Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for JDBC skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited JDBC over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the London region.

 Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank212253266
Rank change year-on-year
Up+41Up+13
Matching contract IT job ads16652179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.657 %0.312 %0.494 %
As % of the Application Development category2.172 %1.200 %1.796 %
Daily rates quoted882584
Average daily rate£500£400£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-15.78 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£350£314£286
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£515£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£360
% change year-on-year
--2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted203
Average hourly rate£43.50-£44.50
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.30-£42.90
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.70-£44.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.00£35.00£40.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28 %-12.50 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
764443339969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London30.25 %25.96 %27.54 %
Daily rates quoted445818704096
Average daily rate£450£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£270£233£255
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted92105331
Average hourly rate£40.00£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£16.78£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.00£54.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.25£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.830 %-7.690 %
JDBC EnglandJDBC
England

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.

JDBC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing JDBC across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London JDBC Demand Trend

JDBC
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing JDBC across the London region.

London JDBC Daily Rate Trend

JDBC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JDBC across the London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

London JDBC Daily Rate Histogram

JDBC
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing JDBC across the London region.

London JDBC Hourly Rate Trend

JDBC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JDBC within the London region over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonNo change077£475-2.56 %
Canary WharfDown-1512--
Docklands, LondonDown-43£575+40.24 %
LutonNew entry-1£290-
JDBC EnglandJDBC
England

JDBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing JDBC 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 JDBC.

1266 (95.68 %)Java
2136 (48.92 %)Spring
3131 (47.12 %)SQL
4129 (46.40 %)Banking
5109 (39.21 %)Oracle
6106 (38.13 %)XML
7100 (35.97 %)JSP
898 (35.25 %)J2EE
980 (28.78 %)UNIX
1079 (28.42 %)Hibernate
1174 (26.62 %)JUnit
1272 (25.90 %)Investment Banking
1371 (25.54 %)Derivative
1460 (21.58 %)Ant
1559 (21.22 %)JavaScript
1657 (20.50 %)Apache
1756 (20.14 %)Sybase
1851 (18.35 %)JMS
1949 (17.63 %)Servlets
2043 (15.47 %)OO
2043 (15.47 %)Continuous Integration
2142 (15.11 %)Linux
2241 (14.75 %)Agile Software Development
2340 (14.39 %)PL/SQL
2439 (14.03 %)HTML
2538 (13.67 %)J2SE
2637 (13.31 %)Front Office
2637 (13.31 %)TDD
2637 (13.31 %)Subversion
2735 (12.59 %)Shell Script

JDBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing JDBC 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 JDBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1136 (48.92 %)Spring
2106 (38.13 %)XML
3100 (35.97 %)JSP
498 (35.25 %)J2EE
579 (28.42 %)Hibernate
651 (18.35 %)JMS
749 (17.63 %)Servlets
839 (14.03 %)HTML
938 (13.67 %)J2SE
1034 (12.23 %)Web Services
1034 (12.23 %)WebSphere
1130 (10.79 %)Struts
1130 (10.79 %)Swing
1225 (8.993 %)JMX
1225 (8.993 %)CSS
1323 (8.273 %)MVC
1422 (7.914 %)Spring MVC
1519 (6.835 %)SOAP
1618 (6.475 %)EJB
1618 (6.475 %)AJAX
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
157 (20.50 %)Apache
233 (11.87 %)Tomcat
318 (6.475 %)IIS
415 (5.396 %)WebLogic
514 (5.036 %)WebSphere Application Server
514 (5.036 %)Oracle Application Server
613 (4.676 %)WebSphere Portal
78 (2.878 %)CMS
78 (2.878 %)SAS
87 (2.518 %)MQSeries
96 (2.158 %)Oracle 10gAS
105 (1.799 %)Jetty
105 (1.799 %)ESB
113 (1.079 %)LiveCycle
113 (1.079 %)WebLogic Portal
113 (1.079 %)Confluence
122 (0.719 %)Progress Apama
122 (0.719 %)Documentum
122 (0.719 %)GlassFish
131 (0.360 %)Tuxedo
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (2.518 %)MS Office
23 (1.079 %)MS Project
23 (1.079 %)MS PowerPoint
32 (0.719 %)MS Excel
32 (0.719 %)MATLAB
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (1.439 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
21 (0.360 %)Oracle General Ledger
21 (0.360 %)Oracle iProcurement
21 (0.360 %)Oracle BPM
21 (0.360 %)Oracle EBS
21 (0.360 %)Oracle CRM
21 (0.360 %)Oracle HRMS
21 (0.360 %)SAP CRM
21 (0.360 %)Oracle Payroll
21 (0.360 %)Summit
21 (0.360 %)Oracle iRecruitment
21 (0.360 %)FENICS FX
21 (0.360 %)Kondor+
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
122 (7.914 %)LDAP
29 (3.237 %)HTTP
38 (2.878 %)Internet
44 (1.439 %)Firewall
53 (1.079 %)TCP/IP
53 (1.079 %)Intranet
62 (0.719 %)X.25
71 (0.360 %)DMS-100
71 (0.360 %)VPN
71 (0.360 %)FTP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
124 (8.633 %)RDBMS
222 (7.914 %)Oracle 10g
319 (6.835 %)SQL Server
415 (5.396 %)MySQL
512 (4.317 %)Datawarehouse
611 (3.957 %)Oracle 9i
611 (3.957 %)Reference Data
79 (3.237 %)Oracle 11g
88 (2.878 %)Sybase ASE
88 (2.878 %)ETL
97 (2.518 %)DB2
97 (2.518 %)BusinessObjects
105 (1.799 %)Oracle Reports
114 (1.439 %)Oracle OWB
114 (1.439 %)SQL Server 2005
123 (1.079 %)TOAD
132 (0.719 %)OLTP
132 (0.719 %)Oracle 8/8i
132 (0.719 %)MS Access
141 (0.360 %)Oracle Discoverer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
174 (26.62 %)JUnit
260 (21.58 %)Ant
337 (13.31 %)Subversion
434 (12.23 %)jMock
526 (9.353 %)EasyMock
625 (8.993 %)FitNesse
625 (8.993 %)Maven
722 (7.914 %)Eclipse
813 (4.676 %)VSS/SourceSafe
813 (4.676 %)JMeter
99 (3.237 %)MyEclipse
108 (2.878 %)Oracle Forms
108 (2.878 %)PVCS
117 (2.518 %)ClearCase
126 (2.158 %)Rational Rose
126 (2.158 %)Log4j
135 (1.799 %)TeamCity
143 (1.079 %)JIRA
143 (1.079 %)JDeveloper
143 (1.079 %)ProC
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1129 (46.40 %)Banking
272 (25.90 %)Investment Banking
337 (13.31 %)Front Office
427 (9.712 %)Finance
526 (9.353 %)Back Office
611 (3.957 %)Law
76 (2.158 %)Government
84 (1.439 %)Games
93 (1.079 %)Insurance
102 (0.719 %)Telecoms
102 (0.719 %)Construction
111 (0.360 %)Education
111 (0.360 %)Police
111 (0.360 %)Retail Banking
111 (0.360 %)General Ledger
111 (0.360 %)Retail
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1229 (82.37 %)Developer
2187 (67.27 %)Java Developer
338 (13.67 %)Senior Developer
434 (12.23 %)Senior Java Developer
521 (7.554 %)J2EE Developer
620 (7.194 %)Agile Java Developer
713 (4.676 %)WebSphere Developer
812 (4.317 %)Analyst
99 (3.237 %)WebSphere Portal Developer
99 (3.237 %)Portal Developer
99 (3.237 %)Java/J2EE Developer
108 (2.878 %)Java Swing Developer
108 (2.878 %)Designer
117 (2.518 %)Web Developer
117 (2.518 %)Support Analyst
117 (2.518 %)Applications Support
117 (2.518 %)Applications Support Analyst
126 (2.158 %)Consultant
126 (2.158 %)Architect
126 (2.158 %)Software Engineer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
171 (25.54 %)Derivative
221 (7.554 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
319 (6.835 %)Credit Derivative
418 (6.475 %)Equities
517 (6.115 %)Multithreading
613 (4.676 %)Grid Computing
711 (3.957 %)N-Tier
711 (3.957 %)Fixed Income
810 (3.597 %)Client/Server
810 (3.597 %)Market Risk
94 (1.439 %)Clustering
94 (1.439 %)Replication
94 (1.439 %)Equity Derivative
94 (1.439 %)Mathematics
103 (1.079 %)Mainframe
112 (0.719 %)Contract for Difference
112 (0.719 %)Open Source
121 (0.360 %)Dependency Injection
121 (0.360 %)Data Extraction
121 (0.360 %)DTV
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
180 (28.78 %)UNIX
242 (15.11 %)Linux
313 (4.676 %)Windows
46 (2.158 %)HPUX
46 (2.158 %)Solaris
46 (2.158 %)Red Hat Linux
54 (1.439 %)Tru64
54 (1.439 %)AIX
62 (0.719 %)Windows 2000
62 (0.719 %)Windows XP
62 (0.719 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
71 (0.360 %)Debian
71 (0.360 %)MVS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
143 (15.47 %)OO
143 (15.47 %)Continuous Integration
241 (14.75 %)Agile Software Development
337 (13.31 %)TDD
433 (11.87 %)Unit Testing
524 (8.633 %)OOA/OOD
623 (8.273 %)UML
623 (8.273 %)Asset Management
719 (6.835 %)Electronic Trading
816 (5.755 %)Risk Management
915 (5.396 %)Business Analysis
1014 (5.036 %)Content Management
1014 (5.036 %)RAD
1110 (3.597 %)Data Management
1110 (3.597 %)Pair Programming
1110 (3.597 %)Web Development
128 (2.878 %)Integration Testing
128 (2.878 %)Migration
128 (2.878 %)RUP
137 (2.518 %)SOA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1266 (95.68 %)Java
2131 (47.12 %)SQL
359 (21.22 %)JavaScript
440 (14.39 %)PL/SQL
535 (12.59 %)Shell Script
627 (9.712 %)Perl
723 (8.273 %)VBA
810 (3.597 %)T-SQL
99 (3.237 %)Korn
99 (3.237 %)C
99 (3.237 %)C++
104 (1.439 %)XPath
104 (1.439 %)Bash shell
104 (1.439 %)VB
112 (0.719 %)Ruby
112 (0.719 %)C#
121 (0.360 %)COBOL
121 (0.360 %)PHP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
114 (5.036 %)Security Cleared
212 (4.317 %)Degree
310 (3.597 %)DV Cleared
44 (1.439 %)SC Cleared
53 (1.079 %)CTC Cleared
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
115 (5.396 %)QA
27 (2.518 %)WCAG
36 (2.158 %)SLA
42 (0.719 %)MiFID
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (1.799 %)Oracle RMAN
24 (1.439 %)Oracle RAC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (4.676 %)Tivoli
25 (1.799 %)Data Guard
34 (1.439 %)BMC PATROL
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1109 (39.21 %)Oracle
256 (20.14 %)Sybase
330 (10.79 %)IBM
414 (5.036 %)JBoss
58 (2.878 %)Sun
58 (2.878 %)Caplin
67 (2.518 %)Business Objects
76 (2.158 %)Calypso
85 (1.799 %)Fidessa
85 (1.799 %)Murex
85 (1.799 %)Cognos
85 (1.799 %)Adobe
85 (1.799 %)Red Hat
94 (1.439 %)Tangosol
94 (1.439 %)Microsoft
94 (1.439 %)Actuate
94 (1.439 %)BMC
102 (0.719 %)HP
102 (0.719 %)Perforce
111 (0.360 %)CheckPoint