The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the North Yorkshire 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
Java
Rank 8 11 18
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +7
Contract jobs citing Java 18 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 11.69% 8.939% 6.180%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.08% 30.77% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 1
Average daily rate £350 £325 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
78 52 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 50.65% 29.05% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 34 32
Average daily rate £354 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.83% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £240 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £371 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £42.00 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the North Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

North Yorkshire Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the North Yorkshire 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
York +2 15 £354 +8.76%
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 17 (80.95%) J2EE
2 14 (66.67%) Oracle
3 10 (47.62%) Unit Testing
4 9 (42.86%) PL/SQL
4 9 (42.86%) SQL
5 8 (38.10%) ITIL
5 8 (38.10%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (38.10%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (38.10%) Maven
6 7 (33.33%) Subversion
6 7 (33.33%) Tomcat
7 6 (28.57%) WebLogic
7 6 (28.57%) Hibernate
7 6 (28.57%) JMS
7 6 (28.57%) Spring
7 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
7 6 (28.57%) Hudson
8 5 (23.81%) Spring MVC
8 5 (23.81%) Tapestry
8 5 (23.81%) Jetty
8 5 (23.81%) Open Source
8 5 (23.81%) Apache
8 5 (23.81%) MVC
8 5 (23.81%) JUnit
9 4 (19.05%) JDBC
9 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
9 4 (19.05%) Eclipse
9 4 (19.05%) Content Management
9 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (14.29%) JasperReports

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 17 (80.95%) J2EE
2 6 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 6 (28.57%) JMS
2 6 (28.57%) Spring
2 6 (28.57%) WebSphere
3 5 (23.81%) Spring MVC
3 5 (23.81%) Tapestry
4 4 (19.05%) JDBC
5 3 (14.29%) FreeMarker
5 3 (14.29%) SiteMesh
5 3 (14.29%) Apache Axis
5 3 (14.29%) Ehcache
5 3 (14.29%) RESTful
5 3 (14.29%) Struts
5 3 (14.29%) Web Services
5 3 (14.29%) JSP
6 2 (9.524%) XML
7 1 (4.762%) JSF
7 1 (4.762%) XSLT
7 1 (4.762%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 6 (28.57%) WebLogic
3 5 (23.81%) Jetty
3 5 (23.81%) Apache
4 1 (4.762%) CMS
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (4.762%) IIS
4 1 (4.762%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) BIG-IP
1 1 (4.762%) NAS
1 1 (4.762%) iSCSI
1 1 (4.762%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (4.762%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (4.762%) Firewall
1 1 (4.762%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (14.29%) JasperReports
2 3 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (9.524%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.762%) DB2
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle Forms
1 8 (38.10%) Maven
2 7 (33.33%) Subversion
3 6 (28.57%) Hudson
4 5 (23.81%) JUnit
5 4 (19.05%) Eclipse
6 3 (14.29%) jMock
6 3 (14.29%) Subclipse
6 3 (14.29%) TestNG
6 3 (14.29%) EasyMock
6 3 (14.29%) Log4j
7 1 (4.762%) Selenium
7 1 (4.762%) CruiseControl
General
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
1 1 (4.762%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) Developer
2 11 (52.38%) Java Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (14.29%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Java Programmer
4 3 (14.29%) Programmer
5 2 (9.524%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Build Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Open Source
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.762%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.762%) CentOS
2 1 (4.762%) Debian
2 1 (4.762%) UNIX
2 1 (4.762%) Windows
2 1 (4.762%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Unit Testing
2 8 (38.10%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) MVC
4 4 (19.05%) Content Management
5 3 (14.29%) AOP
5 3 (14.29%) CRM
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
6 2 (9.524%) OO
7 1 (4.762%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.762%) System Testing
7 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.762%) OOD
7 1 (4.762%) Workflow
7 1 (4.762%) Migration
7 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.762%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) vSphere
1 1 (4.762%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) Cacti
1 1 (4.762%) CA Wily
1 1 (4.762%) Puppet
1 1 (4.762%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (4.762%) F5
3 1 (4.762%) Cisco
3 1 (4.762%) Tangosol
3 1 (4.762%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) EMC
3 1 (4.762%) Juniper
3 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.762%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.762%) VMware
3 1 (4.762%) Vignette
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