The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces over the 3 months to 21 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 GigaSpaces.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
GigaSpaces
Rank 539 577 565
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -12
Contract jobs citing GigaSpaces 1 4 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% 0.015% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 15
Average daily rate - £663 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £625
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
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £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 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

GigaSpaces
Jobs Demand Trend

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

GigaSpaces Jobs Demand Trend

GigaSpaces
Daily Rate Trend

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

GigaSpaces Daily Rate Trend

GigaSpaces
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 GigaSpaces within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 1 - -
London +13 1 - -

GigaSpaces
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Front Office
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (50.00%) GemFire
3 2 (50.00%) Derivative
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Fixed Income
3 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (50.00%) TIBCO
3 2 (50.00%) Rendezvous
3 2 (50.00%) JMS
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Eclipse

GigaSpaces
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing GigaSpaces 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 GigaSpaces. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) STL
3 1 (25.00%) Struts
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (25.00%) OpenCL
3 1 (25.00%) Velocity
3 1 (25.00%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (50.00%) GemFire
2 2 (50.00%) Rendezvous
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) Alfresco
3 1 (25.00%) Liferay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
General
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
1 2 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Grid Computing
2 1 (25.00%) GPGPU
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) CUDA
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (25.00%) DataSynapse