The first table below looks at the demand for BusinessWorks 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 BusinessWorks 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 Business 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (TIBCO BW)
Rank 486 512 417
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -95
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 26 45 138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.061% 0.084% 0.249%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.734% 0.980% 2.838%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 53
Average daily rate £475 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £300 £373
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £350 £500
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
3543 4592 4863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 8.375% 8.582% 8.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 1887 2355 2527
Average daily rate £450 £450 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 56 86
Average hourly rate £37.80 £34.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.17% +70.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.25 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £62.50 £57.50 £38.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
BusinessWorks
UK

BusinessWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England BusinessWorks Jobs Demand Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Trend

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

England BusinessWorks Daily Rate Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England BusinessWorks Daily Rate Histogram

BusinessWorks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England BusinessWorks Hourly Rate Trend

BusinessWorks
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessWorks within the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
London -2 10 £475 +5.55%
South East +28 8 - -
South West - 4 - -
East Midlands - 2 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £550 -
BusinessWorks
UK

BusinessWorks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 61 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 40 (65.57%) TIBCO EMS
3 30 (49.18%) Java
4 25 (40.98%) XML
5 23 (37.70%) SOA
6 21 (34.43%) TIBCO Hawk
7 17 (27.87%) Oracle
8 15 (24.59%) TIBCO iProcess
9 14 (22.95%) Web Services
10 13 (21.31%) EAI
10 13 (21.31%) WebSphere
11 12 (19.67%) JRules
11 12 (19.67%) WebLogic
12 10 (16.39%) XSLT
12 10 (16.39%) ITIL
12 10 (16.39%) UML
12 10 (16.39%) Banking
12 10 (16.39%) Service Management
12 10 (16.39%) SCOM
13 9 (14.75%) Release Management
13 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
13 9 (14.75%) SQL
13 9 (14.75%) Remedy
14 8 (13.11%) Middleware
14 8 (13.11%) ILOG
14 8 (13.11%) JSP
14 8 (13.11%) Staffware
14 8 (13.11%) Finance
14 8 (13.11%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (11.48%) XPath

BusinessWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 25 (40.98%) XML
2 14 (22.95%) Web Services
3 13 (21.31%) WebSphere
4 12 (19.67%) JRules
5 10 (16.39%) XSLT
6 8 (13.11%) Middleware
6 8 (13.11%) JSP
7 6 (9.836%) J2EE
7 6 (9.836%) Spring
8 5 (8.197%) XSD
9 4 (6.557%) Java EE
10 3 (4.918%) Drools
10 3 (4.918%) Esper
11 2 (3.279%) JMS
11 2 (3.279%) SOAP
11 2 (3.279%) JDBC
11 2 (3.279%) .NET
11 2 (3.279%) WSDL
11 2 (3.279%) XML Schema
12 1 (1.639%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 40 (65.57%) TIBCO EMS
2 12 (19.67%) WebLogic
3 4 (6.557%) Tomcat
3 4 (6.557%) ESB
4 3 (4.918%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (3.279%) Apache
6 1 (1.639%) Rendezvous
6 1 (1.639%) IIS
6 1 (1.639%) MQSeries
6 1 (1.639%) Confluence
6 1 (1.639%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
Applications
1 1 (1.639%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.639%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (24.59%) TIBCO iProcess
2 8 (13.11%) Staffware
3 4 (6.557%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
4 1 (1.639%) Endur
4 1 (1.639%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.918%) LDAP
2 1 (1.639%) IIOP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.197%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (6.557%) Essbase
3 2 (3.279%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.279%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.279%) DB2
4 1 (1.639%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 6 (9.836%) Subversion
2 5 (8.197%) Ant
2 5 (8.197%) TeamCity
3 4 (6.557%) JUnit
4 1 (1.639%) Maven
4 1 (1.639%) StarTeam
4 1 (1.639%) JIRA
4 1 (1.639%) Rational Rose
4 1 (1.639%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (1.639%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.639%) Hudson
General
1 10 (16.39%) Banking
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 5 (8.197%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.557%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.639%) Publishing
5 1 (1.639%) Back Office
5 1 (1.639%) German Language
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Architect
2 12 (19.67%) Developer
2 12 (19.67%) Designer
3 10 (16.39%) Administrator
4 9 (14.75%) TIBCO Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) Consultant
4 9 (14.75%) TIBCO Developer
5 6 (9.836%) Integration Architect
6 4 (6.557%) Analyst
6 4 (6.557%) TIBCO Support
6 4 (6.557%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.557%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.279%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.279%) Senior TIBCO Consultant
7 2 (3.279%) TIBCO Architect
7 2 (3.279%) TIBCO Analyst
7 2 (3.279%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.279%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.279%) Technical Leader
7 2 (3.279%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.557%) SaaS
2 4 (6.557%) PaaS
3 3 (4.918%) Equities
3 3 (4.918%) Computer Science
3 3 (4.918%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.639%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) UNIX
2 6 (9.836%) Windows
3 3 (4.918%) Linux
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.70%) SOA
2 13 (21.31%) EAI
3 10 (16.39%) ITIL
3 10 (16.39%) UML
3 10 (16.39%) Service Management
4 9 (14.75%) Release Management
5 7 (11.48%) Configuration Management
6 6 (9.836%) OO
6 6 (9.836%) Workflow
7 5 (8.197%) TOGAF
7 5 (8.197%) Workflow Management
8 4 (6.557%) Software Architecture
8 4 (6.557%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (6.557%) TDD
8 4 (6.557%) Scrum
9 3 (4.918%) Service Delivery
9 3 (4.918%) Problem Management
9 3 (4.918%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (3.279%) Data Modelling
10 2 (3.279%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) Java
2 9 (14.75%) SQL
3 7 (11.48%) XPath
4 6 (9.836%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.197%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.279%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.836%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.918%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.639%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) TIBCO Hawk
2 10 (16.39%) SCOM
3 1 (1.639%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 17 (27.87%) Oracle
3 9 (14.75%) Remedy
4 8 (13.11%) ILOG
5 7 (11.48%) IBM
5 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.557%) ION Trading
7 2 (3.279%) JBoss
7 2 (3.279%) CA
8 1 (1.639%) Pega
8 1 (1.639%) Peregrine
8 1 (1.639%) HP
8 1 (1.639%) Cognizant
8 1 (1.639%) webMethods
8 1 (1.639%) Sybase
8 1 (1.639%) WSO2
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