The first table below looks at the demand for Shibboleth 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 Shibboleth 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 of the System Software 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet2 Shibboleth
Rank 384 394 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing Shibboleth 1 12 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.045% -
As % of the System Software category 0.060% 0.579% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1654 2071 1882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.660% 7.733% 6.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1193 992
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 178 199
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Shibboleth
England

Shibboleth
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Shibboleth Jobs Demand Trend

Shibboleth
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Shibboleth Daily Rate Trend

Shibboleth
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Moodle
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) Servlets
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS

Shibboleth
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) Mule
2 1 (50.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) nginx
2 1 (50.00%) Moodle
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
West London
Computer Futures are seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for a client based in West London. This is a 6 month contract with a view to go permanent thereafter.
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Posted: 15 May 2013