The first part of the table below looks at the demand for YUI skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited YUI 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.

Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank530525505
Rank change year-on-year
Down-5Down-20
Matching contract IT job ads475334
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.080 %0.088 %0.062 %
As % of the Application Development category0.313 %0.321 %0.220 %
Number of daily rates quoted324216
Average daily rate£316£375£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.66 %+36.36 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£277£303£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£351£473£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£375£338
% change year-on-year
-13.33 %+11.11 %
Number of hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
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 %

YUI
Demand Trend

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

YUI Demand Trend

YUI
Daily Rate Trend

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

YUI Daily Rate Trend

YUI
Daily Rate Histogram

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

YUI Daily Rate Histogram

YUI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

YUI Hourly Rate Trend

YUI
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing YUI 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-244£308-18.00 %
LondonUp+521£300-20.00 %
North EastNew entry-14£325-
Tyne and WearNew entry-8£299-
Newcastle upon TyneNew entry-5£290-
City of LondonUp+224£338-3.50 %
South WestNew entry-4£308-
Northern IrelandUp+163£350-
South EastUp+73£300-14.28 %
BerkshireDown-43£300-20.00 %
BelfastNew entry-3£350-
County AntrimNew entry-3£350-
West MidlandsNew entry-2--
WiltshireNew entry-2£308-
BristolNew entry-2£300-
BracknellNew entry-2£300-
SunderlandNew entry-1--
CoventryNew entry-1--

YUI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing YUI 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 YUI.

192 (100.00 %)JavaScript
280 (86.96 %)CSS
369 (75.00 %)jQuery
456 (60.87 %)HTML
530 (32.61 %)MySQL
530 (32.61 %)HTML5
629 (31.52 %)Ajax
727 (29.35 %)Ext JS
826 (28.26 %)OO
924 (26.09 %)Java
1023 (25.00 %)PHP
1122 (23.91 %)Web Services
1122 (23.91 %)JSON
1220 (21.74 %)Subversion
1319 (20.65 %)SQL
1418 (19.57 %)CSS3
1516 (17.39 %).NET
1516 (17.39 %)XHTML
1516 (17.39 %)Agile Software Development
1516 (17.39 %)Maven
1615 (16.30 %)Spring
1615 (16.30 %)Selenium
1615 (16.30 %)XML
1714 (15.22 %)JSP
1714 (15.22 %)SQL Server
1714 (15.22 %)Tomcat
1813 (14.13 %)Hibernate
1813 (14.13 %)Finance
1813 (14.13 %)JUnit
1912 (13.04 %)Apache

YUI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing YUI 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 YUI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
180 (86.96 %)CSS
269 (75.00 %)jQuery
356 (60.87 %)HTML
430 (32.61 %)HTML5
529 (31.52 %)Ajax
627 (29.35 %)Ext JS
722 (23.91 %)Web Services
722 (23.91 %)JSON
818 (19.57 %)CSS3
916 (17.39 %).NET
916 (17.39 %)XHTML
1015 (16.30 %)Spring
1015 (16.30 %)XML
1114 (15.22 %)JSP
1213 (14.13 %)Hibernate
1311 (11.96 %)Lucene
1311 (11.96 %)Java EE
1410 (10.87 %)Smarty
1410 (10.87 %)RESTful
159 (9.783 %)CodeIgniter
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
114 (15.22 %)Tomcat
212 (13.04 %)Apache
311 (11.96 %)Apache Solr
48 (8.696 %)Drupal
48 (8.696 %)CMS
56 (6.522 %)SugarCRM
56 (6.522 %)WordPress
56 (6.522 %)SilverStripe
65 (5.435 %)WebLogic
72 (2.174 %)Magento
81 (1.087 %)Moodle
81 (1.087 %)Joomla!
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (7.609 %)Photoshop
22 (2.174 %)Fireworks
31 (1.087 %)MS Excel
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (4.348 %)FTP
22 (2.174 %)Internet
31 (1.087 %)Broadband
31 (1.087 %)Wi-Fi
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
130 (32.61 %)MySQL
214 (15.22 %)SQL Server
35 (5.435 %)RDBMS
43 (3.261 %)SQL Server 2008
43 (3.261 %)Crystal Reports
43 (3.261 %)Oracle Reports
43 (3.261 %)Oracle 8/8i
43 (3.261 %)SQL Server 2005
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
120 (21.74 %)Subversion
216 (17.39 %)Maven
315 (16.30 %)Selenium
413 (14.13 %)JUnit
512 (13.04 %)Eclipse
64 (4.348 %)Dreamweaver
72 (2.174 %)Ant
72 (2.174 %)JSUnit
81 (1.087 %)Git (software)
81 (1.087 %)Hudson
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
113 (14.13 %)Finance
28 (8.696 %)Publishing
34 (4.348 %)Banking
42 (2.174 %)Music
42 (2.174 %)Back Office
51 (1.087 %)Games
51 (1.087 %)Music Industry
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
188 (95.65 %)Developer
227 (29.35 %)JavaScript Developer
318 (19.57 %)UI Developer
415 (16.30 %)PHP Developer
415 (16.30 %)Front-End Developer
514 (15.22 %)Java Developer
611 (11.96 %)UI Programmer
611 (11.96 %)Senior Developer
710 (10.87 %)Web Developer
88 (8.696 %)Senior Java Developer
95 (5.435 %)Java Web Developer
104 (4.348 %)Programmer
113 (3.261 %)PHP MySQL Developer
122 (2.174 %)Senior Java Web Developer
122 (2.174 %)Senior Web Developer
122 (2.174 %)Web Applications Developer
122 (2.174 %)Applications Developer
131 (1.087 %)Senior Front-End Developer
131 (1.087 %)Designer
131 (1.087 %)Lead Web Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (3.261 %)Digital Media
13 (3.261 %)Open Source
22 (2.174 %)Graphic Design
22 (2.174 %)Computer Science
31 (1.087 %)W3C
31 (1.087 %)Web 2.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (3.261 %)Windows 7
13 (3.261 %)Windows
13 (3.261 %)Windows 2000
13 (3.261 %)Windows NT
13 (3.261 %)Windows XP
13 (3.261 %)Windows Server 2003
13 (3.261 %)Windows Vista
22 (2.174 %)Linux
31 (1.087 %)UNIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
126 (28.26 %)OO
216 (17.39 %)Agile Software Development
312 (13.04 %)BDD
411 (11.96 %)MVC
411 (11.96 %)Web Development
59 (9.783 %)OOD
68 (8.696 %)Unit Testing
76 (6.522 %)Performance Improvement
84 (4.348 %)TDD
93 (3.261 %)Data Analysis
102 (2.174 %)Content Management
102 (2.174 %)Project Management
102 (2.174 %)OOP
102 (2.174 %)Continuous Integration
102 (2.174 %)Web Application Development
111 (1.087 %)Continuous Improvement
111 (1.087 %)Integration Testing
111 (1.087 %)Test Scripting
111 (1.087 %)System Testing
111 (1.087 %)Web Accessibility
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
192 (100.00 %)JavaScript
224 (26.09 %)Java
323 (25.00 %)PHP
419 (20.65 %)SQL
510 (10.87 %)PHP5
510 (10.87 %)C#
63 (3.261 %)T-SQL
72 (2.174 %)Shell Script
72 (2.174 %)ActionScript
81 (1.087 %)PHP4
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (2.174 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (2.174 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
18 (8.696 %)Zend
25 (5.435 %)Oracle
34 (4.348 %)ATG
43 (3.261 %)Sun
52 (2.174 %)Adobe
52 (2.174 %)JBoss
61 (1.087 %)IBM
61 (1.087 %)Apple
61 (1.087 %)Sage
61 (1.087 %)Yahoo!
61 (1.087 %)Google