The first table below looks at the demand for LiveCycle skills 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 LiveCycle over the 3 months to 17 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 Platforms category 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Adobe LiveCycle
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LiveCycle 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.098% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.538% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £425 £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
372 574 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 18.16% 17.32% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 342 219
Average daily rate £350 £358 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.09% +15.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £441 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 34 25
Average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £20.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.00% +24.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £16.45 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £41.50 £40.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
LiveCycle
England

LiveCycle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West LiveCycle Jobs Demand Trend

LiveCycle
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle.

1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Flex
2 2 (66.67%) Cairngorm
2 2 (66.67%) PureMVC
2 2 (66.67%) BlazeDS
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Parsley
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) JBoss
3 1 (33.33%) Process Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management

LiveCycle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing LiveCycle 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 LiveCycle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Flex
1 2 (66.67%) Cairngorm
1 2 (66.67%) PureMVC
1 2 (66.67%) BlazeDS
1 2 (66.67%) Parsley
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Flex Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Process Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss