Cambridgeshire Java Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Clapham Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover Dundee East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Isle of Man Jersey Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peel Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea 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 Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon 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 Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	16
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	65	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.087 %
As % of the category below	18.31 %	17.30 %
Daily rates quoted	26	25
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£318
Average daily rate	£296	£333
% change on same period last year	-10.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£354
% change on same period last year	+3.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£37.23
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£38.63
% change on same period last year	+16.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£40.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.67	£35.04
% change on same period last year	+4.65 %
Programming Languages Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	355	503
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.473 %	0.502 %
Daily rates quoted	89	74
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£299
Average daily rate	£327	£312
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.15	£29.55
Average hourly rate	£34.32	£31.46
% change on same period last year	+9.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.49	£33.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
Java East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Cambridge	0	42	£295	-11.85 %
Peterborough	-4	5	-	-

Java East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 86 (44.79 %) J2EE 2 49 (25.52 %) JSP 3 48 (25.00 %) SQL 4 44 (22.92 %) Oracle 5 43 (22.40 %) Hibernate 6 41 (21.35 %) Spring 6 41 (21.35 %) HTML 7 39 (20.31 %) UML 7 39 (20.31 %) Finance 8 36 (18.75 %) JUnit 9 34 (17.71 %) Linux 10 28 (14.58 %) UNIX 10 28 (14.58 %) XML 10 28 (14.58 %) IBM 11 27 (14.06 %) Oracle 10g

12 25 (13.02 %) JBoss 13 24 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 13 24 (12.50 %) OO 13 24 (12.50 %) JDeveloper 14 23 (11.98 %) C++ 14 23 (11.98 %) JSF 14 23 (11.98 %) WebSphere 15 22 (11.46 %) Oracle ADF 15 22 (11.46 %) Oracle EBS 15 22 (11.46 %) Ant 15 22 (11.46 %) Struts 15 22 (11.46 %) Security Cleared 16 21 (10.94 %) Windows 16 21 (10.94 %) EJB 16 21 (10.94 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 86 (44.79 %) J2EE 2 49 (25.52 %) JSP 3 43 (22.40 %) Hibernate 4 41 (21.35 %) HTML 4 41 (21.35 %) Spring 5 28 (14.58 %) XML 6 23 (11.98 %) WebSphere 6 23 (11.98 %) JSF 7 22 (11.46 %) Oracle ADF 7 22 (11.46 %) Struts 8 21 (10.94 %) EJB 9 17 (8.854 %) .NET 10 16 (8.333 %) JMS 11 14 (7.292 %) WebServices 12 10 (5.208 %) CSS 12 10 (5.208 %) J2ME 13 8 (4.167 %) Servlets 14 7 (3.646 %) .NET Remoting 14 7 (3.646 %) WCF 15 5 (2.604 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 25 (13.02 %) JBoss 2 14 (7.292 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 8 (4.167 %) Tomcat 3 8 (4.167 %) MQSeries 4 7 (3.646 %) Apache 4 7 (3.646 %) IIS 5 2 (1.042 %) NetWeaver 6 1 (0.521 %) Commerce Server 6 1 (0.521 %) Smallworld 6 1 (0.521 %) SAP Web AS 6 1 (0.521 %) SAP EP 6 1 (0.521 %) ESB 6 1 (0.521 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 1 (0.521 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 22 (11.46 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.208 %) 3GPP 2 6 (3.125 %) TELNET 2 6 (3.125 %) Internet 3 4 (2.083 %) SMPP 3 4 (2.083 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (1.563 %) Wireless 5 2 (1.042 %) 3G 5 2 (1.042 %) HTTP 6 1 (0.521 %) HSDPA 6 1 (0.521 %) HSUPA 6 1 (0.521 %) ZigBee 6 1 (0.521 %) LTE 6 1 (0.521 %) Intranet 6 1 (0.521 %) UMTS 6 1 (0.521 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.521 %) CDMA 6 1 (0.521 %) GPRS 6 1 (0.521 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (14.06 %) Oracle 10g 2 24 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 3 19 (9.896 %) SQL Server 4 14 (7.292 %) DB2 5 11 (5.729 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (2.604 %) SQL Server 2000 6 5 (2.604 %) Oracle Reports 6 5 (2.604 %) MySQL 7 3 (1.563 %) RDBMS 7 3 (1.563 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (1.042 %) DTS 8 2 (1.042 %) IDOL 9 1 (0.521 %) Text Mining 9 1 (0.521 %) GIS 9 1 (0.521 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 36 (18.75 %) JUnit 2 24 (12.50 %) JDeveloper 3 22 (11.46 %) Ant 4 15 (7.813 %) Eclipse 5 14 (7.292 %) Subversion 6 10 (5.208 %) CruiseControl 7 9 (4.688 %) IntelliJ 8 8 (4.167 %) Atlassian Bamboo 9 6 (3.125 %) Visual Studio 10 5 (2.604 %) Rational Functional Tester 11 4 (2.083 %) Rational Robot 12 2 (1.042 %) JBuilder 12 2 (1.042 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 12 2 (1.042 %) QuickTest Pro 13 1 (0.521 %) Flash 13 1 (0.521 %) Selenium	General 1 39 (20.31 %) Finance 2 13 (6.771 %) Telecoms 3 11 (5.729 %) Insurance 4 8 (4.167 %) Banking 5 7 (3.646 %) Pharmaceutical 6 6 (3.125 %) Government 7 3 (1.563 %) Health 7 3 (1.563 %) Retail 8 2 (1.042 %) Retail Banking 8 2 (1.042 %) Electronics 9 1 (0.521 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.521 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.521 %) Police 9 1 (0.521 %) Games 9 1 (0.521 %) Multimedia 9 1 (0.521 %) Construction 9 1 (0.521 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 130 (67.71 %) Developer 2 91 (47.40 %) Java Developer 3 31 (16.15 %) J2EE Developer 4 28 (14.58 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 15 (7.813 %) Consultant 6 13 (6.771 %) Oracle Consultant 6 13 (6.771 %) Java Consultant 7 10 (5.208 %) Software Developer 8 8 (4.167 %) Test Engineer 9 7 (3.646 %) C# Developer 10 6 (3.125 %) Lead Developer 10 6 (3.125 %) Lead Java Developer 11 5 (2.604 %) Senior Java Developer 11 5 (2.604 %) Java Programmer 11 5 (2.604 %) Software Engineer 11 5 (2.604 %) Senior Developer 11 5 (2.604 %) Programmer 11 5 (2.604 %) Analyst 12 4 (2.083 %) Tester 12 4 (2.083 %) C++/Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 15 (7.813 %) Cryptography 2 10 (5.208 %) PKI 2 10 (5.208 %) Java Card 3 9 (4.688 %) Computer Science 4 7 (3.646 %) Mathematics 5 5 (2.604 %) Biology 6 2 (1.042 %) Multithreading 7 1 (0.521 %) Credit Risk 7 1 (0.521 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (0.521 %) Speech Recognition 7 1 (0.521 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.521 %) Management Information System 7 1 (0.521 %) E-Learning
Operating Systems 1 34 (17.71 %) Linux 2 28 (14.58 %) UNIX 3 21 (10.94 %) Windows 4 20 (10.42 %) Solaris 5 15 (7.813 %) HPUX 6 3 (1.563 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (1.042 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 39 (20.31 %) UML 2 24 (12.50 %) OO 3 22 (11.46 %) Security Cleared 4 13 (6.771 %) RUP 5 12 (6.250 %) RAD 6 10 (5.208 %) Agile Software Development 6 10 (5.208 %) Continuous Integration 7 9 (4.688 %) SOA 8 8 (4.167 %) CRM 9 7 (3.646 %) SC Cleared 10 6 (3.125 %) OOD 10 6 (3.125 %) Scrum 10 6 (3.125 %) Test Scripting 11 4 (2.083 %) Unit Testing 11 4 (2.083 %) Web Development 11 4 (2.083 %) Data Management 11 4 (2.083 %) Software Engineering 11 4 (2.083 %) E-Commerce 11 4 (2.083 %) OOA/OOD 11 4 (2.083 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 48 (25.00 %) SQL 2 23 (11.98 %) C++ 3 21 (10.94 %) C 4 12 (6.250 %) C# 5 7 (3.646 %) JavaScript 6 4 (2.083 %) Perl 7 3 (1.563 %) Delphi 7 3 (1.563 %) VB.NET 7 3 (1.563 %) Python 8 2 (1.042 %) PHP 8 2 (1.042 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (1.042 %) Objective-C 8 2 (1.042 %) VB 9 1 (0.521 %) Ruby 9 1 (0.521 %) DHTML 9 1 (0.521 %) Embedded C 9 1 (0.521 %) Magik 9 1 (0.521 %) XAML 9 1 (0.521 %) ABAP 9 1 (0.521 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 11 (5.729 %) Degree 2 2 (1.042 %) ISEB 2 2 (1.042 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.521 %) PhD 3 1 (0.521 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.563 %) ISO27001 1 3 (1.563 %) QA 1 3 (1.563 %) PCI DSS 2 2 (1.042 %) GAMP	System Software 1 7 (3.646 %) MSMQ 2 3 (1.563 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 6 (3.125 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 44 (22.92 %) Oracle 2 28 (14.58 %) IBM 3 14 (7.292 %) Microsoft 4 3 (1.563 %) Sybase 5 2 (1.042 %) Vignette 5 2 (1.042 %) SAP 5 2 (1.042 %) Cisco 5 2 (1.042 %) Sun 5 2 (1.042 %) Apple 6 1 (0.521 %) BEA