The first table below looks at the demand for AquaLogic skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited AquaLogic 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 of the Application Platforms category.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BEA AquaLogic
Rank 528 549 571
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +22
Contract jobs citing AquaLogic 13 21 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.027% 0.036% 0.048%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.154% 0.222% 0.300%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 18
Average daily rate £400 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £543 £479
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £450
% change year-on-year
- -27.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £47.50
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8463 9460 9995
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.30% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4776 5322 5437
Average daily rate £358 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 441 559
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%

AquaLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing AquaLogic within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

AquaLogic Jobs Demand Trend

AquaLogic
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing AquaLogic within the UK.

AquaLogic Daily Rate Trend

AquaLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing AquaLogic within the UK.

AquaLogic Hourly Rate Trend

AquaLogic
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AquaLogic within the UK 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
England +5 13 £400 +14.28%
London +32 11 £405 -22.85%
Manchester - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
North West - - - -
South East - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Birmingham - - - -

AquaLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AquaLogic 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 AquaLogic.

1 25 (100.00%) Oracle
2 16 (64.00%) Oracle BPM
3 14 (56.00%) SOA
4 10 (40.00%) Process Management
4 10 (40.00%) Lombardi
5 9 (36.00%) Java
5 9 (36.00%) Pega
5 9 (36.00%) Cordys
6 8 (32.00%) JBoss
6 8 (32.00%) IBM
6 8 (32.00%) Metastorm
7 7 (28.00%) Java EE
7 7 (28.00%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (28.00%) Linux
7 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (28.00%) Web Services
7 7 (28.00%) XML
7 7 (28.00%) BPMN
8 6 (24.00%) AquaLogic Service Bus
8 6 (24.00%) Oracle Service Bus
8 6 (24.00%) MySQL
8 6 (24.00%) Apache
8 6 (24.00%) Middleware
8 6 (24.00%) Oracle 11g
8 6 (24.00%) Workflow
8 6 (24.00%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (20.00%) Open Text
9 5 (20.00%) GWT
9 5 (20.00%) jQuery
9 5 (20.00%) Load Testing

AquaLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing AquaLogic 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 AquaLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (28.00%) Java EE
1 7 (28.00%) Web Services
1 7 (28.00%) XML
2 6 (24.00%) Middleware
3 5 (20.00%) GWT
3 5 (20.00%) jQuery
3 5 (20.00%) Struts
3 5 (20.00%) JMS
3 5 (20.00%) HTML
3 5 (20.00%) CSS
3 5 (20.00%) JSP
3 5 (20.00%) OSGi
4 4 (16.00%) SOAP
5 3 (12.00%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (8.000%) soapUI
7 1 (4.000%) WSDL
7 1 (4.000%) J2EE
7 1 (4.000%) EJB
7 1 (4.000%) Hibernate
7 1 (4.000%) jBPM
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) AquaLogic Service Bus
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 6 (24.00%) Apache
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (20.00%) ESB
2 5 (20.00%) WebLogic
3 4 (16.00%) IIS
4 1 (4.000%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 16 (64.00%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (20.00%) AquaLogic BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (24.00%) MySQL
2 6 (24.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (8.000%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Git (software)
2 1 (4.000%) JUnit
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
1 3 (12.00%) Retail
2 2 (8.000%) Banking
2 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Administrator
2 4 (16.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (12.00%) WebLogic Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Support Specialist
5 1 (4.000%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Systems Support
5 1 (4.000%) Process Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Business Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Business Process Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Business Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) UNIX
2 4 (16.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) SOA
2 10 (40.00%) Process Management
3 7 (28.00%) BPMN
4 6 (24.00%) Workflow
5 5 (20.00%) Load Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.000%) Incident Management
7 2 (8.000%) Problem Management
7 2 (8.000%) CRM
8 1 (4.000%) UML
8 1 (4.000%) ITIL
8 1 (4.000%) Unit Testing
8 1 (4.000%) BPEL
8 1 (4.000%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
2 7 (28.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) SLA
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (40.00%) Lombardi
3 9 (36.00%) Pega
3 9 (36.00%) Cordys
4 8 (32.00%) JBoss
4 8 (32.00%) IBM
4 8 (32.00%) Metastorm
5 5 (20.00%) Open Text
5 5 (20.00%) Google
6 2 (8.000%) BEA
7 1 (4.000%) TIBCO