North East Java Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daventry 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 England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenock Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich 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 Rochester 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 Southwark St Ives 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 Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	12
Rank change on same period last year	-32
Matching contract IT job ads	15	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.086 %
As % of the category below	5.814 %	22.49 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£352
Average daily rate	£334	£362
% change on same period last year	-7.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£356
% change on same period last year	+4.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.29
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£37.94
% change on same period last year	-14.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.97	£36.53
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Programming Languages North East
Matching contract IT job ads	258	378
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.344 %	0.382 %
Daily rates quoted	31	54
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£342
Average daily rate	£316	£352
% change on same period last year	-10.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.38	£36.29
Average hourly rate	£33.93	£39.23
% change on same period last year	-13.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.48	£42.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Java 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 across the North East 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 North East 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 North East 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 across the North East region.

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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 within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear	-29	8	£318	-12.17 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 25 (59.52 %) Oracle 2 20 (47.62 %) XML 3 17 (40.48 %) WebSphere 4 16 (38.10 %) J2EE 5 11 (26.19 %) DB2 6 9 (21.43 %) SQL 6 9 (21.43 %) SQLPlus 6 9 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 7 8 (19.05 %) Spring 7 8 (19.05 %) Struts 7 8 (19.05 %) ISEB 8 7 (16.67 %) UNIX 8 7 (16.67 %) UML 8 7 (16.67 %) Compuware 8 7 (16.67 %) Hibernate

9 6 (14.29 %) Automated Testing 10 5 (11.90 %) TestPartner 10 5 (11.90 %) Code Coverage 10 5 (11.90 %) Telecoms 10 5 (11.90 %) JSP 10 5 (11.90 %) PL/SQL 10 5 (11.90 %) WebLogic 10 5 (11.90 %) Cactus 11 4 (9.524 %) Degree 11 4 (9.524 %) EJB 11 4 (9.524 %) HTML 11 4 (9.524 %) OOA/OOD 11 4 (9.524 %) Oracle 9i 11 4 (9.524 %) BEA 12 3 (7.143 %) LoadRunner

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 20 (47.62 %) XML 2 17 (40.48 %) WebSphere 3 16 (38.10 %) J2EE 4 8 (19.05 %) Struts 4 8 (19.05 %) Spring 5 7 (16.67 %) Hibernate 6 5 (11.90 %) JSP 7 4 (9.524 %) EJB 7 4 (9.524 %) HTML 8 3 (7.143 %) WebServices 8 3 (7.143 %) JMS 8 3 (7.143 %) Java EE 9 2 (4.762 %) Middleware 9 2 (4.762 %) XSL 9 2 (4.762 %) XSLT 9 2 (4.762 %) JDBC 9 2 (4.762 %) Servlets 10 1 (2.381 %) SOAP 10 1 (2.381 %) .NET 10 1 (2.381 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.90 %) WebLogic 2 3 (7.143 %) JBoss 3 2 (4.762 %) MQSeries 3 2 (4.762 %) WebSphere MQ 3 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Workflow 4 1 (2.381 %) IIS 4 1 (2.381 %) Apache 4 1 (2.381 %) MTS 4 1 (2.381 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (2.381 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.762 %) Internet 2 1 (2.381 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.381 %) ADSL 2 1 (2.381 %) Broadband 2 1 (2.381 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (26.19 %) DB2 2 9 (21.43 %) SQLPlus 3 4 (9.524 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (4.762 %) MySQL 5 2 (4.762 %) Oracle OWB 6 1 (2.381 %) PostgreSQL 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 6 1 (2.381 %) RDBMS 6 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 5 (11.90 %) TestPartner 1 5 (11.90 %) Cactus 2 3 (7.143 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (7.143 %) JUnit 3 2 (4.762 %) PVCS 3 2 (4.762 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (4.762 %) ClearCase 3 2 (4.762 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (4.762 %) JDeveloper 3 2 (4.762 %) Ant 3 2 (4.762 %) QuickTest Pro 3 2 (4.762 %) ProC 4 1 (2.381 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (2.381 %) InterDev 4 1 (2.381 %) WinRunner 4 1 (2.381 %) Eclipse	General 1 5 (11.90 %) Telecoms 2 3 (7.143 %) Finance 2 3 (7.143 %) Government 3 2 (4.762 %) Education 4 1 (2.381 %) Publishing 4 1 (2.381 %) Banking 4 1 (2.381 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 15 (35.71 %) Developer 2 11 (26.19 %) Java Developer 3 7 (16.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 6 (14.29 %) J2EE Developer 4 6 (14.29 %) Tester 5 5 (11.90 %) Analyst 6 3 (7.143 %) Test Manager 6 3 (7.143 %) Test Analyst 6 3 (7.143 %) Applications Support 6 3 (7.143 %) Oracle Developer 7 2 (4.762 %) Consultant 7 2 (4.762 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (4.762 %) Quality Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) QA Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Test Team Leader 7 2 (4.762 %) Team Leader 7 2 (4.762 %) Senior Java Developer 8 1 (2.381 %) Applications Support Consultant 8 1 (2.381 %) Performance Manager 8 1 (2.381 %) Senior J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.381 %) Client/Server 1 1 (2.381 %) Blackberry 1 1 (2.381 %) Web 2.0 1 1 (2.381 %) Dutch Language
Operating Systems 1 7 (16.67 %) UNIX 2 3 (7.143 %) Linux 3 2 (4.762 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (4.762 %) Windows 3 2 (4.762 %) AIX 4 1 (2.381 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.381 %) Windows XP 4 1 (2.381 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (16.67 %) UML 3 6 (14.29 %) Automated Testing 4 5 (11.90 %) Code Coverage 5 4 (9.524 %) OOA/OOD 6 3 (7.143 %) RUP 7 2 (4.762 %) OO 7 2 (4.762 %) Workflow 7 2 (4.762 %) Migration 7 2 (4.762 %) Unified Process 7 2 (4.762 %) OOD 7 2 (4.762 %) Use Case 7 2 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (4.762 %) Data Migration 8 1 (2.381 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (2.381 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (2.381 %) Business Intelligence 8 1 (2.381 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (2.381 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (2.381 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (21.43 %) SQL 2 5 (11.90 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (7.143 %) JavaScript 4 2 (4.762 %) VBScript 4 2 (4.762 %) VB 4 2 (4.762 %) C 4 2 (4.762 %) C# 4 2 (4.762 %) C++ 5 1 (2.381 %) DHTML 5 1 (2.381 %) ABAP 5 1 (2.381 %) VC++ 5 1 (2.381 %) Pascal 5 1 (2.381 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 8 (19.05 %) ISEB 2 4 (9.524 %) Degree 3 3 (7.143 %) Sun Certification 4 2 (4.762 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (2.381 %) SCJD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.762 %) QA	Vendors 1 25 (59.52 %) Oracle 2 7 (16.67 %) Compuware 3 4 (9.524 %) BEA 4 3 (7.143 %) Sun 5 2 (4.762 %) Atlassian 5 2 (4.762 %) SAP 5 2 (4.762 %) webMethods 6 1 (2.381 %) Finjan