The first table below looks at the demand for Shibboleth skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Shibboleth over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet2 Shibboleth
Rank 525 569 -
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -
Contract jobs citing Shibboleth 9 17 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.029% -
As % of the System Software category 0.204% 0.363% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
Average daily rate £380 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 - -
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
4421 4683 4368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.900% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 2133 2251 1924
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 632 645
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.18 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

Shibboleth
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shibboleth Jobs Demand Trend

Shibboleth
Daily Rate Trend

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

Shibboleth Daily Rate Trend

Shibboleth
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 Shibboleth within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +48 9 £380 +26.66%
South East - 6 £380 -
Hampshire - 5 £380 -
Andover - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
Manchester - 2 - -
London +15 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Reading - 1 - -

Shibboleth
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Shibboleth 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 Shibboleth.

1 9 (90.00%) Apache
1 9 (90.00%) LDAP
2 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
3 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (60.00%) Java
4 6 (60.00%) SAML
4 6 (60.00%) Identity Management
4 6 (60.00%) VMware
4 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (50.00%) Open Source
5 5 (50.00%) GlassFish
5 5 (50.00%) Juniper
5 5 (50.00%) SAN
5 5 (50.00%) Perl
5 5 (50.00%) PHP
5 5 (50.00%) Oracle
5 5 (50.00%) Cisco
5 5 (50.00%) LAN
5 5 (50.00%) WAN
5 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
5 5 (50.00%) UNIX
5 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 4 (40.00%) SSL
6 4 (40.00%) IPsec
6 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
6 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (30.00%) Windows

Shibboleth
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Shibboleth 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 Shibboleth. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) JSP
3 1 (10.00%) Servlets
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) XSLT
3 1 (10.00%) COM
3 1 (10.00%) EJB
3 1 (10.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Apache
2 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
3 5 (50.00%) GlassFish
4 1 (10.00%) ESB
4 1 (10.00%) Mule
4 1 (10.00%) WordPress
4 1 (10.00%) nginx
4 1 (10.00%) Moodle
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) LDAP
2 5 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 4 (40.00%) SSL
3 4 (40.00%) IPsec
4 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
4 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Subversion
1 2 (20.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior J2EE Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) UNIX
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (10.00%) CentOS
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Identity Management
2 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) Web Application Development
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Perl
2 5 (50.00%) PHP
3 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (20.00%) Ruby
5 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) MCP
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (10.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
1 1 (10.00%) MIIS
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Juniper
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
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Posted: 15 May 2013