The first table below looks at the demand for BusinessWorks skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BusinessWorks 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 Business Applications category for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (TIBCO BW)
Rank - 205 215
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 0 8 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.103% 0.315%
As % of the Business Applications category - 1.521% 4.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 15
Average daily rate - £375 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £350 £500
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
507 526 723
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.054% 6.761% 7.346%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 359 515
Average daily rate £450 £455 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.15% -13.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £310 £361
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 2
Average hourly rate £35.44 £50.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.12% +45.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.90 £14.75 £19.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.51 £56.25 £48.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%
BusinessWorks
London

BusinessWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessWorks across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

City of London BusinessWorks Jobs Demand Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BusinessWorks across the City of London region.

City of London BusinessWorks Daily Rate Trend

BusinessWorks
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BusinessWorks 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 BusinessWorks.

1 7 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 6 (85.71%) TIBCO EMS
3 5 (71.43%) TIBCO Hawk
4 4 (57.14%) Service Management
4 4 (57.14%) SCOM
4 4 (57.14%) ITIL
4 4 (57.14%) Remedy
5 3 (42.86%) Release Management
6 2 (28.57%) Java
6 2 (28.57%) XML
7 1 (14.29%) XSLT
7 1 (14.29%) SOAP
7 1 (14.29%) Web Services
7 1 (14.29%) UNIX
7 1 (14.29%) Windows
7 1 (14.29%) JMS
7 1 (14.29%) SOA
7 1 (14.29%) WSDL
7 1 (14.29%) XML Schema
7 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 1 (14.29%) webMethods
7 1 (14.29%) Publishing
7 1 (14.29%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (14.29%) Pega

BusinessWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BusinessWorks 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 BusinessWorks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
2 1 (14.29%) JMS
2 1 (14.29%) WSDL
2 1 (14.29%) XML Schema
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) TIBCO EMS
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) TIBCO iProcess
General
1 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) TIBCO Developer
3 1 (14.29%) TIBCO Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior TIBCO Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) TIBCO Hawk
2 4 (57.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 4 (57.14%) Remedy
3 1 (14.29%) Pega
3 1 (14.29%) webMethods