The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank 96 89 110
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +21
Contract jobs citing JBoss 5 43 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.249% 1.375% 0.595%
As % of the Vendors category 0.591% 3.320% 1.304%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 32 9
Average daily rate £375 £415 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.63% +10.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £38.75 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+29.03% +9.15%
All Vendors
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
846 1295 1380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 42.11% 41.41% 45.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 717 622
Average daily rate £350 £388 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £236 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £469
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 91 127
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.23% +7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £41.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
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JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West JBoss Daily Rate Trend

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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 South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bristol - - - - 5
Gloucestershire - - - -
Somerset - - - -
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 31 (81.58%) Security Cleared
2 28 (73.68%) DV Cleared
2 28 (73.68%) Java
3 27 (71.05%) C
4 20 (52.63%) Maven
5 19 (50.00%) Linux
6 17 (44.74%) EJB
7 16 (42.11%) Agile Software Development
8 15 (39.47%) J2EE
8 15 (39.47%) Oracle
9 14 (36.84%) JPA
10 13 (34.21%) Apache
11 12 (31.58%) UNIX
12 10 (26.32%) UML
12 10 (26.32%) OOA/OOD
12 10 (26.32%) OO
12 10 (26.32%) JMS
12 10 (26.32%) RDBMS
13 8 (21.05%) Internet
13 8 (21.05%) Shell Script
13 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
13 8 (21.05%) JUnit
13 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
13 8 (21.05%) TDD
13 8 (21.05%) Hibernate
13 8 (21.05%) EJB 3.0
13 8 (21.05%) RIA
13 8 (21.05%) GWT
13 8 (21.05%) jQuery
13 8 (21.05%) Git (software)

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 17 (44.74%) EJB
2 15 (39.47%) J2EE
3 14 (36.84%) JPA
4 10 (26.32%) JMS
5 8 (21.05%) Hibernate
5 8 (21.05%) EJB 3.0
5 8 (21.05%) GWT
5 8 (21.05%) jQuery
5 8 (21.05%) HornetQ
6 7 (18.42%) REST
6 7 (18.42%) Web Services
6 7 (18.42%) SOAP
6 7 (18.42%) JavaBeans
7 5 (13.16%) HTML
7 5 (13.16%) RESTful
7 5 (13.16%) RESTEasy
8 3 (7.895%) XML
8 3 (7.895%) Spring
9 2 (5.263%) Ajax
9 2 (5.263%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 13 (34.21%) Apache
2 4 (10.53%) GlassFish
2 4 (10.53%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (5.263%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.632%) LiveCycle
4 1 (2.632%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) Internet
2 3 (7.895%) SAN
2 3 (7.895%) LAN
2 3 (7.895%) WAN
2 3 (7.895%) LDAP
3 2 (5.263%) IPsec
3 2 (5.263%) SSL
3 2 (5.263%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) HTTP
4 1 (2.632%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (2.632%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.632%) MySQL
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 20 (52.63%) Maven
2 8 (21.05%) JUnit
2 8 (21.05%) Git (software)
3 7 (18.42%) Hudson
3 7 (18.42%) Ant
4 1 (2.632%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.632%) ClearQuest
General
1 3 (7.895%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (81.58%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Java Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Architect
5 5 (13.16%) HTML Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Architect
7 3 (7.895%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.263%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (5.263%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.632%) Technical Project Manager
9 1 (2.632%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.632%) Administrator
9 1 (2.632%) UI Developer
9 1 (2.632%) Designer
9 1 (2.632%) UI Programmer
9 1 (2.632%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.632%) Technical Team Leader
9 1 (2.632%) Technical Manager
9 1 (2.632%) Java Team Leader
9 1 (2.632%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) RIA
2 2 (5.263%) Replication
2 2 (5.263%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Linux
2 12 (31.58%) UNIX
3 3 (7.895%) Windows
3 3 (7.895%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.632%) Solaris
4 1 (2.632%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.632%) CentOS
4 1 (2.632%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (26.32%) UML
2 10 (26.32%) OOA/OOD
2 10 (26.32%) OO
3 8 (21.05%) Configuration Management
3 8 (21.05%) TDD
3 8 (21.05%) Customer Engagement
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
5 4 (10.53%) Content Management
6 3 (7.895%) Migration
7 2 (5.263%) PRINCE2
8 1 (2.632%) MVC
8 1 (2.632%) Process Management
8 1 (2.632%) Change Management
8 1 (2.632%) Data Modelling
8 1 (2.632%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.632%) High Availability
8 1 (2.632%) User Stories
8 1 (2.632%) Use Case
8 1 (2.632%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (73.68%) Java
2 27 (71.05%) C
3 8 (21.05%) Shell Script
3 8 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.16%) SQL
5 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.895%) Perl
7 2 (5.263%) PHP
8 1 (2.632%) Python
8 1 (2.632%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.632%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.632%) XPath
8 1 (2.632%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (81.58%) Security Cleared
2 28 (73.68%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.895%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.632%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.632%) vSphere
1 1 (2.632%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) WSUS
1 1 (2.632%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.895%) VMware
4 1 (2.632%) Perforce
4 1 (2.632%) Cisco
4 1 (2.632%) Adobe
4 1 (2.632%) Dell
4 1 (2.632%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.632%) Symantec
4 1 (2.632%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.632%) Northgate
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