Blackburn Java Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Java skills within the Blackburn region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Esher Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Pudsey Queensferry Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	4
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£270
Average daily rate	-	£305
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£354
% change on same period last year	+4.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.92	£34.18
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Programming Languages Blackburn
Matching contract IT job ads	8	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.008 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£187
Average daily rate	£272	£217
% change on same period last year	+25.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£247
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£335
% change on same period last year	-5.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£32.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.87	£32.48
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
Java Lancashire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Blackburn region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn 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 2 (66.67 %) Spring 1 2 (66.67 %) Hibernate 2 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux 2 1 (33.33 %) Apache 2 1 (33.33 %) Tomcat 2 1 (33.33 %) Eclipse

2 1 (33.33 %) RDBMS 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Blackburn 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 2 (66.67 %) Hibernate 1 2 (66.67 %) Spring 2 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere 2 1 (33.33 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) WebLogic 1 1 (33.33 %) Apache 1 1 (33.33 %) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Eclipse
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) C++/Java Developer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM