The first table below looks at the demand for sed skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited sed 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 Programming Languages 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
sed
Rank 528 559 565
Rank change year-on-year
+31 +6
Contract jobs citing sed 5 14 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.024% 0.038%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.029% 0.070% 0.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
Average daily rate £325 £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +5.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £400 £430
% change year-on-year
- -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17391 20142 22575
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.38% 34.53% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 10706 11939 13056
Average daily rate £382 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.93% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £562 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 626 705 925
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.67 £17.50 £19.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%

sed
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing sed within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

sed Jobs Demand Trend

sed
Daily Rate Trend

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

sed Daily Rate Trend

sed
Hourly Rate Trend

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

sed Hourly Rate Trend

sed
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 sed 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 +55 5 £325 -31.57%
London +22 4 £325 -35.00%
Surbiton - 2 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
City of London - 1 £325 -
North West - 1 - -
Preston - 1 - -

sed
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (96.30%) AWK
2 18 (66.67%) Linux
3 16 (59.26%) Red Hat
4 15 (55.56%) Perl
5 14 (51.85%) UNIX
6 11 (40.74%) Tomcat
6 11 (40.74%) Oracle
6 11 (40.74%) NFS
6 11 (40.74%) TCP/IP
6 11 (40.74%) VMware
6 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (37.04%) Apache
7 10 (37.04%) Shell Script
8 9 (33.33%) HP
8 9 (33.33%) Java
8 9 (33.33%) JBoss
8 9 (33.33%) Memory Management
9 8 (29.63%) Puppet
9 8 (29.63%) Bash shell
9 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (29.63%) SQL
9 8 (29.63%) SAN
10 7 (25.93%) RHCE
10 7 (25.93%) TELNET
10 7 (25.93%) HTTP
10 7 (25.93%) SSL
10 7 (25.93%) JDBC
10 7 (25.93%) MySQL
10 7 (25.93%) AIX
10 7 (25.93%) Clustering

sed
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (25.93%) JDBC
2 5 (18.52%) XML
3 4 (14.81%) WCF
3 4 (14.81%) WPF
3 4 (14.81%) Silverlight
3 4 (14.81%) .NET
4 2 (7.407%) Regular Expression
4 2 (7.407%) JAX-RS
4 2 (7.407%) JPA
4 2 (7.407%) RESTful
5 1 (3.704%) HTML5
5 1 (3.704%) CSS3
5 1 (3.704%) jQuery
5 1 (3.704%) XSD
5 1 (3.704%) XSLT
5 1 (3.704%) XHTML
5 1 (3.704%) WSDL
5 1 (3.704%) XML Schema
5 1 (3.704%) Lucene
5 1 (3.704%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 11 (40.74%) Tomcat
2 10 (37.04%) Apache
3 5 (18.52%) Liferay
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (3.704%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 11 (40.74%) TCP/IP
2 8 (29.63%) SAN
3 7 (25.93%) SSL
3 7 (25.93%) TELNET
3 7 (25.93%) HTTP
3 7 (25.93%) tcpdump
4 6 (22.22%) SMTP
5 5 (18.52%) DHCP
5 5 (18.52%) LDAP
5 5 (18.52%) SNMP
5 5 (18.52%) DNS
5 5 (18.52%) iSCSI
5 5 (18.52%) NAS
6 2 (7.407%) Internet
6 2 (7.407%) Firewall
7 1 (3.704%) BSS
7 1 (3.704%) SSH
7 1 (3.704%) IMAP
7 1 (3.704%) VPN
7 1 (3.704%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git (software)
1 5 (18.52%) Hudson
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Moq
2 4 (14.81%) NUnit
3 1 (3.704%) Subversion
3 1 (3.704%) JIRA
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
1 5 (18.52%) Banking
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.704%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 18 (66.67%) Administrator
2 10 (37.04%) Linux Administrator
3 9 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
4 7 (25.93%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (14.81%) Design Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 3 (11.11%) Developer
8 2 (7.407%) Java Developer
8 2 (7.407%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 2 (7.407%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (7.407%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 1 (3.704%) Test Engineer
9 1 (3.704%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.704%) Systems Engineer
9 1 (3.704%) Web Administrator
9 1 (3.704%) Software Design Engineer
9 1 (3.704%) Solaris Administrator
9 1 (3.704%) Systems Test Engineer
9 1 (3.704%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Clustering
1 7 (25.93%) Cryptography
2 6 (22.22%) HACMP
2 6 (22.22%) LPAR
3 2 (7.407%) HP Superdome
3 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.704%) Open Source
4 1 (3.704%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.704%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.704%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 18 (66.67%) Linux
2 14 (51.85%) UNIX
3 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (25.93%) AIX
5 3 (11.11%) Solaris
6 2 (7.407%) Debian
6 2 (7.407%) HPUX
7 1 (3.704%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (25.93%) Load Balancing
3 4 (14.81%) SOA
3 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (7.407%) ITIL
4 2 (7.407%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.704%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (3.704%) Use Case
5 1 (3.704%) Release Management
5 1 (3.704%) Integration Testing
5 1 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.704%) Product Management
5 1 (3.704%) UML
5 1 (3.704%) OOP
5 1 (3.704%) OO
5 1 (3.704%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.704%) Regression Testing
5 1 (3.704%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) AWK
2 15 (55.56%) Perl
3 10 (37.04%) Shell Script
4 9 (33.33%) Java
5 8 (29.63%) SQL
5 8 (29.63%) Bash shell
6 4 (14.81%) Python
6 4 (14.81%) C#
7 2 (7.407%) PHP
7 2 (7.407%) Groovy
8 1 (3.704%) Bourne shell
8 1 (3.704%) Korn
8 1 (3.704%) XPath
8 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) RHCE
2 6 (22.22%) RHCT
2 6 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.407%) HND
3 2 (7.407%) Degree
4 1 (3.704%) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) NFS
1 11 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (25.93%) Nmap
3 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (22.22%) Samba
3 6 (22.22%) VMware ESX
4 5 (18.52%) Squid
4 5 (18.52%) Postfix
5 1 (3.704%) Sendmail
5 1 (3.704%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.704%) qmail
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Puppet
2 6 (22.22%) HP Data Protector
2 6 (22.22%) OpenView
3 5 (18.52%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Red Hat
2 11 (40.74%) VMware
2 11 (40.74%) Oracle
3 9 (33.33%) JBoss
3 9 (33.33%) HP
4 6 (22.22%) EMC
4 6 (22.22%) Intel
4 6 (22.22%) IBM
5 5 (18.52%) SAP
5 5 (18.52%) NetApp
6 4 (14.81%) Teradata
7 1 (3.704%) Fujitsu
7 1 (3.704%) WSO2
7 1 (3.704%) Veritas
7 1 (3.704%) Sun