The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter 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 Exeter 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 5 4
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -1
Contract jobs citing Java 6 15 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 5.769% 26.32% 30.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 44.12% 46.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 12
Average daily rate £361 £463 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.89% +9.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £450 £377
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £481 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
35 34 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 33.65% 59.65% 65.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 26
Average daily rate £325 £330 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -16.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £10.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+225.00% -67.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
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Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exeter Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 11 (47.83%) IBM
1 11 (47.83%) WebSphere
2 10 (43.48%) J2EE
2 10 (43.48%) Linux
3 9 (39.13%) .NET
4 8 (34.78%) Windows
4 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
4 8 (34.78%) Oracle
4 8 (34.78%) XSD
4 8 (34.78%) Silverlight
5 7 (30.43%) Dojo
5 7 (30.43%) jQuery
5 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
5 7 (30.43%) GIS
5 7 (30.43%) ESRI
6 6 (26.09%) ArcSDE
6 6 (26.09%) Data Management
6 6 (26.09%) ArcGIS
6 6 (26.09%) Publishing
6 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
6 6 (26.09%) C#
6 6 (26.09%) HTML
6 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
6 6 (26.09%) CSS
6 6 (26.09%) Servlets
6 6 (26.09%) Web Services
6 6 (26.09%) XML
6 6 (26.09%) Python
6 6 (26.09%) ArcObjects
6 6 (26.09%) Apache Flex

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 11 (47.83%) WebSphere
2 10 (43.48%) J2EE
3 9 (39.13%) .NET
4 8 (34.78%) XSD
4 8 (34.78%) Silverlight
5 7 (30.43%) Dojo
5 7 (30.43%) jQuery
6 6 (26.09%) HTML
6 6 (26.09%) CSS
6 6 (26.09%) Servlets
6 6 (26.09%) Web Services
6 6 (26.09%) XML
6 6 (26.09%) ArcObjects
6 6 (26.09%) Apache Flex
6 6 (26.09%) Ajax
6 6 (26.09%) REST
7 4 (17.39%) Spring
8 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
8 3 (13.04%) Java EE
8 3 (13.04%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 6 (26.09%) ArcSDE
1 6 (26.09%) ArcGIS
2 4 (17.39%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
4 2 (8.696%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) SAN
1 1 (4.348%) Internet
1 1 (4.348%) SSL
1 1 (4.348%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) GIS
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.348%) TOAD
3 1 (4.348%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.348%) Subversion
2 1 (4.348%) NetBeans
2 1 (4.348%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.348%) Maven
2 1 (4.348%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (26.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) WebSphere Developer
3 7 (30.43%) GIS Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Administrator
5 2 (8.696%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Web Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.348%) UNIX
4 1 (4.348%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Data Modelling
2 6 (26.09%) Data Management
2 6 (26.09%) Information Management
3 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
5 2 (8.696%) SOA
5 2 (8.696%) Quality Management
6 1 (4.348%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.348%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.348%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.348%) Project Management
6 1 (4.348%) ITIL
6 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.348%) Project Planning
6 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
6 1 (4.348%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
2 6 (26.09%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (4.348%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.348%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) IBM
2 8 (34.78%) Oracle
3 7 (30.43%) ESRI
4 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.696%) VMware
6 1 (4.348%) NetApp
6 1 (4.348%) JBoss