The first table below looks at the demand for GemFire 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 GemFire 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 Application Platforms 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
VMware vFabric GemFire
Rank 382 417 404
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -13
Contract jobs citing GemFire 5 1 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.004% 0.095%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.123% 0.023% 0.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 26
Average daily rate £625 £300 £579
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+108.33% -48.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £415
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4079 4427 5082
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.55% 16.19% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2612 2745 3123
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 130 172
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £60.00 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
GemFire
England

GemFire
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London GemFire Jobs Demand Trend

GemFire
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GemFire Daily Rate Trend

GemFire
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (78.95%) Oracle Coherence
2 13 (68.42%) Front Office
3 12 (63.16%) Banking
4 11 (57.89%) Investment Banking
4 11 (57.89%) Derivative
4 11 (57.89%) Java
5 9 (47.37%) Fixed Income
5 9 (47.37%) C#
6 8 (42.11%) C++
6 8 (42.11%) .NET
6 8 (42.11%) Spring
7 7 (36.84%) Finance
7 7 (36.84%) Oracle
7 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
7 7 (36.84%) SQL
7 7 (36.84%) VBA
8 6 (31.58%) DataSynapse
8 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (26.32%) TIBCO
9 5 (26.32%) Rendezvous
10 4 (21.05%) STL
10 4 (21.05%) ATL
10 4 (21.05%) J2SE
10 4 (21.05%) Scrum
11 3 (15.79%) Grid Computing
11 3 (15.79%) TDD
11 3 (15.79%) Retail
11 3 (15.79%) Asset Management
11 3 (15.79%) Maven
11 3 (15.79%) SOAP

GemFire
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (42.11%) .NET
1 8 (42.11%) Spring
2 4 (21.05%) STL
2 4 (21.05%) ATL
2 4 (21.05%) J2SE
3 3 (15.79%) SOAP
3 3 (15.79%) Web Services
3 3 (15.79%) JMS
3 3 (15.79%) JSON
3 3 (15.79%) REST
4 2 (10.53%) XML
4 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 15 (78.95%) Oracle Coherence
2 5 (26.32%) Rendezvous
3 2 (10.53%) MQSeries
4 1 (5.263%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (5.263%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (5.263%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Subversion
3 1 (5.263%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (68.42%) Front Office
2 12 (63.16%) Banking
3 11 (57.89%) Investment Banking
4 7 (36.84%) Finance
5 3 (15.79%) Retail
6 1 (5.263%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (26.32%) C++ Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) C++/C# Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Scala Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.263%) Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Derivative
2 9 (47.37%) Fixed Income
3 3 (15.79%) Grid Computing
4 2 (10.53%) Swaptions
4 2 (10.53%) N-Tier
4 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (10.53%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (5.263%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) UNIX
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (21.05%) Scrum
3 3 (15.79%) TDD
3 3 (15.79%) Asset Management
3 3 (15.79%) Multithreading
4 2 (10.53%) Monte Carlo Method
4 2 (10.53%) System Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) UML
4 2 (10.53%) Workflow
5 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (5.263%) OO
5 1 (5.263%) Project Management
5 1 (5.263%) OOD
5 1 (5.263%) Release Management
5 1 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.263%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) C#
3 8 (42.11%) C++
4 7 (36.84%) SQL
4 7 (36.84%) VBA
5 3 (15.79%) VB
6 2 (10.53%) Clojure
6 2 (10.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) DataSynapse
3 5 (26.32%) TIBCO
4 2 (10.53%) GigaSpaces
4 2 (10.53%) Sybase
5 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.263%) Terracotta