The first table below looks at the demand for JBoss Seam skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JBoss Seam 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
JBoss Seam
Rank 529 574 580
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +6
Contract jobs citing JBoss Seam 1 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category 0.008% 0.027% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
Average daily rate £400 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.40% +3.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £335 £250
% change year-on-year
+19.40% +34.00%
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%

JBoss Seam
Jobs Demand Trend

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

JBoss Seam Jobs Demand Trend

JBoss Seam
Daily Rate Trend

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

JBoss Seam Daily Rate Trend

JBoss Seam
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JBoss Seam Hourly Rate Trend

JBoss Seam
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 JBoss Seam 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 +45 1 £400 +19.40%
South West - 1 £400 -
Bristol - 1 £400 -

JBoss Seam
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) JSF
3 3 (50.00%) JBoss
3 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) JUnit
4 2 (33.33%) J2EE
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Axis
4 2 (33.33%) JPA
4 2 (33.33%) Subversion
4 2 (33.33%) RichFaces
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (16.67%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (16.67%) EJB 3.0
5 1 (16.67%) Guice
5 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
5 1 (16.67%) TestNG
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Flex
5 1 (16.67%) Selenium
5 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Wicket

JBoss Seam
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) JSF
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) J2EE
3 2 (33.33%) Apache Axis
3 2 (33.33%) JPA
3 2 (33.33%) RichFaces
4 1 (16.67%) EJB 3.0
4 1 (16.67%) Guice
4 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Flex
4 1 (16.67%) Apache Wicket
4 1 (16.67%) Java EE 5
4 1 (16.67%) EJB
4 1 (16.67%) DHTML
4 1 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (16.67%) Ant
3 1 (16.67%) Bugzilla
3 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Streaming Video
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) UML
1 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
1 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
1 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
1 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) JBoss
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle