The first table below looks at the demand for Hibernate skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hibernate 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 for the Belfast region.

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
Hibernate
Rank 30 27 46
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +19
Contract jobs citing Hibernate 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 0.952% 0.633% 0.617%
As % of the Application Development category 1.923% 2.000% 1.869%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+21.53% -22.61%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
104 50 107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 49.52% 31.65% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 14 28
Average daily rate £325 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £256 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Hibernate
County Antrim

Hibernate
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Hibernate across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Belfast Hibernate Jobs Demand Trend

Hibernate
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Hibernate across the Belfast region.

Belfast Hibernate Daily Rate Trend

Hibernate
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Hibernate 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 Hibernate.

1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) HttpUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC

Hibernate
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing Hibernate 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 Hibernate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) JDBC
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Java EE
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) HttpUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Jaspersoft