The first table below looks at the demand for GemFire skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GemFire 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vFabric GemFire
Rank 522 583 554
Rank change year-on-year
+61 -29
Contract jobs citing GemFire 7 1 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.002% 0.049%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.083% 0.011% 0.294%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 27
Average daily rate £625 £300 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+108.33% -47.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £415
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8396 9507 10206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 16.30% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4754 5212 5447
Average daily rate £359 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.64% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 431 562
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.85 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.75 £37.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%

GemFire
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GemFire Jobs Demand Trend

GemFire
Daily Rate Trend

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

GemFire Daily Rate Trend

GemFire
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GemFire within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

GemFire Daily Rate Histogram

GemFire
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GemFire 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 +51 6 £625 +108.33%
London +43 6 £625 +108.33%
Scotland - 1 £350 -
Glasgow - 1 £350 -

GemFire
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (72.73%) Oracle Coherence
2 14 (63.64%) Front Office
2 14 (63.64%) Java
3 13 (59.09%) Banking
4 12 (54.55%) Investment Banking
5 11 (50.00%) Derivative
6 10 (45.45%) Spring
7 9 (40.91%) Fixed Income
7 9 (40.91%) C#
8 8 (36.36%) C++
8 8 (36.36%) SQL
8 8 (36.36%) .NET
8 8 (36.36%) Oracle
8 8 (36.36%) Finance
9 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
9 7 (31.82%) VBA
10 6 (27.27%) TIBCO
10 6 (27.27%) Rendezvous
10 6 (27.27%) DataSynapse
11 5 (22.73%) Scrum
12 4 (18.18%) TDD
12 4 (18.18%) STL
12 4 (18.18%) Web Services
12 4 (18.18%) ATL
12 4 (18.18%) J2SE
12 4 (18.18%) JMS
12 4 (18.18%) Retail
12 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
12 4 (18.18%) Multithreading

GemFire
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (45.45%) Spring
2 8 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (18.18%) STL
3 4 (18.18%) Web Services
3 4 (18.18%) ATL
3 4 (18.18%) J2SE
3 4 (18.18%) JMS
4 3 (13.64%) JSON
4 3 (13.64%) REST
4 3 (13.64%) XML
4 3 (13.64%) SOAP
5 2 (9.091%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
6 1 (4.545%) JTA
6 1 (4.545%) EJB
6 1 (4.545%) CSS
6 1 (4.545%) XSD
6 1 (4.545%) XSLT
6 1 (4.545%) HTML
6 1 (4.545%) JAAS
Application Platforms
1 16 (72.73%) Oracle Coherence
2 6 (27.27%) Rendezvous
3 2 (9.091%) MQSeries
3 2 (9.091%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (4.545%) Mule
4 1 (4.545%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (9.091%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.545%) Big Data
4 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Maven
2 2 (9.091%) Subversion
2 2 (9.091%) JIRA
3 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (63.64%) Front Office
2 13 (59.09%) Banking
3 12 (54.55%) Investment Banking
4 8 (36.36%) Finance
5 4 (18.18%) Retail
6 1 (4.545%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (95.45%) Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) C++ Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 2 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Scala Developer
5 2 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (9.091%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Lead Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) WebLogic Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Derivative
2 9 (40.91%) Fixed Income
3 3 (13.64%) N-Tier
3 3 (13.64%) Grid Computing
3 3 (13.64%) Equities
4 2 (9.091%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (9.091%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (9.091%) Swaptions
5 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) UNIX
1 2 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (22.73%) Scrum
3 4 (18.18%) TDD
3 4 (18.18%) Asset Management
3 4 (18.18%) Multithreading
4 2 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.091%) Project Management
4 2 (9.091%) Workflow
4 2 (9.091%) Data Modelling
4 2 (9.091%) OOD
4 2 (9.091%) UML
4 2 (9.091%) OO
4 2 (9.091%) Algorithmic Trading
4 2 (9.091%) Release Management
4 2 (9.091%) System Testing
4 2 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (9.091%) Monte Carlo Method
5 1 (4.545%) Software Architecture
5 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) C#
3 8 (36.36%) C++
3 8 (36.36%) SQL
4 7 (31.82%) VBA
5 3 (13.64%) VB
6 2 (9.091%) Clojure
6 2 (9.091%) Scala
7 1 (4.545%) XPath
7 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
7 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.545%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) TIBCO
2 6 (27.27%) DataSynapse
3 2 (9.091%) Sybase
3 2 (9.091%) Terracotta
3 2 (9.091%) GigaSpaces
4 1 (4.545%) JBoss
4 1 (4.545%) IBM
4 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.545%) BEA