The first table below looks at the demand for Liferay 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 Liferay 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
Liferay
Rank 187 197 230
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +33
Contract jobs citing Liferay 16 20 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.249% 0.254% 0.062%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.440% 1.669% 0.420%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 5
Average daily rate £538 £463 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.21% -19.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £388 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £588 £605
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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% -
Liferay
London

Liferay
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Liferay Jobs Demand Trend

Liferay
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Liferay Daily Rate Trend

Liferay
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Liferay across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Liferay Daily Rate Histogram

Liferay
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 17 (89.47%) Banking
2 13 (68.42%) Finance
3 9 (47.37%) Investment Banking
3 9 (47.37%) WebLogic
3 9 (47.37%) WebLogic Portal
4 8 (42.11%) Java
5 7 (36.84%) Linux
5 7 (36.84%) ClearCase
5 7 (36.84%) BladeLogic
5 7 (36.84%) OpenSSO
6 6 (31.58%) KnockoutJS
6 6 (31.58%) Spring MVC
6 6 (31.58%) Ajax
6 6 (31.58%) jQuery
6 6 (31.58%) Spring
6 6 (31.58%) MVC
6 6 (31.58%) Photoshop
7 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
7 5 (26.32%) Middleware
7 5 (26.32%) Fixed Income
7 5 (26.32%) Derivative
8 4 (21.05%) J2EE
8 4 (21.05%) Apache
9 3 (15.79%) CSS
9 3 (15.79%) C
9 3 (15.79%) HTML
9 3 (15.79%) ISO 9001
9 3 (15.79%) Release Management
9 3 (15.79%) Maven
9 3 (15.79%) Subversion

Liferay
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (31.58%) KnockoutJS
1 6 (31.58%) Spring MVC
1 6 (31.58%) Ajax
1 6 (31.58%) jQuery
1 6 (31.58%) Spring
2 5 (26.32%) Middleware
3 4 (21.05%) J2EE
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
4 3 (15.79%) HTML
4 3 (15.79%) CSS3
5 2 (10.53%) .NET
6 1 (5.263%) Web Services
6 1 (5.263%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 9 (47.37%) WebLogic
1 9 (47.37%) WebLogic Portal
2 4 (21.05%) Apache
3 3 (15.79%) Alfresco
4 2 (10.53%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (10.53%) CMS
4 2 (10.53%) Documentum
4 2 (10.53%) Drupal
4 2 (10.53%) Umbraco
4 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.263%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) ClearCase
2 3 (15.79%) Maven
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) CruiseControl
3 2 (10.53%) Eclipse
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (5.263%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.263%) Selenium
4 1 (5.263%) JMeter
General
1 17 (89.47%) Banking
2 13 (68.42%) Finance
3 9 (47.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) UI Designer
1 5 (26.32%) Designer
2 2 (10.53%) Interface Designer
2 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
2 2 (10.53%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (10.53%) Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.263%) Administrator
3 1 (5.263%) Developer
3 1 (5.263%) Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.263%) WebLogic Administrator
3 1 (5.263%) Middleware Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Fixed Income
1 5 (26.32%) Derivative
2 1 (5.263%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) MVC
2 3 (15.79%) Release Management
3 2 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
3 2 (10.53%) Web Development
3 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
3 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
3 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Process Management
4 1 (5.263%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.263%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) C
4 2 (10.53%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) BladeLogic
2 1 (5.263%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Sitecore
1 2 (10.53%) F5
1 2 (10.53%) ATG
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
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