The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss 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 Vendors for the Gloucestershire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within JBoss.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank 33 43 40
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -3
Contract jobs citing JBoss 5 24 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.845% 3.727% 1.606%
As % of the Vendors category 4.274% 7.717% 3.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 23 6
Average daily rate £450 £475 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +22.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +15.94%
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
117 311 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 43.17% 48.29% 48.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 204 90
Average daily rate £500 £410 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +22.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £350 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 15
Average hourly rate £11.00 £25.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.00% +19.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £20.00 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
JBoss
South West

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JBoss across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Gloucestershire JBoss Jobs Demand Trend

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (97.56%) DV Cleared
3 38 (92.68%) C
4 34 (82.93%) Java
5 31 (75.61%) Maven
6 25 (60.98%) JPA
7 23 (56.10%) Agile Software Development
7 23 (56.10%) Linux
8 22 (53.66%) EJB
9 17 (41.46%) J2EE
9 17 (41.46%) Oracle
10 16 (39.02%) JavaScript
11 15 (36.59%) UML
11 15 (36.59%) OOA/OOD
11 15 (36.59%) OO
11 15 (36.59%) JMS
11 15 (36.59%) RDBMS
11 15 (36.59%) RIA
11 15 (36.59%) GWT
11 15 (36.59%) jQuery
11 15 (36.59%) Internet
11 15 (36.59%) Configuration Management
11 15 (36.59%) EJB 3.0
11 15 (36.59%) Customer Engagement
12 10 (24.39%) HTML
12 10 (24.39%) Web Services
13 9 (21.95%) Hibernate
13 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
13 9 (21.95%) RESTful
14 8 (19.51%) Git (software)

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 25 (60.98%) JPA
2 22 (53.66%) EJB
3 17 (41.46%) J2EE
4 15 (36.59%) JMS
4 15 (36.59%) GWT
4 15 (36.59%) jQuery
4 15 (36.59%) EJB 3.0
5 10 (24.39%) HTML
5 10 (24.39%) Web Services
6 9 (21.95%) Hibernate
6 9 (21.95%) RESTful
7 8 (19.51%) REST
8 7 (17.07%) SOAP
8 7 (17.07%) JavaBeans
8 7 (17.07%) Swing
9 2 (4.878%) JSF
10 1 (2.439%) CSS
10 1 (2.439%) XML
10 1 (2.439%) XSLT
10 1 (2.439%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) Apache
2 1 (2.439%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (36.59%) Internet
2 1 (2.439%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (2.439%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.439%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (75.61%) Maven
2 8 (19.51%) Git (software)
2 8 (19.51%) JUnit
3 7 (17.07%) Ant
3 7 (17.07%) Hudson
4 1 (2.439%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.439%) ClearQuest
Job Titles
1 36 (87.80%) Developer
2 18 (43.90%) Java Developer
3 9 (21.95%) HTML Developer
4 7 (17.07%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Senior Architect
5 4 (9.756%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Architect
5 4 (9.756%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.878%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.439%) UI Developer
7 1 (2.439%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (2.439%) UI Programmer
7 1 (2.439%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) RIA
2 1 (2.439%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.439%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.439%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (56.10%) Linux
2 7 (17.07%) UNIX
3 1 (2.439%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.439%) CentOS
3 1 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.439%) Windows
3 1 (2.439%) Solaris
3 1 (2.439%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (36.59%) UML
2 15 (36.59%) OOA/OOD
2 15 (36.59%) OO
2 15 (36.59%) Configuration Management
2 15 (36.59%) Customer Engagement
3 9 (21.95%) Software Engineering
4 8 (19.51%) TDD
5 4 (9.756%) Content Management
6 1 (2.439%) Unit Testing
6 1 (2.439%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) C
2 34 (82.93%) Java
3 16 (39.02%) JavaScript
4 7 (17.07%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.878%) SQL
6 1 (2.439%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (97.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.439%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.439%) vSphere
1 1 (2.439%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.439%) WSUS
1 1 (2.439%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Oracle
2 1 (2.439%) SolarWinds
2 1 (2.439%) Cisco
2 1 (2.439%) Dell
2 1 (2.439%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.439%) Symantec
2 1 (2.439%) Perforce
2 1 (2.439%) VMware