Midlands Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Developer
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith 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 Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	26
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	36	60
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	2.729 %	3.776 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£150
Average daily rate	£294	£200
% change on same period last year	+46.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£339
% change on same period last year	+9.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.06	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1319	1589
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.739 %	1.662 %
Daily rates quoted	261	260
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£377
Average daily rate	£387	£396
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	108
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.68	£30.73
Average hourly rate	£23.78	£31.80
% change on same period last year	-25.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.88	£32.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Java Developer England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 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 Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 59 (100.00 %) Java 2 45 (76.27 %) J2EE 3 37 (62.71 %) Oracle 4 25 (42.37 %) Spring 5 24 (40.68 %) Hibernate 5 24 (40.68 %) SQL 6 21 (35.59 %) EJB 6 21 (35.59 %) JSP 7 20 (33.90 %) Servlets 8 19 (32.20 %) Linux 9 18 (30.51 %) XML 10 15 (25.42 %) Eclipse 10 15 (25.42 %) WebSphere 11 14 (23.73 %) Swing 11 14 (23.73 %) Microsoft

12 13 (22.03 %) JMS 12 13 (22.03 %) JDBC 13 12 (20.34 %) MS Office 13 12 (20.34 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 12 (20.34 %) DB2 13 12 (20.34 %) MS Visio 13 12 (20.34 %) LDAP 13 12 (20.34 %) IBM 13 12 (20.34 %) Chip and PIN 13 12 (20.34 %) Retail 13 12 (20.34 %) JNDI 14 11 (18.64 %) Tomcat 14 11 (18.64 %) Struts 14 11 (18.64 %) WebServices 15 10 (16.95 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 45 (76.27 %) J2EE 2 25 (42.37 %) Spring 3 24 (40.68 %) Hibernate 4 21 (35.59 %) EJB 4 21 (35.59 %) JSP 5 20 (33.90 %) Servlets 6 18 (30.51 %) XML 7 15 (25.42 %) WebSphere 8 14 (23.73 %) Swing 9 13 (22.03 %) JMS 9 13 (22.03 %) JDBC 10 12 (20.34 %) JNDI 11 11 (18.64 %) Struts 11 11 (18.64 %) WebServices 12 9 (15.25 %) HTML 13 6 (10.17 %) MVC 14 3 (5.085 %) J2SE 14 3 (5.085 %) Spring MVC 15 2 (3.390 %) Java EE 15 2 (3.390 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 12 (20.34 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 11 (18.64 %) Tomcat 3 10 (16.95 %) Apache 4 6 (10.17 %) WebLogic 5 2 (3.390 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.695 %) MQSeries 6 1 (1.695 %) Mule 6 1 (1.695 %) ESB
Applications 1 12 (20.34 %) MS Office 1 12 (20.34 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 12 (20.34 %) LDAP 2 1 (1.695 %) Internet 2 1 (1.695 %) SS7 2 1 (1.695 %) ISDN 2 1 (1.695 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (20.34 %) DB2 2 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (3.390 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (3.390 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.695 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 15 (25.42 %) Eclipse 2 5 (8.475 %) Subversion 3 4 (6.780 %) Ant 4 3 (5.085 %) JUnit 4 3 (5.085 %) Log4j 5 1 (1.695 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (1.695 %) HttpUnit
General 1 12 (20.34 %) Retail 2 5 (8.475 %) Finance 3 4 (6.780 %) Banking 4 2 (3.390 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.695 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.695 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.695 %) FMCG 5 1 (1.695 %) Government 5 1 (1.695 %) Advertising	Miscellaneous 1 12 (20.34 %) Chip and PIN 2 1 (1.695 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.695 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (1.695 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 19 (32.20 %) Linux 2 4 (6.780 %) Windows 3 3 (5.085 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (13.56 %) UML 1 8 (13.56 %) OO 2 3 (5.085 %) SOA 2 3 (5.085 %) Logistics 3 2 (3.390 %) Problem Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Incident Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.695 %) RUP 4 1 (1.695 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (1.695 %) OOA/OOD 4 1 (1.695 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (1.695 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.695 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (1.695 %) TDD 4 1 (1.695 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 59 (100.00 %) Java 2 24 (40.68 %) SQL 3 6 (10.17 %) JavaScript 4 2 (3.390 %) Perl 5 1 (1.695 %) Shell Script 5 1 (1.695 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.695 %) ABAP 5 1 (1.695 %) C++ 5 1 (1.695 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 4 (6.780 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.390 %) SLA	Vendors 1 37 (62.71 %) Oracle 2 14 (23.73 %) Microsoft 3 12 (20.34 %) IBM 4 2 (3.390 %) BEA 5 1 (1.695 %) SAP