The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 57 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing JPA 6 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.933% 0.723% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.817% 2.536% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
Average daily rate £228 £458 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.27% -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
213 276 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.13% 28.51% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 120 94
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 25
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JPA
East of England

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire JPA Daily Rate Trend

JPA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Rickmansworth - 4 £228 -
JPA
East of England

JPA
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) JSF
2 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
2 4 (66.67%) WSRP
2 4 (66.67%) JSR 286
2 4 (66.67%) Liferay
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) CMS
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) BPEL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) JSF
2 4 (66.67%) WSRP
2 4 (66.67%) JSR 286
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
1 4 (66.67%) Liferay
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Portal Developer
2 3 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 4 (66.67%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
Rickmansworth, South East
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Rate: £220 - £245 per hour
Posted: 23 April 2013