The first table below looks at the demand for Middleware skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Middleware 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 Application Development category for the Gloucester 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
Middleware
Rank - - 18
Contract jobs citing Middleware 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester - - 1.099%
As % of the Application Development category - - 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £406 £410 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.91% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -8.64%
All Application Development
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 57 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 22.54% 22.62% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 6
Average daily rate £440 £415 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.02% +84.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £54.50 £21.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+159.52% +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Middleware
Gloucestershire

Middleware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester Middleware Jobs Demand Trend

Middleware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucester Middleware Daily Rate Trend

Middleware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS

Middleware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) VMware