The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of JBoss products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss 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 Southampton 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JBoss
Rank 34 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing JBoss 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.010% 0.427% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.744% 1.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £34.50
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +15.94%
All Vendors
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
172 100 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 57.91% 42.74% 51.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 44 31
Average daily rate £325 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £299
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £480 £551
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 22
Average hourly rate £19.63 £25.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.50% +7.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.18 £11.15 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
JBoss
Hampshire

JBoss
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton JBoss Daily Rate Trend

JBoss
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) AIX
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Commerce Server

JBoss
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Commerce Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Administrator
2 2 (66.67%) DBA
3 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat