The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 19 25 26
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 6 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 3.659% 3.182% 3.930%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.63% 12.96% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
Average daily rate £210 £225 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £410 £399
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
41 54 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 25.00% 24.55% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 40
Average daily rate £344 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £500 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Java
South Wales

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 8 (44.44%) Spring
2 7 (38.89%) Hibernate
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Web Services
3 6 (33.33%) RESTful
4 5 (27.78%) UNIX
4 5 (27.78%) Oracle
4 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) J2EE
5 4 (22.22%) XML
5 4 (22.22%) SOA
5 4 (22.22%) Web Development
6 3 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (16.67%) Windows
6 3 (16.67%) OO
6 3 (16.67%) MySQL
6 3 (16.67%) PHP
6 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
6 3 (16.67%) Middleware
6 3 (16.67%) Adobe
7 2 (11.11%) ILOG
7 2 (11.11%) FileNet
7 2 (11.11%) CSS
7 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (11.11%) HTML
7 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (11.11%) UML
7 2 (11.11%) HTTP

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 8 (44.44%) Spring
2 7 (38.89%) Hibernate
3 6 (33.33%) Web Services
3 6 (33.33%) RESTful
4 4 (22.22%) XML
4 4 (22.22%) J2EE
5 3 (16.67%) Middleware
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (11.11%) HTML
6 2 (11.11%) JSF
6 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
6 2 (11.11%) CSS
6 2 (11.11%) J2SE
6 2 (11.11%) JMS
7 1 (5.556%) JSP
7 1 (5.556%) Servlets
7 1 (5.556%) Java EE
7 1 (5.556%) jQuery
7 1 (5.556%) Ajax
7 1 (5.556%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (11.11%) FileNet
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
1 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 2 (11.11%) Hudson
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.556%) JUnit
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.556%) Maven
2 1 (5.556%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (5.556%) Mockito
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
1 1 (5.556%) Banking
1 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Development Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Installations Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Java Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Test Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) J2EE Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) UML Business Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Functional Tester
4 1 (5.556%) Software Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.556%) EPoS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Open Source
2 1 (5.556%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) UNIX
2 3 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (27.78%) TDD
2 4 (22.22%) SOA
2 4 (22.22%) Web Development
3 3 (16.67%) OO
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (11.11%) UML
4 2 (11.11%) Content Management
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.556%) Regression Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Scrum
5 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.556%) Time Management
5 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (5.556%) Perl
4 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Adobe
3 2 (11.11%) ILOG
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (5.556%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.556%) Cognos