Oxfordshire Java Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Java over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Barking Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bletchley Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria 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 Egham England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenock Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Linlithgow Liverpool Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes 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 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 Southport Southwark St Neots 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 Wellingborough Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	17
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	19	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	6.552 %	17.97 %
Daily rates quoted	4	19
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£274
Average daily rate	£331	£292
% change on same period last year	+13.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£358
% change on same period last year	+4.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£24.80
Average hourly rate	-	£26.80
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.09	£36.60
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Programming Languages Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	290	217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.382 %	0.230 %
Daily rates quoted	65	48
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£274
Average daily rate	£318	£293
% change on same period last year	+8.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.93	£27.92
Average hourly rate	£28.40	£29.71
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.87	£31.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.13	£33.16
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Java South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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 Oxfordshire 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 job ads citing Java within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 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
Oxford	+1	10	£342	-5.74 %
Abingdon	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 19 (35.19 %) SQL 1 19 (35.19 %) SQL Server 2 18 (33.33 %) XML 3 17 (31.48 %) HTML 3 17 (31.48 %) JavaScript 4 15 (27.78 %) J2EE 4 15 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2005 5 14 (25.93 %) SQL Server 7 5 14 (25.93 %) SQL Server 2000 5 14 (25.93 %) Fusebox 5 14 (25.93 %) Transact-SQL 5 14 (25.93 %) ColdFusion MX 5 14 (25.93 %) ColdFusion 6 12 (22.22 %) OO 7 11 (20.37 %) Oracle

8 8 (14.81 %) WebSphere 8 8 (14.81 %) C++ 9 7 (12.96 %) EJB 9 7 (12.96 %) Oracle 10g 10 6 (11.11 %) Middleware 10 6 (11.11 %) WebServices 11 5 (9.259 %) ASP.NET 11 5 (9.259 %) .NET 11 5 (9.259 %) C# 11 5 (9.259 %) JBoss 11 5 (9.259 %) Hibernate 11 5 (9.259 %) Spring 11 5 (9.259 %) Security Cleared 12 4 (7.407 %) SC Cleared 12 4 (7.407 %) BPEL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 18 (33.33 %) XML 2 17 (31.48 %) HTML 3 15 (27.78 %) J2EE 4 14 (25.93 %) Fusebox 5 8 (14.81 %) WebSphere 6 7 (12.96 %) EJB 7 6 (11.11 %) Middleware 7 6 (11.11 %) WebServices 8 5 (9.259 %) Hibernate 8 5 (9.259 %) Spring 8 5 (9.259 %) .NET 8 5 (9.259 %) ASP.NET 9 4 (7.407 %) Servlets 9 4 (7.407 %) Struts 9 4 (7.407 %) CSS 9 4 (7.407 %) XHTML 10 3 (5.556 %) WCF 10 3 (5.556 %) WPF 10 3 (5.556 %) SOAP 11 2 (3.704 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 14 (25.93 %) ColdFusion MX 1 14 (25.93 %) ColdFusion 2 5 (9.259 %) JBoss 3 4 (7.407 %) ESB 4 3 (5.556 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (5.556 %) WebSphere MQ 4 3 (5.556 %) WPS 5 2 (3.704 %) WebLogic 5 2 (3.704 %) IIS 6 1 (1.852 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.852 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (1.852 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 2 (3.704 %) Photoshop 2 1 (1.852 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.852 %) Adobe Illustrator	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (35.19 %) SQL Server 2 15 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2005 3 14 (25.93 %) SQL Server 7 3 14 (25.93 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (12.96 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (3.704 %) DataStage 6 1 (1.852 %) OLAP 6 1 (1.852 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.852 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.852 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 2 (3.704 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (3.704 %) Flash 2 1 (1.852 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.852 %) RequisitePro 2 1 (1.852 %) JUnit	General 1 3 (5.556 %) Finance 2 1 (1.852 %) Government 2 1 (1.852 %) Games 2 1 (1.852 %) Banking 2 1 (1.852 %) Retail 2 1 (1.852 %) Multimedia 2 1 (1.852 %) Retail Banking 2 1 (1.852 %) Flash Games 2 1 (1.852 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 38 (70.37 %) Developer 2 14 (25.93 %) ColdFusion Developer 3 12 (22.22 %) Java Developer 4 9 (16.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 8 (14.81 %) J2EE Developer 6 4 (7.407 %) Analyst 7 3 (5.556 %) Web Developer 7 3 (5.556 %) .NET Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) C# Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) ASP Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) Information Analyst 8 2 (3.704 %) Applications Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) ActionScript Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) DataStage Developer 8 2 (3.704 %) Flash Developer 9 1 (1.852 %) Web Applications Developer 9 1 (1.852 %) Development Project Manager 9 1 (1.852 %) Integration Engineer 9 1 (1.852 %) Datawarehouse Analyst 9 1 (1.852 %) Senior J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.556 %) Computer Science 2 2 (3.704 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.852 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.556 %) Unix 2 2 (3.704 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (22.22 %) OO 2 5 (9.259 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (7.407 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (7.407 %) OOD 3 4 (7.407 %) BPEL 4 3 (5.556 %) Logistics 4 3 (5.556 %) Web Development 4 3 (5.556 %) SOA 4 3 (5.556 %) Matrix Management 5 2 (3.704 %) Load Balancing 6 1 (1.852 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (1.852 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (1.852 %) UML 6 1 (1.852 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (1.852 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (1.852 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 19 (35.19 %) SQL 2 17 (31.48 %) JavaScript 3 14 (25.93 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (14.81 %) C++ 5 5 (9.259 %) C# 6 4 (7.407 %) Perl 7 2 (3.704 %) C 7 2 (3.704 %) ActionScript 8 1 (1.852 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (5.556 %) Degree 2 1 (1.852 %) Sun Certification
System Software 1 1 (1.852 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 11 (20.37 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.556 %) IBM 3 2 (3.704 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.704 %) Mercator 4 1 (1.852 %) BEA 4 1 (1.852 %) Sybase