9.375%) WebLogic
2 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.250%) Documentum
3 2 (6.250%) IIS
3 2 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (6.250%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (6.250%) MS Project Server
3 2 (6.250%) Captiva
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (6.250%) CM System
4 1 (3.125%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Project
1 2 (6.250%) MS Office
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.125%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) LDAP
1 2 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
2 4 (12.50%) TOAD
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.250%) OLAP
4 2 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.250%) DTS
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (6.250%) IDOL
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 11 (34.38%) WebSpeed
2 10 (31.25%) JIRA
3 6 (18.75%) Subversion
4 5 (15.63%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (12.50%) Ant
5 4 (12.50%) TestDirector
6 3 (9.375%) Maven
6 3 (9.375%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (6.250%) ProC
7 2 (6.250%) Eclipse
7 2 (6.250%) Visual Studio
8 1 (3.125%) ClearCase
8 1 (3.125%) JDeveloper
8 1 (3.125%) MSI
8 1 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (3.125%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (3.125%) Hudson
8 1 (3.125%) GitHub
8 1 (3.125%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Legal
3 1 (3.125%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Progress Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (9.375%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Deployment Specialist
5 2 (6.250%) Oracle Forms Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Team Leader
5 2 (6.250%) Programmer
5 2 (6.250%) Configuration Manager
5 2 (6.250%) Change Manager
5 2 (6.250%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Consultant
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (3.125%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Architect
6 1 (3.125%) Management Consultant
6 1 (3.125%) Tester
6 1 (3.125%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
1 1 (3.125%) W3C
1 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
1 1 (3.125%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) UNIX
2 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.125%) VME
4 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.125%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Scrum
2 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
3 4 (12.50%) UML
4 3 (9.375%) OO
4 3 (9.375%) CRM
4 3 (9.375%) Data Modelling
4 3 (9.375%) Change Management
4 3 (9.375%) Performance Testing
4 3 (9.375%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.250%) Content Management
5 2 (6.250%) Automated Testing
5 2 (6.250%) Web Development
5 2 (6.250%) Matrix Management
5 2 (6.250%) Release Management
5 2 (6.250%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.250%) Test Automation
5 2 (6.250%) Capacity Management
5 2 (6.250%) MVC
5 2 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) PL/SQL
2 7 (21.88%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) Progress 4GL
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.375%) Delphi
4 3 (9.375%) C
4 3 (9.375%) VB
4 3 (9.375%) VB.NET
4 3 (9.375%) VB6
5 2 (6.250%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.250%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.250%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.375%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.250%) MCSD
3 2 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.250%) Sun Certification
4 1 (3.125%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.125%) ISEB
4 1 (3.125%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) QA
2 1 (3.125%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 11 (34.38%) Progress
3 10 (31.25%) Sculptor
4 3 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.250%) Sun
5 2 (6.250%) HP
5 2 (6.250%) Meridio
6 1 (3.125%) Fujitsu
6 1 (3.125%) Business Objects
6 1 (3.125%) BEA
6 1 (3.125%) Informatica
6 1 (3.125%) Mercator
6 1 (3.125%) Serena
6 1 (3.125%) AppSense
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013