Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java 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 over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 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 Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.

 Java
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank251721
Rank change year-on-year
Down-8Up+4
Matching contract IT job ads162847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham4.040 %6.181 %5.021 %
As % of the Programming Languages category12.31 %20.14 %21.86 %
Daily rates quoted51311
Average daily rate£240£325£301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.15 %+8.150 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£231£230£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£280£391£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£325£363
% change year-on-year
+3.840 %-10.34 %
Hourly rates quoted001
Average hourly rate--£23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.00£32.50£36.00
% change year-on-year
-4.610 %-9.720 %
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
130139215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham32.83 %30.68 %22.97 %
Daily rates quoted575160
Average daily rate£225£325£301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.76 %+8.150 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£171£222£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£395£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted81315
Average hourly rate£18.54£32.50£33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.96 %-3.700 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£21.50£17.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£32.50£35.00£41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
Java West MidlandsJava
West Midlands

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.

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham Java Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

128 (57.14 %)Web Services
226 (53.06 %)XML
226 (53.06 %)SQL
323 (46.94 %)Oracle
421 (42.86 %)UNIX
519 (38.78 %)SOA
618 (36.73 %)Oracle 10g
618 (36.73 %)Oracle Reports
618 (36.73 %)Oracle 9i
618 (36.73 %)XSD
618 (36.73 %)PL/SQL
618 (36.73 %)ESB
717 (34.69 %)J2EE
815 (30.61 %)CRM
815 (30.61 %)Business Intelligence
914 (28.57 %)Oracle Discoverer
914 (28.57 %)WSDL
914 (28.57 %)OCA
914 (28.57 %)Oracle Certification
914 (28.57 %)Oracle 11i
914 (28.57 %)WebLogic
914 (28.57 %)TopLink
1013 (26.53 %)SAP
1013 (26.53 %)JSP
1111 (22.45 %)BPEL
1210 (20.41 %)Oracle BPM
1210 (20.41 %)Middleware
1210 (20.41 %)Workflow
1210 (20.41 %)Oracle Workflow
1210 (20.41 %)Servlets

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
128 (57.14 %)Web Services
226 (53.06 %)XML
318 (36.73 %)XSD
417 (34.69 %)J2EE
514 (28.57 %)WSDL
514 (28.57 %)TopLink
613 (26.53 %)JSP
710 (20.41 %)Middleware
710 (20.41 %)Servlets
89 (18.37 %)Web Dynpro
98 (16.33 %)XSLT
107 (14.29 %)WebSphere
116 (12.24 %)Spring
125 (10.20 %)Hibernate
134 (8.163 %)HTML
134 (8.163 %)EJB
134 (8.163 %)CSS
134 (8.163 %)JavaBeans
143 (6.122 %)ASP.NET
143 (6.122 %)SOAP
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
118 (36.73 %)ESB
214 (28.57 %)WebLogic
310 (20.41 %)Oracle Workflow
49 (18.37 %)SAP Portal
55 (10.20 %)NetWeaver
64 (8.163 %)SAP EP
73 (6.122 %)Oracle Application Server
73 (6.122 %)CMS
73 (6.122 %)Documentum
73 (6.122 %)Captiva
82 (4.082 %)Tomcat
91 (2.041 %)WebSphere MQ
91 (2.041 %)Apache
91 (2.041 %)WebSphere Application Server
91 (2.041 %)AquaLogic
91 (2.041 %)TIBCO EMS
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (2.041 %)SmartSuite
11 (2.041 %)Photoshop
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
114 (28.57 %)Oracle 11i
210 (20.41 %)Oracle BPM
39 (18.37 %)Oracle Applications
44 (8.163 %)SAP xRPM
51 (2.041 %)SAP CRM
51 (2.041 %)AquaLogic BPM
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
118 (36.73 %)Oracle 10g
118 (36.73 %)Oracle Reports
118 (36.73 %)Oracle 9i
214 (28.57 %)Oracle Discoverer
38 (16.33 %)Oracle 11g
44 (8.163 %)RDBMS
44 (8.163 %)Datawarehouse
52 (4.082 %)MySQL
61 (2.041 %)PostgreSQL
61 (2.041 %)SQL Server
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
110 (20.41 %)Oracle Forms
27 (14.29 %)JDeveloper
34 (8.163 %)Eclipse
34 (8.163 %)Subversion
43 (6.122 %)JUnit
51 (2.041 %)Maven
51 (2.041 %)TortoiseSVN
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (4.082 %)Back Office
12 (4.082 %)Finance
21 (2.041 %)Health
21 (2.041 %)Manufacturing
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
128 (57.14 %)Developer
211 (22.45 %)Oracle Developer
211 (22.45 %)Designer
37 (14.29 %)Consultant
46 (12.24 %)Senior Developer
55 (10.20 %)Java Developer
64 (8.163 %)SOA Architect
64 (8.163 %)Senior Oracle Developer
64 (8.163 %)Oracle Architect
64 (8.163 %)Architect
64 (8.163 %)Trainer
73 (6.122 %)J2EE Developer
73 (6.122 %)Technical Consultant
73 (6.122 %)Analyst
82 (4.082 %)SAP Consultant
82 (4.082 %)Documentum Consultant
82 (4.082 %)SAP Portals Consultant
91 (2.041 %)PHP Developer
91 (2.041 %)SAP Developer
91 (2.041 %)NetWeaver Consultant
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (4.082 %)NHS
21 (2.041 %)Equities
21 (2.041 %)Client/Server
21 (2.041 %)Firmware
21 (2.041 %)Derivative
21 (2.041 %)DataPower
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
121 (42.86 %)UNIX
22 (4.082 %)AIX
22 (4.082 %)Linux
31 (2.041 %)Windows
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
119 (38.78 %)SOA
215 (30.61 %)CRM
215 (30.61 %)Business Intelligence
311 (22.45 %)BPEL
410 (20.41 %)Workflow
58 (16.33 %)Agile Software Development
65 (10.20 %)Knowledge Management
74 (8.163 %)Unit Testing
74 (8.163 %)OO
83 (6.122 %)TDD
83 (6.122 %)Scrum
83 (6.122 %)MVC
83 (6.122 %)E-Commerce
92 (4.082 %)Business Analysis
92 (4.082 %)Document Management
101 (2.041 %)Content Management
101 (2.041 %)Asset Management
101 (2.041 %)Information Security
101 (2.041 %)Programme Management
101 (2.041 %)Project Management
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
126 (53.06 %)SQL
218 (36.73 %)PL/SQL
35 (10.20 %)ABAP
35 (10.20 %)JavaScript
42 (4.082 %)C
42 (4.082 %)C#
51 (2.041 %)PHP
51 (2.041 %)ActionScript
51 (2.041 %)RPG
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
114 (28.57 %)OCA
114 (28.57 %)Oracle Certification
29 (18.37 %)OCP
34 (8.163 %)BC Cleared
34 (8.163 %)Security Cleared
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.041 %)HL7
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (4.082 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (2.041 %)Active Directory
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (2.041 %)HP Quality Center
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
123 (46.94 %)Oracle
213 (26.53 %)SAP
32 (4.082 %)IBM
32 (4.082 %)VMware
41 (2.041 %)TIBCO
41 (2.041 %)Thunderhead
41 (2.041 %)EMC
41 (2.041 %)Citrix