Docklands, London Java Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Docklands, London region.

Java
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falmouth Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	14	9	6
Rank change year-on-year	-5 -3
Matching contract IT job ads	48	58	299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London	9.796 %	15.59 %	23.67 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	22.43 %	26.85 %	44.17 %
Daily rates quoted	25	23	229
Average daily rate	£550	£500	£650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+10.00 % -23.07 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£485	£428	£400
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£640	£575	£700
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£325	£359
% change year-on-year	+7.690 % -9.400 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	1
Average hourly rate	-	£57.50	£45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- +27.77 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.00	£33.20	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-9.630 % -5.140 %
All Programming Languages Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	214	216	677
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London	43.67 %	58.06 %	53.60 %
Daily rates quoted	94	93	440
Average daily rate	£500	£463	£575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.100 % -19.56 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£375	£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£750	£700
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3	5
Average hourly rate	£19.00	£65.00	£26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-70.76 % +150.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£31.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-9.520 % -10.00 %
Java London

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.

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Docklands, London region.

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 54 (52.43 %) Banking 2 47 (45.63 %) SQL 3 45 (43.69 %) Investment Banking 4 38 (36.89 %) Oracle 5 27 (26.21 %) Sybase 6 25 (24.27 %) UNIX 7 23 (22.33 %) Front Office 8 22 (21.36 %) XML 9 21 (20.39 %) Spring 10 18 (17.48 %) Derivative 10 18 (17.48 %) Finance 10 18 (17.48 %) C# 11 17 (16.50 %) SQL Server 12 16 (15.53 %) C++ 12 16 (15.53 %) J2EE

13 15 (14.56 %) .NET 13 15 (14.56 %) Linux 13 15 (14.56 %) RDBMS 13 15 (14.56 %) Hibernate 14 13 (12.62 %) Windows 14 13 (12.62 %) Perl 15 12 (11.65 %) Fixed Income 16 11 (10.68 %) Equities 16 11 (10.68 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 16 11 (10.68 %) JSP 16 11 (10.68 %) OO 17 10 (9.709 %) VB 17 10 (9.709 %) Back Office 17 10 (9.709 %) Credit Derivative 18 9 (8.738 %) RUP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 22 (21.36 %) XML 2 21 (20.39 %) Spring 3 16 (15.53 %) J2EE 4 15 (14.56 %) .NET 4 15 (14.56 %) Hibernate 5 11 (10.68 %) JSP 6 8 (7.767 %) JMS 6 8 (7.767 %) Web Services 7 7 (6.796 %) Struts 7 7 (6.796 %) WebSphere 8 6 (5.825 %) HTML 8 6 (5.825 %) JDBC 8 6 (5.825 %) Swing 8 6 (5.825 %) Middleware 9 4 (3.883 %) Boost C++ Libraries 10 3 (2.913 %) MVC 10 3 (2.913 %) CSS 10 3 (2.913 %) XSL 10 3 (2.913 %) JNI 10 3 (2.913 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 7 (6.796 %) WebLogic 2 5 (4.854 %) Tomcat 3 4 (3.883 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (1.942 %) MQSeries 4 2 (1.942 %) Documentum 4 2 (1.942 %) Rendezvous 5 1 (0.971 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (0.971 %) WebSphere Transformation Extender 5 1 (0.971 %) WebSphere Message Broker 5 1 (0.971 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 1 (0.971 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 2 (1.942 %) Endur 2 1 (0.971 %) Murex MxG2000 2 1 (0.971 %) Sophis RISQUE 2 1 (0.971 %) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.913 %) Internet 2 2 (1.942 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.971 %) SNMP 3 1 (0.971 %) LDAP 3 1 (0.971 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (16.50 %) SQL Server 2 15 (14.56 %) RDBMS 3 6 (5.825 %) Oracle Reports 3 6 (5.825 %) Datawarehouse 4 5 (4.854 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (3.883 %) Oracle 10g 6 3 (2.913 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (2.913 %) Sybase IQ 6 3 (2.913 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 2 (1.942 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (1.942 %) TOAD 8 1 (0.971 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (0.971 %) ETL 8 1 (0.971 %) MS Access 8 1 (0.971 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 1 (0.971 %) Reference Data 8 1 (0.971 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 5 (4.854 %) ClearCase 2 3 (2.913 %) Rational Robot 2 3 (2.913 %) JUnit 3 2 (1.942 %) Subversion 3 2 (1.942 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (1.942 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.971 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (0.971 %) RequisitePro 4 1 (0.971 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (0.971 %) Ant 4 1 (0.971 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (0.971 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (0.971 %) Maven 4 1 (0.971 %) jMock 4 1 (0.971 %) JIRA	General 1 54 (52.43 %) Banking 2 45 (43.69 %) Investment Banking 3 23 (22.33 %) Front Office 4 18 (17.48 %) Finance 5 10 (9.709 %) Back Office 6 4 (3.883 %) Construction 7 2 (1.942 %) Private Banking 8 1 (0.971 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.971 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 66 (64.08 %) Developer 2 40 (38.83 %) Java Developer 3 15 (14.56 %) Senior Developer 4 12 (11.65 %) Analyst 5 10 (9.709 %) Senior Java Developer 6 6 (5.825 %) Analyst Programmer 6 6 (5.825 %) Programmer 6 6 (5.825 %) Architect 7 5 (4.854 %) Project Manager 7 5 (4.854 %) Business Analyst 7 5 (4.854 %) C++ Developer 7 5 (4.854 %) C# Developer 8 4 (3.883 %) Sybase Developer 8 4 (3.883 %) Administrator 9 3 (2.913 %) Test Manager 9 3 (2.913 %) .NET Developer 9 3 (2.913 %) Senior Architect 10 2 (1.942 %) Java Swing Developer 10 2 (1.942 %) Technical Business Analyst 10 2 (1.942 %) Quantitative Developer	Miscellaneous 1 18 (17.48 %) Derivative 2 12 (11.65 %) Fixed Income 3 11 (10.68 %) Equities 3 11 (10.68 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 10 (9.709 %) Credit Derivative 5 8 (7.767 %) Client/Server 6 5 (4.854 %) N-Tier 7 4 (3.883 %) Credit Risk 7 4 (3.883 %) Multithreading 8 3 (2.913 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 3 (2.913 %) Equity Derivative 9 2 (1.942 %) Mathematics 9 2 (1.942 %) Contract for Difference 9 2 (1.942 %) Mainframe 10 1 (0.971 %) PMI 10 1 (0.971 %) Open Source 10 1 (0.971 %) Market Risk
Operating Systems 1 25 (24.27 %) UNIX 2 15 (14.56 %) Linux 3 13 (12.62 %) Windows 4 8 (7.767 %) Solaris 5 1 (0.971 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.971 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (10.68 %) OO 2 9 (8.738 %) RUP 3 8 (7.767 %) UML 4 7 (6.796 %) Agile Software Development 4 7 (6.796 %) Risk Management 5 6 (5.825 %) Technical Architecture 5 6 (5.825 %) Migration 5 6 (5.825 %) Data Modelling 6 5 (4.854 %) Configuration Management 6 5 (4.854 %) Workflow 6 5 (4.854 %) Unit Testing 7 4 (3.883 %) Unified Process 7 4 (3.883 %) Project Management 8 3 (2.913 %) Asset Management 8 3 (2.913 %) Test Automation 8 3 (2.913 %) System Testing 8 3 (2.913 %) Load Testing 8 3 (2.913 %) Risk Analysis 8 3 (2.913 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 2 (1.942 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 47 (45.63 %) SQL 2 18 (17.48 %) C# 3 16 (15.53 %) C++ 4 13 (12.62 %) Perl 5 10 (9.709 %) VB 6 7 (6.796 %) C 6 7 (6.796 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (5.825 %) COBOL 8 5 (4.854 %) JavaScript 9 4 (3.883 %) VBA 9 4 (3.883 %) Shell Script 10 2 (1.942 %) Bash shell 11 1 (0.971 %) XAML 11 1 (0.971 %) T-SQL 11 1 (0.971 %) PHP 11 1 (0.971 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 3 (2.913 %) Degree 2 1 (0.971 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.913 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.971 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 1 (0.971 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.971 %) Tivoli Configuration Manager 1 1 (0.971 %) Tivoli Monitoring 1 1 (0.971 %) Tivoli NetView 1 1 (0.971 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (0.971 %) Nagios 1 1 (0.971 %) Ganglia	Vendors 1 38 (36.89 %) Oracle 2 27 (26.21 %) Sybase 3 5 (4.854 %) Actuate 3 5 (4.854 %) TIBCO 4 4 (3.883 %) Reuters 4 4 (3.883 %) Bloomberg 5 3 (2.913 %) IBM 5 3 (2.913 %) Business Objects 5 3 (2.913 %) Cognos 6 2 (1.942 %) Sophis 6 2 (1.942 %) JBoss 6 2 (1.942 %) OpenLink 6 2 (1.942 %) Microsoft 6 2 (1.942 %) Adobe 6 2 (1.942 %) Murex 7 1 (0.971 %) Fidessa 7 1 (0.971 %) Red Hat 7 1 (0.971 %) Charles River 7 1 (0.971 %) Infragistics 7 1 (0.971 %) ION Trading