The first table below looks at the demand for Log4j skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Log4j over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache Log4j
Rank 524 570 569
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -1
Contract jobs citing Log4j 5 14 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.024% 0.025%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.098% 0.264% 0.233%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
Average daily rate £354 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.27% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £320 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.19% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5093 5313 6437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.98% 9.110% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3197 3137 3627
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 217 316
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.33 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

Log4j
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Log4j within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Log4j Jobs Demand Trend

Log4j
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Log4j within the UK.

Log4j Daily Rate Trend

Log4j
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Log4j within the UK.

Log4j Hourly Rate Trend

Log4j
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Log4j within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +39 5 £354 -8.58%
Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £354 -
York - 3 £354 -
East of England +15 1 £400 +6.66%
South East +12 1 - -
Norwich - 1 £400 -
Norfolk - 1 £400 -
Hampshire - 1 - -

Log4j
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Log4j 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 Log4j.

1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (92.86%) JUnit
3 25 (89.29%) J2EE
4 23 (82.14%) Eclipse
5 22 (78.57%) JavaScript
5 22 (78.57%) JDBC
5 22 (78.57%) XML
5 22 (78.57%) Subversion
6 21 (75.00%) JSP
7 20 (71.43%) Servlets
7 20 (71.43%) OO
7 20 (71.43%) HTML
7 20 (71.43%) WebSphere
8 18 (64.29%) Ajax
8 18 (64.29%) JMS
9 17 (60.71%) Linux
9 17 (60.71%) UNIX
9 17 (60.71%) Struts
9 17 (60.71%) Content Management
10 16 (57.14%) SQL
10 16 (57.14%) IBM
11 15 (53.57%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
11 15 (53.57%) Finance
11 15 (53.57%) Ant
11 15 (53.57%) EJB
11 15 (53.57%) XSLT
11 15 (53.57%) UML
11 15 (53.57%) RDBMS
11 15 (53.57%) JSTL
12 14 (50.00%) XPath

Log4j
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Log4j 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 Log4j. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (89.29%) J2EE
2 22 (78.57%) JDBC
2 22 (78.57%) XML
3 21 (75.00%) JSP
4 20 (71.43%) Servlets
4 20 (71.43%) HTML
4 20 (71.43%) WebSphere
5 18 (64.29%) Ajax
5 18 (64.29%) JMS
6 17 (60.71%) Struts
7 15 (53.57%) EJB
7 15 (53.57%) XSLT
7 15 (53.57%) JSTL
8 14 (50.00%) XMLBeans
8 14 (50.00%) XHTML
9 13 (46.43%) Web Services
9 13 (46.43%) Spring
10 9 (32.14%) Hibernate
11 8 (28.57%) RESTful
12 6 (21.43%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 14 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 14 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 14 (50.00%) MQSeries
2 7 (25.00%) Apache
2 7 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 5 (17.86%) Liferay
4 4 (14.29%) Jetty
5 3 (10.71%) CMS
5 3 (10.71%) Drupal
6 2 (7.143%) Windows Azure
7 1 (3.571%) Oracle 10gAS
7 1 (3.571%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) RDBMS
2 14 (50.00%) DB2
3 3 (10.71%) JasperReports
4 1 (3.571%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (3.571%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 26 (92.86%) JUnit
2 23 (82.14%) Eclipse
3 22 (78.57%) Subversion
4 15 (53.57%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 15 (53.57%) Ant
5 9 (32.14%) Maven
6 6 (21.43%) Hudson
7 3 (10.71%) FitNesse
7 3 (10.71%) jMock
7 3 (10.71%) TestNG
7 3 (10.71%) EasyMock
7 3 (10.71%) Subclipse
8 2 (7.143%) Selenium
8 2 (7.143%) Jtest
8 2 (7.143%) Firebug
9 1 (3.571%) JDeveloper
9 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
9 1 (3.571%) Git (software)
9 1 (3.571%) JBehave
9 1 (3.571%) Mercurial
General
1 15 (53.57%) Finance
2 13 (46.43%) Retail
3 12 (42.86%) Games
4 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.143%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.571%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 24 (85.71%) Java Developer
3 13 (46.43%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 13 (46.43%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (7.143%) UI Programmer
4 2 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (7.143%) UI Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Consultant
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Agile Java Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 8 (28.57%) Open Source
3 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (7.143%) SaaS
4 2 (7.143%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.143%) Wiki
4 2 (7.143%) Blog
4 2 (7.143%) Social Network
5 1 (3.571%) Semantic Web
5 1 (3.571%) Linked Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Linux
1 17 (60.71%) UNIX
2 14 (50.00%) HPUX
2 14 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) OO
2 17 (60.71%) Content Management
3 15 (53.57%) UML
4 14 (50.00%) RAD
4 14 (50.00%) E-Commerce
5 5 (17.86%) Unit Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Scrum
5 5 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.29%) MVC
7 3 (10.71%) Project Management
7 3 (10.71%) OOA/OOD
7 3 (10.71%) AOP
8 2 (7.143%) Web Application Development
8 2 (7.143%) Waterfall
8 2 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (7.143%) ERP
9 1 (3.571%) RDF
9 1 (3.571%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (78.57%) JavaScript
3 16 (57.14%) SQL
4 14 (50.00%) XPath
4 14 (50.00%) Bash shell
4 14 (50.00%) Perl
5 2 (7.143%) C++
6 1 (3.571%) XQuery
6 1 (3.571%) Python
6 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.571%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.571%) Sun Certification
1 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) vSphere
1 3 (10.71%) vCloud
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) IBM
2 14 (50.00%) Blue Martini
2 14 (50.00%) ATG
2 14 (50.00%) Interwoven
2 14 (50.00%) Elastic Path
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle
4 4 (14.29%) JBoss
5 3 (10.71%) VMware
6 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.571%) Coverity
7 1 (3.571%) Google
7 1 (3.571%) Serena
7 1 (3.571%) Guidewire
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