The first table below looks at the demand for BusinessWorks skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BusinessWorks 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 Business Applications 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
TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks (TIBCO BW)
Rank 502 521 473
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -48
Contract jobs citing BusinessWorks 39 49 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.081% 0.084% 0.207%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.954% 0.960% 2.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 59
Average daily rate £475 £363 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.03% -27.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £318 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £650 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £469 £350 £498
% change year-on-year
+33.92% -29.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Business Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
4087 5106 5825
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 8.494% 8.798% 9.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 2036 2417 2878
Average daily rate £448 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.55% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £290 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £408
% change year-on-year
- +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 106
Average hourly rate £33.00 £32.25 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.32% +7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £63.00 £56.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+44.00% -13.79%

BusinessWorks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BusinessWorks within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

BusinessWorks Jobs Demand Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Trend

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

BusinessWorks Daily Rate Trend

BusinessWorks
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BusinessWorks within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

BusinessWorks Daily Rate Histogram

BusinessWorks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

BusinessWorks Hourly Rate Trend

BusinessWorks
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BusinessWorks 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 +10 34 £550 +37.50% 4
London +22 17 £475 -5.00% 3
South East +30 8 - - 1
City of London 0 2 £588 +56.66% 1
East Midlands - 2 £600 -
Scotland -18 1 £350 -
Edinburgh - 1 £350 -
Erskine - - - -
Glasgow - - - -
Midlands - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Oxford - - - - 1
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - - 1
Renfrewshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Birmingham - - - -

BusinessWorks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 69 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 40 (57.97%) TIBCO EMS
3 34 (49.28%) Java
4 28 (40.58%) XML
5 22 (31.88%) SOA
6 20 (28.99%) Oracle
7 18 (26.09%) TIBCO Hawk
8 14 (20.29%) TIBCO iProcess
9 13 (18.84%) Finance
9 13 (18.84%) WebLogic
10 12 (17.39%) SQL
10 12 (17.39%) JRules
11 11 (15.94%) WebSphere
12 10 (14.49%) SCOM
12 10 (14.49%) Banking
12 10 (14.49%) Service Management
12 10 (14.49%) ITIL
12 10 (14.49%) Web Services
12 10 (14.49%) UML
12 10 (14.49%) Middleware
12 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
13 9 (13.04%) Remedy
13 9 (13.04%) EAI
13 9 (13.04%) OO
13 9 (13.04%) J2EE
13 9 (13.04%) XPath
14 8 (11.59%) Release Management
14 8 (11.59%) Staffware
14 8 (11.59%) JSP
14 8 (11.59%) UNIX

BusinessWorks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 28 (40.58%) XML
2 12 (17.39%) JRules
3 11 (15.94%) WebSphere
4 10 (14.49%) Web Services
4 10 (14.49%) Middleware
5 9 (13.04%) J2EE
6 8 (11.59%) JSP
7 6 (8.696%) Spring
8 5 (7.246%) XSLT
8 5 (7.246%) JDBC
9 4 (5.797%) XML Schema
9 4 (5.797%) Java EE
10 2 (2.899%) .NET
10 2 (2.899%) JMS
11 1 (1.449%) ebXML
11 1 (1.449%) EDI
11 1 (1.449%) WSDL
11 1 (1.449%) ASP
11 1 (1.449%) ASP.NET
11 1 (1.449%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 40 (57.97%) TIBCO EMS
2 13 (18.84%) WebLogic
3 4 (5.797%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.348%) Apache
4 3 (4.348%) ESB
5 2 (2.899%) IIS
6 1 (1.449%) MQSeries
6 1 (1.449%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
6 1 (1.449%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.899%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (20.29%) TIBCO iProcess
2 8 (11.59%) Staffware
3 3 (4.348%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
4 1 (1.449%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.449%) HTTP
1 1 (1.449%) DNS
1 1 (1.449%) Intranet
1 1 (1.449%) Internet
1 1 (1.449%) Extranet
1 1 (1.449%) LDAP
1 1 (1.449%) Firewall
1 1 (1.449%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.246%) SQL Server
1 5 (7.246%) DB2
2 4 (5.797%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (5.797%) Essbase
3 2 (2.899%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.449%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (7.246%) Subversion
2 4 (5.797%) Ant
2 4 (5.797%) JUnit
2 4 (5.797%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.449%) MSI
3 1 (1.449%) InstallShield
3 1 (1.449%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (1.449%) StarTeam
3 1 (1.449%) JIRA
3 1 (1.449%) Hudson
General
1 13 (18.84%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Banking
3 5 (7.246%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.797%) Front Office
5 2 (2.899%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.449%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.449%) Publishing
6 1 (1.449%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Developer
2 14 (20.29%) TIBCO Developer
3 13 (18.84%) Architect
3 13 (18.84%) Consultant
4 12 (17.39%) TIBCO Consultant
5 10 (14.49%) Administrator
5 10 (14.49%) Designer
6 6 (8.696%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.696%) Integration Architect
7 5 (7.246%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (5.797%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.348%) Analyst
9 3 (4.348%) Business Developer
10 2 (2.899%) TIBCO Analyst
10 2 (2.899%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (2.899%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (2.899%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (2.899%) Senior Developer
11 1 (1.449%) Solutions Designer
11 1 (1.449%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (5.797%) Credit Risk
2 4 (5.797%) Market Risk
2 4 (5.797%) SaaS
2 4 (5.797%) PaaS
3 1 (1.449%) PKI
3 1 (1.449%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) UNIX
2 5 (7.246%) Linux
3 2 (2.899%) Windows
3 2 (2.899%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.449%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) SOA
2 10 (14.49%) Service Management
2 10 (14.49%) ITIL
2 10 (14.49%) UML
3 9 (13.04%) EAI
3 9 (13.04%) OO
4 8 (11.59%) Release Management
5 7 (10.14%) Multithreading
6 6 (8.696%) Configuration Management
7 5 (7.246%) Workflow
7 5 (7.246%) Workflow Management
7 5 (7.246%) TOGAF
8 4 (5.797%) TDD
8 4 (5.797%) Scrum
8 4 (5.797%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (5.797%) Software Architecture
9 3 (4.348%) Waterfall
9 3 (4.348%) Migration
10 2 (2.899%) Load Balancing
11 1 (1.449%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) Java
2 12 (17.39%) SQL
3 9 (13.04%) XPath
4 7 (10.14%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.348%) C#
6 2 (2.899%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.449%) VB
7 1 (1.449%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.449%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.696%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.449%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.899%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (26.09%) TIBCO Hawk
2 10 (14.49%) SCOM
3 1 (1.449%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.449%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 69 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 20 (28.99%) Oracle
3 9 (13.04%) Remedy
4 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 8 (11.59%) ILOG
5 5 (7.246%) CA
6 4 (5.797%) ION Trading
6 4 (5.797%) IBM
7 3 (4.348%) Informatica
7 3 (4.348%) JBoss
8 2 (2.899%) HP
9 1 (1.449%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.449%) Peregrine
9 1 (1.449%) webMethods
9 1 (1.449%) Sybase
9 1 (1.449%) WSO2
9 1 (1.449%) Pega
City of London
They have 2 roles: 1) Java developer - strong server-side Java and object-oriented programming, and architecture/XML/SQL 2) Java/Tibco developer - in depth Tibco and ideally...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
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