The first part of the 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 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Apache Velocity
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank546524494
Rank change year-on-year
Down-22Down-30
Matching contract IT job ads315445
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.053 %0.090 %0.082 %
As % of the Application Development category0.207 %0.327 %0.291 %
Number of daily rates quoted152623
Average daily rate£400£356£330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.51 %+7.72 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£293£214£239
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£425£470
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£266£351
% change year-on-year
+31.45 %-24.19 %
Number of hourly rates quoted020
Average hourly rate-£35.00-
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£35.00-
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
150001653615438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.66 %27.49 %27.97 %
Number of daily rates quoted880896388217
Average daily rate£350£393£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.82 %+7.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted387569438
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

Velocity
Demand Trend

The 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 Demand Trend

Velocity
Daily Rate Trend

The 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

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Velocity within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Velocity Daily Rate Histogram

Velocity
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-2131£400+12.51 %
LondonUp+1823£450+24.56 %
City of LondonUp+208£400+11.11 %
South EastDown-23--
East of EnglandDown-43£350-12.50 %
EssexUp+32£350-
BerkshireNew entry-2--
HammersmithDown-51--
North WestDown-91£650+204.80 %
West MidlandsNew entry-1--
MerseysideNew entry-1£650-
HertfordshireNew entry-1--
East SussexNew entry-1--
WatfordNew entry-1--
ReadingNew entry-1--
BrightonNew entry-1--
BirminghamNew entry-1--

Velocity
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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.

146 (59.74 %)Scrum
230 (38.96 %)Agile Software Development
329 (37.66 %)TDD
424 (31.17 %)Java
523 (29.87 %)Spring
622 (28.57 %)JavaScript
622 (28.57 %)Microsoft
622 (28.57 %)Team Foundation Server
721 (27.27 %)SQL
721 (27.27 %)Hibernate
819 (24.68 %)Oracle
918 (23.38 %)Apache
1017 (22.08 %)Front Office
1116 (20.78 %)XML
1215 (19.48 %)Tomcat
1215 (19.48 %)MVC
1215 (19.48 %)Ajax
1313 (16.88 %)CSS
1313 (16.88 %)HTML
1313 (16.88 %)Kanban
1412 (15.58 %)XSLT
1511 (14.29 %)MySQL
1511 (14.29 %)Maven
1610 (12.99 %)J2EE
1610 (12.99 %)UNIX
1610 (12.99 %)JSP
1610 (12.99 %)Servlets
1610 (12.99 %)Struts
1610 (12.99 %)Web Services
1610 (12.99 %)E-Commerce

Velocity
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
123 (29.87 %)Spring
221 (27.27 %)Hibernate
316 (20.78 %)XML
415 (19.48 %)Ajax
513 (16.88 %)CSS
513 (16.88 %)HTML
612 (15.58 %)XSLT
710 (12.99 %)J2EE
710 (12.99 %)JSP
710 (12.99 %)Servlets
710 (12.99 %)Struts
710 (12.99 %)Web Services
710 (12.99 %)Spring MVC
88 (10.39 %)JSF
97 (9.091 %)SAX
97 (9.091 %)WebSphere
106 (7.792 %)jBPM
106 (7.792 %)JSON
106 (7.792 %)Castor
106 (7.792 %)JAXP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
118 (23.38 %)Apache
215 (19.48 %)Tomcat
36 (7.792 %)Oracle BPEL
36 (7.792 %)WebSphere Process Server
43 (3.896 %)CMS
52 (2.597 %)Jetty
52 (2.597 %)Apache Solr
52 (2.597 %)Oracle Coherence
52 (2.597 %)Oracle 10gAS
52 (2.597 %)WebLogic
52 (2.597 %)Oracle Application Server
61 (1.299 %)TeamSite
61 (1.299 %)WordPress
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (1.299 %)MS Excel
11 (1.299 %)Photoshop
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (7.792 %)Oracle BPM
16 (7.792 %)BusinessWorks
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
18 (10.39 %)HTTP
26 (7.792 %)Firewall
31 (1.299 %)LDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (14.29 %)MySQL
26 (7.792 %)SQL Server
35 (6.494 %)PostgreSQL
44 (5.195 %)Oracle 11g
44 (5.195 %)RDBMS
53 (3.896 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
53 (3.896 %)Star Schema
53 (3.896 %)ETL
53 (3.896 %)Oracle Reports
53 (3.896 %)Data Warehouse
53 (3.896 %)DB2
53 (3.896 %)SQL Server Integration Services
53 (3.896 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
62 (2.597 %)MongoDB
62 (2.597 %)Oracle 10g
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (28.57 %)Team Foundation Server
211 (14.29 %)Maven
38 (10.39 %)JUnit
47 (9.091 %)Subversion
56 (7.792 %)Hudson
56 (7.792 %)JMeter
65 (6.494 %)NetBeans
65 (6.494 %)JIRA
74 (5.195 %)Selenium
83 (3.896 %)Eclipse
83 (3.896 %)Oracle Forms
83 (3.896 %)jMock
83 (3.896 %)TeamCity
92 (2.597 %)WebDriver
92 (2.597 %)Mockito
92 (2.597 %)Mercurial
92 (2.597 %)Ant
92 (2.597 %)JDeveloper
92 (2.597 %)NUnit
92 (2.597 %)CruiseControl
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
117 (22.08 %)Front Office
26 (7.792 %)Finance
35 (6.494 %)Billing
42 (2.597 %)Investment Banking
42 (2.597 %)Banking
42 (2.597 %)Telecoms
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
129 (37.66 %)Developer
129 (37.66 %)ScrumMaster
218 (23.38 %)Java Developer
36 (7.792 %)Senior Developer
45 (6.494 %)Web Developer
45 (6.494 %)Consultant
45 (6.494 %)Senior Java Developer
54 (5.195 %)C# Developer
63 (3.896 %)Analyst
63 (3.896 %)Java Web Developer
63 (3.896 %)Front-End Developer
72 (2.597 %)C# .NET Developer
72 (2.597 %)C# Programmer
72 (2.597 %)Agile Java Developer
72 (2.597 %).NET Developer
72 (2.597 %)Business Analyst
72 (2.597 %)Tester
72 (2.597 %)Programmer
81 (1.299 %)Software Developer
81 (1.299 %)Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (7.792 %)Open Source
23 (3.896 %)New Media
32 (2.597 %)Inversion of Control
32 (2.597 %)Derivative
32 (2.597 %)N-Tier
32 (2.597 %)W3C
41 (1.299 %)Replication
41 (1.299 %)Management Information System
41 (1.299 %)Mathematics
41 (1.299 %)Blog
41 (1.299 %)Animation
41 (1.299 %)Reference Data
41 (1.299 %)Digital Media
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110 (12.99 %)UNIX
29 (11.69 %)Linux
34 (5.195 %)Windows
34 (5.195 %)Solaris
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
146 (59.74 %)Scrum
230 (38.96 %)Agile Software Development
329 (37.66 %)TDD
415 (19.48 %)MVC
513 (16.88 %)Kanban
610 (12.99 %)E-Commerce
79 (11.69 %)Continuous Integration
86 (7.792 %)RDF
86 (7.792 %)Pair Programming
86 (7.792 %)BPEL
95 (6.494 %)Workflow
95 (6.494 %)Planning Poker
104 (5.195 %)Software Engineering
104 (5.195 %)Project Management
113 (3.896 %)RUP
122 (2.597 %)BDD
122 (2.597 %)Capacity Planning
122 (2.597 %)Multithreading
122 (2.597 %)Integration Testing
122 (2.597 %)Use Case
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
124 (31.17 %)Java
222 (28.57 %)JavaScript
321 (27.27 %)SQL
46 (7.792 %)PL/SQL
55 (6.494 %)C#
62 (2.597 %)Groovy
71 (1.299 %)Shell Script
71 (1.299 %)Ruby
71 (1.299 %)VB
71 (1.299 %)ActionScript
71 (1.299 %)Perl
71 (1.299 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (2.597 %)ISTQB
12 (2.597 %)Degree
12 (2.597 %)ISEB
12 (2.597 %)ISEB Practitioner
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (3.896 %)Solvency II
22 (2.597 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (3.896 %)HP Quality Center
21 (1.299 %)Control-M
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
122 (28.57 %)Microsoft
219 (24.68 %)Oracle
36 (7.792 %)TIBCO
42 (2.597 %)JBoss
42 (2.597 %)Endeca