The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Edinburgh 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank 54 51 66
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +15
Contract jobs citing JBoss 8 13 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.881% 1.220% 0.450%
As % of the Vendors category 2.778% 3.514% 1.373%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £388 £310 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -32.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £310 £453
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £310 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £38.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+29.03% +9.15%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
288 370 437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 31.72% 34.71% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 146 174
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £243 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £430 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.00 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.58% -11.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.60 £14.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £19.40 £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
JBoss
Scotland

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 11 (68.75%) Oracle
3 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
3 7 (43.75%) Finance
4 6 (37.50%) Apache
4 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (31.25%) WebSphere
6 4 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (25.00%) Unified Communications
6 4 (25.00%) SOA
6 4 (25.00%) Java
6 4 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
6 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
6 4 (25.00%) TIBCO
7 3 (18.75%) Middleware
7 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
8 2 (12.50%) ITIL
8 2 (12.50%) UNIX
8 2 (12.50%) Windows
8 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
8 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
8 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
8 2 (12.50%) SAN
8 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
8 2 (12.50%) .NET
8 2 (12.50%) J2EE
8 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (12.50%) MPLS
8 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 2 (12.50%) Maven

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (31.25%) WebSphere
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) J2EE
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.250%) Facelets
4 1 (6.250%) RESTful
4 1 (6.250%) Struts2
4 1 (6.250%) RichFaces
4 1 (6.250%) Spring MVC
4 1 (6.250%) JPA
4 1 (6.250%) Spring
4 1 (6.250%) JSF
4 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.250%) CSS
4 1 (6.250%) Struts
4 1 (6.250%) Web Services
4 1 (6.250%) HTML
4 1 (6.250%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (6.250%) JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) WebLogic
2 6 (37.50%) Apache
3 3 (18.75%) Tomcat
4 2 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
5 1 (6.250%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 1 (6.250%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (6.250%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (12.50%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) GIS
2 1 (6.250%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
1 2 (12.50%) Maven
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.250%) Selenium
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (6.250%) JUnit
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Retail Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Designer
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.250%) Build Manager
4 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Developer
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) DB2 DBA
4 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.250%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.250%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (6.250%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (6.250%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
1 4 (25.00%) SOA
1 4 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
1 4 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (6.250%) High Availability
3 1 (6.250%) Build Automation
3 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
3 1 (6.250%) Scrum
3 1 (6.250%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (6.250%) MVC
3 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.250%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) C#
2 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.250%) VMware
4 1 (6.250%) Veritas
Edinburgh, Scotland
Contract DB2 DBA (Linux, JBoss) 2-4 weeks, ScotlandHarvey Nash's client urgently requires a DB2 DBA with strong configuration and troubleshooting skills to investigate some performance issues...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: Market
Posted: 11 June 2013