The first table below looks at the demand for JPA 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 JPA over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 398 477 498
Rank change year-on-year
+79 +21
Contract jobs citing JPA 120 85 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.289% 0.159% 0.131%
As % of the Application Development category 1.062% 0.608% 0.465%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 50 45
Average daily rate £413 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £309 £250 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £477 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £341 £385
% change year-on-year
+2.56% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% -22.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -22.61%
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11298 13988 16114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.21% 26.19% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7248 8388 9560
Average daily rate £375 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 367 558
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -6.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JPA
UK

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England JPA Daily Rate Trend

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JPA across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England JPA Daily Rate Histogram

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England JPA Hourly Rate Trend

JPA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +70 67 £550 +46.66%
South East +27 33 £350 +2.18%
East of England +18 9 £291 -35.27%
North West +13 5 £293 -16.42%
South West +28 2 £383 +23.38%
Midlands -7 2 - -
JPA
UK

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 242 (99.18%) Java
2 186 (76.23%) Hibernate
3 182 (74.59%) Spring
4 127 (52.05%) JavaScript
5 125 (51.23%) Web Services
6 123 (50.41%) Maven
7 119 (48.77%) SQL
8 113 (46.31%) HTML
9 103 (42.21%) J2EE
9 103 (42.21%) Java EE
10 100 (40.98%) JMS
11 99 (40.57%) JUnit
12 98 (40.16%) jQuery
13 95 (38.93%) CSS
14 94 (38.52%) JBoss
15 91 (37.30%) EJB
16 90 (36.89%) MVC
17 89 (36.48%) Oracle
18 84 (34.43%) SOAP
19 81 (33.20%) JSON
20 76 (31.15%) Spring MVC
21 75 (30.74%) Agile Software Development
21 75 (30.74%) REST
22 74 (30.33%) JSP
23 73 (29.92%) SQL Server
24 66 (27.05%) JAXB
25 64 (26.23%) UML
25 64 (26.23%) BDD
26 60 (24.59%) Web Development
27 55 (22.54%) Spring Web Flow

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 186 (76.23%) Hibernate
2 182 (74.59%) Spring
3 125 (51.23%) Web Services
4 113 (46.31%) HTML
5 103 (42.21%) J2EE
5 103 (42.21%) Java EE
6 100 (40.98%) JMS
7 98 (40.16%) jQuery
8 95 (38.93%) CSS
9 91 (37.30%) EJB
10 84 (34.43%) SOAP
11 81 (33.20%) JSON
12 76 (31.15%) Spring MVC
13 75 (30.74%) REST
14 74 (30.33%) JSP
15 66 (27.05%) JAXB
16 55 (22.54%) Spring Web Flow
17 54 (22.13%) JTA
18 50 (20.49%) Spring Security
19 44 (18.03%) XML
Application Platforms
1 24 (9.836%) WebLogic
2 23 (9.426%) BizTalk Server
3 21 (8.607%) Tomcat
4 11 (4.508%) GlassFish
5 9 (3.689%) ActiveMQ
5 9 (3.689%) Alfresco
5 9 (3.689%) Confluence
6 7 (2.869%) Apache
7 5 (2.049%) CMS
7 5 (2.049%) Liferay
8 4 (1.639%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (1.230%) Jetty
9 3 (1.230%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.820%) Windows Azure
10 2 (0.820%) Amazon AWS
10 2 (0.820%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.820%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.820%) ESB
11 1 (0.410%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.410%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (5.738%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.230%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.607%) Internet
2 10 (4.098%) HTTP
3 9 (3.689%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.459%) DVB
5 1 (0.410%) LDAP
5 1 (0.410%) SMTP
5 1 (0.410%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (29.92%) SQL Server
2 36 (14.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 36 (14.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (9.016%) MySQL
4 21 (8.607%) RDBMS
5 16 (6.557%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.869%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (2.049%) TOAD
8 4 (1.639%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (1.639%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.230%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.820%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (0.820%) DB2
11 1 (0.410%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.410%) Oracle 9i
11 1 (0.410%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 123 (50.41%) Maven
2 99 (40.57%) JUnit
3 51 (20.90%) Git (software)
4 49 (20.08%) Mockito
5 45 (18.44%) Eclipse
6 35 (14.34%) Subversion
7 24 (9.836%) Hudson
8 19 (7.787%) JIRA
9 18 (7.377%) Selenium
10 14 (5.738%) JBehave
11 9 (3.689%) jMock
11 9 (3.689%) EasyMock
12 8 (3.279%) Cucumber
12 8 (3.279%) Jenkins
13 6 (2.459%) JDeveloper
14 5 (2.049%) NetBeans
14 5 (2.049%) Log4j
15 4 (1.639%) Mercurial
15 4 (1.639%) Ant
16 3 (1.230%) FitNesse
General
1 35 (14.34%) Finance
2 27 (11.07%) Banking
3 21 (8.607%) Investment Banking
4 9 (3.689%) Retail
5 7 (2.869%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.639%) Back Office
6 4 (1.639%) Retail Banking
7 2 (0.820%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.410%) International Banking
8 1 (0.410%) Games
8 1 (0.410%) Front Office
8 1 (0.410%) Advertising
8 1 (0.410%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 214 (87.70%) Developer
2 198 (81.15%) Java Developer
3 27 (11.07%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 16 (6.557%) Senior Developer
5 14 (5.738%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (5.738%) Web Developer
5 14 (5.738%) Architect
6 13 (5.328%) Java Web Developer
7 12 (4.918%) Technical Leader
7 12 (4.918%) HTML Developer
8 11 (4.508%) J2EE Developer
9 10 (4.098%) Agile Java Developer
10 9 (3.689%) Software Engineer
11 7 (2.869%) Software Architect
12 6 (2.459%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.459%) Lead Developer
12 6 (2.459%) Oracle Developer
12 6 (2.459%) Senior Oracle Developer
12 6 (2.459%) Java Architect
13 5 (2.049%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.148%) RIA
2 14 (5.738%) Computer Science
3 7 (2.869%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.459%) DTV
5 5 (2.049%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.639%) Open Source
7 2 (0.820%) iPad
7 2 (0.820%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.820%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.820%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.820%) Wiki
8 1 (0.410%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.410%) Semantic Web
8 1 (0.410%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.410%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.410%) Streaming Video
8 1 (0.410%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.410%) Linked Data
8 1 (0.410%) Kindle
8 1 (0.410%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.93%) Linux
2 30 (12.30%) UNIX
3 14 (5.738%) Apple iOS
4 5 (2.049%) Android
5 3 (1.230%) Windows
6 2 (0.820%) Debian
6 2 (0.820%) Solaris
7 1 (0.410%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (36.89%) MVC
2 75 (30.74%) Agile Software Development
3 64 (26.23%) UML
3 64 (26.23%) BDD
4 60 (24.59%) Web Development
5 55 (22.54%) TDD
6 49 (20.08%) OO
7 42 (17.21%) SOA
8 41 (16.80%) OOD
9 40 (16.39%) Pair Programming
10 39 (15.98%) Software Architecture
11 37 (15.16%) Scrum
12 29 (11.89%) Continuous Integration
13 25 (10.25%) Software Engineering
14 21 (8.607%) Dependency Injection
15 19 (7.787%) Data Modelling
15 19 (7.787%) OOA/OOD
16 17 (6.967%) Kanban
17 16 (6.557%) Configuration Management
17 16 (6.557%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 242 (99.18%) Java
2 127 (52.05%) JavaScript
3 119 (48.77%) SQL
4 29 (11.89%) C
5 23 (9.426%) PL/SQL
6 16 (6.557%) Groovy
7 9 (3.689%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.869%) C#
8 7 (2.869%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.459%) XPath
10 4 (1.639%) Ruby
11 3 (1.230%) Scala
12 2 (0.820%) sed
12 2 (0.820%) Python
12 2 (0.820%) AWK
13 1 (0.410%) Korn
13 1 (0.410%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.410%) XQuery
13 1 (0.410%) HQL
13 1 (0.410%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 31 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.07%) DV Cleared
3 11 (4.508%) Degree
4 3 (1.230%) BC Cleared
5 2 (0.820%) SCJP
5 2 (0.820%) SCJA
6 1 (0.410%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.410%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (0.820%) Puppet
Vendors
1 94 (38.52%) JBoss
2 89 (36.48%) Oracle
3 17 (6.967%) IBM
4 15 (6.148%) Twitter
5 10 (4.098%) Google
6 7 (2.869%) Sybase
7 3 (1.230%) hybris
8 2 (0.820%) Facebook
8 2 (0.820%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.820%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.820%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.820%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.410%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.410%) Endeca
9 1 (0.410%) SAP
9 1 (0.410%) BEA
9 1 (0.410%) Adobe
9 1 (0.410%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.410%) Coverity
England
Java, Server side, development, spring framework, OSGi, Maven, rest, agile. My client is about to embark on a new and exciting project and have a urgent requirement for...
iKonnect
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
Hertfordshire
You will be joining a team of developers on change projects on existing systems where the knowledge of JAVA / J2EE web application experience is needed. Essential experience needed :-...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Spring MVC. Java and JEE. HTML / DHTML / CSS / JavaScript including jQuery /AJAX. DBMS Skills (MS SQL (including stored procs) / Oracle) and data modelling. RESTful (JSON) SOAP Web services...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Southend-On-Sea, South East
J2EE experience must include experience of Servlets, JSPs and Session Beans delivering transactional web-based applications.*BEA WebLogic at version 9, or later... *development on UNIX environments, preferably...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 30 April 2013