The first table below looks at the demand for Eclipse skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Eclipse over the 3 months to 22 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 Development Applications category for the Lancashire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eclipse
Rank 27 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 4 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.970% 1.174% -
As % of the Development Applications category 16.00% 17.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £380 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-4.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.58%
All Development Applications
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
25 29 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 12.32% 6.808% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 19
Average daily rate £306 £345 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.23% +5.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £279 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £390 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Eclipse
North West

Eclipse
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Eclipse across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Lancashire Eclipse Jobs Demand Trend

Eclipse
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Eclipse Daily Rate Trend

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Eclipse Hourly Rate Trend

Eclipse
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Blackburn - 2 - -
Chorley - 1 £350 -
Eclipse
North West

Eclipse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Eclipse 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 Eclipse.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) SWT
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) JNI
3 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) soapUI
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) DB2
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (25.00%) EJB
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets

Eclipse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Eclipse 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 Eclipse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) SWT
1 2 (50.00%) JNI
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) soapUI
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) EJB
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) JDBC
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) Servlets
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) RAD
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM