The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Elastic Path products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Elastic Path 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 currently tracked.

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 Elastic Path Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Elastic Path
Rank 538 560 581
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +21
Contract jobs citing Elastic Path 3 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Vendors category 0.014% 0.018% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £400 £306 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.61% -15.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21806 27110 28885
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.06% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11630 13854 14453
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1173 1314 1625
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.56 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.87% -2.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%

Elastic Path
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Elastic Path within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Elastic Path Jobs Demand Trend

Elastic Path
Daily Rate Trend

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

Elastic Path Daily Rate Trend

Elastic Path
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Elastic Path within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +42 3 £400 +30.61%
East of England +18 3 £400 -
Essex - 2 £400 -
Harlow - 2 £400 -
Hertfordshire +5 1 £400 -

Elastic Path
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Elastic Path 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 Elastic Path.

1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (64.00%) E-Commerce
3 15 (60.00%) Content Management
4 14 (56.00%) XMLBeans
4 14 (56.00%) Ajax
4 14 (56.00%) Blue Martini
4 14 (56.00%) Web 2.0
4 14 (56.00%) WebSphere
4 14 (56.00%) XPath
4 14 (56.00%) JSTL
4 14 (56.00%) Log4j
4 14 (56.00%) Subversion
4 14 (56.00%) Bash shell
4 14 (56.00%) JMS
4 14 (56.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 14 (56.00%) Eclipse
4 14 (56.00%) RDBMS
4 14 (56.00%) IBM
4 14 (56.00%) Interwoven
4 14 (56.00%) Tridion
4 14 (56.00%) Internet
4 14 (56.00%) ATG
4 14 (56.00%) HTML
4 14 (56.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (56.00%) Perl
4 14 (56.00%) SQL
4 14 (56.00%) J2EE
4 14 (56.00%) DB2
4 14 (56.00%) Ant
4 14 (56.00%) JUnit

Elastic Path
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Elastic Path 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 Elastic Path. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (56.00%) XMLBeans
1 14 (56.00%) Ajax
1 14 (56.00%) WebSphere
1 14 (56.00%) JSTL
1 14 (56.00%) JMS
1 14 (56.00%) HTML
1 14 (56.00%) J2EE
1 14 (56.00%) EJB
1 14 (56.00%) JDBC
1 14 (56.00%) JSP
1 14 (56.00%) Servlets
1 14 (56.00%) Struts
1 14 (56.00%) XML
1 14 (56.00%) XSLT
1 14 (56.00%) XHTML
2 3 (12.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 14 (56.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 14 (56.00%) MQSeries
2 3 (12.00%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 14 (56.00%) Tridion
2 8 (32.00%) Apache OFBiz
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (56.00%) RDBMS
1 14 (56.00%) DB2
2 2 (8.000%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) Log4j
1 14 (56.00%) Subversion
1 14 (56.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 14 (56.00%) Eclipse
1 14 (56.00%) Ant
1 14 (56.00%) JUnit
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
1 13 (52.00%) Retail
2 12 (48.00%) Games
3 3 (12.00%) Publishing
4 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 22 (88.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (52.00%) J2EE Developer
3 13 (52.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (56.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) UNIX
1 14 (56.00%) HPUX
1 14 (56.00%) Solaris
1 14 (56.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) E-Commerce
2 15 (60.00%) Content Management
3 14 (56.00%) UML
3 14 (56.00%) OO
3 14 (56.00%) RAD
4 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (56.00%) XPath
2 14 (56.00%) Bash shell
2 14 (56.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (56.00%) Perl
2 14 (56.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Blue Martini
1 14 (56.00%) IBM
1 14 (56.00%) Interwoven
1 14 (56.00%) ATG
2 8 (32.00%) hybris
3 3 (12.00%) Adobe