The first table below looks at the demand for Esper skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Esper over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Development 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Esper for Java
Rank 526 575 -
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -
Contract jobs citing Esper 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.009% 0.005% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.031% 0.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
Average daily rate £550 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -
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 Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Esper
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Esper Jobs Demand Trend

Esper
Daily Rate Trend

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

Esper Daily Rate Trend

Esper
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Esper within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +49 4 £550 +37.50%
London - 4 £550 -

Esper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Esper 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 Esper.

1 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Equities
2 5 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (62.50%) TIBCO
3 4 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (50.00%) LDAP
3 4 (50.00%) EAI
3 4 (50.00%) SOA
3 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) XSD
3 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 4 (50.00%) UNIX
3 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Linux
3 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (50.00%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (50.00%) BusinessWorks
3 4 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 4 (50.00%) TIBCO EMS
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (50.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents

Esper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Esper 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 Esper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 4 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (50.00%) Drools
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) XSD
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (50.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Rendezvous
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) BusinessWorks
1 4 (50.00%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) LDAP
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) TIBCO Support
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (62.50%) Equities
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) EAI
1 4 (50.00%) SOA
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 4 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Complex Event Processing
2 3 (37.50%) Pattern Recognition
2 3 (37.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (37.50%) Process Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) TIBCO
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) StreamBase
3 1 (12.50%) 29West