The first table below looks at the demand for SCJP in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCJP over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Guildford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SCJP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
67 20 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 30.73% 17.39% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 9 5
Average daily rate £375 £400 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £324 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
Average hourly rate £30.50 £18.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+69.44% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
SCJP
Surrey

SCJP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SCJP across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Guildford SCJP Jobs Demand Trend

SCJP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SCJP across the Guildford region.

Guildford SCJP Daily Rate Trend

SCJP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing SCJP 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 SCJP.

1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 1 (100.00%) RequisitePro
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) NATURAL
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration

SCJP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing SCJP 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 SCJP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) RequisitePro
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) NATURAL
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sun