The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 107 95 98
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +3
Contract jobs citing JBoss 11 15 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.564% 0.471%
As % of the Vendors category 1.002% 1.437% 1.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
Average daily rate £425 £375 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +15.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £416
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1098 1044 1196
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.02% 39.25% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 469 514
Average daily rate £373 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £214 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 51 56
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £10.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
JBoss
UK

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JBoss across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland JBoss Daily Rate Histogram

JBoss
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JBoss across the Scotland region.

Scotland JBoss Hourly Rate Trend

JBoss
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JBoss within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Edinburgh +1 5 £425 -
Glasgow -14 5 £363 -3.33%
Stirling - 1 £425 -
JBoss
UK

JBoss
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 27 (69.23%) Java
2 20 (51.28%) Oracle
2 20 (51.28%) Linux
3 16 (41.03%) Hibernate
4 14 (35.90%) Finance
4 14 (35.90%) SQL
4 14 (35.90%) Tomcat
5 11 (28.21%) WebSphere
6 10 (25.64%) Middleware
6 10 (25.64%) UNIX
7 9 (23.08%) Spring
8 8 (20.51%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (20.51%) Apache
8 8 (20.51%) J2EE
8 8 (20.51%) XML
8 8 (20.51%) WebLogic
8 8 (20.51%) Selenium
9 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (17.95%) HTML
9 7 (17.95%) JMS
9 7 (17.95%) SOA
9 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
9 7 (17.95%) Subversion
10 6 (15.38%) Scrum
10 6 (15.38%) JSF
10 6 (15.38%) Maven
10 6 (15.38%) Eclipse
10 6 (15.38%) PL/SQL
10 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
10 6 (15.38%) JUnit

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (41.03%) Hibernate
2 11 (28.21%) WebSphere
3 10 (25.64%) Middleware
4 9 (23.08%) Spring
5 8 (20.51%) J2EE
5 8 (20.51%) XML
6 7 (17.95%) HTML
6 7 (17.95%) JMS
7 6 (15.38%) JSF
7 6 (15.38%) CSS
7 6 (15.38%) RESTful
8 5 (12.82%) JPA
8 5 (12.82%) EJB
9 4 (10.26%) Java EE
9 4 (10.26%) Web Services
9 4 (10.26%) JavaBeans
9 4 (10.26%) JSP
9 4 (10.26%) RichFaces
10 3 (7.692%) Facelets
10 3 (7.692%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 14 (35.90%) Tomcat
2 8 (20.51%) Apache
2 8 (20.51%) WebLogic
3 5 (12.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (10.26%) MQSeries
4 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
5 3 (7.692%) GlassFish
6 1 (2.564%) GemFire
6 1 (2.564%) Mule
6 1 (2.564%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.564%) IIS
6 1 (2.564%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.564%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (2.564%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.564%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Unified Communications
2 2 (5.128%) MPLS
2 2 (5.128%) SAN
2 2 (5.128%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.564%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) MySQL
2 3 (7.692%) RDBMS
2 3 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.128%) GIS
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Selenium
2 7 (17.95%) Subversion
3 6 (15.38%) Maven
3 6 (15.38%) Eclipse
3 6 (15.38%) JUnit
3 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (12.82%) CruiseControl
5 3 (7.692%) Eclipse RCP
5 3 (7.692%) Hudson
5 3 (7.692%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.692%) RSpec
5 3 (7.692%) WATIR
5 3 (7.692%) JIRA
6 2 (5.128%) Ant
7 1 (2.564%) Git (software)
7 1 (2.564%) NetBeans
7 1 (2.564%) JMeter
General
1 14 (35.90%) Finance
2 3 (7.692%) Banking
3 1 (2.564%) Retail Banking
3 1 (2.564%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Designer
6 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Developer
7 3 (7.692%) Build Engineer
7 3 (7.692%) Consultant
8 2 (5.128%) Administrator
8 2 (5.128%) WebSphere Consultant
8 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Designer
8 2 (5.128%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.564%) WebLogic Developer
9 1 (2.564%) Server Administrator
9 1 (2.564%) Data Warehouse Consultant
9 1 (2.564%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.564%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.564%) Analyst Programmer
9 1 (2.564%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.128%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.128%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.564%) Open Source
3 1 (2.564%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.564%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.564%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (51.28%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) UNIX
3 7 (17.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Windows
5 3 (7.692%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (5.128%) Solaris
6 2 (5.128%) Android
7 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (17.95%) SOA
3 6 (15.38%) Scrum
3 6 (15.38%) UML
4 5 (12.82%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
4 5 (12.82%) Extreme Programming
4 5 (12.82%) TDD
5 4 (10.26%) Zachman Framework
5 4 (10.26%) TOGAF
5 4 (10.26%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (7.692%) DSDM
6 3 (7.692%) Workflow
7 2 (5.128%) MVC
7 2 (5.128%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (5.128%) ITIL
7 2 (5.128%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.564%) Build Automation
8 1 (2.564%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Java
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 6 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.26%) Ruby
5 3 (7.692%) C#
6 2 (5.128%) C++
7 1 (2.564%) Perl
7 1 (2.564%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.564%) Smalltalk
7 1 (2.564%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (5.128%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.564%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.564%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.692%) Puppet
2 1 (2.564%) MOM
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Oracle
2 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.82%) TIBCO
4 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.128%) IBM
5 2 (5.128%) Sybase
6 1 (2.564%) CommVault
6 1 (2.564%) Informatica
6 1 (2.564%) Veritas
6 1 (2.564%) BEA
6 1 (2.564%) Cognos
6 1 (2.564%) VMware