The first table below looks at the demand for OSGi skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSGi 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 of the Application Development category for the South East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OSGi
Rank - 237 -
Contract jobs citing OSGi 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.020% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.088% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £340
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1895 2272 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.31% 22.39% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1005 1122 1263
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 103 197
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
OSGi
England

OSGi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East OSGi Jobs Demand Trend

OSGi
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East OSGi Daily Rate Trend

OSGi
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing OSGi 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 OSGi.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
1 7 (100.00%) Servlets
1 7 (100.00%) SOAP
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 7 (100.00%) Adobe
1 7 (100.00%) Content Management
1 7 (100.00%) Maven
1 7 (100.00%) Ajax
1 7 (100.00%) Omniture
1 7 (100.00%) JSON
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
1 7 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Sling
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Felix
2 6 (85.71%) Jenkins

OSGi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
1 7 (100.00%) Servlets
1 7 (100.00%) SOAP
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) XML
1 7 (100.00%) Ajax
1 7 (100.00%) JSON
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) RESTful
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Sling
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Felix
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 7 (100.00%) Maven
2 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Adobe
1 7 (100.00%) Omniture
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