The first table below looks at the demand for GlassFish 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 GlassFish over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle GlassFish
Rank 370 395 394
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -1
Contract jobs citing GlassFish 19 10 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.086% 0.037% 0.117%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.464% 0.228% 0.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 24
Average daily rate £450 £375 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £275 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £445 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Platforms
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
4094 4377 5113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 18.58% 16.22% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2626 2718 3140
Average daily rate £400 £385 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -9.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 165 128 173
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +5.26%
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 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
GlassFish
England

GlassFish
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London GlassFish Jobs Demand Trend

GlassFish
Daily Rate Trend

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

London GlassFish Daily Rate Trend

GlassFish
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GlassFish within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +13 1 £375 -
GlassFish
England

GlassFish
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GlassFish 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 GlassFish.

1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (62.96%) Spring
3 16 (59.26%) Hibernate
4 15 (55.56%) JMS
5 14 (51.85%) J2EE
5 14 (51.85%) Oracle
5 14 (51.85%) JUnit
6 13 (48.15%) EJB
6 13 (48.15%) Web Development
6 13 (48.15%) BDD
7 12 (44.44%) Mockito
7 12 (44.44%) Spring MVC
7 12 (44.44%) JSP
7 12 (44.44%) MVC
8 11 (40.74%) CSS
8 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
8 11 (40.74%) MySQL
8 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
8 11 (40.74%) HTML
9 10 (37.04%) UNIX
9 10 (37.04%) jQuery
9 10 (37.04%) JPA
10 9 (33.33%) Web Services
10 9 (33.33%) SQL
10 9 (33.33%) TDD
11 8 (29.63%) JBoss
11 8 (29.63%) Java EE
11 8 (29.63%) Maven
11 8 (29.63%) REST
12 7 (25.93%) Apache CXF

GlassFish
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing GlassFish 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 GlassFish. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (62.96%) Spring
2 16 (59.26%) Hibernate
3 15 (55.56%) JMS
4 14 (51.85%) J2EE
5 13 (48.15%) EJB
6 12 (44.44%) Spring MVC
6 12 (44.44%) JSP
7 11 (40.74%) CSS
7 11 (40.74%) HTML
8 10 (37.04%) jQuery
8 10 (37.04%) JPA
9 9 (33.33%) Web Services
10 8 (29.63%) Java EE
10 8 (29.63%) REST
11 7 (25.93%) Apache CXF
11 7 (25.93%) JTA
11 7 (25.93%) JSON
11 7 (25.93%) Spring Security
11 7 (25.93%) Spring Web Flow
11 7 (25.93%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) WebLogic
2 4 (14.81%) Tomcat
3 3 (11.11%) CMS
4 1 (3.704%) Liferay
4 1 (3.704%) Mule
4 1 (3.704%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) Internet
1 2 (7.407%) HTTP
2 1 (3.704%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (40.74%) SQL Server
1 11 (40.74%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (7.407%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.407%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (3.704%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.704%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.704%) Big Data
4 1 (3.704%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.704%) CouchDB
4 1 (3.704%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) JUnit
2 12 (44.44%) Mockito
3 8 (29.63%) Maven
4 7 (25.93%) JIRA
5 5 (18.52%) EasyMock
5 5 (18.52%) Hudson
5 5 (18.52%) IntelliJ
6 4 (14.81%) Eclipse
7 3 (11.11%) Eclipse RCP
7 3 (11.11%) Selenium
8 2 (7.407%) Ant
8 2 (7.407%) CruiseControl
8 2 (7.407%) WATIR
8 2 (7.407%) Cucumber
8 2 (7.407%) RSpec
8 2 (7.407%) Jenkins
9 1 (3.704%) Jasmine
9 1 (3.704%) Subversion
General
1 5 (18.52%) Games
2 2 (7.407%) Finance
2 2 (7.407%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Banking
3 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Developer
2 19 (70.37%) Java Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Programmer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Programmer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Swing Developer
6 2 (7.407%) CMS Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Build Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Java Mobile Developer
7 1 (3.704%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Designer
7 1 (3.704%) IT Graduate
7 1 (3.704%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Online Games
2 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.407%) Open Source
4 1 (3.704%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) UNIX
2 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
3 3 (11.11%) Solaris
4 2 (7.407%) Mac OS X
5 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.704%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Web Development
1 13 (48.15%) BDD
2 12 (44.44%) MVC
3 9 (33.33%) TDD
4 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (25.93%) Pair Programming
5 6 (22.22%) Kanban
6 5 (18.52%) SOA
7 4 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (14.81%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (11.11%) Scrum
8 3 (11.11%) OO
9 2 (7.407%) Workflow
9 2 (7.407%) Extreme Programming
9 2 (7.407%) DSDM
9 2 (7.407%) Load Balancing
9 2 (7.407%) Software Engineering
9 2 (7.407%) Unit Testing
9 2 (7.407%) Dependency Injection
10 1 (3.704%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
3 9 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (18.52%) ActionScript
5 2 (7.407%) Ruby
6 1 (3.704%) C++
6 1 (3.704%) Perl
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Oracle
2 8 (29.63%) JBoss
3 3 (11.11%) Sybase
4 2 (7.407%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.704%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.704%) Perforce