The first table below looks at the demand for Complex Event Processing skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Complex Event Processing over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
Rank 514 582 575
Rank change year-on-year
+68 -7
Contract jobs citing Complex Event Processing 15 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.003% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.005% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 6
Average daily rate £600 - £650
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Complex Event Processing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Complex Event Processing within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Complex Event Processing Jobs Demand Trend

Complex Event Processing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Complex Event Processing Daily Rate Trend

Complex Event Processing
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Complex Event Processing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +55 11 £600 -
London +47 11 £600 -
City of London - 7 £600 -

Complex Event Processing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Complex Event Processing 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 Complex Event Processing.

1 24 (88.89%) Java
2 18 (66.67%) Oracle
3 17 (62.96%) Middleware
4 13 (48.15%) RMDS
4 13 (48.15%) SQL Server
4 13 (48.15%) 29West
5 10 (37.04%) WebLogic
6 9 (33.33%) IIS
6 9 (33.33%) XML
6 9 (33.33%) XSLT
6 9 (33.33%) Windows
6 9 (33.33%) Solaris
6 9 (33.33%) Linux
6 9 (33.33%) Sybase
6 9 (33.33%) SQL
6 9 (33.33%) C#
6 9 (33.33%) EMC
6 9 (33.33%) SAN
6 9 (33.33%) NetApp
6 9 (33.33%) HTML
6 9 (33.33%) Apache
6 9 (33.33%) Cisco
6 9 (33.33%) DataSynapse
6 9 (33.33%) WebSphere
6 9 (33.33%) Benchmarking
6 9 (33.33%) NAS
7 8 (29.63%) StreamBase
7 8 (29.63%) Web Services
8 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
9 6 (22.22%) Front Office

Complex Event Processing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Complex Event Processing 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 Complex Event Processing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (62.96%) Middleware
2 9 (33.33%) XML
2 9 (33.33%) XSLT
2 9 (33.33%) HTML
2 9 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 8 (29.63%) Web Services
4 4 (14.81%) WCF
4 4 (14.81%) WPF
4 4 (14.81%) Silverlight
4 4 (14.81%) .NET
4 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET
4 4 (14.81%) Struts
4 4 (14.81%) REST
4 4 (14.81%) .NET Framework
4 4 (14.81%) JSON
5 3 (11.11%) Esper
6 2 (7.407%) Motif
7 1 (3.704%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 10 (37.04%) WebLogic
2 9 (33.33%) IIS
2 9 (33.33%) Apache
3 4 (14.81%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (3.704%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.704%) Kafka
Business Applications
1 13 (48.15%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) SAN
1 9 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.81%) InterSystems Cache
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (22.22%) Front Office
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (7.407%) Back Office
4 1 (3.704%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Architect
2 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (25.93%) Lead Architect
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 5 (18.52%) Consultant
5 5 (18.52%) Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Principal Architect
6 4 (14.81%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (7.407%) Lead Developer
8 1 (3.704%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.704%) Analyst Developer
8 1 (3.704%) Analyst
8 1 (3.704%) Front Office Developer
8 1 (3.704%) SOA Developer
8 1 (3.704%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Mainframe
1 4 (14.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (14.81%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
1 9 (33.33%) Solaris
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
3 4 (14.81%) MVC
3 4 (14.81%) TDD
3 4 (14.81%) ERP
3 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (14.81%) Dependency Injection
3 4 (14.81%) MVVM
3 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 3 (11.11%) Rapid Prototyping
4 3 (11.11%) Pattern Recognition
4 3 (11.11%) RAD
4 3 (11.11%) SOA
4 3 (11.11%) Scrum
4 3 (11.11%) Extreme Programming
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (11.11%) Process Management
5 2 (7.407%) Change Management
5 2 (7.407%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (88.89%) Java
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) C#
3 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) C++
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Oracle
2 13 (48.15%) 29West
3 9 (33.33%) Sybase
3 9 (33.33%) EMC
3 9 (33.33%) NetApp
3 9 (33.33%) Cisco
3 9 (33.33%) DataSynapse
4 8 (29.63%) StreamBase
5 6 (22.22%) TIBCO
6 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
6 4 (14.81%) Reuters
6 4 (14.81%) Bloomberg