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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BEA
Rank 381 381 377
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs citing BEA 4 25 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.019% 0.093% 0.192%
As % of the Vendors category 0.041% 0.210% 0.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 23 34
Average daily rate - £543 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +17.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £418 £400
% change year-on-year
-23.44% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9746 11913 14109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.14% 44.48% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6153 7231 8518
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £268 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 288 409
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.25 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
BEA
England

BEA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London BEA Jobs Demand Trend

BEA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London BEA Daily Rate Trend

BEA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BEA across the London region.

London BEA Hourly Rate Trend

BEA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing BEA 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 BEA.

1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) WebLogic
3 5 (71.43%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) XML
4 4 (57.14%) J2EE
5 3 (42.86%) IBM
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
5 3 (42.86%) JMS
5 3 (42.86%) UNIX
5 3 (42.86%) OO
5 3 (42.86%) Lombardi
6 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
6 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (28.57%) Spring
6 2 (28.57%) AquaLogic
6 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Pega
6 2 (28.57%) soapUI
6 2 (28.57%) JBoss
6 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
6 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (28.57%) UML
6 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (28.57%) DB2
6 2 (28.57%) HTML
6 2 (28.57%) JUnit
6 2 (28.57%) JDBC
6 2 (28.57%) JSP

BEA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing BEA 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 BEA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) J2EE
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) JMS
4 2 (28.57%) Spring
4 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
4 2 (28.57%) soapUI
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) JDBC
4 2 (28.57%) JSP
4 2 (28.57%) Servlets
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) Struts
5 1 (14.29%) EJB
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) JAXB
5 1 (14.29%) Middleware
5 1 (14.29%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) WebLogic
2 2 (28.57%) AquaLogic
2 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
3 1 (14.29%) MQSeries
3 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (14.29%) iPlanet
3 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Integration
3 1 (14.29%) ATG Dynamo
3 1 (14.29%) ESB
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (28.57%) TOAD
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic Workshop
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Ant
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) EAI
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Process
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) Lombardi
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Pega
3 2 (28.57%) JBoss
4 1 (14.29%) hybris
4 1 (14.29%) Sybase
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Vitria
4 1 (14.29%) TIBCO
4 1 (14.29%) SeeBeyond
4 1 (14.29%) webMethods
4 1 (14.29%) ATG