The first table below looks at the demand for OpenSSO 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 OpenSSO 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 System Software 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
Sun OpenSSO
Rank 192 203 242
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +39
Contract jobs citing OpenSSO 9 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.143% 0.129% 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 1.741% 1.686% 0.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 4
Average daily rate £550 £500 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £362 £566
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £620 £610
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £488
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
517 593 533
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.213% 7.622% 5.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 357 317
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £497 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 60 75
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.75 £20.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +0.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £36.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
OpenSSO
London

OpenSSO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London OpenSSO Jobs Demand Trend

OpenSSO
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London OpenSSO Daily Rate Trend

OpenSSO
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenSSO across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London OpenSSO Daily Rate Histogram

OpenSSO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
1 7 (70.00%) Liferay
2 6 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) ClearCase
3 4 (40.00%) BladeLogic
3 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Derivative
4 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
4 3 (30.00%) J2EE
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle
5 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (20.00%) ITIL
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (10.00%) jQuery
6 1 (10.00%) HTML5
6 1 (10.00%) Social Media
6 1 (10.00%) Axure RP
6 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (10.00%) F5
6 1 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) Facebook
6 1 (10.00%) Big Data
6 1 (10.00%) Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture

OpenSSO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) WSDL
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) Ajax
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) HTML5
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) Liferay
2 6 (60.00%) WebLogic Portal
2 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) MSMQ
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) ClearCase
2 2 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
1 3 (30.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
2 1 (10.00%) Process Management
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) BladeLogic
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (10.00%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oblix
2 1 (10.00%) Omniture
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Facebook