The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Oxfordshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within JBoss.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank 49 52 42
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Contract jobs citing JBoss 2 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.439% 0.808% 1.296%
As % of the Vendors category 0.851% 1.393% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
Average daily rate - £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +15.94%
All Vendors
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
235 359 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 51.54% 58.00% 51.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 172 105
Average daily rate £325 £423 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +35.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £253 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 53 35
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.50 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +1.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £25.25 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
JBoss
South East

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JBoss across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Oxfordshire JBoss Jobs Demand Trend

JBoss
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing JBoss 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 JBoss.

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) Struts
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing JBoss 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 JBoss. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) Servlets
1 3 (100.00%) Struts
1 3 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Jaspersoft