The first table below looks at the demand for QUnit skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QUnit 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
QUnit
Rank 511 553 570
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +17
Contract jobs citing QUnit 19 25 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.043% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.374% 0.466% 0.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 14
Average daily rate £465 £445 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.49% +21.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £325 £322
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £397
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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% -

QUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QUnit Jobs Demand Trend

QUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

QUnit Daily Rate Trend

QUnit
Daily Rate Histogram

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

QUnit Daily Rate Histogram

QUnit
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 QUnit 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 +40 17 £465 +4.49%
London +18 16 £465 +4.49%
Brentford - 4 £465 -
City of London +8 3 £400 -10.11%
Scotland - 2 - -
East of England - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -

QUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 43 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 36 (83.72%) CSS
3 33 (76.74%) TDD
4 30 (69.77%) Jasmine
5 28 (65.12%) HTML
5 28 (65.12%) HTML5
6 27 (62.79%) Agile Software Development
7 26 (60.47%) jQuery
8 25 (58.14%) CSS3
9 23 (53.49%) OO
10 19 (44.19%) BDD
11 17 (39.53%) Java
12 15 (34.88%) Scrum
13 14 (32.56%) PHP
13 14 (32.56%) Git (software)
14 13 (30.23%) Pair Programming
15 12 (27.91%) Spring
15 12 (27.91%) MVC
15 12 (27.91%) Grails
16 11 (25.58%) JSON
16 11 (25.58%) Unit Testing
16 11 (25.58%) Node.js
16 11 (25.58%) Web Services
16 11 (25.58%) XML
17 10 (23.26%) New Media
18 9 (20.93%) Mobile App
18 9 (20.93%) RESTful
18 9 (20.93%) Kanban
19 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
19 8 (18.60%) Subversion

QUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 36 (83.72%) CSS
2 28 (65.12%) HTML
2 28 (65.12%) HTML5
3 26 (60.47%) jQuery
4 25 (58.14%) CSS3
5 12 (27.91%) Grails
5 12 (27.91%) Spring
6 11 (25.58%) JSON
6 11 (25.58%) Web Services
6 11 (25.58%) XML
6 11 (25.58%) Node.js
7 9 (20.93%) RESTful
8 6 (13.95%) Ajax
8 6 (13.95%) KnockoutJS
9 5 (11.63%) Backbone.js
9 5 (11.63%) Dojo
9 5 (11.63%) .NET
9 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET
10 4 (9.302%) Ext JS
10 4 (9.302%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.651%) Apache
2 1 (2.326%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.651%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.326%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (2.326%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.28%) HTTP
2 1 (2.326%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.651%) CouchDB
1 2 (4.651%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.651%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.326%) MySQL
2 1 (2.326%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.326%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 30 (69.77%) Jasmine
2 14 (32.56%) Git (software)
3 8 (18.60%) Subversion
4 6 (13.95%) JUnit
5 5 (11.63%) GitHub
6 4 (9.302%) Jenkins
7 3 (6.977%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.977%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (4.651%) Visual Studio
8 2 (4.651%) Hudson
8 2 (4.651%) SpecFlow
8 2 (4.651%) PHPUnit
8 2 (4.651%) Moq
8 2 (4.651%) Ant
9 1 (2.326%) Mocha
9 1 (2.326%) Rhino Mocks
9 1 (2.326%) MSTest
9 1 (2.326%) Maven
9 1 (2.326%) JIRA
9 1 (2.326%) Selenium
General
1 6 (13.95%) Marketing
2 4 (9.302%) Finance
3 1 (2.326%) Publishing
3 1 (2.326%) Games
Job Titles
1 42 (97.67%) Developer
2 23 (53.49%) Front-End Developer
3 12 (27.91%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (13.95%) UI Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Web Developer
4 6 (13.95%) UI Programmer
5 4 (9.302%) .NET Developer
6 3 (6.977%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (6.977%) Android Developer
7 2 (4.651%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Agile Java Developer
7 2 (4.651%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.651%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Web Applications Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.326%) Tester
8 1 (2.326%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) New Media
2 9 (20.93%) Mobile App
3 6 (13.95%) Web 2.0
3 6 (13.95%) Open Source
4 3 (6.977%) Semantic Web
4 3 (6.977%) Digital Media
5 2 (4.651%) Linked Data
5 2 (4.651%) BBC
5 2 (4.651%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.326%) iPhone
6 1 (2.326%) W3C
6 1 (2.326%) Blackberry
6 1 (2.326%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Apple iOS
2 4 (9.302%) Android
3 3 (6.977%) Linux
4 2 (4.651%) Mac OS X
4 2 (4.651%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) TDD
2 27 (62.79%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (53.49%) OO
4 19 (44.19%) BDD
5 15 (34.88%) Scrum
6 13 (30.23%) Pair Programming
7 12 (27.91%) MVC
8 11 (25.58%) Unit Testing
9 9 (20.93%) Kanban
10 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
11 6 (13.95%) OOP
12 3 (6.977%) Content Management
12 3 (6.977%) Web Development
12 3 (6.977%) Release Management
12 3 (6.977%) Progressive Enhancement
12 3 (6.977%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (6.977%) Waterfall
13 2 (4.651%) Test-First Development
13 2 (4.651%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (39.53%) Java
3 14 (32.56%) PHP
4 4 (9.302%) C#
4 4 (9.302%) T-SQL
5 3 (6.977%) SQL
5 3 (6.977%) Objective-C
5 3 (6.977%) Ruby
6 2 (4.651%) Groovy
6 2 (4.651%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.326%) Python
7 1 (2.326%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (4.651%) Sun Certification
1 2 (4.651%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.977%) QA
2 1 (2.326%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (6.977%) Apple
1 3 (6.977%) Zend
2 2 (4.651%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.326%) Adobe
3 1 (2.326%) Google
3 1 (2.326%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.326%) Oracle