Hampshire Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the Hampshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Ives Staffordshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	51
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	46	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.085 %
As % of the category below	2.294 %	3.039 %
Daily rates quoted	3	14
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£332
Average daily rate	£344	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£337
% change on same period last year	+6.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.00	£39.21
Average hourly rate	£37.77	£39.83
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.55	£40.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.73	£39.33
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2005	2764
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.673 %	2.796 %
Daily rates quoted	461	703
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£339
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	380	529
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.90	£29.41
Average hourly rate	£26.56	£31.01
% change on same period last year	-14.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£32.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Java Developer South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Basingstoke	+3	16	-	-
Andover	-	4	-	-
Southampton	-4	4	£300	-14.28 %
Portsmouth	0	3	-	-
Fareham	-	1	£333	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 90 (100.00 %) Java 2 41 (45.56 %) J2EE 3 30 (33.33 %) JSP 4 24 (26.67 %) Swing 5 22 (24.44 %) XML 6 20 (22.22 %) Struts 6 20 (22.22 %) Hibernate 7 19 (21.11 %) Oracle 8 18 (20.00 %) WebLogic 8 18 (20.00 %) SQL 9 16 (17.78 %) OO 10 15 (16.67 %) JUnit 11 13 (14.44 %) Eclipse 12 12 (13.33 %) Ant 12 12 (13.33 %) Finance

13 11 (12.22 %) Spring 13 11 (12.22 %) Servlets 13 11 (12.22 %) JavaScript 13 11 (12.22 %) E-Commerce 14 10 (11.11 %) JMS 14 10 (11.11 %) UNIX 15 9 (10.00 %) JDBC 15 9 (10.00 %) Linux 16 8 (8.889 %) Windows 16 8 (8.889 %) SAP 16 8 (8.889 %) J2SE 16 8 (8.889 %) Mac OS X 16 8 (8.889 %) WebSphere 17 7 (7.778 %) Automated Testing 17 7 (7.778 %) Insurance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 41 (45.56 %) J2EE 2 30 (33.33 %) JSP 3 24 (26.67 %) Swing 4 22 (24.44 %) XML 5 20 (22.22 %) Struts 5 20 (22.22 %) Hibernate 6 11 (12.22 %) Spring 6 11 (12.22 %) Servlets 7 10 (11.11 %) JMS 8 9 (10.00 %) JDBC 9 8 (8.889 %) J2SE 9 8 (8.889 %) WebSphere 10 6 (6.667 %) JNI 10 6 (6.667 %) AJAX 10 6 (6.667 %) JavaBeans 10 6 (6.667 %) EJB 11 5 (5.556 %) BAPI 12 4 (4.444 %) JAXB 12 4 (4.444 %) .NET 12 4 (4.444 %) iBATIS	Application Platforms 1 18 (20.00 %) WebLogic 2 2 (2.222 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.111 %) Apache 3 1 (1.111 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.111 %) SAS 3 1 (1.111 %) ATG Dynamo
Applications 1 5 (5.556 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 7 (7.778 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.111 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (4.444 %) MySQL 2 2 (2.222 %) DB2 2 2 (2.222 %) Data Mining 3 1 (1.111 %) RDBMS 3 1 (1.111 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 15 (16.67 %) JUnit 2 13 (14.44 %) Eclipse 3 12 (13.33 %) Ant 4 6 (6.667 %) CruiseControl 4 6 (6.667 %) Subversion 5 3 (3.333 %) ClearCase 6 1 (1.111 %) JBuilder 6 1 (1.111 %) Rational Rose 6 1 (1.111 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (1.111 %) JDeveloper 6 1 (1.111 %) ClearQuest	General 1 12 (13.33 %) Finance 2 7 (7.778 %) Multimedia 2 7 (7.778 %) Insurance 3 6 (6.667 %) Video Editing 3 6 (6.667 %) Government 4 4 (4.444 %) Billing 4 4 (4.444 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.111 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.111 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.111 %) Retail 5 1 (1.111 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.556 %) MPEG 2 4 (4.444 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.111 %) Handset 3 1 (1.111 %) Cryptography	Operating Systems 1 10 (11.11 %) UNIX 2 9 (10.00 %) Linux 3 8 (8.889 %) Mac OS X 3 8 (8.889 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (17.78 %) OO 2 11 (12.22 %) E-Commerce 3 7 (7.778 %) CRM 3 7 (7.778 %) Automated Testing 3 7 (7.778 %) Unit Testing 3 7 (7.778 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (6.667 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (6.667 %) Configuration Management 4 6 (6.667 %) UML 5 5 (5.556 %) Test-First Development 5 5 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (3.333 %) Extreme Programming 7 2 (2.222 %) E-business 7 2 (2.222 %) OOD 7 2 (2.222 %) SOA 7 2 (2.222 %) Continuous Integration 8 1 (1.111 %) Logistics 8 1 (1.111 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (1.111 %) EAI 8 1 (1.111 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 90 (100.00 %) Java 2 18 (20.00 %) SQL 3 11 (12.22 %) JavaScript 4 6 (6.667 %) ABAP 5 4 (4.444 %) Python 5 4 (4.444 %) Shell Script 5 4 (4.444 %) C 5 4 (4.444 %) C++ 6 1 (1.111 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 6 (6.667 %) Degree	Vendors 1 19 (21.11 %) Oracle 2 8 (8.889 %) SAP 3 2 (2.222 %) IBM 3 2 (2.222 %) ATG 4 1 (1.111 %) Cramer 4 1 (1.111 %) webMethods