JPA Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JPA 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 Development category 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.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 115 99 114
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +15
Contract jobs citing JPA 7 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.283% 0.378% 0.073%
As % of the Application Development category 0.854% 2.392% 0.364%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £363 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £328 £385
% change year-on-year
+6.87% -14.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -22.61%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 820 418 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.17% 15.82% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 184 289
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.95 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.70 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JPA
UK

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland JPA Daily Rate Trend

JPA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JPA across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland JPA Daily Rate Histogram

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland JPA Hourly Rate Trend

JPA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JPA within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh - 3 £275 -
Glasgow - 3 £450 -
Fife - 1 - -
JPA
UK

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 18 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (83.33%) Hibernate
3 14 (77.78%) Scrum
4 12 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (55.56%) Maven
5 10 (55.56%) Spring
5 10 (55.56%) Oracle
6 9 (50.00%) HTML
6 9 (50.00%) CSS
6 9 (50.00%) JSF
7 8 (44.44%) Extreme Programming
8 7 (38.89%) TopLink
8 7 (38.89%) TDD
8 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
8 7 (38.89%) PL/SQL
8 7 (38.89%) SQL
8 7 (38.89%) UML
8 7 (38.89%) JMS
8 7 (38.89%) MySQL
8 7 (38.89%) JavaBeans
8 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (33.33%) GlassFish
9 6 (33.33%) RESTful
9 6 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
9 6 (33.33%) EJB
9 6 (33.33%) JDBC
9 6 (33.33%) JSP
9 6 (33.33%) Servlets
9 6 (33.33%) Web Services
10 5 (27.78%) JavaScript

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 15 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 10 (55.56%) Spring
3 9 (50.00%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 9 (50.00%) JSF
4 7 (38.89%) TopLink
4 7 (38.89%) JMS
4 7 (38.89%) JavaBeans
5 6 (33.33%) RESTful
5 6 (33.33%) EJB
5 6 (33.33%) JDBC
5 6 (33.33%) JSP
5 6 (33.33%) Servlets
5 6 (33.33%) Web Services
6 5 (27.78%) J2EE
6 5 (27.78%) Facelets
7 4 (22.22%) XMLBeans
7 4 (22.22%) .NET
7 4 (22.22%) XML
7 4 (22.22%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) GlassFish
2 2 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (5.556%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Maven
2 5 (27.78%) Selenium
2 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) Hudson
3 4 (22.22%) CruiseControl
4 3 (16.67%) Subversion
4 3 (16.67%) JIRA
4 3 (16.67%) WATIR
4 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (16.67%) RSpec
5 2 (11.11%) Eclipse RCP
5 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
5 2 (11.11%) JUnit
6 1 (5.556%) PVCS
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Java Developer
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Build Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.11%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Android
1 4 (22.22%) UNIX
2 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Scrum
2 12 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (44.44%) Extreme Programming
4 7 (38.89%) TDD
4 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) UML
4 7 (38.89%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (27.78%) OO
7 4 (22.22%) BDD
7 4 (22.22%) MVC
8 3 (16.67%) SOA
8 3 (16.67%) DSDM
8 3 (16.67%) Workflow
9 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Web Design
9 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (5.556%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) PL/SQL
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) Ruby
4 3 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (5.556%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) JBoss
3 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.556%) HP
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