The first table below looks at the demand for Eclipse skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Eclipse over the 3 months to 23 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 Development Applications category for the Chester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eclipse
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.418% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.58%
All Development Applications
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
7 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 4.965% 1.724% 3.659%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £345 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.42% +27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £350 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £328
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Eclipse
Cheshire

Eclipse
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Eclipse across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Chester Eclipse Jobs Demand Trend

Eclipse
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Eclipse across the Chester region.

Chester Eclipse Daily Rate Trend

Eclipse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Eclipse 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 Eclipse.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Flex
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) TestNG
2 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Adobe
2 3 (75.00%) TELNET
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins

Eclipse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Eclipse 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 Eclipse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Flex
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) ICEfaces
4 1 (25.00%) RichFaces
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Axis
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) JSF
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) JAX-RPC
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
4 1 (25.00%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Mule
1 1 (25.00%) ESB
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) TELNET
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) TestNG
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) MyEclipse
3 2 (50.00%) Mercurial
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) RIA
3 1 (25.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Android
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Adobe
3 1 (25.00%) Perforce
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013