Java Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the Bedfordshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 25 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 4 18 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.094% 6.452% 8.219%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.407% 29.03% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 8
Average daily rate £350 £343 £414
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.18% -17.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 54 62 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.27% 22.22% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 40
Average daily rate £338 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £450 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £24.38 £38.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.85% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Java
East of England

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Bedfordshire Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Bedfordshire region 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
Luton -6 1 - -
Java
East of England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Java 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 Java.

1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) XML
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (28.57%) Web Development
3 2 (28.57%) WATIR
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) PrintSoft PReS
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 2 (28.57%) Android
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
3 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Papyrus
3 2 (28.57%) DOC1
3 2 (28.57%) TDD

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Java 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 Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) XML
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (28.57%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) J2ME
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) iOS SDK
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Papyrus
2 1 (14.29%) Exstream Dialogue
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) PrintSoft PReS
1 2 (28.57%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) WATIR
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
1 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) PhoneGap
2 1 (14.29%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (14.29%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Android Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Informatica Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Web Development
1 2 (28.57%) MVC
1 2 (28.57%) Scrum
1 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
1 2 (28.57%) BDD
1 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
1 2 (28.57%) TDD
1 2 (28.57%) Kanban
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) XMPie
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Google
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