The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of WSO2 products and/or services 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 WSO2 over the 3 months to 23 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 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within WSO2.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WSO2
Rank - 239 -
Contract jobs citing WSO2 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.030% -
As % of the Vendors category - 0.060% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3939 5017 5160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.61% 49.34% 48.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1935 2193 2036
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 383 429
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.35 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
WSO2
England

WSO2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WSO2 across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South East WSO2 Jobs Demand Trend

WSO2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WSO2 across the South East region.

South East WSO2 Daily Rate Trend

WSO2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing WSO2 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 WSO2.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Telelogic
2 1 (50.00%) Telelogic TAU
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Moq

WSO2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing WSO2 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 WSO2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) WSDL
1 2 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) CORBA
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BSS
1 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Telelogic TAU
1 1 (50.00%) Moq
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Rational Rose
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) sed
2 1 (50.00%) AWK
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Telelogic
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Teradata