The first table below looks at the demand for OSGi skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OSGi over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OSGi
Rank 515 558 562
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +4
Contract jobs citing OSGi 15 20 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.034% 0.042%
As % of the Application Development category 0.118% 0.134% 0.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 17
Average daily rate £425 £600 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £600 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £440 £400 £340
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

OSGi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OSGi Jobs Demand Trend

OSGi
Daily Rate Trend

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

OSGi Daily Rate Trend

OSGi
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OSGi within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

OSGi Daily Rate Histogram

OSGi
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OSGi Hourly Rate Trend

OSGi
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OSGi within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +43 14 £425 -29.16%
London +17 12 £425 -29.16%
City of London +7 2 £475 -20.83%
South East +22 1 £440 +10.00%
Scotland - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £440 -

OSGi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OSGi 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 OSGi.

1 28 (96.55%) Java
2 21 (72.41%) Web Services
3 17 (58.62%) RESTful
4 16 (55.17%) Apache
5 13 (44.83%) Maven
5 13 (44.83%) jQuery
5 13 (44.83%) Adobe CQ
6 12 (41.38%) Adobe
6 12 (41.38%) XML
6 12 (41.38%) JSP
6 12 (41.38%) Servlets
6 12 (41.38%) SOAP
7 11 (37.93%) Content Management
7 11 (37.93%) Ajax
7 11 (37.93%) JSON
8 10 (34.48%) Apache Sling
8 10 (34.48%) Eclipse
9 9 (31.03%) Apache Felix
9 9 (31.03%) Omniture
10 8 (27.59%) Big Data
10 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
10 8 (27.59%) HTML
11 7 (24.14%) Finance
11 7 (24.14%) Publishing
11 7 (24.14%) CMS
11 7 (24.14%) UNIX
11 7 (24.14%) CSS
11 7 (24.14%) Open Source
12 6 (20.69%) Spring
12 6 (20.69%) JUnit

OSGi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OSGi 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 OSGi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (72.41%) Web Services
2 17 (58.62%) RESTful
3 13 (44.83%) jQuery
4 12 (41.38%) XML
4 12 (41.38%) JSP
4 12 (41.38%) Servlets
4 12 (41.38%) SOAP
5 11 (37.93%) Ajax
5 11 (37.93%) JSON
6 10 (34.48%) Apache Sling
7 9 (31.03%) Apache Felix
8 8 (27.59%) HTML
9 7 (24.14%) CSS
10 6 (20.69%) Spring
11 5 (17.24%) JSR 170
12 4 (13.79%) HTML5
12 4 (13.79%) Java EE
12 4 (13.79%) JMS
13 3 (10.34%) JMX
13 3 (10.34%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 16 (55.17%) Apache
2 13 (44.83%) Adobe CQ
3 7 (24.14%) CMS
4 4 (13.79%) ESB
5 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
6 2 (6.897%) Jetty
7 1 (3.448%) Mule
7 1 (3.448%) Apache Solr
7 1 (3.448%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (3.448%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (3.448%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (3.448%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (3.448%) GlassFish
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Tridion
1 1 (3.448%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) HTTP
1 1 (3.448%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Big Data
2 5 (17.24%) Jackrabbit
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) MarkLogic
4 2 (6.897%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.897%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.897%) OLAP
4 2 (6.897%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.448%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (3.448%) Redis
5 1 (3.448%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.448%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Maven
2 10 (34.48%) Eclipse
3 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.69%) JUnit
5 3 (10.34%) Mockito
6 2 (6.897%) Jasmine
7 1 (3.448%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 7 (24.14%) Publishing
1 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 2 (6.897%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.448%) Marketing
4 1 (3.448%) Dutch Language
4 1 (3.448%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) Developer
2 11 (37.93%) Java Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Programmer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Applications Support
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Support Engineer
7 2 (6.897%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.448%) Applications Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Java Web Developer
8 1 (3.448%) CMS Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Development Consultant
8 1 (3.448%) Support Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Open Source
2 2 (6.897%) Linked Data
2 2 (6.897%) Semantic Web
3 1 (3.448%) Derivative
3 1 (3.448%) Ontologies
3 1 (3.448%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) UNIX
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) SUSE
3 3 (10.34%) Solaris
4 1 (3.448%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.448%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Content Management
2 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (17.24%) SOA
3 5 (17.24%) Analytics
4 4 (13.79%) OO
4 4 (13.79%) TDD
5 2 (6.897%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.897%) RDF
5 2 (6.897%) Scrum
5 2 (6.897%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.897%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.448%) Enterprise Content Management
6 1 (3.448%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (3.448%) DRM
6 1 (3.448%) OOD
6 1 (3.448%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.448%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (96.55%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 2 (6.897%) SPARQL
3 2 (6.897%) Scala
4 1 (3.448%) Groovy
4 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) Degree
1 1 (3.448%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (41.38%) Adobe
2 9 (31.03%) Omniture
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.897%) Google
4 2 (6.897%) Oracle
4 2 (6.897%) JBoss
5 1 (3.448%) Actuate
5 1 (3.448%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.448%) Alterian
UK
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Rate: £300 - £400 per day
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England
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iKonnect
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Yorkshire
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Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £251 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013