East of England Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stockport Street Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	50
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	78	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.147 %
As % of the category below	2.227 %	3.226 %
Daily rates quoted	23	34
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£337
Average daily rate	£367	£346
% change on same period last year	+6.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£333
% change on same period last year	+7.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	12
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.25
Average hourly rate	-	£40.40
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£41.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.04	£38.16
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3503	4588
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.623 %	4.569 %
Daily rates quoted	1105	1409
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£323
Average daily rate	£353	£342
% change on same period last year	+3.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	463	622
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.82	£25.06
Average hourly rate	£23.32	£26.30
% change on same period last year	-11.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.81	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java Developer across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+14	34	£403	+9.58 %
Cambridgeshire	+2	32	£340	+5.13 %
Norfolk	-17	6	-	-
Bedfordshire	+9	3	-	-
East Anglia	-5	2	-	-
Essex	-26	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Java Developer in their job title 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 with Java Developer in their job title.

1 267 (100.00 %) Java 2 198 (74.16 %) J2EE 3 142 (53.18 %) Hibernate 3 142 (53.18 %) Spring 4 112 (41.95 %) Finance 5 108 (40.45 %) JUnit 6 106 (39.70 %) UML 7 105 (39.33 %) SQL 8 101 (37.83 %) Oracle 9 91 (34.08 %) SOA 10 84 (31.46 %) WebServices 11 83 (31.09 %) OO 12 79 (29.59 %) Eclipse 13 62 (23.22 %) Banking 13 62 (23.22 %) WebSphere

14 60 (22.47 %) Struts 15 52 (19.48 %) Back Office 16 51 (19.10 %) PL/SQL 17 48 (17.98 %) XML 18 47 (17.60 %) JBoss 19 46 (17.23 %) RAD 20 45 (16.85 %) JSP 20 45 (16.85 %) IBM 21 41 (15.36 %) Java EE 22 40 (14.98 %) Agile Software Development 23 37 (13.86 %) HTML 24 36 (13.48 %) EJB 25 35 (13.11 %) JSF 26 34 (12.73 %) WebLogic 27 31 (11.61 %) Servlets

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Java Developer in their job title 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 with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 198 (74.16 %) J2EE 2 142 (53.18 %) Hibernate 2 142 (53.18 %) Spring 3 84 (31.46 %) WebServices 4 62 (23.22 %) WebSphere 5 60 (22.47 %) Struts 6 48 (17.98 %) XML 7 45 (16.85 %) JSP 8 41 (15.36 %) Java EE 9 37 (13.86 %) HTML 10 36 (13.48 %) EJB 11 35 (13.11 %) JSF 12 31 (11.61 %) Servlets 13 26 (9.738 %) CSS 14 23 (8.614 %) JMS 15 21 (7.865 %) SOAP 16 16 (5.993 %) MVC 17 15 (5.618 %) JDBC 18 13 (4.869 %) XHTML 18 13 (4.869 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 47 (17.60 %) JBoss 2 34 (12.73 %) WebLogic 3 21 (7.865 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 17 (6.367 %) Apache 5 15 (5.618 %) MQSeries 6 12 (4.494 %) Tomcat 7 8 (2.996 %) WebLogic Portal 8 6 (2.247 %) ESB 9 4 (1.498 %) Lotus Domino 10 3 (1.124 %) WebSphere MQ 10 3 (1.124 %) Mule 10 3 (1.124 %) Resin 10 3 (1.124 %) CMS 10 3 (1.124 %) WPS 11 2 (0.749 %) IIS 12 1 (0.375 %) JRun 12 1 (0.375 %) Oracle HTTP Server 12 1 (0.375 %) Jetty 12 1 (0.375 %) Oracle Application Server 12 1 (0.375 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 4 (1.498 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.375 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.375 %) Quicktime 2 1 (0.375 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (0.375 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 1 (0.375 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 6 (2.247 %) Internet 2 2 (0.749 %) SMPP 3 1 (0.375 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 30 (11.24 %) DB2 2 12 (4.494 %) SQL Server 3 7 (2.622 %) MySQL 4 6 (2.247 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 5 (1.873 %) Oracle Reports 6 3 (1.124 %) Oracle 9i 6 3 (1.124 %) Oracle 10g 6 3 (1.124 %) JasperReports 7 2 (0.749 %) GIS 7 2 (0.749 %) RDBMS 7 2 (0.749 %) OLAP 8 1 (0.375 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (0.375 %) Ingres 8 1 (0.375 %) Text Mining 8 1 (0.375 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 108 (40.45 %) JUnit 2 79 (29.59 %) Eclipse 3 25 (9.363 %) Ant 4 24 (8.989 %) Subversion 5 12 (4.494 %) JIRA 6 10 (3.745 %) IntelliJ 7 9 (3.371 %) Atlassian Bamboo 7 9 (3.371 %) CruiseControl 8 4 (1.498 %) Log4j 8 4 (1.498 %) FitNesse 8 4 (1.498 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 4 (1.498 %) JDeveloper 8 4 (1.498 %) ClearCase 8 4 (1.498 %) JBuilder 9 3 (1.124 %) ClearQuest 10 2 (0.749 %) Oracle Forms 10 2 (0.749 %) Flash	General 1 112 (41.95 %) Finance 2 62 (23.22 %) Banking 3 52 (19.48 %) Back Office 4 26 (9.738 %) Telecoms 5 15 (5.618 %) Insurance 6 10 (3.745 %) Financial Institution 7 8 (2.996 %) Retail 8 6 (2.247 %) Pharmaceutical 8 6 (2.247 %) Government 9 4 (1.498 %) Games 9 4 (1.498 %) Retail Banking 10 3 (1.124 %) Mobile Games 11 2 (0.749 %) Education 11 2 (0.749 %) Health 12 1 (0.375 %) Police 12 1 (0.375 %) Construction 12 1 (0.375 %) Electronics 12 1 (0.375 %) Marketing 12 1 (0.375 %) Electric
Miscellaneous 1 9 (3.371 %) PKI 2 6 (2.247 %) Cryptography 2 6 (2.247 %) Multithreading 3 5 (1.873 %) Client/Server 4 4 (1.498 %) Data Integration 5 3 (1.124 %) Handset 6 2 (0.749 %) Biology 6 2 (0.749 %) N-Tier 7 1 (0.375 %) EPoS 7 1 (0.375 %) W3C 7 1 (0.375 %) Credit Risk 7 1 (0.375 %) Computer Science 7 1 (0.375 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.375 %) Physics 7 1 (0.375 %) Web 2.0 7 1 (0.375 %) Streaming Video 7 1 (0.375 %) Clustering 7 1 (0.375 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 30 (11.24 %) UNIX 2 28 (10.49 %) Linux 3 20 (7.491 %) Solaris 4 18 (6.742 %) HPUX 5 14 (5.243 %) Windows 6 6 (2.247 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 106 (39.70 %) UML 2 91 (34.08 %) SOA 3 83 (31.09 %) OO 4 46 (17.23 %) RAD 5 40 (14.98 %) Agile Software Development 6 19 (7.116 %) Security Cleared 7 17 (6.367 %) Continuous Integration 8 15 (5.618 %) E-Commerce 9 13 (4.869 %) OOD 10 12 (4.494 %) RUP 11 10 (3.745 %) Web Development 12 8 (2.996 %) TDD 12 8 (2.996 %) CRM 13 7 (2.622 %) OOA/OOD 13 7 (2.622 %) Scrum 13 7 (2.622 %) Content Management 14 6 (2.247 %) SC Cleared 14 6 (2.247 %) Use Case 14 6 (2.247 %) Unit Testing 15 4 (1.498 %) Extreme Programming	Programming Languages 1 267 (100.00 %) Java 2 105 (39.33 %) SQL 3 51 (19.10 %) PL/SQL 4 28 (10.49 %) JavaScript 5 18 (6.742 %) C 5 18 (6.742 %) C++ 6 4 (1.498 %) XPath 6 4 (1.498 %) Perl 6 4 (1.498 %) PHP 7 3 (1.124 %) Ruby 8 2 (0.749 %) Groovy 8 2 (0.749 %) Shell Script 8 2 (0.749 %) Delphi 8 2 (0.749 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 5 (1.873 %) Degree 2 4 (1.498 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.375 %) PhD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.375 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (0.375 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (2.247 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 101 (37.83 %) Oracle 2 45 (16.85 %) IBM 3 10 (3.745 %) BEA 4 6 (2.247 %) Symbian 5 4 (1.498 %) Lotus 5 4 (1.498 %) Sun 5 4 (1.498 %) Sybase 6 3 (1.124 %) Microsoft 7 2 (0.749 %) Tridion 7 2 (0.749 %) ILOG 8 1 (0.375 %) Business Objects 8 1 (0.375 %) Interwoven 8 1 (0.375 %) TIBCO 8 1 (0.375 %) Apple 8 1 (0.375 %) Quark 8 1 (0.375 %) Mapinfo 8 1 (0.375 %) Adobe 8 1 (0.375 %) Sony 8 1 (0.375 %) Google