Liferay Contracts

The first part of the 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 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

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Location Bristol City of London East of England East Sussex England Ipswich Lewes London Middlesex South East South West Suffolk UK Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	464	437	588
Rank change year-on-year	-27 +151
Matching contract IT job ads	29	4	12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	0.060 %	0.010 %	0.015 %
As % of the Application Platforms category	0.426 %	0.071 %	0.109 %
Daily rates quoted	15	0	0
Average daily rate	£675	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	-	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	8
Average hourly rate	-	-	£47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-	£47.00
All Application Platforms UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Application Platforms category	6802	5644	11000
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	14.08 %	14.31 %	13.38 %
Daily rates quoted	2933	1788	3170
Average daily rate	£357	£350	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.920 % -12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£215	£210	£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£500	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£340	£375
% change year-on-year	-4.410 % -9.330 %
Hourly rates quoted	465	449	989
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£22.50	£20.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.55 % +10.29 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.00	£12.00	£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.50	£40.50	£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£22.50	£20.00
% change year-on-year	-22.22 % +12.50 %

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Liferay within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 19 March 2010. 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	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	-19	29	£675	-
London	-47	21	£675	-
City of London	-58	11	£675	-
Yorkshire	-	3	-	-
South West	-	2	-	-
South East	-	2	£364	-
Bristol	-	2	-	-
East of England	-	1	£325	-
Lewes	-	1	£363	-
Ipswich	-	1	£325	-
Suffolk	-	1	£325	-
Middlesex	-	1	£365	-
East Sussex	-	1	£363	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 32 (78.05 %) Java 1 32 (78.05 %) J2EE 2 19 (46.34 %) Oracle 3 16 (39.02 %) Hibernate 4 14 (34.15 %) WebLogic Portal 5 13 (31.71 %) WebLogic 6 12 (29.27 %) JavaScript 6 12 (29.27 %) Banking 7 11 (26.83 %) OpenSSO 7 11 (26.83 %) Spring 7 11 (26.83 %) AJAX 7 11 (26.83 %) Finance 8 10 (24.39 %) Configuration Management 8 10 (24.39 %) Struts 8 10 (24.39 %) Derivative

8 10 (24.39 %) Investment Banking 8 10 (24.39 %) Fixed Income 8 10 (24.39 %) Unit Testing 9 8 (19.51 %) MVC 9 8 (19.51 %) HTML 10 7 (17.07 %) MySQL 10 7 (17.07 %) Web Services 10 7 (17.07 %) JSP 10 7 (17.07 %) Linux 10 7 (17.07 %) JSF 11 5 (12.20 %) UNIX 11 5 (12.20 %) Ant 12 4 (9.756 %) XML 12 4 (9.756 %) Apache 12 4 (9.756 %) Maven

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 32 (78.05 %) J2EE 2 16 (39.02 %) Hibernate 3 11 (26.83 %) Spring 3 11 (26.83 %) AJAX 4 10 (24.39 %) Struts 5 8 (19.51 %) HTML 6 7 (17.07 %) Web Services 6 7 (17.07 %) JSP 6 7 (17.07 %) JSF 7 4 (9.756 %) XML 7 4 (9.756 %) Spring MVC 7 4 (9.756 %) jQuery 8 3 (7.317 %) Facelets 8 3 (7.317 %) Velocity 8 3 (7.317 %) .NET 9 2 (4.878 %) CSS 9 2 (4.878 %) J2ME 9 2 (4.878 %) Servlets 9 2 (4.878 %) SOAP 9 2 (4.878 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 14 (34.15 %) WebLogic Portal 2 13 (31.71 %) WebLogic 3 4 (9.756 %) Apache 4 3 (7.317 %) Tomcat 5 2 (4.878 %) CMS 5 2 (4.878 %) Alfresco 6 1 (2.439 %) WordPress 6 1 (2.439 %) Confluence 6 1 (2.439 %) Drupal 6 1 (2.439 %) GlassFish 6 1 (2.439 %) AquaLogic 6 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint 6 1 (2.439 %) Documentum
Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.878 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (17.07 %) MySQL 2 2 (4.878 %) SQL Server 3 1 (2.439 %) RDBMS 3 1 (2.439 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 5 (12.20 %) Ant 2 4 (9.756 %) Maven 3 3 (7.317 %) Subversion 3 3 (7.317 %) Eclipse 4 1 (2.439 %) Log4j 4 1 (2.439 %) JUnit
General 1 12 (29.27 %) Banking 2 11 (26.83 %) Finance 3 10 (24.39 %) Investment Banking 4 2 (4.878 %) Publishing 4 2 (4.878 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.439 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.439 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 23 (56.10 %) Developer 2 18 (43.90 %) Java Developer 3 12 (29.27 %) Designer 4 10 (24.39 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 9 (21.95 %) Architect 6 7 (17.07 %) J2EE Developer 6 7 (17.07 %) J2EE Architect 6 7 (17.07 %) WebLogic Architect 7 4 (9.756 %) Consultant 8 3 (7.317 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 8 3 (7.317 %) Senior Developer 8 3 (7.317 %) Senior J2EE Developer 8 3 (7.317 %) Senior Java Developer 9 1 (2.439 %) Portal Developer 9 1 (2.439 %) Documentum Architect 9 1 (2.439 %) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous 1 10 (24.39 %) Derivative 1 10 (24.39 %) Fixed Income 2 4 (9.756 %) Open Source 3 1 (2.439 %) Social Network 3 1 (2.439 %) Computer Science 3 1 (2.439 %) Photography 3 1 (2.439 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (2.439 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 7 (17.07 %) Linux 2 5 (12.20 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.439 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (24.39 %) Configuration Management 1 10 (24.39 %) Unit Testing 2 8 (19.51 %) MVC 3 2 (4.878 %) Web Design 3 2 (4.878 %) Use Case 4 1 (2.439 %) Continuous Integration 4 1 (2.439 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.439 %) Validation 4 1 (2.439 %) Migration 4 1 (2.439 %) Scrum 4 1 (2.439 %) Change Management 4 1 (2.439 %) SOA	Programming Languages 1 32 (78.05 %) Java 2 12 (29.27 %) JavaScript 3 3 (7.317 %) SQL 4 1 (2.439 %) XPath 4 1 (2.439 %) T-SQL 4 1 (2.439 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (2.439 %) Degree 1 1 (2.439 %) HND	System Software 1 11 (26.83 %) OpenSSO 2 1 (2.439 %) Sendmail 2 1 (2.439 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 19 (46.34 %) Oracle 2 3 (7.317 %) Adobe 2 3 (7.317 %) BEA 3 2 (4.878 %) IBM 4 1 (2.439 %) Terracotta 4 1 (2.439 %) FatWire 4 1 (2.439 %) Sun 4 1 (2.439 %) Vignette