Java Contracts in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 15 13 9
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 21 46 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 6.383% 10.85% 11.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.07% 17.16% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 34 15
Average daily rate £400 £356 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.28% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £236 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £450 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £14.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% +317.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 174 268 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 52.89% 63.21% 57.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 139 73
Average daily rate £300 £305 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% +1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £201 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 30 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £34.25 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £60.00 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
Cambridgeshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 25 (42.37%) Linux
2 18 (30.51%) Apache
2 18 (30.51%) SQL
3 17 (28.81%) UNIX
4 16 (27.12%) Spring
5 14 (23.73%) XML
5 14 (23.73%) Tomcat
6 12 (20.34%) Windows
6 12 (20.34%) C++
6 12 (20.34%) HTML
6 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
7 11 (18.64%) Perl
7 11 (18.64%) C
7 11 (18.64%) Oracle
7 11 (18.64%) Web Services
7 11 (18.64%) Python
8 10 (16.95%) CSS
8 10 (16.95%) Git (software)
9 9 (15.25%) RESTful
9 9 (15.25%) Android
9 9 (15.25%) C#
9 9 (15.25%) Ruby
9 9 (15.25%) JSON
9 9 (15.25%) Computer Science
9 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
9 9 (15.25%) TDD
9 9 (15.25%) MVC
9 9 (15.25%) Hibernate
10 8 (13.56%) VMware
10 8 (13.56%) Subversion

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 16 (27.12%) Spring
2 14 (23.73%) XML
3 12 (20.34%) HTML
4 11 (18.64%) Web Services
5 10 (16.95%) CSS
6 9 (15.25%) RESTful
6 9 (15.25%) JSON
6 9 (15.25%) Hibernate
7 7 (11.86%) J2EE
7 7 (11.86%) SOAP
8 6 (10.17%) Ajax
8 6 (10.17%) jQuery
9 5 (8.475%) Middleware
9 5 (8.475%) Ruby on Rails
10 4 (6.780%) Java EE
10 4 (6.780%) Swing
10 4 (6.780%) JDBC
10 4 (6.780%) Memcached
10 4 (6.780%) Node.js
11 3 (5.085%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 18 (30.51%) Apache
2 14 (23.73%) Tomcat
3 7 (11.86%) IIS
4 4 (6.780%) CMS
4 4 (6.780%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.780%) concrete5
5 3 (5.085%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (5.085%) WordPress
5 3 (5.085%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.390%) Photoshop
1 2 (3.390%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) DHCP
1 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
1 7 (11.86%) DNS
1 7 (11.86%) BIG-IP
2 4 (6.780%) SAN
2 4 (6.780%) NAS
3 2 (3.390%) Wireless
4 1 (1.695%) HTTP
4 1 (1.695%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) MySQL
2 4 (6.780%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (6.780%) MongoDB
2 4 (6.780%) Redis
3 1 (1.695%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) Git (software)
2 8 (13.56%) Subversion
3 6 (10.17%) JIRA
4 4 (6.780%) Maven
4 4 (6.780%) Selenium
5 2 (3.390%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (3.390%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.390%) TestNG
5 2 (3.390%) Bazaar
6 1 (1.695%) JMeter
General
1 4 (6.780%) Finance
1 4 (6.780%) Games
2 3 (5.085%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (5.085%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (54.24%) Developer
2 24 (40.68%) Java Developer
3 7 (11.86%) Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) Test Analyst
3 7 (11.86%) Administrator
3 7 (11.86%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (8.475%) Test Engineer
5 3 (5.085%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.085%) Web Developer
6 2 (3.390%) Web Applications Developer
6 2 (3.390%) Applications Developer
6 2 (3.390%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.390%) UI Developer
6 2 (3.390%) Agile Test Analyst
6 2 (3.390%) UI Programmer
7 1 (1.695%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (1.695%) WPF Developer
7 1 (1.695%) Android Developer
7 1 (1.695%) Agile .NET Developer
7 1 (1.695%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.25%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.780%) Informatics
3 3 (5.085%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (3.390%) Biology
4 2 (3.390%) LIMS
5 1 (1.695%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.695%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 25 (42.37%) Linux
2 17 (28.81%) UNIX
3 12 (20.34%) Windows
4 9 (15.25%) Android
5 4 (6.780%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (5.085%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.085%) Windows XP
6 3 (5.085%) Mac OS X
6 3 (5.085%) Windows CE
6 3 (5.085%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (3.390%) Debian
7 2 (3.390%) Embedded Linux
7 2 (3.390%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.390%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
1 9 (15.25%) TDD
1 9 (15.25%) MVC
2 8 (13.56%) Software Testing
3 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Management
3 7 (11.86%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (10.17%) OO
5 5 (8.475%) Test Scripting
5 5 (8.475%) Scrum
6 4 (6.780%) Information Management
6 4 (6.780%) SEO
6 4 (6.780%) Configuration Management
6 4 (6.780%) OOP
6 4 (6.780%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.085%) Game Development
7 3 (5.085%) Regression Testing
8 2 (3.390%) Benchmarking
8 2 (3.390%) Multithreading
8 2 (3.390%) Compatibility Testing
9 1 (1.695%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.51%) SQL
2 12 (20.34%) C++
2 12 (20.34%) JavaScript
3 11 (18.64%) Perl
3 11 (18.64%) C
3 11 (18.64%) Python
4 9 (15.25%) C#
4 9 (15.25%) Ruby
5 8 (13.56%) PHP
6 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.475%) Lisp
8 4 (6.780%) Objective-C
8 4 (6.780%) PHP5
9 1 (1.695%) Haskell
9 1 (1.695%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) ISEB
2 6 (10.17%) Degree
3 4 (6.780%) PhD
4 2 (3.390%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.695%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.390%) QA
System Software
1 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.780%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (5.085%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Oracle
2 8 (13.56%) VMware
3 7 (11.86%) JBoss
4 6 (10.17%) HP
5 4 (6.780%) NetApp
6 3 (5.085%) Akamai
6 3 (5.085%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.085%) webMethods
6 3 (5.085%) Zend
7 2 (3.390%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.695%) Twitter
Application Developer/C#/PHP/SQL Cambridgeshire £250-350 p/d
Cambridge, East Anglia
For an ambitious, creative, confident, self-motivated team player this is an excellent opportunity to make a real difference to this already high-achieving organisation. This role is...
greywood
Rate: £250 - £350 per day + Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
Embedded Software Engineer
Cambridge, East Anglia
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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