The first table below looks at the demand for OpenSSO 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 OpenSSO over the 3 months to 24 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 System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun OpenSSO
Rank 502 546 555
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +9
Contract jobs citing OpenSSO 11 13 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.026% 0.024% 0.028%
As % of the System Software category 0.276% 0.305% 0.397%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 12
Average daily rate £550 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £362 £454
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £620 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £488
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3981 4264 4033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.575% 7.994% 7.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2071 1786
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 595 619
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
OpenSSO
UK

OpenSSO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OpenSSO Jobs Demand Trend

OpenSSO
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OpenSSO Daily Rate Trend

OpenSSO
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenSSO across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England OpenSSO Daily Rate Histogram

OpenSSO
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenSSO within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +36 11 £550 +10.00%
OpenSSO
UK

OpenSSO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenSSO 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 OpenSSO.

1 8 (40.00%) Java
1 8 (40.00%) SOAP
1 8 (40.00%) Liferay
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Banking
3 6 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 6 (30.00%) WebLogic
3 6 (30.00%) LDAP
3 6 (30.00%) WebLogic Portal
4 5 (25.00%) J2EE
4 5 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (25.00%) soapUI
4 5 (25.00%) Facebook
4 5 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (20.00%) BladeLogic
5 4 (20.00%) Linux
5 4 (20.00%) Apache
5 4 (20.00%) ClearCase
6 3 (15.00%) N-Tier
6 3 (15.00%) JavaBeans
6 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
6 3 (15.00%) JBoss
6 3 (15.00%) Struts
6 3 (15.00%) XML
6 3 (15.00%) XSLT
6 3 (15.00%) Oracle
6 3 (15.00%) SQL
6 3 (15.00%) EJB
6 3 (15.00%) JDBC

OpenSSO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenSSO 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 OpenSSO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (40.00%) SOAP
2 5 (25.00%) J2EE
2 5 (25.00%) soapUI
3 3 (15.00%) JavaBeans
3 3 (15.00%) Struts
3 3 (15.00%) XML
3 3 (15.00%) XSLT
3 3 (15.00%) EJB
3 3 (15.00%) JDBC
3 3 (15.00%) JSP
3 3 (15.00%) Servlets
3 3 (15.00%) Apache FOP
3 3 (15.00%) Spring
3 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) Liferay
2 6 (30.00%) WebLogic
2 6 (30.00%) WebLogic Portal
3 4 (20.00%) Apache
4 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
5 2 (10.00%) ESB
5 2 (10.00%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
2 1 (5.000%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (5.000%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.000%) Maven
2 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
1 7 (35.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.000%) Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Architect
4 1 (5.000%) Management Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) WebLogic Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (15.00%) Derivative
1 3 (15.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Identity Management
2 5 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Web Design
4 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.000%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) BladeLogic
2 1 (5.000%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Facebook
2 3 (15.00%) JBoss
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (5.000%) Oblix
4 1 (5.000%) Sun
4 1 (5.000%) Twitter