The first table below looks at the demand for BusinessWorks skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BusinessWorks over the 3 months to 22 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 Business Applications category 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (TIBCO BW)
Rank 377 390 351
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -39
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 10 28 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.045% 0.102% 0.268%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.565% 1.251% 3.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 30
Average daily rate £475 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £327 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £650 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £350 £498
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -29.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
1770 2239 2633
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 8.048% 8.190% 8.593%
Number of daily rates quoted 1046 1223 1583
Average daily rate £463 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £433 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.73% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 21
Average hourly rate £32.58 £40.50 £29.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.55% +38.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £16.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £87.50 £51.25 £62.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
BusinessWorks
England

BusinessWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London BusinessWorks Jobs Demand Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Trend

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

London BusinessWorks Daily Rate Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessWorks across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London BusinessWorks Daily Rate Histogram

BusinessWorks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing BusinessWorks 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 BusinessWorks.

1 33 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 25 (75.76%) TIBCO EMS
3 13 (39.39%) TIBCO Hawk
4 12 (36.36%) Java
5 10 (30.30%) ITIL
5 10 (30.30%) Service Management
5 10 (30.30%) SCOM
6 9 (27.27%) Release Management
6 9 (27.27%) Remedy
6 9 (27.27%) XML
7 6 (18.18%) XSLT
7 6 (18.18%) Oracle
7 6 (18.18%) Banking
7 6 (18.18%) Subversion
7 6 (18.18%) Spring
8 5 (15.15%) Investment Banking
8 5 (15.15%) Workflow Management
8 5 (15.15%) TIBCO iProcess
8 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
8 5 (15.15%) Ant
8 5 (15.15%) Workflow
9 4 (12.12%) Scrum
9 4 (12.12%) Essbase
9 4 (12.12%) SOA
9 4 (12.12%) JUnit
9 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
9 4 (12.12%) UML
9 4 (12.12%) OO
9 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
9 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence

BusinessWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing BusinessWorks 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 BusinessWorks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (27.27%) XML
2 6 (18.18%) XSLT
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
3 4 (12.12%) Java EE
3 4 (12.12%) JRules
4 2 (6.061%) JMS
4 2 (6.061%) .NET
4 2 (6.061%) XML Schema
5 1 (3.030%) WebSphere
5 1 (3.030%) WSDL
5 1 (3.030%) Middleware
5 1 (3.030%) SOAP
5 1 (3.030%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 25 (75.76%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (12.12%) WebLogic
2 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.061%) Apache
3 2 (6.061%) ESB
4 1 (3.030%) Confluence
4 1 (3.030%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
4 1 (3.030%) IIS
4 1 (3.030%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) TIBCO iProcess
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.030%) Endur
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Essbase
1 4 (12.12%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Subversion
2 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
2 5 (15.15%) Ant
3 4 (12.12%) JUnit
4 1 (3.030%) Maven
4 1 (3.030%) JIRA
4 1 (3.030%) Hudson
4 1 (3.030%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (3.030%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 6 (18.18%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Investment Banking
3 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.061%) Finance
5 1 (3.030%) German Language
5 1 (3.030%) Back Office
5 1 (3.030%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Administrator
2 8 (24.24%) Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Architect
4 5 (15.15%) TIBCO Consultant
4 5 (15.15%) TIBCO Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Consultant
5 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (12.12%) Analyst
6 3 (9.091%) Designer
7 2 (6.061%) Integration Architect
7 2 (6.061%) Java Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.061%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (6.061%) TIBCO Analyst
8 1 (3.030%) Senior TIBCO Analyst
8 1 (3.030%) Senior TIBCO Consultant
8 1 (3.030%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.030%) Java Architect
8 1 (3.030%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.030%) Solutions Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.061%) SaaS
2 2 (6.061%) PaaS
3 1 (3.030%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.091%) UNIX
1 3 (9.091%) Windows
2 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) ITIL
1 10 (30.30%) Service Management
2 9 (27.27%) Release Management
3 5 (15.15%) Workflow Management
3 5 (15.15%) Workflow
4 4 (12.12%) Scrum
4 4 (12.12%) SOA
4 4 (12.12%) UML
4 4 (12.12%) OO
4 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (12.12%) TDD
4 4 (12.12%) Software Architecture
5 3 (9.091%) EAI
6 2 (6.061%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.061%) Multithreading
6 2 (6.061%) TOGAF
7 1 (3.030%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.030%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.030%) Change Control
7 1 (3.030%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (12.12%) XPath
3 2 (6.061%) C#
3 2 (6.061%) PL/SQL
3 2 (6.061%) SQL
3 2 (6.061%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (3.030%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) TIBCO Hawk
2 10 (30.30%) SCOM
3 1 (3.030%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 9 (27.27%) Remedy
3 6 (18.18%) Oracle
4 4 (12.12%) IBM
4 4 (12.12%) ION Trading
5 2 (6.061%) JBoss
6 1 (3.030%) Pega
6 1 (3.030%) webMethods
6 1 (3.030%) Sybase
6 1 (3.030%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.030%) HP
6 1 (3.030%) Cognizant
6 1 (3.030%) Peregrine