The first table below looks at the demand for GlassFish 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 GlassFish over the 3 months to 21 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 Platforms 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle GlassFish
Rank 202 215 226
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +11
Contract jobs citing GlassFish 1 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.025% 0.103%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.090% 0.167% 0.699%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
Average daily rate £375 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Platforms
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1111 1198 1430
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 17.29% 15.24% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 777 807 1015
Average daily rate £400 £400 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £256 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 36 62
Average hourly rate £39.51 £20.00 £20.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+97.52% -2.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £15.00 £12.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.03 £50.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
GlassFish
London

GlassFish
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London GlassFish Jobs Demand Trend

GlassFish
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London GlassFish Daily Rate Trend

GlassFish
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GlassFish 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 GlassFish.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) SWT
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse RCP

GlassFish
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing GlassFish 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 GlassFish. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) SWT
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse RCP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Swing Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss