The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 21 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 Coventry 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 24 11 11
Rank change year-on-year
-13 0
Contract jobs citing Java 4 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 1.887% 7.393% 7.609%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.511% 25.00% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 6
Average daily rate £325 £408 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.24% +27.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
47 76 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 22.17% 29.57% 23.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 22
Average daily rate £300 £415 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.71% +22.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £139 £313 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £415 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 2
Average hourly rate £33.15 £34.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +17.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
West Midlands

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Coventry region.

Coventry Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (50.00%) SAP Implementation
3 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (50.00%) HTTP
3 3 (50.00%) XML Schema
3 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (50.00%) SAP
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) DataPower
5 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
5 1 (16.67%) RIP
5 1 (16.67%) Replication
5 1 (16.67%) PLM
5 1 (16.67%) ESB
5 1 (16.67%) QA
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (16.67%) ENOVIA
5 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE
5 1 (16.67%) OCP
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (16.67%) XSD
5 1 (16.67%) XSLT

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 3 (50.00%) XML Schema
4 1 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (16.67%) XSD
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) Java RMI
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (16.67%) ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ENOVIA
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) RIP
2 1 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) WebSphere Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) DataPower
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) SAP Implementation
1 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) PLM
2 1 (16.67%) EAI
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) OCP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle