The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss 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 Vendors for the Cambridge 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within JBoss.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank 34 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JBoss 7 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 2.047% - 0.800%
As % of the Vendors category 4.348% - 2.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.13 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-17.18% +15.94%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
161 170 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.08% 40.67% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 81 36
Average daily rate £300 £303 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.82% -6.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 15
Average hourly rate £22.45 £41.25 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.57% +205.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.75 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £47.50 £31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
JBoss
Cambridgeshire

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JBoss across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Cambridge JBoss Jobs Demand Trend

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JBoss across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge JBoss Hourly Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing JBoss 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 JBoss.

1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Apache
1 11 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 11 (100.00%) UNIX
2 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (63.64%) BIG-IP
2 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
2 7 (63.64%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) Perl
2 7 (63.64%) IIS
2 7 (63.64%) DHCP
2 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
2 7 (63.64%) DNS
3 4 (36.36%) MySQL
3 4 (36.36%) Debian
3 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (36.36%) NAS
3 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
3 4 (36.36%) RHCE
3 4 (36.36%) SAN
3 4 (36.36%) NetApp
3 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
3 4 (36.36%) Middleware
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon AWS

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing JBoss 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 JBoss. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (100.00%) Apache
1 11 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 7 (63.64%) IIS
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) DHCP
1 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
1 7 (63.64%) DNS
1 7 (63.64%) BIG-IP
2 4 (36.36%) NAS
2 4 (36.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Administrator
2 7 (63.64%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (45.45%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) UNIX
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Debian
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Java
1 7 (63.64%) Perl
1 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) RHCE
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) NetApp
1 4 (36.36%) Red Hat
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Akamai