The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Resin skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Resin over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 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.

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.

Caucho Technology Resin
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank576578533
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-45
Matching contract IT job ads333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.005 %0.005 %0.005 %
As % of the Application Platforms category0.031 %0.029 %0.036 %
Number of daily rates quoted030
Average daily rate-£290-
UK excluding London average daily rate-£290-
Number of hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9626102508302
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK16.26 %16.70 %15.08 %
Number of daily rates quoted532254453765
Average daily rate£350£375£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %+3.44 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£220
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£325
% change year-on-year
-7.14 %+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted426561523
Average hourly rate£20.00£19.50£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£12.00£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.00£37.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.57£19.50£19.00
% change year-on-year
+0.37 %+2.63 %

Resin
Demand Trend

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

Resin Demand Trend

Resin
Daily Rate Trend

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

Resin Daily Rate Trend

Resin
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Resin Hourly Rate Trend

Resin
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Resin within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+113--
LondonNew entry-3--

Resin
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Resin 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 Resin.

15 (100.00 %)Java
15 (100.00 %)SQL
24 (80.00 %)J2EE
24 (80.00 %)Oracle
33 (60.00 %)JSP
33 (60.00 %)XML
33 (60.00 %)Tomcat
33 (60.00 %)Agile Software Development
33 (60.00 %)Spring
33 (60.00 %)Java EE
42 (40.00 %)Spring MVC
42 (40.00 %)Castor
42 (40.00 %)Release Management
42 (40.00 %)ClearCase
42 (40.00 %)Scrum
42 (40.00 %)OO
42 (40.00 %)Oracle Forms
42 (40.00 %)Apache
42 (40.00 %)JAXB
42 (40.00 %)CA
42 (40.00 %)Shell Script
42 (40.00 %)Configuration Management
42 (40.00 %)Change Management
42 (40.00 %)MVC
42 (40.00 %)UNIX
42 (40.00 %)JDBC
42 (40.00 %)Servlets
42 (40.00 %)Ant
42 (40.00 %)WebLogic
42 (40.00 %)PVCS

Resin
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Resin 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 Resin. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (80.00 %)J2EE
23 (60.00 %)JSP
23 (60.00 %)XML
23 (60.00 %)Spring
23 (60.00 %)Java EE
32 (40.00 %)Spring MVC
32 (40.00 %)Castor
32 (40.00 %)JAXB
32 (40.00 %)JDBC
32 (40.00 %)Servlets
41 (20.00 %)CSS
41 (20.00 %)Struts
41 (20.00 %)Web Services
41 (20.00 %)HTML
41 (20.00 %)Hibernate
41 (20.00 %)jQuery
41 (20.00 %)Taglibs
41 (20.00 %)RESTful
41 (20.00 %)HTML5
41 (20.00 %)REST
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (60.00 %)Tomcat
22 (40.00 %)Apache
22 (40.00 %)WebLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (20.00 %)MySQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (40.00 %)ClearCase
12 (40.00 %)Oracle Forms
12 (40.00 %)Ant
12 (40.00 %)PVCS
21 (20.00 %)JUnit
21 (20.00 %)Git (software)
21 (20.00 %)Hudson
21 (20.00 %)Maven
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (20.00 %)Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (40.00 %)Java/J2EE Developer
12 (40.00 %)Java Developer
12 (40.00 %)J2EE Developer
12 (40.00 %)Developer
21 (20.00 %)XML Developer
21 (20.00 %)Java Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Senior Java Engineer
21 (20.00 %)JSP Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (20.00 %)Open Source
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12 (40.00 %)UNIX
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (60.00 %)Agile Software Development
22 (40.00 %)Release Management
22 (40.00 %)Scrum
22 (40.00 %)OO
22 (40.00 %)Configuration Management
22 (40.00 %)Change Management
22 (40.00 %)MVC
31 (20.00 %)UML
31 (20.00 %)OOD
31 (20.00 %)Unit Testing
31 (20.00 %)Continuous Integration
31 (20.00 %)Multithreading
31 (20.00 %)Systems Analysis
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (100.00 %)Java
15 (100.00 %)SQL
22 (40.00 %)Shell Script
22 (40.00 %)Perl
31 (20.00 %)Groovy
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (80.00 %)Oracle
22 (40.00 %)CA
31 (20.00 %)JBoss