The first table below looks at the demand for RavenDB skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RavenDB over the 3 months to 20 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RavenDB
Rank 528 572 585
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +13
Contract jobs citing RavenDB 5 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.002% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.052% 0.009% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £260
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 - £260
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9689 11092 12251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.82% 19.01% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5838 6349 6799
Average daily rate £385 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 402
Average hourly rate £25.70 £27.50 £31.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% -13.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

RavenDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RavenDB within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

RavenDB Jobs Demand Trend

RavenDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

RavenDB Daily Rate Trend

RavenDB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RavenDB within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

RavenDB Daily Rate Histogram

RavenDB
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RavenDB within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +67 5 £325 -
North West +18 2 £338 -
Manchester +11 2 £338 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
Leeds - 2 £300 -
London - 1 £600 -

RavenDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RavenDB 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 RavenDB.

1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (82.35%) TDD
3 12 (70.59%) C#
4 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
4 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
5 9 (52.94%) CSS
5 9 (52.94%) RESTful
6 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
6 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
7 7 (41.18%) T-SQL
7 7 (41.18%) XHTML
7 7 (41.18%) Web Services
7 7 (41.18%) XML
7 7 (41.18%) Visual Studio
7 7 (41.18%) Scrum
7 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
7 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
7 7 (41.18%) Ajax
7 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
7 7 (41.18%) LINQ
7 7 (41.18%) Castle Windsor
8 6 (35.29%) Lucene
8 6 (35.29%) TeamCity
9 5 (29.41%) Ruby
9 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
9 5 (29.41%) Degree
9 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
9 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
9 5 (29.41%) CMS

RavenDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) RESTful
3 8 (47.06%) ASP.NET
4 7 (41.18%) Ajax
4 7 (41.18%) Web Services
4 7 (41.18%) XML
4 7 (41.18%) XHTML
4 7 (41.18%) LINQ
4 7 (41.18%) Castle Windsor
5 6 (35.29%) Lucene
6 5 (29.41%) .NET Framework
7 4 (23.53%) jQuery
7 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (23.53%) Sinatra
7 4 (23.53%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (23.53%) NHibernate
7 4 (23.53%) Regular Expression
7 4 (23.53%) OpenRasta
8 3 (17.65%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) CMS
2 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Solr
2 4 (23.53%) Orchard CMS
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Azure
3 3 (17.65%) MSMQ
4 2 (11.76%) MQSeries
5 1 (5.882%) Umbraco
5 1 (5.882%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2005
2 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (41.18%) MongoDB
3 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git (software)
2 7 (41.18%) Visual Studio
3 6 (35.29%) TeamCity
4 4 (23.53%) MSBuild
5 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.882%) NUnit
General
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (64.71%) .NET Developer
3 6 (35.29%) Agile .NET Developer
4 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
5 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (17.65%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Umbraco Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
2 4 (23.53%) Open Source
2 4 (23.53%) NHS
3 1 (5.882%) Equities
3 1 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) TDD
2 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL
4 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
4 4 (23.53%) OO
4 4 (23.53%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (11.76%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (11.76%) BDD
6 2 (11.76%) OOP
6 2 (11.76%) Content Management
7 1 (5.882%) Web Development
7 1 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.882%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) C#
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) T-SQL
4 5 (29.41%) Ruby
5 2 (11.76%) CoffeeScript
6 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) TIBCO