The first table below looks at the demand for Eclipse skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Eclipse over the 3 months to 24 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 East of England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eclipse
Rank 107 113 95
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -18
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 7 19 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.327% 0.643% 1.210%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.893% 5.507% 8.889%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 11
Average daily rate £325 £325 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £315 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £465 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £35.50 - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.58%
All Development Applications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
242 345 360
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 11.31% 11.68% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 135
Average daily rate £325 £345 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.79% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 55 63
Average hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.25 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Eclipse
England

Eclipse
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Eclipse Daily Rate Trend

Eclipse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Eclipse across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Eclipse Daily Rate Histogram

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Eclipse across the East of England region.

East of England Eclipse Hourly Rate Trend

Eclipse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire +1 5 £325 -27.77%
Cambridgeshire +7 1 - -
Norfolk - 1 - -
Eclipse
England

Eclipse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 18 (90.00%) Java
2 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 14 (70.00%) Subversion
4 13 (65.00%) Linux
5 12 (60.00%) XML
5 12 (60.00%) HTML
5 12 (60.00%) Ant
5 12 (60.00%) Ajax
6 11 (55.00%) SQL
6 11 (55.00%) JSP
7 10 (50.00%) Struts
7 10 (50.00%) UNIX
7 10 (50.00%) UML
7 10 (50.00%) OO
7 10 (50.00%) Finance
8 9 (45.00%) WebSphere
8 9 (45.00%) XSLT
8 9 (45.00%) J2EE
9 8 (40.00%) JUnit
9 8 (40.00%) Perl
9 8 (40.00%) Tomcat
9 8 (40.00%) XHTML
9 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
9 8 (40.00%) Retail
10 7 (35.00%) Content Management
10 7 (35.00%) Spring
10 7 (35.00%) IBM
10 7 (35.00%) Internet
10 7 (35.00%) WebSphere Application Server
11 6 (30.00%) Web Services

Eclipse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 12 (60.00%) XML
1 12 (60.00%) HTML
1 12 (60.00%) Ajax
2 11 (55.00%) JSP
3 10 (50.00%) Struts
4 9 (45.00%) WebSphere
4 9 (45.00%) XSLT
4 9 (45.00%) J2EE
5 8 (40.00%) XHTML
6 7 (35.00%) Spring
7 6 (30.00%) Web Services
7 6 (30.00%) Servlets
7 6 (30.00%) EJB
7 6 (30.00%) CSS
7 6 (30.00%) JDBC
7 6 (30.00%) JMS
7 6 (30.00%) XMLBeans
7 6 (30.00%) JSTL
8 5 (25.00%) JSON
8 5 (25.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 7 (35.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (30.00%) MQSeries
4 5 (25.00%) Apache
5 2 (10.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) LAN
2 1 (5.000%) WAN
2 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 6 (30.00%) DB2
3 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.00%) JasperReports
6 1 (5.000%) SQLite
6 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Subversion
2 12 (60.00%) Ant
3 8 (40.00%) JUnit
4 6 (30.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (30.00%) Log4j
5 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (5.000%) PhoneGap
6 1 (5.000%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 1 (5.000%) Redmine
6 1 (5.000%) Xcode
6 1 (5.000%) Maven
6 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.000%) Rational Application Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Build Forge
6 1 (5.000%) Selenium
6 1 (5.000%) ClearCase
6 1 (5.000%) ClearQuest
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Retail
3 5 (25.00%) Games
4 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.000%) Electronics
4 1 (5.000%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (80.00%) Developer
2 13 (65.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 8 (40.00%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Programmer
4 2 (10.00%) Programmer
4 2 (10.00%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Administrator
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Java Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Java Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Author
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Author
5 1 (5.000%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Web 2.0
2 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (5.000%) Social Media
4 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.000%) E-Learning
4 1 (5.000%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) UNIX
3 6 (30.00%) HPUX
3 6 (30.00%) Solaris
4 3 (15.00%) Android
4 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (10.00%) bada
6 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.000%) Windows
6 1 (5.000%) AIX
6 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) UML
1 10 (50.00%) OO
2 7 (35.00%) Content Management
3 6 (30.00%) RAD
3 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (25.00%) MVC
5 4 (20.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (10.00%) Web Development
7 1 (5.000%) Migration
7 1 (5.000%) Scrum
7 1 (5.000%) TDD
7 1 (5.000%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.000%) BDD
7 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Java
2 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (55.00%) SQL
4 8 (40.00%) Perl
5 6 (30.00%) XPath
5 6 (30.00%) Bash shell
6 3 (15.00%) C++
6 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.000%) PHP
7 1 (5.000%) Python
7 1 (5.000%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli
1 1 (5.000%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) IBM
2 6 (30.00%) Interwoven
2 6 (30.00%) Blue Martini
2 6 (30.00%) ATG
2 6 (30.00%) Elastic Path
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.00%) Symbian
4 2 (10.00%) JBoss
5 1 (5.000%) Google
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