The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JPA 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.318% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.696% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £314 £385
% change year-on-year
+11.55% -18.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -22.61%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
431 184 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.75% 23.83% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 157
Average daily rate £338 £283 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.46% -19.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JPA
Scotland

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow JPA Daily Rate Trend

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) Maven
3 5 (71.43%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) JMS
3 5 (71.43%) Oracle
3 5 (71.43%) CSS
3 5 (71.43%) JDBC
3 5 (71.43%) JSP
3 5 (71.43%) Servlets
3 5 (71.43%) HTML
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
4 4 (57.14%) JSF
4 4 (57.14%) TopLink
4 4 (57.14%) UML
4 4 (57.14%) XMLBeans
4 4 (57.14%) EJB
4 4 (57.14%) Web Services
4 4 (57.14%) XML
4 4 (57.14%) SOAP
4 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
4 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) N-Tier
4 4 (57.14%) MVC
4 4 (57.14%) BDD
5 3 (42.86%) Java EE

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) JMS
2 5 (71.43%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) JDBC
2 5 (71.43%) JSP
2 5 (71.43%) Servlets
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) XML
3 4 (57.14%) SOAP
3 4 (57.14%) TopLink
3 4 (57.14%) JSF
3 4 (57.14%) XMLBeans
3 4 (57.14%) EJB
4 3 (42.86%) Java EE
5 2 (28.57%) RESTful
5 2 (28.57%) J2EE
6 1 (14.29%) J2ME
6 1 (14.29%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) GlassFish
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) CruiseControl
2 2 (28.57%) Hudson
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) WATIR
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) RSpec
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) PVCS
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Build Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) N-Tier
2 2 (28.57%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) UML
3 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Web Design
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) DSDM
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) JBoss