The first table below looks at the demand for JPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JPA over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Application Development category 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.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Persistence API (JPA)
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing JPA 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.300% - -
As % of the Application Development category 1.538% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £440
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -22.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year
+38.46% -
All Application Development
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
65 62 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 19.52% 24.70% 24.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 13
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £263 £257
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 4
Average hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.88% +6.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
JPA
Hampshire

JPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton JPA Jobs Demand Trend

JPA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JPA across the Southampton region.

Southampton JPA Hourly Rate Trend

JPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing JPA 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 JPA.

1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Java EE
2 3 (75.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Log4j
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (75.00%) JSP
2 3 (75.00%) Servlets
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) XPath
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5

JPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing JPA 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 JPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Java EE
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) JSP
2 3 (75.00%) Servlets
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XSL
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) Drools
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (25.00%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) DVB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Log4j
1 3 (75.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) DTV
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) ATDD
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft