The first table below looks at the demand for Java 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 Java 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 Programming Languages 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 17 21 13
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 165 207 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 7.783% 7.017% 8.439%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.81% 16.61% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 122 113
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £276 £257
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £489 £595
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 16
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -14.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £26.28 £21.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
877 1246 1012
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 41.37% 42.24% 37.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 604 431
Average daily rate £315 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 107 127
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.22 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.47% +3.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £26.22 £21.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.75 £50.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
England

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England Java Hourly Rate Histogram

Java
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +3 79 £400 -8.57%
Cambridgeshire +9 46 £400 +14.28%
Essex +7 28 £475 +111.11%
Suffolk +6 4 £250 -18.36%
Bedfordshire -6 4 £350 +2.18%
Norfolk -7 2 £400 +3.22%
Java
England

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 118 (33.81%) XML
2 94 (26.93%) SQL
3 91 (26.07%) J2EE
4 80 (22.92%) Linux
5 79 (22.64%) JavaScript
6 78 (22.35%) Oracle
7 73 (20.92%) Finance
8 68 (19.48%) HTML
8 68 (19.48%) Spring
9 67 (19.20%) UNIX
10 65 (18.62%) Web Services
11 62 (17.77%) CSS
12 61 (17.48%) Android
13 54 (15.47%) Subversion
14 53 (15.19%) E-Commerce
15 52 (14.90%) JBoss
16 50 (14.33%) JSP
16 50 (14.33%) .NET
16 50 (14.33%) Retail
16 50 (14.33%) Agile Software Development
17 45 (12.89%) OO
18 43 (12.32%) Scrum
19 41 (11.75%) Hibernate
20 40 (11.46%) Ajax
21 38 (10.89%) WebSphere
21 38 (10.89%) SOA
22 35 (10.03%) Apache
22 35 (10.03%) SOAP
22 35 (10.03%) Windows
23 34 (9.742%) TDD

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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
1 118 (33.81%) XML
2 91 (26.07%) J2EE
3 68 (19.48%) HTML
3 68 (19.48%) Spring
4 65 (18.62%) Web Services
5 62 (17.77%) CSS
6 50 (14.33%) JSP
6 50 (14.33%) .NET
7 41 (11.75%) Hibernate
8 40 (11.46%) Ajax
9 38 (10.89%) WebSphere
10 35 (10.03%) SOAP
11 33 (9.456%) XHTML
12 25 (7.163%) Struts
13 22 (6.304%) RESTful
14 21 (6.017%) JSON
14 21 (6.017%) XSLT
15 18 (5.158%) jQuery
16 17 (4.871%) REST
17 16 (4.585%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 35 (10.03%) Apache
2 25 (7.163%) Tomcat
3 17 (4.871%) ESB
4 14 (4.011%) CMS
5 11 (3.152%) Windows Azure
5 11 (3.152%) IIS
5 11 (3.152%) BizTalk Server
6 10 (2.865%) Liferay
7 9 (2.579%) Confluence
7 9 (2.579%) MQSeries
8 8 (2.292%) WebSphere Application Server
9 6 (1.719%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (1.433%) SharePoint
10 5 (1.433%) WebLogic
10 5 (1.433%) NetWeaver
11 4 (1.146%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (1.146%) Documentum
11 4 (1.146%) Apache Pig
11 4 (1.146%) Oracle Service Bus
11 4 (1.146%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 9 (2.579%) Photoshop
2 6 (1.719%) MS Office
3 5 (1.433%) GIMP
4 2 (0.573%) Fireworks
4 2 (0.573%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.573%) DOC1
4 2 (0.573%) PrintSoft PReS
5 1 (0.287%) MS Excel
5 1 (0.287%) MS Project
5 1 (0.287%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 6 (1.719%) Tridion
2 4 (1.146%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.573%) Google Analytics
3 2 (0.573%) Exstream
4 1 (0.287%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.287%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.596%) 3G
2 10 (2.865%) Internet
3 9 (2.579%) DHCP
3 9 (2.579%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.579%) DNS
4 7 (2.006%) BIG-IP
5 4 (1.146%) SAN
5 4 (1.146%) NAS
5 4 (1.146%) LTE
6 3 (0.860%) HTTP
6 3 (0.860%) Broadband
7 2 (0.573%) Intranet
7 2 (0.573%) Wireless
7 2 (0.573%) Firewall
7 2 (0.573%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (0.287%) WAN
8 1 (0.287%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.287%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (9.456%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.304%) MySQL
3 12 (3.438%) DB2
3 12 (3.438%) RDBMS
4 11 (3.152%) VLDB
5 8 (2.292%) JasperReports
6 6 (1.719%) Oracle 8/8i
6 6 (1.719%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (1.719%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.719%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.433%) MS Access
8 4 (1.146%) GIS
8 4 (1.146%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.146%) Apache Hive
8 4 (1.146%) Redis
9 3 (0.860%) DbVisualizer
9 3 (0.860%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (0.860%) SQL Server 2008
9 3 (0.860%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (0.573%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 54 (15.47%) Subversion
2 20 (5.731%) Ant
2 20 (5.731%) JUnit
3 18 (5.158%) Eclipse
4 17 (4.871%) Selenium
4 17 (4.871%) Maven
5 16 (4.585%) JIRA
6 14 (4.011%) Git (software)
7 11 (3.152%) WebDriver
8 8 (2.292%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
9 7 (2.006%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (2.006%) Log4j
10 6 (1.719%) QuickTest Pro
11 5 (1.433%) JBehave
11 5 (1.433%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.146%) Jenkins
12 4 (1.146%) PhoneGap
12 4 (1.146%) Appcelerator Titanium
13 3 (0.860%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.860%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 73 (20.92%) Finance
2 50 (14.33%) Retail
3 27 (7.736%) Games
4 25 (7.163%) Telecoms
5 10 (2.865%) Publishing
6 8 (2.292%) Banking
7 6 (1.719%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.719%) Marketing
8 5 (1.433%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.433%) Automotive
9 4 (1.146%) Legal
9 4 (1.146%) Multimedia
10 3 (0.860%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.287%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 189 (54.15%) Developer
2 85 (24.36%) Java Developer
3 36 (10.32%) Android Developer
4 28 (8.023%) Architect
5 23 (6.590%) Project Manager
6 20 (5.731%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (3.725%) J2EE Developer
8 12 (3.438%) Programmer
8 12 (3.438%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 12 (3.438%) E-Commerce Manager
8 12 (3.438%) E-Commerce Project Manager
9 11 (3.152%) Front-End Developer
9 11 (3.152%) Analyst
9 11 (3.152%) Consultant
9 11 (3.152%) Test Engineer
10 10 (2.865%) Tester
10 10 (2.865%) Senior Developer
11 9 (2.579%) Web Developer
11 9 (2.579%) Administrator
12 8 (2.292%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.883%) IPTV
2 27 (7.736%) Streaming Video
3 17 (4.871%) Computer Science
4 12 (3.438%) Biology
5 11 (3.152%) Contract for Difference
6 10 (2.865%) N-Tier
6 10 (2.865%) Open Source
6 10 (2.865%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.292%) W3C
7 8 (2.292%) Social Media
8 6 (1.719%) Web 2.0
9 5 (1.433%) Augmented Reality
9 5 (1.433%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.146%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.146%) Informatics
11 3 (0.860%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.860%) iPhone
11 3 (0.860%) VLE
12 2 (0.573%) LIMS
12 2 (0.573%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 80 (22.92%) Linux
2 67 (19.20%) UNIX
3 61 (17.48%) Android
4 35 (10.03%) Windows
5 16 (4.585%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.865%) Solaris
7 7 (2.006%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.719%) HPUX
8 6 (1.719%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (1.433%) Windows Mobile
9 5 (1.433%) Windows XP
9 5 (1.433%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.860%) Debian
10 3 (0.860%) Windows CE
11 2 (0.573%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.573%) Windows 2000 Server
11 2 (0.573%) Embedded Linux
11 2 (0.573%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.573%) bada
12 1 (0.287%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (15.19%) E-Commerce
2 50 (14.33%) Agile Software Development
3 45 (12.89%) OO
4 43 (12.32%) Scrum
5 38 (10.89%) SOA
6 34 (9.742%) TDD
7 30 (8.596%) UML
8 24 (6.877%) Waterfall
9 23 (6.590%) MVC
10 22 (6.304%) Content Management
11 21 (6.017%) Continuous Integration
11 21 (6.017%) Project Management
12 20 (5.731%) Unit Testing
13 19 (5.444%) Multithreading
14 16 (4.585%) BDD
14 16 (4.585%) RUP
15 15 (4.298%) Web Development
15 15 (4.298%) Automated Testing
15 15 (4.298%) Test Scripting
16 14 (4.011%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 94 (26.93%) SQL
2 79 (22.64%) JavaScript
3 32 (9.169%) Perl
3 32 (9.169%) C#
4 28 (8.023%) Python
5 27 (7.736%) C++
6 25 (7.163%) C
7 24 (6.877%) Ruby
8 19 (5.444%) PHP
9 16 (4.585%) PL/SQL
10 15 (4.298%) Shell Script
11 8 (2.292%) FQL
11 8 (2.292%) XPath
12 6 (1.719%) Objective-C
12 6 (1.719%) VB
12 6 (1.719%) Bash shell
13 5 (1.433%) Groovy
13 5 (1.433%) Lisp
14 4 (1.146%) PHP5
15 3 (0.860%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 24 (6.877%) Degree
2 17 (4.871%) ISEB
3 14 (4.011%) PhD
4 13 (3.725%) Security Cleared
5 12 (3.438%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.719%) Sun Certification
7 4 (1.146%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (0.860%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.573%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.573%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.287%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.287%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.287%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.287%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.152%) QA
2 3 (0.860%) SLA
3 1 (0.287%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (2.865%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.292%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.573%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.573%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.573%) Xen
4 1 (0.287%) XenServer
4 1 (0.287%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 6 (1.719%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.860%) Puppet
2 3 (0.860%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.573%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.287%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 78 (22.35%) Oracle
2 52 (14.90%) JBoss
3 32 (9.169%) IBM
3 32 (9.169%) Symantec
4 25 (7.163%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.158%) SAP
6 13 (3.725%) HP
7 10 (2.865%) VMware
7 10 (2.865%) Twitter
8 9 (2.579%) Elastic Path
8 9 (2.579%) ATG
9 8 (2.292%) Adobe
9 8 (2.292%) Facebook
10 6 (1.719%) FatWire
10 6 (1.719%) Sun
10 6 (1.719%) Interwoven
10 6 (1.719%) Blue Martini
11 5 (1.433%) Capita
12 4 (1.146%) NetApp
12 4 (1.146%) Google
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