JAAS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) skills across the UK with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JAAS over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
Location Docklands, London England London UK	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	558	653
Rank change on same period last year	+95
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.006 %	0.025 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development UK
Matching contract IT job ads	16299	24144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	23.05 %	24.44 %
Daily rates quoted	5443	7356
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£359
Average daily rate	£373	£383
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	974	1474
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.16	£29.87
Average hourly rate	£31.29	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.43	£34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.93	£31.98
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

JAAS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JAAS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

JAAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

JAAS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JAAS within the UK.

JAAS
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 JAAS within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Docklands, London	-	1	-	-
London	+84	1	-	-
England	+82	1	-	-

JAAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JAAS 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 JAAS.

1 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 2 (66.67 %) Ant 2 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 2 2 (66.67 %) Servlets 2 2 (66.67 %) SAML 2 2 (66.67 %) Struts 2 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Identity Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Clustering

3 1 (33.33 %) TDD 3 1 (33.33 %) Xerces 3 1 (33.33 %) Xalan 3 1 (33.33 %) JNDI 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) WAI 3 1 (33.33 %) JSTL 3 1 (33.33 %) JSR 168 3 1 (33.33 %) Wiki 3 1 (33.33 %) Taglibs 3 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Middleware 3 1 (33.33 %) JMX

JAAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JAAS 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 JAAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 2 2 (66.67 %) Servlets 2 2 (66.67 %) Struts 2 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 2 2 (66.67 %) SAML 3 1 (33.33 %) Middleware 3 1 (33.33 %) JMX 3 1 (33.33 %) Xerces 3 1 (33.33 %) Xalan 3 1 (33.33 %) JNDI 3 1 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) JSTL 3 1 (33.33 %) JSR 168 3 1 (33.33 %) Taglibs 3 1 (33.33 %) SOAP 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LDAP 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (33.33 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Ant 2 1 (33.33 %) Flash	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Java Developer 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Technical Architect 2 1 (33.33 %) JSP Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) W3C 1 1 (33.33 %) Clustering 1 1 (33.33 %) Web 2.0 1 1 (33.33 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) EAI 1 1 (33.33 %) SOA 1 1 (33.33 %) Identity Management 1 1 (33.33 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) WAI	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) Sybase 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM 2 1 (33.33 %) Sun 2 1 (33.33 %) VERITAS 2 1 (33.33 %) Red Hat