North West Java Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Developer
Location Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	66
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	58	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.088 %
As % of the category below	1.734 %	2.151 %
Daily rates quoted	17	20
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£308
Average daily rate	£347	£316
% change on same period last year	+9.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£31.67
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-29.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£39.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.16	£37.33
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3344	4045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.708 %	4.088 %
Daily rates quoted	783	827
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	467	456
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
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.

Java Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the North West 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 North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Manchester	-14	19	£362	+18.57 %
Cheshire	+17	18	£332	+12.54 %
Merseyside	0	9	£378	+21.81 %
Lancashire	+1	3	£305	-12.85 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 166 (100.00 %) Java 2 101 (60.84 %) J2EE 3 81 (48.80 %) Oracle 4 66 (39.76 %) JSP 5 57 (34.34 %) XML 6 48 (28.92 %) Hibernate 7 43 (25.90 %) HTML 8 41 (24.70 %) Spring 9 39 (23.49 %) SQL 10 37 (22.29 %) Struts 10 37 (22.29 %) WebServices 11 30 (18.07 %) UML 12 29 (17.47 %) JavaScript 12 29 (17.47 %) WebSphere 13 26 (15.66 %) PL/SQL

13 26 (15.66 %) CSS 13 26 (15.66 %) OO 14 24 (14.46 %) Eclipse 15 20 (12.05 %) Servlets 16 19 (11.45 %) Finance 17 18 (10.84 %) Oracle 10g 18 17 (10.24 %) JSF 19 15 (9.036 %) UNIX 19 15 (9.036 %) Swing 20 14 (8.434 %) SOAP 20 14 (8.434 %) JDBC 20 14 (8.434 %) C++ 20 14 (8.434 %) Ant 21 13 (7.831 %) EJB 21 13 (7.831 %) JBoss

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 101 (60.84 %) J2EE 2 66 (39.76 %) JSP 3 57 (34.34 %) XML 4 48 (28.92 %) Hibernate 5 43 (25.90 %) HTML 6 41 (24.70 %) Spring 7 37 (22.29 %) Struts 7 37 (22.29 %) WebServices 8 29 (17.47 %) WebSphere 9 26 (15.66 %) CSS 10 20 (12.05 %) Servlets 11 17 (10.24 %) JSF 12 15 (9.036 %) Swing 13 14 (8.434 %) SOAP 13 14 (8.434 %) JDBC 14 13 (7.831 %) EJB 15 11 (6.627 %) AJAX 16 9 (5.422 %) WSDL 16 9 (5.422 %) JAX-RPC 17 8 (4.819 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 13 (7.831 %) JBoss 2 12 (7.229 %) Tomcat 3 9 (5.422 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 8 (4.819 %) WebLogic 5 6 (3.614 %) Apache 6 3 (1.807 %) Tuxedo 7 2 (1.205 %) Oracle 9iAS 7 2 (1.205 %) CMS 7 2 (1.205 %) Jetty 8 1 (0.602 %) WPS 8 1 (0.602 %) MQSeries 8 1 (0.602 %) JRun
Applications 1 7 (4.217 %) MS Excel 2 3 (1.807 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.602 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (0.602 %) Teamcenter
Communications & Networking 1 6 (3.614 %) Internet 2 2 (1.205 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (10.84 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (4.217 %) RDBMS 2 7 (4.217 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (1.807 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 3 (1.807 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 2 (1.205 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.602 %) SQL Server 5 1 (0.602 %) DB2 5 1 (0.602 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 24 (14.46 %) Eclipse 2 14 (8.434 %) Ant 3 11 (6.627 %) JUnit 4 4 (2.410 %) JDeveloper 5 3 (1.807 %) WebLogic Workshop 5 3 (1.807 %) Log4j 6 2 (1.205 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (1.205 %) JIRA 6 2 (1.205 %) Oracle APEX 7 1 (0.602 %) Flash 7 1 (0.602 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 1 (0.602 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.602 %) HttpUnit	General 1 19 (11.45 %) Finance 2 12 (7.229 %) Retail 3 10 (6.024 %) Banking 3 10 (6.024 %) Government 4 6 (3.614 %) Insurance 5 5 (3.012 %) Telecoms 6 4 (2.410 %) Military 6 4 (2.410 %) Manufacturing 7 3 (1.807 %) Retail Banking 8 2 (1.205 %) Auditing 8 2 (1.205 %) Advertising 8 2 (1.205 %) Back Office 8 2 (1.205 %) Automotive 9 1 (0.602 %) Education 9 1 (0.602 %) Health 9 1 (0.602 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.602 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.602 %) Publishing 9 1 (0.602 %) Games 9 1 (0.602 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.205 %) RIA 2 1 (0.602 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.602 %) Blackberry 2 1 (0.602 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (0.602 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 15 (9.036 %) UNIX 2 7 (4.217 %) Windows 2 7 (4.217 %) Linux 3 2 (1.205 %) AIX 3 2 (1.205 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (18.07 %) UML 2 26 (15.66 %) OO 3 11 (6.627 %) E-Commerce 3 11 (6.627 %) Security Cleared 4 10 (6.024 %) Agile Software Development 5 9 (5.422 %) SOA 6 7 (4.217 %) OOD 6 7 (4.217 %) Unit Testing 6 7 (4.217 %) System Testing 7 3 (1.807 %) BC Cleared 7 3 (1.807 %) Migration 8 2 (1.205 %) Scrum 8 2 (1.205 %) Security Management 8 2 (1.205 %) CRM 8 2 (1.205 %) Integration Testing 8 2 (1.205 %) Stress Testing 8 2 (1.205 %) Continuous Integration 8 2 (1.205 %) Refactoring 8 2 (1.205 %) Use Case 8 2 (1.205 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 166 (100.00 %) Java 2 39 (23.49 %) SQL 3 29 (17.47 %) JavaScript 4 26 (15.66 %) PL/SQL 5 14 (8.434 %) C++ 6 5 (3.012 %) C# 7 4 (2.410 %) Perl 8 3 (1.807 %) XPath 9 2 (1.205 %) Shell Script 9 2 (1.205 %) C 10 1 (0.602 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.602 %) VC++ 10 1 (0.602 %) Ruby 10 1 (0.602 %) Groovy
Qualifications 1 3 (1.807 %) Degree 2 2 (1.205 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (3.614 %) QA 2 2 (1.205 %) HL7
Vendors 1 81 (48.80 %) Oracle 2 12 (7.229 %) Chordiant 3 10 (6.024 %) Microsoft 4 8 (4.819 %) ILOG 5 4 (2.410 %) Sun 6 3 (1.807 %) IBM 7 2 (1.205 %) SAP 7 2 (1.205 %) CODA 7 2 (1.205 %) Tridion 8 1 (0.602 %) Perforce 8 1 (0.602 %) UGS 8 1 (0.602 %) Interwoven 8 1 (0.602 %) BEA