The first table below looks at the demand for Xapian skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Xapian 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Xapian
Rank - 577 -
Contract jobs citing Xapian 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.002% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 375 374 576
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 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Xapian
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Xapian Jobs Demand Trend

Xapian
Top 7 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source

Xapian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python