Velocity 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 Velocity skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Velocity 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Velocity
Rank 487 542 532
Rank change year-on-year
+55 -10
Contract jobs citing Velocity 46 31 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.099% 0.053% 0.093%
As % of the Application Development category 0.361% 0.207% 0.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 15 27
Average daily rate £403 £400 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.62% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £293 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £350 £266
% change year-on-year
-15.00% +31.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12726 14946 16543
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.35% 25.62% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7952 8777 9622
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 381 376 569
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 £17.00 £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%

Velocity
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Velocity Jobs Demand Trend

Velocity
Daily Rate Trend

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

Velocity Daily Rate Trend

Velocity
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Velocity within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Velocity Daily Rate Histogram

Velocity
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Velocity Hourly Rate Trend

Velocity
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Velocity 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 +76 44 £409 +2.18%
London +27 29 £433 -3.88%
South East +32 13 £298 -
Hampshire - 10 £298 -
Winchester - 3 £295 -
Berkshire +18 2 £350 -
City of London +13 2 £525 +31.25%
Reading +10 2 £350 -
Basingstoke - 2 - -
Livingston - 1 £355 -
Sheffield - 1 £293 -
Leicestershire - 1 £450 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £293 -
West Lothian - 1 £355 -
Yorkshire - 1 £293 -
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
Scotland - 1 £355 -

Velocity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 34 (47.22%) Java
2 30 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (40.28%) jQuery
4 27 (37.50%) Spring
4 27 (37.50%) HTML
4 27 (37.50%) CSS
5 26 (36.11%) TDD
6 25 (34.72%) JavaScript
7 24 (33.33%) JUnit
8 20 (27.78%) Scrum
8 20 (27.78%) MVC
9 19 (26.39%) Spring MVC
9 19 (26.39%) Groovy
10 18 (25.00%) SOAP
11 17 (23.61%) J2EE
11 17 (23.61%) JSON
12 16 (22.22%) SQL
12 16 (22.22%) Eclipse
13 14 (19.44%) SOA
13 14 (19.44%) Tomcat
13 14 (19.44%) SQL Server
13 14 (19.44%) Banking
13 14 (19.44%) Hibernate
14 13 (18.06%) Web Services
14 13 (18.06%) JSP
15 12 (16.67%) XML
15 12 (16.67%) Oracle
15 12 (16.67%) Data Modelling
15 12 (16.67%) Maven
15 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 29 (40.28%) jQuery
2 27 (37.50%) Spring
2 27 (37.50%) HTML
2 27 (37.50%) CSS
3 19 (26.39%) Spring MVC
4 18 (25.00%) SOAP
5 17 (23.61%) J2EE
5 17 (23.61%) JSON
6 14 (19.44%) Hibernate
7 13 (18.06%) JSP
7 13 (18.06%) Web Services
8 12 (16.67%) XML
9 11 (15.28%) WebSphere
9 11 (15.28%) REST
10 10 (13.89%) Ajax
10 10 (13.89%) RESTful
10 10 (13.89%) DHTML
11 9 (12.50%) Java EE
11 9 (12.50%) OpenSocial
11 9 (12.50%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 14 (19.44%) Tomcat
2 10 (13.89%) Apache
2 10 (13.89%) Alfresco
3 9 (12.50%) CMS
4 7 (9.722%) ESB
4 7 (9.722%) Mule
5 2 (2.778%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.778%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.389%) PowerExchange
6 1 (1.389%) IIS
6 1 (1.389%) Liferay
6 1 (1.389%) Jetty
Applications
1 2 (2.778%) MS Project
2 1 (1.389%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.389%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.167%) Broadband
2 1 (1.389%) FTP
2 1 (1.389%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.89%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.944%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.556%) Hazelcast
5 3 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 24 (33.33%) JUnit
2 16 (22.22%) Eclipse
3 12 (16.67%) Maven
3 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (13.89%) Selenium
5 9 (12.50%) Hudson
6 7 (9.722%) Spring Roo
7 6 (8.333%) Git (software)
8 3 (4.167%) Ant
8 3 (4.167%) Subversion
8 3 (4.167%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.778%) jMock
9 2 (2.778%) Gradle
9 2 (2.778%) EasyMock
9 2 (2.778%) Mockito
10 1 (1.389%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.389%) GitHub
10 1 (1.389%) Firebug
10 1 (1.389%) FitNesse
10 1 (1.389%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (19.44%) Banking
2 12 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 11 (15.28%) Finance
4 8 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.167%) Retail
5 3 (4.167%) Publishing
6 2 (2.778%) Marketing
6 2 (2.778%) Advertising
7 1 (1.389%) Legal
7 1 (1.389%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.389%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) Developer
2 19 (26.39%) Web Developer
2 19 (26.39%) Java Developer
3 12 (16.67%) ScrumMaster
4 11 (15.28%) Front-End Developer
5 10 (13.89%) Java Web Developer
6 9 (12.50%) Agile Java Developer
7 6 (8.333%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.944%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.944%) SOA Developer
9 4 (5.556%) Business Analyst
9 4 (5.556%) Analyst
9 4 (5.556%) PMO Manager
10 3 (4.167%) Senior Manager
10 3 (4.167%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 3 (4.167%) Senior Java Developer
11 2 (2.778%) Relationships Manager
11 2 (2.778%) Web Manager
11 2 (2.778%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
11 2 (2.778%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.333%) Fixed Income
2 5 (6.944%) Open Source
3 3 (4.167%) W3C
4 2 (2.778%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.389%) New Media
5 1 (1.389%) Statistical Arbitrage
5 1 (1.389%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.389%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 3 (4.167%) UNIX
3 2 (2.778%) Linux
4 1 (1.389%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
2 26 (36.11%) TDD
3 20 (27.78%) Scrum
3 20 (27.78%) MVC
4 14 (19.44%) SOA
5 12 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 9 (12.50%) OOD
6 9 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 9 (12.50%) OO
6 9 (12.50%) RAD
6 9 (12.50%) BDD
7 8 (11.11%) Kanban
8 7 (9.722%) Project Management
9 6 (8.333%) Content Management
9 6 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (6.944%) Pair Programming
11 4 (5.556%) ERP
12 3 (4.167%) ITIL
12 3 (4.167%) PRINCE2
12 3 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Java
2 25 (34.72%) JavaScript
3 19 (26.39%) Groovy
4 16 (22.22%) SQL
5 5 (6.944%) PHP
5 5 (6.944%) Scala
6 2 (2.778%) C#
6 2 (2.778%) Clojure
6 2 (2.778%) Python
6 2 (2.778%) XPath
7 1 (1.389%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.389%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.389%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.389%) QA
1 1 (1.389%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Oracle
2 11 (15.28%) Google
3 9 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (4.167%) Sybase
4 3 (4.167%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.389%) GigaSpaces
5 1 (1.389%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.389%) Informatica
5 1 (1.389%) Mercator
5 1 (1.389%) Bloomberg
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