The first table below looks at the demand for JCAPS 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 JCAPS 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 of the Application Platforms 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java CAPS
Rank 530 542 574
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +32
Contract jobs citing JCAPS 2 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.006% 0.010%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.026% 0.034% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £475 £297 £165
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.14% +79.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £193 £165
% change year-on-year
- +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7673 8733 9319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.73% 16.49% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4397 5056 5138
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 423 529
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £37.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
JCAPS
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JCAPS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England JCAPS Jobs Demand Trend

JCAPS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England JCAPS Daily Rate Trend

JCAPS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England JCAPS Hourly Rate Trend

JCAPS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JCAPS within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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
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Job
Vacancies
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East of England - - - -
JCAPS
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JCAPS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing JCAPS 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 JCAPS.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) XSLT
2 3 (50.00%) EJB
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) BPEL
2 3 (50.00%) Altova
2 3 (50.00%) HL7
3 2 (33.33%) NHS
4 1 (16.67%) SeeBeyond
4 1 (16.67%) DTV
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (16.67%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) JDBC
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
4 1 (16.67%) Servlets
4 1 (16.67%) Struts
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) .NET
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio

JCAPS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing JCAPS 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 JCAPS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) XSLT
1 3 (50.00%) EJB
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JDBC
2 1 (16.67%) JSP
2 1 (16.67%) Servlets
2 1 (16.67%) Struts
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) ASP
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (16.67%) NetBeans
General
1 1 (16.67%) Marketing
1 1 (16.67%) Electronics
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) JCAPS Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SeeBeyond Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SeeBeyond Support
3 1 (16.67%) Software Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) DTV
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) BPEL
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) OOP
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Management
2 1 (16.67%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Altova
2 1 (16.67%) SeeBeyond
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft