The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss 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 Vendors for the Lancashire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank - 37 -
Contract jobs citing JBoss 0 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - 1.620% -
As % of the Vendors category - 3.535% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £378 -
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 £33.13 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
-17.18% +15.94%
All Vendors
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
100 198 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 51.02% 45.83% 48.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 94 61
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £155 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £490 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 5 19
Average hourly rate £20.00 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.56% -27.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £20.00 £26.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.80 £30.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
JBoss
North West

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Stripes Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Stripes Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase