The first table below looks at the demand for Shibboleth 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 Shibboleth over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet2 Shibboleth
Rank 527 529 578
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +49
Contract jobs citing Shibboleth 8 20 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.018% 0.038% 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.189% 0.455% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 0
Average daily rate £335 £295 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.55% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 - -
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
4240 4392 4191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.685% 8.284% 7.330%
Number of daily rates quoted 2077 2108 1886
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £195 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 597 646 638
Average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -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 £35.00 £34.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Shibboleth
UK

Shibboleth
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Shibboleth Jobs Demand Trend

Shibboleth
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Shibboleth Daily Rate Trend

Shibboleth
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Shibboleth within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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
South East - 6 £380 -
West Midlands - - - -
Shibboleth
UK

Shibboleth
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Shibboleth 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 Shibboleth.

1 9 (81.82%) Apache
1 9 (81.82%) LDAP
2 8 (72.73%) Tomcat
3 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
4 6 (54.55%) Java
4 6 (54.55%) SAML
4 6 (54.55%) Identity Management
4 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 5 (45.45%) Open Source
5 5 (45.45%) GlassFish
5 5 (45.45%) Juniper
5 5 (45.45%) SAN
5 5 (45.45%) Perl
5 5 (45.45%) PHP
5 5 (45.45%) Oracle
5 5 (45.45%) Cisco
5 5 (45.45%) LAN
5 5 (45.45%) WAN
5 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
5 5 (45.45%) UNIX
5 5 (45.45%) Linux
6 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
6 4 (36.36%) SSL
6 4 (36.36%) IPsec
6 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
6 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
6 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (27.27%) Windows

Shibboleth
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Shibboleth 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 Shibboleth. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) SAML
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
3 1 (9.091%) JSP
3 1 (9.091%) Servlets
3 1 (9.091%) SOAP
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) XML
3 1 (9.091%) XSLT
3 1 (9.091%) J2EE
3 1 (9.091%) COM
3 1 (9.091%) EJB
3 1 (9.091%) JSON
3 1 (9.091%) REST
3 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.091%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) Apache
2 8 (72.73%) Tomcat
3 5 (45.45%) GlassFish
4 1 (9.091%) Mule
4 1 (9.091%) WordPress
4 1 (9.091%) nginx
4 1 (9.091%) Moodle
4 1 (9.091%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (9.091%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) LDAP
2 5 (45.45%) LAN
2 5 (45.45%) WAN
2 5 (45.45%) SAN
3 4 (36.36%) IPsec
3 4 (36.36%) SSL
4 1 (9.091%) Wireshark
4 1 (9.091%) Network Security
4 1 (9.091%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (9.091%) Kerberos
4 1 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
1 2 (18.18%) Git (software)
1 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.091%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.091%) Maven
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
General
1 1 (9.091%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Network Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) J2EE Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Open Source
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.091%) Replication
3 1 (9.091%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) UNIX
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (9.091%) CentOS
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Identity Management
2 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) MVC
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
3 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) TDD
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) Perl
2 5 (45.45%) PHP
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 2 (18.18%) Ruby
5 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) MCP
2 1 (9.091%) MCSE
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (9.091%) DFS Replication
3 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) MIIS
1 1 (9.091%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Juniper
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
Manchester, North West
I have a fantastic opportunity for a contractor with experience of Shibboleth and ADFS. The ideal candiate must have experience of at least one Shibboleth implementation and preferably...
Computer Futures
Posted: 4 June 2013
North West England
I have a fantastic opportunity for a contractor with experience of Shibboleth and ADFS.The ideal candiate must have experience of at least one Shibboleth implementation and preferably...
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
North West England
I have a fantastic opportunity for a contractor with experience of Shibboleth and ADFS.The ideal candiate must have experience of at least one Shibboleth implementation and preferably...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013