Java Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 22 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 Cheshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 31 15 12
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 32 70 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.354% 8.642% 9.583%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.24% 27.24% 30.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 60
Average daily rate £387 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.42% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 210 257 306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 28.57% 31.73% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 141 169
Average daily rate £350 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £459 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.90 £13.50 £15.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £36.00 £46.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Java
North West

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Knutsford -10 6 £450 +34.12%
Warrington -14 5 £250 -28.57%
Chester -4 3 £375 +7.14%
Java
North West

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (46.30%) JavaScript
1 25 (46.30%) Oracle
2 24 (44.44%) SQL
3 22 (40.74%) Agile Software Development
4 20 (37.04%) J2EE
5 19 (35.19%) Web Services
6 16 (29.63%) Hibernate
6 16 (29.63%) jQuery
7 14 (25.93%) Finance
8 13 (24.07%) .NET
8 13 (24.07%) Banking
9 12 (22.22%) Spring
9 12 (22.22%) WebSphere
9 12 (22.22%) CSS
9 12 (22.22%) Servlets
9 12 (22.22%) SOAP
10 11 (20.37%) TDD
11 10 (18.52%) JSP
11 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET
11 10 (18.52%) DB2
11 10 (18.52%) C#
11 10 (18.52%) HTML
11 10 (18.52%) UNIX
11 10 (18.52%) WSDL
12 9 (16.67%) SAP
12 9 (16.67%) IBM
12 9 (16.67%) Ajax
12 9 (16.67%) Waterfall
13 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (14.81%) Android

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 20 (37.04%) J2EE
2 19 (35.19%) Web Services
3 16 (29.63%) Hibernate
3 16 (29.63%) jQuery
4 13 (24.07%) .NET
5 12 (22.22%) Spring
5 12 (22.22%) WebSphere
5 12 (22.22%) CSS
5 12 (22.22%) Servlets
5 12 (22.22%) SOAP
6 10 (18.52%) JSP
6 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET
6 10 (18.52%) HTML
6 10 (18.52%) WSDL
7 9 (16.67%) Ajax
8 7 (12.96%) XSLT
8 7 (12.96%) XML
9 6 (11.11%) HTML5
9 6 (11.11%) WCF
10 5 (9.259%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 7 (12.96%) Apache
2 5 (9.259%) WebLogic
3 4 (7.407%) NetWeaver
4 3 (5.556%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.704%) Mule
5 2 (3.704%) ESB
6 1 (1.852%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.852%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.852%) ArcSDE
Applications
1 3 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 3 (5.556%) MS Visio
1 3 (5.556%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.556%) Maximo
2 1 (1.852%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.407%) DNS
2 3 (5.556%) SNMP
2 3 (5.556%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.556%) LAN
2 3 (5.556%) WAN
2 3 (5.556%) TELNET
2 3 (5.556%) Firewall
2 3 (5.556%) SSL
2 3 (5.556%) SAN
3 2 (3.704%) HTTP
4 1 (1.852%) SMTP
4 1 (1.852%) FTP
4 1 (1.852%) Wireless
4 1 (1.852%) Internet
4 1 (1.852%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) DB2
2 4 (7.407%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (5.556%) MySQL
3 3 (5.556%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.556%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.556%) SQLite
3 3 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.704%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.852%) GIS
5 1 (1.852%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.852%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.852%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.852%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.852%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Subversion
1 8 (14.81%) JUnit
2 7 (12.96%) Eclipse
3 5 (9.259%) ClearCase
3 5 (9.259%) JIRA
4 4 (7.407%) Gradle
4 4 (7.407%) Selenium
5 3 (5.556%) Visual Studio
5 3 (5.556%) Git (software)
5 3 (5.556%) TestNG
6 2 (3.704%) MyEclipse
6 2 (3.704%) Mercurial
6 2 (3.704%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.852%) Ant
7 1 (1.852%) Maven
7 1 (1.852%) FitNesse
General
1 14 (25.93%) Finance
2 13 (24.07%) Banking
3 6 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 6 (11.11%) Retail
4 4 (7.407%) Publishing
5 2 (3.704%) Games
6 1 (1.852%) Local Government
6 1 (1.852%) Billing
6 1 (1.852%) German Language
Job Titles
1 28 (51.85%) Developer
2 20 (37.04%) Java Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Senior Developer
3 7 (12.96%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (9.259%) .NET Developer
4 5 (9.259%) Architect
5 4 (7.407%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.407%) Analyst
5 4 (7.407%) Web Developer
5 4 (7.407%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.407%) Applications Developer
6 3 (5.556%) Consultant
6 3 (5.556%) .NET Web Developer
6 3 (5.556%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 3 (5.556%) Web Applications Developer
6 3 (5.556%) SAP Manager
6 3 (5.556%) .NET Applications Developer
6 3 (5.556%) Identity Management Specialist
7 2 (3.704%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (3.704%) SAP Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 5 (9.259%) PMI
2 5 (9.259%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.407%) Web 2.0
3 4 (7.407%) Mainframe
4 3 (5.556%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.852%) E-Learning
5 1 (1.852%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.852%) EMV
5 1 (1.852%) NHS
5 1 (1.852%) LLPG
5 1 (1.852%) Cryptography
5 1 (1.852%) RIA
5 1 (1.852%) Online Games
5 1 (1.852%) Open Source
5 1 (1.852%) iPhone
5 1 (1.852%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) UNIX
2 8 (14.81%) Android
2 8 (14.81%) Windows
3 7 (12.96%) Solaris
3 7 (12.96%) Apple iOS
4 6 (11.11%) Linux
5 3 (5.556%) AIX
5 3 (5.556%) Windows CE
6 1 (1.852%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (20.37%) TDD
3 9 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (14.81%) Project Management
4 8 (14.81%) Scrum
5 7 (12.96%) PRINCE2
5 7 (12.96%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (12.96%) BDD
6 6 (11.11%) MVC
6 6 (11.11%) E-Commerce
7 5 (9.259%) RUP
7 5 (9.259%) CMMI
7 5 (9.259%) PRINCE
7 5 (9.259%) Web Development
8 4 (7.407%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (7.407%) Unit Testing
8 4 (7.407%) Integration Testing
8 4 (7.407%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.556%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 25 (46.30%) JavaScript
2 24 (44.44%) SQL
3 10 (18.52%) C#
4 8 (14.81%) C
5 7 (12.96%) XPath
6 6 (11.11%) PL/SQL
7 5 (9.259%) ABAP
8 4 (7.407%) C++
8 4 (7.407%) Perl
9 3 (5.556%) Groovy
10 2 (3.704%) Objective-C
10 2 (3.704%) Python
11 1 (1.852%) PHP
11 1 (1.852%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.852%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (9.259%) PMI Certification
2 4 (7.407%) Degree
3 3 (5.556%) PhD
4 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.556%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (5.556%) Tivoli
1 3 (5.556%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 3 (5.556%) BladeLogic
2 1 (1.852%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) Oracle
2 9 (16.67%) SAP
2 9 (16.67%) IBM
3 7 (12.96%) JBoss
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.259%) Chordiant
5 3 (5.556%) Perforce
5 3 (5.556%) Adobe
6 1 (1.852%) ESRI
6 1 (1.852%) webMethods
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