The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Development category for the Manchester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 67 79 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing JPA 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.205% 0.324% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.678% 1.081% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £295 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.59% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £440
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -22.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
295 370 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.26% 30.01% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 202 163
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 17
Average hourly rate £29.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.71% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £16.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
JPA
North West

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester JPA Daily Rate Trend

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
2 7 (87.50%) MVC
3 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) CSS
3 6 (75.00%) Eclipse
3 6 (75.00%) Ajax
4 5 (62.50%) JSON
4 5 (62.50%) JSTL
4 5 (62.50%) Spring Web Flow
4 5 (62.50%) jQuery
4 5 (62.50%) HTML5
4 5 (62.50%) CSS3
4 5 (62.50%) Web Services
4 5 (62.50%) JSP
4 5 (62.50%) Servlets
4 5 (62.50%) NetBeans
4 5 (62.50%) Web Design
5 4 (50.00%) Subversion
5 4 (50.00%) SOAP
5 4 (50.00%) ITIL
5 4 (50.00%) REST
5 4 (50.00%) JSR 286
5 4 (50.00%) JSR 168
5 4 (50.00%) JIRA
6 3 (37.50%) Release Management
6 3 (37.50%) Java EE
6 3 (37.50%) RDBMS

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
2 6 (75.00%) Ajax
2 6 (75.00%) CSS
2 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (62.50%) HTML5
3 5 (62.50%) Spring Web Flow
3 5 (62.50%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) CSS3
3 5 (62.50%) JSP
3 5 (62.50%) Servlets
3 5 (62.50%) Web Services
3 5 (62.50%) JSON
3 5 (62.50%) JSTL
4 4 (50.00%) JSR 168
4 4 (50.00%) SOAP
4 4 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (50.00%) JSR 286
5 3 (37.50%) Java EE
6 2 (25.00%) XML
7 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Eclipse
2 5 (62.50%) NetBeans
3 4 (50.00%) Subversion
3 4 (50.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) TestNG
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
1 8 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Web Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 5 (62.50%) Web Design
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) OO
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development
6 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Facebook
1 2 (25.00%) Twitter
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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