Java Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the Edinburgh 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
Java
Rank 13 33 18
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -15
Contract jobs citing Java 56 30 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.723% 2.760% 5.560%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.03% 15.71% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 5 29
Average daily rate £400 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £194 £302
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £380 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
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All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 233 191 272
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.97% 17.57% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 103
Average daily rate £325 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £237 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 2
Average hourly rate £12.71 £32.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.28% +52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
Scotland

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 22 (22.22%) Oracle
1 22 (22.22%) UML
2 20 (20.20%) J2EE
2 20 (20.20%) JavaScript
2 20 (20.20%) WebSphere
3 19 (19.19%) SQL
4 18 (18.18%) SOA
4 18 (18.18%) Middleware
4 18 (18.18%) Rational Application Developer
5 17 (17.17%) XML
6 16 (16.16%) CSS
6 16 (16.16%) Web Services
6 16 (16.16%) Linux
6 16 (16.16%) jQuery
7 15 (15.15%) Ajax
7 15 (15.15%) CRM
8 14 (14.14%) Spring
8 14 (14.14%) JSF
8 14 (14.14%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (12.12%) eTOM
9 12 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.11%) Finance
10 11 (11.11%) Hibernate
10 11 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
10 11 (11.11%) SOAP
10 11 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
11 10 (10.10%) HTML5
11 10 (10.10%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (10.10%) HTML
12 9 (9.091%) PL/SQL

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 20 (20.20%) J2EE
1 20 (20.20%) WebSphere
2 18 (18.18%) Middleware
3 17 (17.17%) XML
4 16 (16.16%) CSS
4 16 (16.16%) Web Services
4 16 (16.16%) jQuery
5 15 (15.15%) Ajax
6 14 (14.14%) Spring
6 14 (14.14%) JSF
7 11 (11.11%) Hibernate
7 11 (11.11%) SOAP
8 10 (10.10%) HTML5
8 10 (10.10%) HTML
9 9 (9.091%) .NET
10 7 (7.071%) JPA
10 7 (7.071%) Struts
10 7 (7.071%) JSP
10 7 (7.071%) Servlets
11 6 (6.061%) JavaBeans
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
1 11 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
2 7 (7.071%) Apache
2 7 (7.071%) Tomcat
3 4 (4.040%) GlassFish
4 3 (3.030%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (3.030%) CMS
5 2 (2.020%) WebLogic
5 2 (2.020%) SAS
5 2 (2.020%) LiveCycle
6 1 (1.010%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (1.010%) WebSphere Process Server
6 1 (1.010%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 1 (1.010%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.010%) FileNet
6 1 (1.010%) MQSeries
6 1 (1.010%) TeamSite
6 1 (1.010%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (3.030%) Gephi
1 3 (3.030%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.010%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (1.010%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.010%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.030%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.010%) X.509
2 1 (1.010%) LDAP
2 1 (1.010%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.061%) MySQL
2 4 (4.040%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.040%) RDBMS
3 3 (3.030%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (3.030%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.030%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.030%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.010%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.010%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.010%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.010%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.010%) DB2
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Rational Application Developer
2 9 (9.091%) Maven
3 7 (7.071%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.061%) Eclipse
4 6 (6.061%) Subversion
5 5 (5.051%) Ant
5 5 (5.051%) JUnit
6 4 (4.040%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (4.040%) Git (software)
7 3 (3.030%) JIRA
8 2 (2.020%) TortoiseSVN
8 2 (2.020%) Selenium
8 2 (2.020%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.010%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (1.010%) CruiseControl
9 1 (1.010%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.010%) Eclipse RCP
9 1 (1.010%) FogBugz
General
1 11 (11.11%) Finance
2 8 (8.081%) Banking
3 5 (5.051%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.040%) Games
5 3 (3.030%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.030%) Retail
5 3 (3.030%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.010%) Advertising
6 1 (1.010%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.010%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (56.57%) Developer
2 31 (31.31%) Java Developer
3 22 (22.22%) Architect
4 16 (16.16%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (13.13%) Designer
6 12 (12.12%) CRM Architect
6 12 (12.12%) Solutions Designer
7 11 (11.11%) SOA Architect
8 9 (9.091%) WebSphere Developer
9 6 (6.061%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (6.061%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.061%) Portal Developer
9 6 (6.061%) WebSphere Portal Developer
10 4 (4.040%) Lead Developer
10 4 (4.040%) Analyst
10 4 (4.040%) Front-End Developer
11 3 (3.030%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (3.030%) Access Developer
11 3 (3.030%) Systems Analyst
12 2 (2.020%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.061%) Open Source
3 5 (5.051%) Web 2.0
4 3 (3.030%) Graphic Design
4 3 (3.030%) Visualisation
5 2 (2.020%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.010%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.010%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.010%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.010%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.010%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.010%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.16%) Linux
2 4 (4.040%) Android
3 3 (3.030%) UNIX
3 3 (3.030%) Windows
4 2 (2.020%) Solaris
4 2 (2.020%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.020%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.22%) UML
2 18 (18.18%) SOA
3 15 (15.15%) CRM
4 12 (12.12%) eTOM
4 12 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (10.10%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (9.091%) OO
7 6 (6.061%) Scrum
7 6 (6.061%) Content Management
8 5 (5.051%) Web Development
8 5 (5.051%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (5.051%) Web Application Development
8 5 (5.051%) RAD
9 4 (4.040%) MVC
9 4 (4.040%) TDD
9 4 (4.040%) Multithreading
9 4 (4.040%) Unit Testing
10 3 (3.030%) Statistical Analysis
10 3 (3.030%) Data Analysis
10 3 (3.030%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.20%) JavaScript
2 19 (19.19%) SQL
3 9 (9.091%) PL/SQL
4 7 (7.071%) Ruby
5 4 (4.040%) Perl
5 4 (4.040%) C#
5 4 (4.040%) C++
5 4 (4.040%) Groovy
6 3 (3.030%) Scala
6 3 (3.030%) PHP
7 2 (2.020%) Python
7 2 (2.020%) Bash shell
7 2 (2.020%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.010%) XPath
8 1 (1.010%) VB6
8 1 (1.010%) Korn
8 1 (1.010%) ActionScript 3.0
8 1 (1.010%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.010%) COBOL
8 1 (1.010%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (5.051%) IBM Certification
2 2 (2.020%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.010%) WAI
1 1 (1.010%) Section 508
System Software
1 1 (1.010%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 4 (4.040%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (1.010%) Oracle Identity Management
2 1 (1.010%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (22.22%) Oracle
2 7 (7.071%) IBM
3 4 (4.040%) JBoss
4 3 (3.030%) Adobe
5 2 (2.020%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.020%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (2.020%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.010%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.010%) Alterian
6 1 (1.010%) Teradata
6 1 (1.010%) HP
6 1 (1.010%) Genesys
6 1 (1.010%) Informatica
6 1 (1.010%) Pegasus
6 1 (1.010%) Lotus
6 1 (1.010%) Chordiant
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