The first table below looks at the demand for Log4j 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 Log4j over the 3 months to 20 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 Development Applications 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Log4j
Rank - 67 63
Contract jobs citing Log4j 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.313% 0.234%
As % of the Development Applications category - 3.191% 1.575%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.19% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
107 94 127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 16.51% 9.792% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 41 29
Average daily rate £370 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 40
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £34.25 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £38.85 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Log4j
East of England

Log4j
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Log4j across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Hertfordshire Log4j Jobs Demand Trend

Log4j
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Log4j across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Log4j Daily Rate Trend

Log4j
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Log4j 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 Log4j.

1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse

Log4j
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Log4j 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 Log4j. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (100.00%) ATG
1 6 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Path