The first table below looks at the demand for JTA 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 JTA 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Transaction API (JTA)
Rank 517 540 579
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +39
Contract jobs citing JTA 15 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.035% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Application Development category 0.124% 0.036% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 -
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12120 14009 16221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.01% 26.45% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7804 8578 9744
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
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 322 357 519
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
JTA
UK

JTA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England JTA Jobs Demand Trend

JTA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England JTA Daily Rate Trend

JTA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England JTA Hourly Rate Trend

JTA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JTA 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
London +35 10 - - 6
JTA
UK

JTA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 59 (100.00%) Java
2 58 (98.31%) Web Services
3 57 (96.61%) JMS
4 56 (94.92%) Hibernate
4 56 (94.92%) EJB
5 55 (93.22%) Spring
5 55 (93.22%) JPA
6 53 (89.83%) Java EE
7 52 (88.14%) SOAP
7 52 (88.14%) MVC
7 52 (88.14%) REST
8 51 (86.44%) SQL Server
8 51 (86.44%) Spring MVC
8 51 (86.44%) BDD
9 50 (84.75%) Spring Security
9 50 (84.75%) Spring Web Flow
9 50 (84.75%) JSON
9 50 (84.75%) Web Development
9 50 (84.75%) JAXB
10 49 (83.05%) SQL
11 46 (77.97%) JUnit
12 43 (72.88%) jQuery
12 43 (72.88%) Mockito
12 43 (72.88%) HTML
12 43 (72.88%) JavaScript
12 43 (72.88%) CSS
13 40 (67.80%) Maven
14 39 (66.10%) JSP
15 38 (64.41%) Pair Programming
15 38 (64.41%) Git (software)

JTA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 58 (98.31%) Web Services
2 57 (96.61%) JMS
3 56 (94.92%) Hibernate
3 56 (94.92%) EJB
4 55 (93.22%) Spring
4 55 (93.22%) JPA
5 53 (89.83%) Java EE
6 52 (88.14%) SOAP
6 52 (88.14%) REST
7 51 (86.44%) Spring MVC
8 50 (84.75%) Spring Security
8 50 (84.75%) Spring Web Flow
8 50 (84.75%) JSON
8 50 (84.75%) JAXB
9 43 (72.88%) jQuery
9 43 (72.88%) HTML
9 43 (72.88%) CSS
10 39 (66.10%) JSP
11 37 (62.71%) Apache CXF
12 16 (27.12%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 23 (38.98%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (15.25%) GlassFish
3 3 (5.085%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.390%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (3.390%) Apache
4 2 (3.390%) Tomcat
4 2 (3.390%) Confluence
5 1 (1.695%) ESB
5 1 (1.695%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (1.695%) SAP Portal
5 1 (1.695%) SAP EP
Applications
1 5 (8.475%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.695%) AMQP
1 1 (1.695%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.695%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (86.44%) SQL Server
2 36 (61.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 36 (61.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 16 (27.12%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.86%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (5.085%) MySQL
6 2 (3.390%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.695%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 46 (77.97%) JUnit
2 43 (72.88%) Mockito
3 40 (67.80%) Maven
4 38 (64.41%) Git (software)
5 16 (27.12%) Selenium
6 13 (22.03%) JBehave
7 4 (6.780%) Subversion
8 2 (3.390%) Hudson
8 2 (3.390%) Bugzilla
8 2 (3.390%) JIRA
9 1 (1.695%) jMock
9 1 (1.695%) NWDI
9 1 (1.695%) NWDS
9 1 (1.695%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (13.56%) Finance
2 1 (1.695%) Investment Banking
2 1 (1.695%) Banking
2 1 (1.695%) Front Office
2 1 (1.695%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (79.66%) Developer
2 45 (76.27%) Java Developer
3 13 (22.03%) Technical Leader
4 7 (11.86%) Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Software Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.780%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.780%) Java Architect
6 4 (6.780%) Java Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.085%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 3 (5.085%) Technical Developer
8 2 (3.390%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (1.695%) SAP Developer
9 1 (1.695%) Oracle Developer
9 1 (1.695%) Team Leader
9 1 (1.695%) Technical Team Leader
9 1 (1.695%) Java Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.390%) Wiki
1 2 (3.390%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.695%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.085%) Linux
2 1 (1.695%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.695%) UNIX
2 1 (1.695%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (88.14%) MVC
2 51 (86.44%) BDD
3 50 (84.75%) Web Development
4 38 (64.41%) Pair Programming
5 37 (62.71%) Software Architecture
6 35 (59.32%) UML
7 31 (52.54%) OOD
8 19 (32.20%) Agile Software Development
9 18 (30.51%) Dependency Injection
10 16 (27.12%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (27.12%) TDD
11 9 (15.25%) SOA
12 7 (11.86%) Scrum
13 6 (10.17%) OO
14 5 (8.475%) OOA/OOD
15 1 (1.695%) User Stories
15 1 (1.695%) Requirements Analysis
15 1 (1.695%) User Acceptance Testing
15 1 (1.695%) Unit Testing
15 1 (1.695%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 59 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (83.05%) SQL
3 43 (72.88%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.86%) C#
5 2 (3.390%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.695%) XQuery
6 1 (1.695%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.695%) C
6 1 (1.695%) Perl
Vendors
1 34 (57.63%) JBoss
2 13 (22.03%) Twitter
3 3 (5.085%) Oracle
4 1 (1.695%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.695%) SAP
4 1 (1.695%) Sybase
London
Essentials: SOA, EJB3, EJB3.1, REST, SOAP, Java EE6 stack including Hibernate, JPA, JTA, JAX-WS. Understanding of MVC architecture. Previous experience of working with Web Services. SQL...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £2300 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
The Essentials: SOA, EJB3, EJB3.1, REST, SOAP, Java EE6 stack including Hibernate, JPA, JTA, JAX-WS. Understanding of MVC architecture. Previous experience of working with Web Services...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
London
The client is in search of a experienced Java Developer to help them in there transition away from the existing LAMP/ Perl architecture moving over to Java. Essentials:...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
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