The first table below looks at the demand for Liferay skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Liferay over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Liferay
Rank 496 506 565
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +59
Contract jobs citing Liferay 37 67 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.080% 0.115% 0.038%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.438% 0.704% 0.228%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 14
Average daily rate £450 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £316 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £545 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
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
8443 9517 10097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 16.31% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4788 5237 5378
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -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 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 422 560
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -

Liferay
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liferay Jobs Demand Trend

Liferay
Daily Rate Trend

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

Liferay Daily Rate Trend

Liferay
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Liferay within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Liferay Daily Rate Histogram

Liferay
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liferay Hourly Rate Trend

Liferay
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Liferay within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +31 32 £463 +23.33%
London +10 22 £500 +11.11%
City of London +16 15 £550 +22.22%
East of England +22 8 £341 -9.00%
Hertfordshire +16 8 £341 -31.75%
Rickmansworth - 4 £228 -
South Wales - 3 £325 -
Wales - 3 £325 -
Surrey +19 2 £363 +11.53%
South East +8 2 £363 -3.33%
Watford - 2 - -
Newport - 2 £325 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -

Liferay
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Liferay 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 Liferay.

1 74 (75.51%) Java
2 51 (52.04%) Spring
3 48 (48.98%) Oracle
4 45 (45.92%) J2EE
5 40 (40.82%) WebLogic
6 33 (33.67%) ClearCase
6 33 (33.67%) Eclipse
7 32 (32.65%) SQL
8 31 (31.63%) CSS
9 30 (30.61%) Web Services
9 30 (30.61%) WebLogic Portal
10 28 (28.57%) XML
11 27 (27.55%) JSF
11 27 (27.55%) Agile Software Development
12 26 (26.53%) Linux
12 26 (26.53%) ClearQuest
13 25 (25.51%) Hibernate
13 25 (25.51%) Banking
14 24 (24.49%) Maven
14 24 (24.49%) UML
15 22 (22.45%) Apache
15 22 (22.45%) Finance
16 21 (21.43%) XSLT
16 21 (21.43%) PL/SQL
16 21 (21.43%) Security Cleared
17 20 (20.41%) XPath
17 20 (20.41%) XSD
17 20 (20.41%) DOM
17 20 (20.41%) JAXP
17 20 (20.41%) SAX

Liferay
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 51 (52.04%) Spring
2 45 (45.92%) J2EE
3 31 (31.63%) CSS
4 30 (30.61%) Web Services
5 28 (28.57%) XML
6 27 (27.55%) JSF
7 25 (25.51%) Hibernate
8 21 (21.43%) XSLT
9 20 (20.41%) XSD
9 20 (20.41%) DOM
9 20 (20.41%) JAXP
9 20 (20.41%) SAX
10 13 (13.27%) HTML
10 13 (13.27%) RESTful
11 10 (10.20%) JSP
12 9 (9.184%) Struts
12 9 (9.184%) jQuery
13 8 (8.163%) Struts2
14 7 (7.143%) Ajax
15 6 (6.122%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 40 (40.82%) WebLogic
2 30 (30.61%) WebLogic Portal
3 22 (22.45%) Apache
4 19 (19.39%) Tomcat
5 12 (12.24%) CMS
6 10 (10.20%) Alfresco
7 5 (5.102%) Drupal
7 5 (5.102%) SAS
8 4 (4.082%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (4.082%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (2.041%) SharePoint
9 2 (2.041%) Documentum
9 2 (2.041%) Umbraco
9 2 (2.041%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (1.020%) Apache Solr
10 1 (1.020%) GlassFish
10 1 (1.020%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 6 (6.122%) Photoshop
2 2 (2.041%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.020%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (2.041%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.020%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.29%) HTTP
2 9 (9.184%) LDAP
3 8 (8.163%) SMTP
3 8 (8.163%) DHCP
3 8 (8.163%) SNMP
3 8 (8.163%) DNS
3 8 (8.163%) SAN
3 8 (8.163%) iSCSI
3 8 (8.163%) NAS
4 6 (6.122%) SSL
5 5 (5.102%) TELNET
5 5 (5.102%) tcpdump
5 5 (5.102%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.020%) Intranet
6 1 (1.020%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) MySQL
2 10 (10.20%) Oracle 11g
3 8 (8.163%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.082%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.082%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (4.082%) GIS
4 4 (4.082%) JasperReports
5 2 (2.041%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.020%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.020%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (1.020%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.020%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (33.67%) ClearCase
1 33 (33.67%) Eclipse
2 26 (26.53%) ClearQuest
3 24 (24.49%) Maven
4 15 (15.31%) Jenkins
5 13 (13.27%) Subversion
6 10 (10.20%) Hudson
7 9 (9.184%) Git (software)
7 9 (9.184%) JUnit
8 8 (8.163%) Selenium
9 7 (7.143%) Ant
10 5 (5.102%) Log4j
10 5 (5.102%) Talend Open Studio
11 4 (4.082%) FitNesse
12 2 (2.041%) Firebug
12 2 (2.041%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (2.041%) CruiseControl
12 2 (2.041%) Visual Studio
12 2 (2.041%) JBehave
12 2 (2.041%) Jtest
General
1 25 (25.51%) Banking
2 22 (22.45%) Finance
3 9 (9.184%) Telecoms
3 9 (9.184%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.082%) Retail Banking
4 4 (4.082%) Retail
5 2 (2.041%) Games
5 2 (2.041%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.020%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (54.08%) Developer
2 40 (40.82%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.24%) Administrator
4 9 (9.184%) Linux Administrator
4 9 (9.184%) Lead Java Developer
4 9 (9.184%) Designer
4 9 (9.184%) Lead Developer
5 7 (7.143%) Release Engineer
6 6 (6.122%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.102%) Architect
7 5 (5.102%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.102%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.102%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.102%) UI Designer
8 4 (4.082%) Front-End Developer
8 4 (4.082%) Portal Developer
8 4 (4.082%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.082%) J2EE Developer
8 4 (4.082%) Web Designer
9 3 (3.061%) WebLogic Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Open Source
2 5 (5.102%) Fixed Income
2 5 (5.102%) Clustering
2 5 (5.102%) Cryptography
2 5 (5.102%) Derivative
3 2 (2.041%) Statistics
3 2 (2.041%) Wiki
3 2 (2.041%) Blog
3 2 (2.041%) Social Network
3 2 (2.041%) SaaS
3 2 (2.041%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.041%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.53%) Linux
2 4 (4.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.082%) Windows
3 2 (2.041%) UNIX
4 1 (1.020%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.55%) Agile Software Development
2 24 (24.49%) UML
3 10 (10.20%) Release Management
4 9 (9.184%) Unit Testing
5 8 (8.163%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (7.143%) Configuration Management
7 6 (6.122%) MVC
7 6 (6.122%) Content Management
7 6 (6.122%) BDD
8 5 (5.102%) Memory Management
8 5 (5.102%) TDD
8 5 (5.102%) Load Balancing
8 5 (5.102%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (5.102%) OO
9 4 (4.082%) RUP
9 4 (4.082%) E-Commerce
9 4 (4.082%) ERP
9 4 (4.082%) Workflow
9 4 (4.082%) Migration
9 4 (4.082%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 74 (75.51%) Java
2 32 (32.65%) SQL
3 21 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 20 (20.41%) XPath
5 19 (19.39%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.184%) Perl
6 9 (9.184%) Shell Script
6 9 (9.184%) Bash shell
7 7 (7.143%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
8 5 (5.102%) sed
8 5 (5.102%) AWK
9 3 (3.061%) Scala
10 2 (2.041%) C
10 2 (2.041%) C++
10 2 (2.041%) PHP
11 1 (1.020%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.163%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.082%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (3.061%) Degree
5 1 (1.020%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.041%) ISO 9001
1 2 (2.041%) WCAG
2 1 (1.020%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.163%) NFS
1 8 (8.163%) Squid
1 8 (8.163%) Postfix
1 8 (8.163%) OpenSSO
2 5 (5.102%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.102%) Nmap
3 4 (4.082%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.061%) vCloud
4 3 (3.061%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.184%) Nagios
2 8 (8.163%) Puppet
3 7 (7.143%) BladeLogic
4 1 (1.020%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 48 (48.98%) Oracle
2 13 (13.27%) Red Hat
2 13 (13.27%) VMware
3 11 (11.22%) IBM
4 9 (9.184%) SAP
5 8 (8.163%) EMC
5 8 (8.163%) NetApp
6 7 (7.143%) JBoss
7 5 (5.102%) Talend
8 3 (3.061%) F5
9 2 (2.041%) ATG
9 2 (2.041%) Sitecore
9 2 (2.041%) Business Objects
9 2 (2.041%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.020%) Novell
10 1 (1.020%) Twitter
10 1 (1.020%) GigaSpaces
10 1 (1.020%) Remedy
City of London
jQuery, Knockout.js and common polyfills for older supported browsers)AJAX (design and integration of data transactions between UI and portal)Integration with Java Spring MVC (Knowledge of...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Key responsibilities: HTML standards / compliance, CSS 2 CSS 3 cross browser, Javascript, UI / user interface development, UX design, mock-ups, wireframing, integration to Java server side (mvc spring).
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Rickmansworth, South East
J2EE Liferay Developer required for an 8 month contractual opportunity based in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire working for a global organisation. As the J2EE Liferay Developer you will be required...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £220 - £245 per hour
Posted: 23 April 2013
City of London
jQuery, Knockout.js and common polyfills for older supported browsers)AJAX (design and integration of data transactions between UI and portal)Integration with Java Spring MVC (Knowledge of...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 2 May 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Liferay Portal. Talend integration Suite. Linux RedHat/Git. J2EE/Java/Java Servlet technologies/JPA/JAXB. Spring/Hibernate... Search technologies: SOLR, Lucene. Restful web services: Apache CXF, JSR web...
Experis IT
Rate: Market Rates
Posted: 15 May 2013