The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JPA 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 Development category 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 54 - 71
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JPA 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.366% - 0.077%
As % of the Application Development category 1.667% - 0.730%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £328 £385
% change year-on-year
+6.87% -14.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -22.61%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
180 129 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.98% 11.76% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 60
Average daily rate £313 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JPA
Scotland

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JPA across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh JPA Daily Rate Trend

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JPA across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh JPA Hourly Rate Trend

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaBeans
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) MySQL
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) GlassFish
3 3 (50.00%) Groovy
3 3 (50.00%) TopLink
4 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (33.33%) Android
4 2 (33.33%) Facelets
4 2 (33.33%) Grails
4 2 (33.33%) UML
4 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (33.33%) JSF
5 1 (16.67%) Maven
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) Selenium
5 1 (16.67%) Subversion
5 1 (16.67%) Spring
5 1 (16.67%) JAXB

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) JavaBeans
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) TopLink
3 2 (33.33%) Facelets
3 2 (33.33%) Grails
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) JSF
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
4 1 (16.67%) Spring
4 1 (16.67%) JAXB
4 1 (16.67%) EJB
4 1 (16.67%) CSS
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) Servlets
4 1 (16.67%) Struts
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) GlassFish
2 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse RCP
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Groovy
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) JBoss