The first table below looks at the demand for Java SE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java SE over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Birmingham 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Java SE 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.207% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.980% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £250 £425
% change year-on-year
+90.00% -41.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
102 154 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.07% 24.06% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 101 85
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £27.75 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -30.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Java SE
West Midlands

Java SE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Java SE Jobs Demand Trend

Java SE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Java SE Daily Rate Trend

Java SE
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Java SE 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 SE.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Dojo
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) MooTools
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)

Java SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Java SE 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 SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Dojo
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) MooTools
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
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