The first table below looks at the demand for JRules skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JRules over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM ILOG JRules
Rank 515 522 592
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +70
Contract jobs citing JRules 26 48 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.083% 0.014%
As % of the Application Development category 0.194% 0.321% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 1
Average daily rate £475 £455 £580
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.33% -21.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £435 £580
% change year-on-year
-8.04% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £28.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

JRules
Jobs Demand Trend

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

JRules Jobs Demand Trend

JRules
Daily Rate Trend

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

JRules Daily Rate Trend

JRules
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JRules within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

JRules Daily Rate Histogram

JRules
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JRules Hourly Rate Trend

JRules
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JRules within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -9 26 £475 +4.33%
London +18 16 £475 -12.44%
South East +28 10 £400 +263.63%
City of London -1 4 £488 -5.33%
Surrey - 1 £400 -
West Sussex - - - -
East of England - - - -
Reading - - - -
Redhill - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Cambridge - - - -
Crawley - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Dorking - - - -
Horley - - - -

JRules
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JRules 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 JRules.

1 42 (84.00%) Java
2 30 (60.00%) Oracle
3 26 (52.00%) XML
4 20 (40.00%) SOA
4 20 (40.00%) Web Services
5 19 (38.00%) Banking
6 18 (36.00%) Finance
7 17 (34.00%) WebSphere
8 16 (32.00%) TIBCO
8 16 (32.00%) WebLogic
9 15 (30.00%) UML
10 14 (28.00%) ILOG
11 13 (26.00%) Investment Banking
12 12 (24.00%) BusinessWorks
13 11 (22.00%) IBM
13 11 (22.00%) XSLT
13 11 (22.00%) XPath
14 10 (20.00%) Spring
15 9 (18.00%) OO
15 9 (18.00%) JSP
16 8 (16.00%) Staffware
16 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
16 8 (16.00%) Decision Table
16 8 (16.00%) TIBCO iProcess
17 7 (14.00%) Requirements Analysis
17 7 (14.00%) TIBCO EMS
17 7 (14.00%) TeamCity
17 7 (14.00%) Tomcat
17 7 (14.00%) XQuery
17 7 (14.00%) Ant

JRules
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JRules 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 JRules. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (52.00%) XML
2 20 (40.00%) Web Services
3 17 (34.00%) WebSphere
4 11 (22.00%) XSLT
5 10 (20.00%) Spring
6 9 (18.00%) JSP
7 5 (10.00%) EJB
8 4 (8.000%) J2EE
8 4 (8.000%) Java EE
9 3 (6.000%) JMS
9 3 (6.000%) CORBA
10 1 (2.000%) WebCenter
10 1 (2.000%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (2.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 16 (32.00%) WebLogic
2 7 (14.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 7 (14.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.000%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (24.00%) BusinessWorks
2 8 (16.00%) Staffware
2 8 (16.00%) TIBCO iProcess
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.000%) Essbase
1 4 (8.000%) Hadoop
1 4 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (6.000%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.000%) Big Data
2 3 (6.000%) MarkLogic
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.000%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) TeamCity
1 7 (14.00%) Ant
1 7 (14.00%) JUnit
2 4 (8.000%) Subversion
3 3 (6.000%) jMock
3 3 (6.000%) Maven
3 3 (6.000%) EasyMock
3 3 (6.000%) Eclipse
General
1 19 (38.00%) Banking
2 18 (36.00%) Finance
3 13 (26.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.000%) General Ledger
4 1 (2.000%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.000%) Back Office
4 1 (2.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Architect
1 14 (28.00%) Developer
2 12 (24.00%) JRules Developer
3 9 (18.00%) Designer
4 6 (12.00%) Consultant
4 6 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (12.00%) Functional Architect
5 4 (8.000%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.000%) Analyst
6 3 (6.000%) Business Architect
6 3 (6.000%) Java Consultant
6 3 (6.000%) JRules Consultant
6 3 (6.000%) Technical Design Leader
6 3 (6.000%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.000%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (6.000%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.000%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.000%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.000%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.000%) Java Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.000%) Mathematics
1 4 (8.000%) Physics
1 4 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.000%) Data Extraction
3 1 (2.000%) SWIFT
3 1 (2.000%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.000%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.000%) UNIX
1 4 (8.000%) Windows
1 4 (8.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) SOA
2 15 (30.00%) UML
3 9 (18.00%) OO
4 8 (16.00%) Decision Table
5 7 (14.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 5 (10.00%) TDD
6 5 (10.00%) Software Architecture
6 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 4 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.000%) Workflow
7 4 (8.000%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (8.000%) Scrum
7 4 (8.000%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.000%) Workflow Management
7 4 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.000%) Multithreading
8 3 (6.000%) Technical Architecture
9 2 (4.000%) Project Management
9 2 (4.000%) Cash Management
9 2 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (84.00%) Java
2 11 (22.00%) XPath
3 7 (14.00%) XQuery
4 5 (10.00%) SQL
5 3 (6.000%) C++
6 1 (2.000%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.000%) Degree
4 3 (6.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (2.000%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.000%) QA
2 2 (4.000%) Basel III
Vendors
1 30 (60.00%) Oracle
2 16 (32.00%) TIBCO
3 14 (28.00%) ILOG
4 11 (22.00%) IBM
5 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.000%) ION Trading
7 1 (2.000%) Mercator