The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 24 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 Brighton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 26 31 16
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -15
Contract jobs citing Java 2 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 1.351% 1.563% 5.109%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.564% 3.883% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £373 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
78 103 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 52.70% 40.23% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 35 29
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £214 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
East Sussex

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (45.45%) SQL
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 3 (27.27%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) XML
3 3 (27.27%) XSLT
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) Apache
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Management
4 2 (18.18%) Subversion
4 2 (18.18%) Spring
4 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (18.18%) XQuery
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) SAS
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
4 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) C
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) XPath
4 2 (18.18%) SQLite
4 2 (18.18%) jQuery
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Mason

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) XML
1 3 (27.27%) XSLT
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) jQuery
2 2 (18.18%) Mason
3 1 (9.091%) Apache CXF
3 1 (9.091%) HTML5
3 1 (9.091%) REST
3 1 (9.091%) Grails
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) J2EE
3 1 (9.091%) JSP
3 1 (9.091%) SOAP
3 1 (9.091%) Struts
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
3 1 (9.091%) Ajax
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 2 (18.18%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Taleo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) SQLite
3 1 (9.091%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.091%) QlikView
3 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
3 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Subversion
2 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
2 1 (9.091%) JProfiler
2 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.091%) Gradle
2 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.091%) JIRA
2 1 (9.091%) FitNesse
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.091%) Maven
2 1 (9.091%) Checkstyle
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Games
2 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Perl Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C Programmer
3 2 (18.18%) Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) OO
2 2 (18.18%) Data Management
2 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
2 2 (18.18%) ETL
2 2 (18.18%) Web Development
2 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Data Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) BDD
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (9.091%) Investment Management
3 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Data Mapping
3 1 (9.091%) Load Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Security Testing
3 1 (9.091%) ITIL
3 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
3 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) XQuery
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) XPath
4 1 (9.091%) Groovy
4 1 (9.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Informatica
2 1 (9.091%) Teradata