The first table below looks at the demand for Valgrind skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Valgrind over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Valgrind
Rank - 582 583
Contract jobs citing Valgrind 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category - 0.038% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5093 5313 6437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.98% 9.110% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3197 3137 3627
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 217 316
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 £23.33 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Valgrind
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Valgrind Jobs Demand Trend

Valgrind
Daily Rate Trend

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

Valgrind Daily Rate Trend

Valgrind
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Valgrind Hourly Rate Trend

Valgrind
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Valgrind 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 Valgrind.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development

Valgrind
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Valgrind 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 Valgrind. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java