The first table below looks at the demand for JTA skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JTA 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
Java Transaction API (JTA)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing JTA 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £368 -
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
401 549 472
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 24.29% 24.61% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 301 256
Average daily rate £300 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £218 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 23
Average hourly rate £28.50 £16.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £37.50 £25.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JTA
England

JTA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing JTA across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands JTA Jobs Demand Trend

JTA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JTA across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands JTA Daily Rate Trend

JTA
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing JTA 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 JTA.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) JMX
1 1 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE 5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Portal
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) NWDI
1 1 (100.00%) NWDS

JTA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing JTA 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 JTA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) JMX
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE 5
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Portal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NWDI
1 1 (100.00%) NWDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP