Hampshire Java Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Java over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bletchley Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Linlithgow Liverpool Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peel Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Neots Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	9
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	217	301
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.286 %	0.319 %
As % of the category below	27.33 %	25.81 %
Daily rates quoted	37	81
Average minimum daily rate	£364	£321
Average daily rate	£390	£346
% change on same period last year	+12.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£357
% change on same period last year	+4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.05	£36.73
Average hourly rate	£36.46	£38.14
% change on same period last year	-4.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.87	£39.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.99	£36.67
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
Programming Languages Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	794	1166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.045 %	1.236 %
Daily rates quoted	126	245
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£307
Average daily rate	£362	£329
% change on same period last year	+9.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	167	256
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.92	£33.32
Average hourly rate	£36.93	£35.44
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.94	£37.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.23	£33.20
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Java 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.

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages 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 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 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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 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 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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 job ads citing Java within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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	-7	28	£418	+8.72 %
Southampton	-4	22	£358	+6.25 %
Portsmouth	+6	21	-	-
Gosport	-9	9	-	-
Fareham	+5	5	£333	-
Andover	+5	4	-	-
Eastleigh	-6	3	£398	+32.50 %
Winchester	-1	3	£350	+8.52 %
Farnborough	-4	2	£409	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 119 (28.81 %) J2EE 2 97 (23.49 %) C++ 3 89 (21.55 %) Oracle 3 89 (21.55 %) Unix 4 71 (17.19 %) C 5 67 (16.22 %) XML 6 64 (15.50 %) Windows 7 63 (15.25 %) Linux 7 63 (15.25 %) UML 7 63 (15.25 %) WebSphere 8 57 (13.80 %) OO 9 56 (13.56 %) SQL 10 50 (12.11 %) SAP 10 50 (12.11 %) Security Cleared 11 45 (10.90 %) JSP

12 44 (10.65 %) Struts 13 41 (9.927 %) WebServices 13 41 (9.927 %) JDBC 14 38 (9.201 %) .NET 15 35 (8.475 %) Hibernate 16 33 (7.990 %) JavaScript 17 32 (7.748 %) Perl 18 31 (7.506 %) Finance 19 29 (7.022 %) Agile Software Development 20 28 (6.780 %) Unit Testing 20 28 (6.780 %) Swing 21 26 (6.295 %) BusinessObjects 21 26 (6.295 %) Business Objects 21 26 (6.295 %) WebLogic 21 26 (6.295 %) Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 1 119 (28.81 %) J2EE 2 67 (16.22 %) XML 3 63 (15.25 %) WebSphere 4 45 (10.90 %) JSP 5 44 (10.65 %) Struts 6 41 (9.927 %) WebServices 6 41 (9.927 %) JDBC 7 38 (9.201 %) .NET 8 35 (8.475 %) Hibernate 9 28 (6.780 %) Swing 10 22 (5.327 %) Spring 11 21 (5.085 %) CORBA 12 20 (4.843 %) Servlets 13 19 (4.600 %) EJB 13 19 (4.600 %) AJAX 14 16 (3.874 %) HTML 15 15 (3.632 %) J2SE 15 15 (3.632 %) JMS 16 12 (2.906 %) ASP.NET 17 9 (2.179 %) SAP Basis	Application Platforms 1 26 (6.295 %) WebLogic 2 20 (4.843 %) CMS 3 18 (4.358 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 11 (2.663 %) WebSphere MQ 5 9 (2.179 %) NetWeaver 6 8 (1.937 %) ArcGIS 7 7 (1.695 %) ATG Dynamo 7 7 (1.695 %) Tomcat 8 6 (1.453 %) JBoss 8 6 (1.453 %) Oracle Spatial 9 5 (1.211 %) Apache 9 5 (1.211 %) MQSeries 9 5 (1.211 %) ArcSDE 10 4 (0.969 %) SAS 11 3 (0.726 %) Rendezvous 12 2 (0.484 %) iPlanet 12 2 (0.484 %) SharePoint 12 2 (0.484 %) IIS 12 2 (0.484 %) WebSphere Message Broker 13 1 (0.242 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 6 (1.453 %) MS Office 1 6 (1.453 %) Quicktime 2 4 (0.969 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.242 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.242 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 9 (2.179 %) SAP CRM 2 1 (0.242 %) Retail-J 2 1 (0.242 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 17 (4.116 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (3.632 %) SAN 3 13 (3.148 %) SSH 4 10 (2.421 %) iSCSI 4 10 (2.421 %) ATM 4 10 (2.421 %) GSM 5 9 (2.179 %) Internet 6 7 (1.695 %) LDAP 7 6 (1.453 %) CTI 8 5 (1.211 %) SSL 9 3 (0.726 %) HTTP 9 3 (0.726 %) DVB 10 2 (0.484 %) Firewall 10 2 (0.484 %) VPN 11 1 (0.242 %) DNS 11 1 (0.242 %) SNMP 11 1 (0.242 %) VoIP 11 1 (0.242 %) Wireless 11 1 (0.242 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (6.295 %) BusinessObjects 2 13 (3.148 %) DB2 3 10 (2.421 %) Crystal Reports 3 10 (2.421 %) MySQL 4 9 (2.179 %) RDBMS 5 8 (1.937 %) SQL Server 5 8 (1.937 %) GIS 6 5 (1.211 %) Oracle 10g 7 4 (0.969 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (0.484 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (0.484 %) Data Mining 8 2 (0.484 %) SAP BI 9 1 (0.242 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 24 (5.811 %) Rational Rose 2 22 (5.327 %) JUnit 2 22 (5.327 %) RequisitePro 3 20 (4.843 %) Eclipse 4 18 (4.358 %) Ant 5 13 (3.148 %) Subversion 6 11 (2.663 %) CruiseControl 7 8 (1.937 %) ClearCase 8 4 (0.969 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 4 (0.969 %) ClearQuest 8 4 (0.969 %) Rational Robot 9 3 (0.726 %) WinRunner 10 2 (0.484 %) TestDirector 10 2 (0.484 %) Bugzilla 10 2 (0.484 %) Log4j 10 2 (0.484 %) Oracle Forms 10 2 (0.484 %) JDeveloper 10 2 (0.484 %) LoadRunner 10 2 (0.484 %) Selenium 11 1 (0.242 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 31 (7.506 %) Finance 2 26 (6.295 %) Government 3 21 (5.085 %) Aerospace 4 20 (4.843 %) Retail 5 17 (4.116 %) Telecoms 6 13 (3.148 %) Insurance 7 7 (1.695 %) Banking 8 6 (1.453 %) Multimedia 8 6 (1.453 %) Billing 9 4 (0.969 %) Video Editing 10 3 (0.726 %) Marketing 10 3 (0.726 %) Health 11 2 (0.484 %) Manufacturing 11 2 (0.484 %) Pensions 12 1 (0.242 %) Financial Institution 12 1 (0.242 %) Military 12 1 (0.242 %) Construction 12 1 (0.242 %) Education
Job Titles 1 189 (45.76 %) Developer 2 99 (23.97 %) Java Developer 3 49 (11.86 %) Analyst 4 39 (9.443 %) Software Engineer 5 27 (6.538 %) WebSphere Developer 6 23 (5.569 %) Tester 6 23 (5.569 %) J2EE Developer 7 20 (4.843 %) Systems Analyst 8 19 (4.600 %) Consultant 8 19 (4.600 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 18 (4.358 %) Test Analyst 9 18 (4.358 %) Architect 10 16 (3.874 %) Test Engineer 10 16 (3.874 %) Java Swing Developer 11 14 (3.390 %) QA Analyst 11 14 (3.390 %) Software Architect 12 13 (3.148 %) SAP Consultant 13 10 (2.421 %) Software Developer 13 10 (2.421 %) QA Test Analyst 14 9 (2.179 %) SAP Basis Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 6 (1.453 %) MPEG 1 6 (1.453 %) Firmware 2 5 (1.211 %) Computer Science 3 2 (0.484 %) French Language 3 2 (0.484 %) Handset 3 2 (0.484 %) Cryptography 3 2 (0.484 %) PKI 4 1 (0.242 %) Clustering 4 1 (0.242 %) Asset Management 4 1 (0.242 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.242 %) EPoS 4 1 (0.242 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 89 (21.55 %) Unix 2 64 (15.50 %) Windows 3 63 (15.25 %) Linux 4 14 (3.390 %) Solaris 5 13 (3.148 %) AIX 5 13 (3.148 %) Mac OS X 6 4 (0.969 %) Windows NT 7 3 (0.726 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (0.726 %) HPUX 8 2 (0.484 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 63 (15.25 %) UML 2 57 (13.80 %) OO 3 50 (12.11 %) Security Cleared 4 29 (7.022 %) Agile Software Development 5 28 (6.780 %) Unit Testing 6 24 (5.811 %) Use Case 7 23 (5.569 %) OOD 8 22 (5.327 %) E-Commerce 8 22 (5.327 %) Web Development 8 22 (5.327 %) Software Engineering 9 20 (4.843 %) Systems Analysis 10 19 (4.600 %) Workflow 11 17 (4.116 %) Configuration Management 12 16 (3.874 %) SC Cleared 13 14 (3.390 %) Content Management 14 13 (3.148 %) Validation 15 11 (2.663 %) Project Management 15 11 (2.663 %) CRM 16 10 (2.421 %) SOA 16 10 (2.421 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 97 (23.49 %) C++ 2 71 (17.19 %) C 3 56 (13.56 %) SQL 4 33 (7.990 %) JavaScript 5 32 (7.748 %) Perl 6 20 (4.843 %) C# 7 19 (4.600 %) VC++ 8 16 (3.874 %) VB 9 14 (3.390 %) ABAP 10 13 (3.148 %) Korn 11 12 (2.906 %) VB.NET 11 12 (2.906 %) Shell Script 12 11 (2.663 %) VB6 12 11 (2.663 %) Python 12 11 (2.663 %) PL/SQL 13 6 (1.453 %) PHP 14 3 (0.726 %) VBScript 15 1 (0.242 %) Delphi 15 1 (0.242 %) DHTML 15 1 (0.242 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 13 (3.148 %) ISEB 2 11 (2.663 %) Degree 3 3 (0.726 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (0.484 %) CISSP 5 1 (0.242 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 24 (5.811 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (0.726 %) NFS 2 2 (0.484 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.242 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 89 (21.55 %) Oracle 2 50 (12.11 %) SAP 3 26 (6.295 %) Business Objects 4 19 (4.600 %) IBM 5 12 (2.906 %) ESRI 5 12 (2.906 %) ATG 6 11 (2.663 %) Microsoft 7 8 (1.937 %) Sun 8 5 (1.211 %) Citrix 9 4 (0.969 %) Avaya 9 4 (0.969 %) Red Hat 9 4 (0.969 %) Symbian 9 4 (0.969 %) Intel 10 3 (0.726 %) Remedy 10 3 (0.726 %) Serena 10 3 (0.726 %) Cisco 10 3 (0.726 %) HP 10 3 (0.726 %) TIBCO 11 2 (0.484 %) Genesys 11 2 (0.484 %) Lagan