Refactoring Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Refactoring over the 3 months to 22 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Refactoring
Rank 468 531 512
Rank change year-on-year
+63 -19
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 66 55 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.140% 0.093% 0.123%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.198% 0.137% 0.182%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 35 41
Average daily rate £425 £390 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.97% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £557 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £292
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +17.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 33412 40209 40724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.90% 67.83% 67.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19968 23081 23144
Average daily rate £413 £401 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 1304 1455
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.78 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Refactoring within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Refactoring Daily Rate Histogram

Refactoring
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Refactoring Hourly Rate Trend

Refactoring
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Refactoring within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +64 62 £425 +8.97%
London +43 39 £425 -2.29%
City of London +17 11 £425 +6.25%
South East +15 9 £425 +24.08%
Hampshire +4 7 - -
South West +25 6 £255 -30.13%
East of England - 6 £388 -
Somerset 0 4 £260 +13.04%
Bath +2 3 £260 +13.04%
Scotland -14 3 - -
Hertfordshire - 3 £388 -
Luton - 3 £325 -
Dundee - 3 - -
Bedfordshire - 3 £325 -
Berkshire +15 2 £425 +21.42%
Docklands, London -2 2 £463 -
Manchester +12 1 - -
North West +6 1 - -
Dorset +4 1 £250 -
East Midlands - 1 £240 -
Leicestershire - 1 £240 -
Reading - 1 £425 -
Bournemouth - 1 £250 -

Refactoring
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

1 75 (52.82%) OO
1 75 (52.82%) Continuous Integration
2 70 (49.30%) TDD
3 60 (42.25%) Java
4 55 (38.73%) JavaScript
5 50 (35.21%) Ruby
6 48 (33.80%) CSS
7 45 (31.69%) HTML
8 44 (30.99%) Agile Software Development
9 43 (30.28%) Web Services
10 41 (28.87%) Unit Testing
11 38 (26.76%) SQL
12 37 (26.06%) BDD
13 35 (24.65%) Python
14 34 (23.94%) UNIX
15 33 (23.24%) XML
15 33 (23.24%) C#
16 30 (21.13%) Scrum
17 28 (19.72%) PHP
17 28 (19.72%) .NET
17 28 (19.72%) Linux
18 26 (18.31%) Perl
18 26 (18.31%) Oracle
18 26 (18.31%) SQL Server
19 25 (17.61%) J2EE
19 25 (17.61%) MySQL
20 24 (16.90%) Derivative
20 24 (16.90%) Degree
21 23 (16.20%) C++
21 23 (16.20%) Finance

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 48 (33.80%) CSS
2 45 (31.69%) HTML
3 43 (30.28%) Web Services
4 33 (23.24%) XML
5 28 (19.72%) .NET
6 25 (17.61%) J2EE
7 21 (14.79%) Spring
8 20 (14.08%) jQuery
9 19 (13.38%) JSON
10 16 (11.27%) REST
10 16 (11.27%) Hibernate
11 13 (9.155%) Ajax
11 13 (9.155%) .NET Framework
11 13 (9.155%) Swing
12 12 (8.451%) Grails
12 12 (8.451%) RESTful
13 9 (6.338%) XHTML
13 9 (6.338%) ASP.NET
14 8 (5.634%) HTML5
15 7 (4.930%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 15 (10.56%) Apache
2 10 (7.042%) MTS
3 7 (4.930%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.521%) nginx
4 5 (3.521%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (2.817%) Drupal
6 3 (2.113%) Apache Solr
6 3 (2.113%) ESB
7 2 (1.408%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.408%) CMS
7 2 (1.408%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (1.408%) Magento
7 2 (1.408%) Gunicorn
8 1 (0.704%) Liferay
8 1 (0.704%) Windows Azure
8 1 (0.704%) Mule
8 1 (0.704%) SAP EP
8 1 (0.704%) Documentum
8 1 (0.704%) IIS
8 1 (0.704%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (14.08%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.704%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.704%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.042%) RMDS
1 10 (7.042%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.56%) Internet
2 9 (6.338%) HTTP
3 1 (0.704%) Modbus
3 1 (0.704%) IMAP
3 1 (0.704%) Intranet
3 1 (0.704%) DNS
3 1 (0.704%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.704%) GPRS
3 1 (0.704%) GSM
3 1 (0.704%) POP3
3 1 (0.704%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.31%) SQL Server
2 25 (17.61%) MySQL
3 14 (9.859%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (7.746%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.338%) SQL Server 2008
6 7 (4.930%) Ingres
7 6 (4.225%) SQL Server 2005
8 5 (3.521%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (3.521%) SQLite
8 5 (3.521%) Oracle 10g
9 4 (2.817%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.817%) CouchDB
9 4 (2.817%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.113%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.113%) Redis
10 3 (2.113%) GIS
10 3 (2.113%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.113%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.408%) Pentaho
12 1 (0.704%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 22 (15.49%) Cucumber
2 21 (14.79%) Git (software)
3 20 (14.08%) Subversion
4 18 (12.68%) Selenium
5 17 (11.97%) Jenkins
6 9 (6.338%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (6.338%) Ant
7 8 (5.634%) CruiseControl
7 8 (5.634%) Hudson
8 7 (4.930%) ClearCase
8 7 (4.930%) JUnit
9 5 (3.521%) NUnit
10 4 (2.817%) Rational Rose
10 4 (2.817%) ClearQuest
10 4 (2.817%) RSpec
10 4 (2.817%) CppUnit
10 4 (2.817%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.817%) PHPUnit
10 4 (2.817%) FindBugs
10 4 (2.817%) GoogleTest
General
1 23 (16.20%) Finance
2 13 (9.155%) Banking
3 10 (7.042%) Front Office
4 7 (4.930%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.113%) Games
6 2 (1.408%) Music
7 1 (0.704%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.704%) French Language
7 1 (0.704%) Publishing
7 1 (0.704%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.704%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (73.24%) Developer
2 35 (24.65%) Java Developer
3 16 (11.27%) Agile Java Developer
3 16 (11.27%) Senior Developer
4 14 (9.859%) Architect
5 11 (7.746%) .NET Developer
6 10 (7.042%) Web Developer
7 9 (6.338%) C++ Developer
7 9 (6.338%) PHP Developer
8 8 (5.634%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.930%) C# Developer
10 6 (4.225%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.225%) Ruby on Rails Developer
11 5 (3.521%) PHP Web Developer
11 5 (3.521%) Senior Java Developer
12 3 (2.113%) PHP MySQL Developer
12 3 (2.113%) C# .NET Developer
12 3 (2.113%) Android Developer
12 3 (2.113%) Java Engineer
12 3 (2.113%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.90%) Derivative
2 17 (11.97%) Open Source
3 15 (10.56%) Computer Science
4 10 (7.042%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.634%) N-Tier
6 7 (4.930%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.817%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.817%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.113%) Digital Media
8 3 (2.113%) Semantic Web
8 3 (2.113%) Streaming Video
8 3 (2.113%) iDTV
9 2 (1.408%) BBC
9 2 (1.408%) iPhone
9 2 (1.408%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.408%) iPad
9 2 (1.408%) Heroku
10 1 (0.704%) Social Media
10 1 (0.704%) Mathematics
10 1 (0.704%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 34 (23.94%) UNIX
2 28 (19.72%) Linux
3 11 (7.746%) Windows
4 7 (4.930%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.113%) Android
6 2 (1.408%) Debian
6 2 (1.408%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (52.82%) OO
1 75 (52.82%) Continuous Integration
2 70 (49.30%) TDD
3 44 (30.99%) Agile Software Development
4 41 (28.87%) Unit Testing
5 37 (26.06%) BDD
6 30 (21.13%) Scrum
7 20 (14.08%) Regression Testing
8 18 (12.68%) Multithreading
9 17 (11.97%) Change Management
10 14 (9.859%) Configuration Management
10 14 (9.859%) Pair Programming
11 13 (9.155%) Software Engineering
11 13 (9.155%) SOA
12 11 (7.746%) AOP
12 11 (7.746%) UML
13 10 (7.042%) OOD
13 10 (7.042%) MVC
14 8 (5.634%) OOP
14 8 (5.634%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 60 (42.25%) Java
2 55 (38.73%) JavaScript
3 50 (35.21%) Ruby
4 38 (26.76%) SQL
5 35 (24.65%) Python
6 33 (23.24%) C#
7 28 (19.72%) PHP
8 26 (18.31%) Perl
9 23 (16.20%) C++
10 15 (10.56%) Groovy
11 11 (7.746%) Scala
12 8 (5.634%) C
13 5 (3.521%) PHP5
13 5 (3.521%) VB6
13 5 (3.521%) VB
14 4 (2.817%) Delphi
15 3 (2.113%) Clojure
15 3 (2.113%) SPARQL
15 3 (2.113%) XPath
16 2 (1.408%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (16.90%) Degree
2 5 (3.521%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.521%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.113%) RHCE
4 2 (1.408%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.408%) QA
1 2 (1.408%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.704%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.113%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.113%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 3 (2.113%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (18.31%) Oracle
2 23 (16.20%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.042%) Reuters
3 10 (7.042%) Bloomberg
3 10 (7.042%) eSpeed
3 10 (7.042%) ION Trading
3 10 (7.042%) Tradeweb
3 10 (7.042%) Zend
3 10 (7.042%) MarketAxess
4 7 (4.930%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.817%) Sybase
6 3 (2.113%) VMware
6 3 (2.113%) HP
6 3 (2.113%) Cognizant
7 2 (1.408%) Talend
8 1 (0.704%) Facebook
8 1 (0.704%) Twitter
8 1 (0.704%) Coverity
8 1 (0.704%) Pega
8 1 (0.704%) Google
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