The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 17 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 Buckinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 36 35 20
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -15
Contract jobs citing Java 29 43 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 3.680% 4.232% 6.415%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.98% 15.52% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 30
Average daily rate £420 £301 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.53% -19.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £175 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £420 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
242 277 303
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 30.71% 27.26% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 148 130
Average daily rate £320 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £425 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 9
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% -1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.25 £35.00 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £36.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Java
South East

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes +15 21 £500 +66.11%
Java
South East

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 28 (42.42%) J2EE
2 17 (25.76%) WebSphere
3 14 (21.21%) Web Services
4 13 (19.70%) XML
4 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 13 (19.70%) CSS
5 12 (18.18%) SQL
5 12 (18.18%) E-Commerce
6 11 (16.67%) JMS
6 11 (16.67%) .NET
6 11 (16.67%) Degree
7 10 (15.15%) Retail
7 10 (15.15%) JSP
7 10 (15.15%) Finance
8 9 (13.64%) Use Case
9 8 (12.12%) Spring
9 8 (12.12%) Software Architecture
9 8 (12.12%) JDBC
9 8 (12.12%) Ant
9 8 (12.12%) Oracle
9 8 (12.12%) HTTP
9 8 (12.12%) OO
10 7 (10.61%) JBoss
10 7 (10.61%) XSL
10 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
10 7 (10.61%) IIS
10 7 (10.61%) SOAP
10 7 (10.61%) Hibernate
10 7 (10.61%) Data Architecture
10 7 (10.61%) Ajax

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 28 (42.42%) J2EE
2 17 (25.76%) WebSphere
3 14 (21.21%) Web Services
4 13 (19.70%) XML
4 13 (19.70%) CSS
5 11 (16.67%) .NET
5 11 (16.67%) JMS
6 10 (15.15%) JSP
7 8 (12.12%) JDBC
7 8 (12.12%) Spring
8 7 (10.61%) Ajax
8 7 (10.61%) Hibernate
8 7 (10.61%) SOAP
8 7 (10.61%) XSL
8 7 (10.61%) Dojo
9 6 (9.091%) Struts
9 6 (9.091%) Servlets
9 6 (9.091%) DHTML
10 5 (7.576%) XSLT
10 5 (7.576%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.61%) IIS
2 6 (9.091%) GlassFish
3 5 (7.576%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.545%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (3.030%) Tomcat
5 2 (3.030%) NetWeaver
5 2 (3.030%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (3.030%) Oracle Service Bus
5 2 (3.030%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (3.030%) ESB
5 2 (3.030%) Oracle BPEL
6 1 (1.515%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (1.515%) FileNet
6 1 (1.515%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.515%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.515%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (1.515%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.515%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.030%) SAP CRM
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.515%) FileNet Content Manager
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.12%) HTTP
2 7 (10.61%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.030%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.091%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.061%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (3.030%) MySQL
4 2 (3.030%) DTS
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (1.515%) OLAP
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (1.515%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.515%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (1.515%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Ant
2 4 (6.061%) Dreamweaver
3 3 (4.545%) Eclipse
3 3 (4.545%) Maven
4 2 (3.030%) Talend Open Studio
4 2 (3.030%) ClearCase
4 2 (3.030%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (3.030%) LoadRunner
4 2 (3.030%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.515%) Subversion
5 1 (1.515%) JUnit
5 1 (1.515%) Hudson
5 1 (1.515%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (15.15%) Finance
1 10 (15.15%) Retail
2 3 (4.545%) Banking
3 2 (3.030%) Spanish Language
4 1 (1.515%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.515%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (51.52%) Developer
2 12 (18.18%) Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Architect
4 8 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.091%) Support Analyst
6 5 (7.576%) Applications Support
6 5 (7.576%) J2EE Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Web Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Applications Developer
6 5 (7.576%) WebSphere Architect
6 5 (7.576%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (6.061%) UI Developer
7 4 (6.061%) UI Programmer
7 4 (6.061%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (4.545%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.545%) Test Analyst
9 2 (3.030%) Technical Architect
9 2 (3.030%) Consultant
9 2 (3.030%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.576%) Open Source
2 4 (6.061%) W3C
2 4 (6.061%) Web 2.0
3 2 (3.030%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.515%) IVR
4 1 (1.515%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.515%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.576%) Linux
2 3 (4.545%) UNIX
3 1 (1.515%) Windows
3 1 (1.515%) AIX
3 1 (1.515%) Solaris
3 1 (1.515%) Debian
3 1 (1.515%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 9 (13.64%) Use Case
3 8 (12.12%) Software Architecture
3 8 (12.12%) OO
4 7 (10.61%) Data Architecture
5 6 (9.091%) Analytics
5 6 (9.091%) Web Development
5 6 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
5 6 (9.091%) SOA
5 6 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (9.091%) Service Delivery
6 5 (7.576%) UML
6 5 (7.576%) BPEL
7 4 (6.061%) CRM
8 3 (4.545%) Scrum
8 3 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (3.030%) Automation Testing
9 2 (3.030%) Performance Testing
9 2 (3.030%) Data Modelling
9 2 (3.030%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
2 12 (18.18%) SQL
3 4 (6.061%) ActionScript
4 2 (3.030%) XPath
4 2 (3.030%) ABAP
4 2 (3.030%) Perl
5 1 (1.515%) PHP
5 1 (1.515%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.515%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.515%) C#
5 1 (1.515%) C++
5 1 (1.515%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (7.576%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.030%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.030%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.515%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.515%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Oracle
2 7 (10.61%) JBoss
3 5 (7.576%) IBM
4 3 (4.545%) HP
5 2 (3.030%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.030%) VMware
5 2 (3.030%) Talend
5 2 (3.030%) SAP
6 1 (1.515%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.515%) Adobe
6 1 (1.515%) Sun
6 1 (1.515%) Lotus
6 1 (1.515%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.515%) ATG
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
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Posted: 4 May 2013