The first table below looks at the demand for Redmine skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Redmine over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Redmine
Rank 532 576 572
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -4
Contract jobs citing Redmine 8 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.155% 0.093% 0.127%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
Average daily rate £325 £375 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +150.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £355 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £395 £170
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 - £150
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £29.96 £33.31 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.05% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.96 £33.31 -
% change year-on-year
-10.05% -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5156 5371 6324
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.92% 9.188% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3252 3171 3557
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 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 216 321
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Redmine
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redmine Jobs Demand Trend

Redmine
Daily Rate Trend

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

Redmine Daily Rate Trend

Redmine
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Redmine within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Redmine Daily Rate Histogram

Redmine
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Redmine Hourly Rate Trend

Redmine
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 Redmine within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +48 8 £325 -13.33%
London +19 5 £325 -13.33%
North West +15 2 - -
City of London - 2 £325 -
Manchester +14 1 - -
East of England - 1 £250 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £250 -
Stevenage - 1 £250 -

Redmine
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Redmine 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 Redmine.

1 8 (88.89%) Subversion
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Git (software)
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) CSS
4 5 (55.56%) XML
4 5 (55.56%) Apache
5 4 (44.44%) Windows
6 3 (33.33%) OO
6 3 (33.33%) XHTML
6 3 (33.33%) XSL
6 3 (33.33%) Web Services
6 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 3 (33.33%) .NET
6 3 (33.33%) MySQL
6 3 (33.33%) PHP
6 3 (33.33%) HTML
6 3 (33.33%) Project Management
6 3 (33.33%) MVC
6 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
6 3 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
6 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (33.33%) Degree
6 3 (33.33%) Mercurial
6 3 (33.33%) FogBugz
6 3 (33.33%) Trac
6 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (33.33%) Zend

Redmine
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Redmine 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 Redmine. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 5 (55.56%) XML
3 3 (33.33%) XHTML
3 3 (33.33%) XSL
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) LINQ
4 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (22.22%) LINQ to SQL
4 2 (22.22%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) EJB
5 1 (11.11%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Apache
2 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Wireshark
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 3 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Subversion
2 7 (77.78%) Git (software)
3 3 (33.33%) Mercurial
3 3 (33.33%) FogBugz
3 3 (33.33%) Trac
4 2 (22.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (22.22%) Maven
4 2 (22.22%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (11.11%) ClearCase
5 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
5 1 (11.11%) ClearQuest
5 1 (11.11%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) PHP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (22.22%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Digital Media
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) OO
1 3 (33.33%) Project Management
1 3 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (11.11%) Web Design
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 3 (33.33%) PHP5
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) RHCT
2 2 (22.22%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) YUM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 3 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
1 3 (33.33%) Zend
2 2 (22.22%) Telerik
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) IBM