The first table below looks at the demand for AppScan skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AppScan over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Development Applications category for the England 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational AppScan
Rank 532 546 576
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +30
Contract jobs citing AppScan 3 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.062% 0.059% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £490 £313 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.80% +78.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £175
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £190.00
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4855 5123 6193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.09% 9.663% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3095 3105 3684
Average daily rate £390 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £558 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 211 278
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.85 £24.44 £26.39
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
AppScan
UK

AppScan
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England AppScan Jobs Demand Trend

AppScan
Daily Rate Trend

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

England AppScan Daily Rate Trend

AppScan
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AppScan within the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +21 3 £490 +56.80%
AppScan
UK

AppScan
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing AppScan 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 AppScan.

1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) COBIT
2 5 (71.43%) COSO
2 5 (71.43%) OWASP
2 5 (71.43%) PCI DSS
2 5 (71.43%) WebInspect
2 5 (71.43%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) HP
2 5 (71.43%) PRINCE
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Security Management
3 3 (42.86%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
5 1 (14.29%) BC Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
5 1 (14.29%) Hudson
5 1 (14.29%) F5
5 1 (14.29%) FindBugs
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Spring
5 1 (14.29%) Maven
5 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing

AppScan
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing AppScan 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 AppScan. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) JDBC
1 1 (14.29%) JSP
1 1 (14.29%) Servlets
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Checkstyle
1 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
1 1 (14.29%) FindBugs
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Security Specialist
2 5 (71.43%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Penetration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) OWASP
2 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 5 (71.43%) PRINCE
3 3 (42.86%) Security Management
3 3 (42.86%) Ethical Hacking
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Code Coverage
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) BC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) COBIT
1 5 (71.43%) PCI DSS
1 5 (71.43%) COSO
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) IBM
1 5 (71.43%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss