The first table below looks at the demand for OpenSSO skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenSSO over the 3 months to 21 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 System Software 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun OpenSSO
Rank 529 567 564
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -3
Contract jobs citing OpenSSO 11 14 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.024% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.250% 0.301% 0.365%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 12
Average daily rate £550 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £375 £454
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £488
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4407 4652 4389
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.335% 7.958% 7.296%
Number of daily rates quoted 2121 2234 1929
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 623 644
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.03 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

OpenSSO
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenSSO within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

OpenSSO Jobs Demand Trend

OpenSSO
Daily Rate Trend

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

OpenSSO Daily Rate Trend

OpenSSO
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenSSO within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

OpenSSO Daily Rate Histogram

OpenSSO
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 OpenSSO within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +42 11 £550 +10.00%
London +13 11 £550 +10.00%
City of London +11 9 £550 +10.00%

OpenSSO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenSSO 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 OpenSSO.

1 9 (42.86%) SOAP
2 8 (38.10%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) Liferay
3 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 7 (33.33%) Banking
4 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
4 6 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) LDAP
4 6 (28.57%) J2EE
4 6 (28.57%) WebLogic
4 6 (28.57%) WebLogic Portal
4 6 (28.57%) Facebook
5 5 (23.81%) soapUI
5 5 (23.81%) Migration
6 4 (19.05%) ClearCase
6 4 (19.05%) BladeLogic
6 4 (19.05%) Investment Banking
6 4 (19.05%) Linux
6 4 (19.05%) Apache
6 4 (19.05%) Oracle
7 3 (14.29%) SQL
7 3 (14.29%) Struts
7 3 (14.29%) XML
7 3 (14.29%) XSLT
7 3 (14.29%) EJB
7 3 (14.29%) JDBC
7 3 (14.29%) JSP
7 3 (14.29%) Servlets
7 3 (14.29%) Tomcat
7 3 (14.29%) JBoss

OpenSSO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenSSO 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 OpenSSO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (42.86%) SOAP
2 6 (28.57%) J2EE
3 5 (23.81%) soapUI
4 3 (14.29%) Struts
4 3 (14.29%) XML
4 3 (14.29%) XSLT
4 3 (14.29%) EJB
4 3 (14.29%) JDBC
4 3 (14.29%) JSP
4 3 (14.29%) Servlets
4 3 (14.29%) JavaBeans
4 3 (14.29%) Apache FOP
4 3 (14.29%) Spring
4 3 (14.29%) HTML
4 3 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.762%) .NET
5 1 (4.762%) Middleware
5 1 (4.762%) WSDL
5 1 (4.762%) jQuery
5 1 (4.762%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) Liferay
2 6 (28.57%) WebLogic
2 6 (28.57%) WebLogic Portal
3 4 (19.05%) Apache
4 3 (14.29%) Tomcat
5 2 (9.524%) Mule
5 2 (9.524%) ESB
6 1 (4.762%) IIS
6 1 (4.762%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
6 1 (4.762%) MSMQ
6 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LDAP
2 1 (4.762%) HTTP
2 1 (4.762%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.762%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) ClearCase
2 2 (9.524%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.762%) Maven
3 1 (4.762%) CruiseControl
3 1 (4.762%) Subversion
3 1 (4.762%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.762%) Axure RP
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
1 7 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (19.05%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Consultant
2 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Team Leader
3 2 (9.524%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (9.524%) Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.762%) WebLogic Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Management Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Applications Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) N-Tier
1 3 (14.29%) Fixed Income
1 3 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (4.762%) Open Source
2 1 (4.762%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Identity Management
1 6 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Web Design
4 2 (9.524%) Incident Management
4 2 (9.524%) ITIL
5 1 (4.762%) SOA
5 1 (4.762%) Process Management
5 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.762%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) BladeLogic
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.762%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Facebook
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) JBoss
4 2 (9.524%) F5
5 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.762%) Sun
5 1 (4.762%) Oblix
5 1 (4.762%) Omniture
5 1 (4.762%) Google
5 1 (4.762%) Twitter