The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 58 63 55
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing JBoss 18 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.416% 0.562% 0.319%
As % of the Vendors category 5.607% 1.144% 0.913%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
Average daily rate £320 £360 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +30.90%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
321 437 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.09% 49.10% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 247 108
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £191 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £448 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 25
Average hourly rate £26.00 £15.00 £17.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -12.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £11.40 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
JBoss
West Yorkshire

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 19 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (63.16%) UNIX
2 12 (63.16%) Apache
3 9 (47.37%) J2EE
4 8 (42.11%) Tomcat
5 7 (36.84%) Perl
5 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
6 6 (31.58%) Linux
6 6 (31.58%) Introscope
6 6 (31.58%) CA Wily
6 6 (31.58%) Splunk
7 5 (26.32%) Solaris
8 4 (21.05%) Windows
8 4 (21.05%) ITIL
8 4 (21.05%) Python
8 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
8 4 (21.05%) WebLogic
8 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
8 4 (21.05%) WebSphere
8 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
8 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (21.05%) Terracotta
8 4 (21.05%) Open Source
9 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (15.79%) Maven
9 3 (15.79%) CruiseControl
9 3 (15.79%) Subversion
9 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
9 3 (15.79%) ATG
9 3 (15.79%) ATG Dynamo

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (47.37%) J2EE
2 4 (21.05%) WebSphere
3 3 (15.79%) JSP
3 3 (15.79%) Struts
4 2 (10.53%) Web Services
4 2 (10.53%) Java EE
4 2 (10.53%) LAMP
4 2 (10.53%) Struts2
5 1 (5.263%) HTML
5 1 (5.263%) Hibernate
5 1 (5.263%) Spring
5 1 (5.263%) Apache FOP
5 1 (5.263%) XML
5 1 (5.263%) XSLT
5 1 (5.263%) JavaBeans
5 1 (5.263%) Middleware
5 1 (5.263%) Servlets
5 1 (5.263%) SOAP
5 1 (5.263%) EJB
5 1 (5.263%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 12 (63.16%) Apache
2 8 (42.11%) Tomcat
3 4 (21.05%) WebLogic
4 3 (15.79%) ATG Dynamo
5 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.263%) DNS
1 1 (5.263%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) MySQL
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Introscope
2 3 (15.79%) CruiseControl
2 3 (15.79%) Subversion
2 3 (15.79%) Maven
2 3 (15.79%) Ant
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) Java Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Release Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 3 (15.79%) Configuration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (10.53%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Designer
3 2 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Server Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Open Source
1 4 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.263%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) UNIX
2 6 (31.58%) Linux
3 5 (26.32%) Solaris
4 4 (21.05%) Windows
5 3 (15.79%) HPUX
6 2 (10.53%) AIX
6 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) ITIL
1 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
1 4 (21.05%) Multithreading
2 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (15.79%) Configuration Management
3 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.263%) Web Design
4 1 (5.263%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (36.84%) Perl
3 4 (21.05%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Shell Script
4 3 (15.79%) AWK
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) CA Wily
1 6 (31.58%) Splunk
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
2 4 (21.05%) Terracotta
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 3 (15.79%) ATG