The first table below looks at the demand for Stripes Framework skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Stripes Framework 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 Application Development 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
Stripes Framework
Rank 533 577 571
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -6
Contract jobs citing Stripes Framework 1 9 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.015% 0.025%
As % of the Application Development category 0.008% 0.059% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 4
Average daily rate £420 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 £300
% change year-on-year
- +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Stripes Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stripes Framework Jobs Demand Trend

Stripes Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stripes Framework Daily Rate Trend

Stripes Framework
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stripes Framework 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 +56 1 £420 -
London +31 1 £420 -

Stripes Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Struts
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (33.33%) SOA
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse

Stripes Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Struts
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) SGML
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) Grails
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Struts2
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) NetBeans
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss