The first table below looks at the demand for Varnish skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Varnish over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Varnish
Rank 495 551 572
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +21
Contract jobs citing Varnish 35 27 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.075% 0.046% 0.026%
As % of the System Software category 0.811% 0.583% 0.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 3
Average daily rate £390 £250 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £220 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4317 4635 4468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.304% 7.953% 7.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 2073 2240 1970
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 613 651
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

Varnish
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Varnish within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Varnish Jobs Demand Trend

Varnish
Daily Rate Trend

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

Varnish Daily Rate Trend

Varnish
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Varnish within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Varnish Daily Rate Histogram

Varnish
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Varnish within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 35 £390 +56.00%
London +24 27 £390 +56.00%
East of England - 6 £400 -
City of London +5 5 £405 +62.00%
Hemel Hempstead - 3 - -
Hertfordshire - 3 - -
South East +25 2 £350 -
Bedfordshire - 2 £400 -
Hammersmith +4 1 £400 +14.28%
Milton Keynes - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £350 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Brighton - 1 £350 -

Varnish
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Varnish 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 Varnish.

1 45 (69.23%) MySQL
2 42 (64.62%) Apache
3 37 (56.92%) Linux
3 37 (56.92%) Git (software)
4 26 (40.00%) Ruby
4 26 (40.00%) PHP
5 25 (38.46%) nginx
5 25 (38.46%) RESTful
5 25 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (33.85%) Subversion
7 21 (32.31%) Ruby on Rails
7 21 (32.31%) jQuery
7 21 (32.31%) Web Services
7 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
8 20 (30.77%) CSS
9 19 (29.23%) Apache Solr
10 18 (27.69%) HTML5
11 17 (26.15%) CSS3
11 17 (26.15%) Computer Science
11 17 (26.15%) TDD
11 17 (26.15%) OO
12 16 (24.62%) HTML
13 14 (21.54%) Ajax
14 12 (18.46%) Ubuntu
14 12 (18.46%) W3C
14 12 (18.46%) Mustache
14 12 (18.46%) Capistrano
14 12 (18.46%) Jenkins
15 11 (16.92%) Games
15 11 (16.92%) Online Games

Varnish
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Varnish 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 Varnish. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (38.46%) RESTful
2 21 (32.31%) jQuery
2 21 (32.31%) Web Services
2 21 (32.31%) Ruby on Rails
3 20 (30.77%) CSS
4 18 (27.69%) HTML5
5 17 (26.15%) CSS3
6 16 (24.62%) HTML
7 14 (21.54%) Ajax
8 12 (18.46%) Mustache
9 10 (15.38%) JSON
10 9 (13.85%) Symfony
10 9 (13.85%) Memcached
10 9 (13.85%) Node.js
10 9 (13.85%) Gearman
11 8 (12.31%) Resque
12 6 (9.231%) LAMP
13 5 (7.692%) XML
14 3 (4.615%) Zend Framework
15 1 (1.538%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 42 (64.62%) Apache
2 25 (38.46%) nginx
3 19 (29.23%) Apache Solr
4 11 (16.92%) Drupal
5 5 (7.692%) IIS
6 4 (6.154%) CMS
7 3 (4.615%) Amazon AWS
8 2 (3.077%) Tomcat
8 2 (3.077%) Windows Azure
9 1 (1.538%) Magento
9 1 (1.538%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.077%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.615%) Firewall
2 2 (3.077%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.077%) FTP
2 2 (3.077%) SNMP
2 2 (3.077%) SMTP
2 2 (3.077%) Intranet
3 1 (1.538%) Broadband
3 1 (1.538%) DHCP
3 1 (1.538%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.538%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (69.23%) MySQL
2 8 (12.31%) Redis
3 5 (7.692%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.615%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.538%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (56.92%) Git (software)
2 22 (33.85%) Subversion
3 12 (18.46%) Capistrano
3 12 (18.46%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.231%) PHPUnit
4 6 (9.231%) Phing
5 2 (3.077%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.077%) RSpec
6 1 (1.538%) Selenium
6 1 (1.538%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.538%) Hudson
6 1 (1.538%) GitHub
General
1 11 (16.92%) Games
2 4 (6.154%) Marketing
3 2 (3.077%) Finance
4 1 (1.538%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (66.15%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Systems Administrator
2 12 (18.46%) Administrator
3 11 (16.92%) PHP Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Web Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Ruby Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 8 (12.31%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (9.231%) Drupal Developer
5 6 (9.231%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.692%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.154%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.154%) Architect
7 4 (6.154%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.615%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 2 (3.077%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Technical Architect
10 1 (1.538%) PHP Drupal Developer
10 1 (1.538%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Computer Science
2 12 (18.46%) W3C
3 11 (16.92%) Online Games
4 6 (9.231%) Open Source
5 2 (3.077%) Replication
6 1 (1.538%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.92%) Linux
2 12 (18.46%) Ubuntu
3 8 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (12.31%) Mac OS X
3 8 (12.31%) Gentoo
4 6 (9.231%) Apple iOS
5 4 (6.154%) VMS
5 4 (6.154%) Windows
6 3 (4.615%) Solaris
6 3 (4.615%) UNIX
7 2 (3.077%) Debian
8 1 (1.538%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
2 17 (26.15%) TDD
2 17 (26.15%) OO
3 8 (12.31%) Active Record
4 7 (10.77%) Configuration Management
5 6 (9.231%) OOA/OOD
5 6 (9.231%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (7.692%) Scrum
6 5 (7.692%) Change Management
7 4 (6.154%) ITIL
7 4 (6.154%) Automated Testing
8 3 (4.615%) Content Management
8 3 (4.615%) Identity Management
8 3 (4.615%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (4.615%) Waterfall
8 3 (4.615%) BDD
9 2 (3.077%) Root Cause Analysis
9 2 (3.077%) Static Code Analysis
9 2 (3.077%) Web Application Development
9 2 (3.077%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) PHP
1 26 (40.00%) Ruby
2 21 (32.31%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.154%) Java
4 3 (4.615%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.615%) Perl
4 3 (4.615%) Bash shell
5 2 (3.077%) PHP5
5 2 (3.077%) SQL
6 1 (1.538%) Python
6 1 (1.538%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.615%) Postfix
2 2 (3.077%) NFS
2 2 (3.077%) Samba
2 2 (3.077%) Squid
3 1 (1.538%) VMware ESX
3 1 (1.538%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Puppet
2 4 (6.154%) Nagios
3 2 (3.077%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Red Hat
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.231%) Apple
3 6 (9.231%) Zend
4 3 (4.615%) Google
5 2 (3.077%) PeopleSoft
5 2 (3.077%) Open Text
5 2 (3.077%) RedDot
6 1 (1.538%) VMware
6 1 (1.538%) Omniture
6 1 (1.538%) NetApp
6 1 (1.538%) Veritas
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