Buckinghamshire Java Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Java skills within the Buckinghamshire 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barking Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Cleveland Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guernsey Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	15
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	67	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.138 %
As % of the category below	22.56 %	21.85 %
Daily rates quoted	31	50
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£233
Average daily rate	£433	£242
% change on same period last year	+78.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£455	£252
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£351
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.00	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£40.50	£31.65
% change on same period last year	+27.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.00	£32.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.38	£33.04
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Programming Languages Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	297	627
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.415 %	0.630 %
Daily rates quoted	94	141
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£262
Average daily rate	£356	£277
% change on same period last year	+28.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£335
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	87
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.69	£31.65
Average hourly rate	£37.74	£32.89
% change on same period last year	+14.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.79	£34.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Java South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-13	18	£366	+73.92 %
High Wycombe	-1	11	£360	-
Marlow	+4	9	£551	-
Aylesbury	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 56 (38.10 %) J2EE 2 47 (31.97 %) Oracle 3 46 (31.29 %) C++ 4 33 (22.45 %) JSP 4 33 (22.45 %) Security Cleared 5 31 (21.09 %) XML 6 25 (17.01 %) WebSphere 6 25 (17.01 %) DV Cleared 7 24 (16.33 %) Perl 7 24 (16.33 %) Linux 8 23 (15.65 %) SQL 9 22 (14.97 %) HTML 9 22 (14.97 %) PHP 9 22 (14.97 %) C 10 21 (14.29 %) UML

10 21 (14.29 %) RUP 10 21 (14.29 %) Government 11 20 (13.61 %) Windows 12 19 (12.93 %) MFC 12 19 (12.93 %) Servlets 12 19 (12.93 %) Finance 12 19 (12.93 %) Spring 13 18 (12.24 %) Eclipse 14 17 (11.56 %) UNIX 14 17 (11.56 %) EJB 14 17 (11.56 %) JUnit 14 17 (11.56 %) Hibernate 15 16 (10.88 %) JavaScript 16 14 (9.524 %) Construction 16 14 (9.524 %) MySQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 56 (38.10 %) J2EE 2 33 (22.45 %) JSP 3 31 (21.09 %) XML 4 25 (17.01 %) WebSphere 5 22 (14.97 %) HTML 6 19 (12.93 %) MFC 6 19 (12.93 %) Servlets 6 19 (12.93 %) Spring 7 17 (11.56 %) Hibernate 7 17 (11.56 %) EJB 8 13 (8.844 %) CSS 9 10 (6.803 %) JDBC 9 10 (6.803 %) .NET 9 10 (6.803 %) JSF 10 9 (6.122 %) JMS 10 9 (6.122 %) XSLT 11 8 (5.442 %) Struts 12 6 (4.082 %) WebServices 12 6 (4.082 %) XHTML 13 5 (3.401 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 10 (6.803 %) Tomcat 2 9 (6.122 %) MQSeries 2 9 (6.122 %) Apache 3 7 (4.762 %) JBoss 4 6 (4.082 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 5 (3.401 %) BizTalk Server 6 3 (2.041 %) WebLogic 7 2 (1.361 %) Oracle Application Server 8 1 (0.680 %) ESB 8 1 (0.680 %) WebLogic Portal 8 1 (0.680 %) TeamSite 8 1 (0.680 %) CICS
Applications 1 4 (2.721 %) Photoshop 1 4 (2.721 %) MS Office 1 4 (2.721 %) ImageReady 2 3 (2.041 %) MS PowerPoint 2 3 (2.041 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.041 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 11 (7.483 %) Wireless 2 6 (4.082 %) Intranet 3 5 (3.401 %) Internet 4 2 (1.361 %) SS7 4 2 (1.361 %) ISUP 4 2 (1.361 %) HTTP 5 1 (0.680 %) DNS 5 1 (0.680 %) ATM 5 1 (0.680 %) FTP 5 1 (0.680 %) Q.931 5 1 (0.680 %) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (9.524 %) MySQL 1 14 (9.524 %) SQL Server 2 11 (7.483 %) Informix 3 9 (6.122 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 9 (6.122 %) Oracle 10g 4 8 (5.442 %) DB2 5 4 (2.721 %) JasperReports 6 2 (1.361 %) DB2 UDB 7 1 (0.680 %) Oracle 11g 7 1 (0.680 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 18 (12.24 %) Eclipse 2 17 (11.56 %) JUnit 3 14 (9.524 %) Ant 4 8 (5.442 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (0.680 %) Bugzilla 5 1 (0.680 %) Subversion
General 1 21 (14.29 %) Government 2 19 (12.93 %) Finance 3 14 (9.524 %) Construction 4 10 (6.803 %) Telecoms 5 9 (6.122 %) Retail 6 6 (4.082 %) Banking 7 4 (2.721 %) Financial Institution 8 2 (1.361 %) Games 9 1 (0.680 %) Health 9 1 (0.680 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (0.680 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 95 (64.63 %) Developer 2 63 (42.86 %) Java Developer 3 26 (17.69 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 15 (10.20 %) J2EE Developer 4 15 (10.20 %) Senior Developer 5 13 (8.844 %) Tester 6 12 (8.163 %) Consultant 6 12 (8.163 %) C++ Developer 7 11 (7.483 %) C++/Java Developer 8 9 (6.122 %) GUI Developer 8 9 (6.122 %) Senior Java Developer 9 7 (4.762 %) Software Engineer 10 6 (4.082 %) Analyst 10 6 (4.082 %) Systems Tester 10 6 (4.082 %) Applications Support 10 6 (4.082 %) Applications Developer 10 6 (4.082 %) Integration Tester 11 5 (3.401 %) Applications Tester 11 5 (3.401 %) Java Consultant 11 5 (3.401 %) Database Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 5 (3.401 %) VHDL 1 5 (3.401 %) Verilog 1 5 (3.401 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 4 (2.721 %) Computer Science 3 3 (2.041 %) Data Integration 4 2 (1.361 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.680 %) AS400 5 1 (0.680 %) Device Driver 5 1 (0.680 %) Tandem 5 1 (0.680 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.680 %) EMV 5 1 (0.680 %) Chip and PIN 5 1 (0.680 %) Smartcard 5 1 (0.680 %) PKI 5 1 (0.680 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 24 (16.33 %) Linux 2 20 (13.61 %) Windows 3 17 (11.56 %) UNIX 4 5 (3.401 %) Solaris 5 3 (2.041 %) Red Hat Linux 6 2 (1.361 %) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (22.45 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (17.01 %) DV Cleared 3 21 (14.29 %) RUP 3 21 (14.29 %) UML 4 9 (6.122 %) Test Scripting 5 7 (4.762 %) SC Cleared 6 6 (4.082 %) Content Management 7 5 (3.401 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (2.721 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (2.721 %) Continuous Integration 8 4 (2.721 %) EDA 9 3 (2.041 %) Time Management 9 3 (2.041 %) EAI 9 3 (2.041 %) OOA/OOD 9 3 (2.041 %) OO 9 3 (2.041 %) SOA 9 3 (2.041 %) Workflow 9 3 (2.041 %) Validation 10 2 (1.361 %) Software Engineering 10 2 (1.361 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 46 (31.29 %) C++ 2 24 (16.33 %) Perl 3 23 (15.65 %) SQL 4 22 (14.97 %) PHP 4 22 (14.97 %) C 5 16 (10.88 %) JavaScript 6 6 (4.082 %) C# 7 4 (2.721 %) Delphi 7 4 (2.721 %) PL/SQL 7 4 (2.721 %) Assembly Language 7 4 (2.721 %) FoxPro (VFP) 8 3 (2.041 %) Python 9 2 (1.361 %) VB 10 1 (0.680 %) Tcl 10 1 (0.680 %) Shell Script 10 1 (0.680 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.680 %) RPG 10 1 (0.680 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 13 (8.844 %) Degree 2 2 (1.361 %) PMP 2 2 (1.361 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.680 %) SLA 1 1 (0.680 %) QA
Vendors 1 47 (31.97 %) Oracle 2 13 (8.844 %) Microsoft 3 10 (6.803 %) BEA 4 7 (4.762 %) IBM 4 7 (4.762 %) FatWire 5 5 (3.401 %) TIBCO 5 5 (3.401 %) Mercator 6 4 (2.721 %) webMethods 6 4 (2.721 %) VMware 7 3 (2.041 %) Red Hat 7 3 (2.041 %) Adobe 8 2 (1.361 %) Intel 9 1 (0.680 %) Interwoven 9 1 (0.680 %) CA 9 1 (0.680 %) Endeca 9 1 (0.680 %) Google