The first table below looks at the demand for LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe LiveCycle
Rank 526 543 572
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +29
Contract jobs citing LiveCycle 4 18 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.009% 0.035% 0.023%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.051% 0.209% 0.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 4
Average daily rate £400 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £278 £448
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £425 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £463
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -8.10%
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
7803 8617 9317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.74% 16.52% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4470 4986 5137
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 417 418 528
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 £41.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
LiveCycle
UK

LiveCycle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England LiveCycle Jobs Demand Trend

LiveCycle
Daily Rate Trend

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

England LiveCycle Daily Rate Trend

LiveCycle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LiveCycle across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England LiveCycle Daily Rate Histogram

LiveCycle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England LiveCycle Hourly Rate Trend

LiveCycle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LiveCycle within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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 +16 2 £358 -3.50%
South East +18 1 - -
South West - 1 £400 -
LiveCycle
UK

LiveCycle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle.

1 13 (100.00%) Adobe
2 8 (61.54%) Java
3 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (30.77%) MVC
4 4 (30.77%) Spring
4 4 (30.77%) Maven
4 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Informatics
4 4 (30.77%) Apache Flex
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) BlazeDS
4 4 (30.77%) Cairngorm
4 4 (30.77%) PureMVC
4 4 (30.77%) Parsley
4 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) HTML
5 3 (23.08%) VBA
5 3 (23.08%) SOAP
5 3 (23.08%) XML
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
5 3 (23.08%) Workflow
5 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 2 (15.38%) X.509
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing

LiveCycle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Flex
1 4 (30.77%) BlazeDS
1 4 (30.77%) Cairngorm
1 4 (30.77%) PureMVC
1 4 (30.77%) Parsley
1 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) XML
2 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
4 1 (7.692%) Core Animation
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.692%) iOS SDK
4 1 (7.692%) REST
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (7.692%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (7.692%) .NET
4 1 (7.692%) ASP
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) X.509
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) MS Access
2 1 (7.692%) SQLite
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Maven
2 1 (7.692%) HtmlUnit
2 1 (7.692%) PhoneGap
2 1 (7.692%) Jasmine
2 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
2 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.692%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) Xcode
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Flex Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Designer
5 1 (7.692%) iOS Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Architect
5 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Informatics
2 1 (7.692%) iPhone
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum
1 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (30.77%) MVC
2 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Use Case
4 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
5 1 (7.692%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.692%) V-Model
5 1 (7.692%) Information Architecture
5 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.692%) Process Management
5 1 (7.692%) Change Management
5 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) VBA
5 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
6 1 (7.692%) C#
6 1 (7.692%) C++
6 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
6 1 (7.692%) XPath
6 1 (7.692%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) BC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) WCAG
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) JBoss
2 1 (7.692%) Perforce
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