Peterborough Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the Peterborough 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 4 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 Hendon 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	11	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.190 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£329	-
Average daily rate	£366	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£403	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£341
% change on same period last year	+9.65 %
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	£38.65	£40.25
% change on same period last year	-3.97 %
Job Titles Peterborough
Matching contract IT job ads	153	108
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	32	22
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£322
Average daily rate	£370	£336
% change on same period last year	+10.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.58	£20.63
Average hourly rate	£15.40	£21.91
% change on same period last year	-29.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.23	£23.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Java Developer Cambridgeshire

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 Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 Developer across the Peterborough region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 46 (100.00 %) Java 2 44 (95.65 %) Spring 3 43 (93.48 %) Hibernate 4 35 (76.09 %) J2EE 5 30 (65.22 %) JUnit 6 27 (58.70 %) Ant 7 26 (56.52 %) Unix 8 25 (54.35 %) HPUX 8 25 (54.35 %) Solaris 8 25 (54.35 %) Linux 8 25 (54.35 %) Finance 9 22 (47.83 %) WebSphere 10 18 (39.13 %) UML 10 18 (39.13 %) SOA 10 18 (39.13 %) Eclipse

11 17 (36.96 %) OO 11 17 (36.96 %) DB2 11 17 (36.96 %) SQL 11 17 (36.96 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 17 (36.96 %) CruiseControl 11 17 (36.96 %) Atlassian Bamboo 12 16 (34.78 %) IntelliJ 13 15 (32.61 %) IBM 14 13 (28.26 %) Continuous Integration 15 9 (19.57 %) CRM 16 6 (13.04 %) Agile Software Development 16 6 (13.04 %) Scrum 17 4 (8.696 %) Insurance 18 2 (4.348 %) ESB 18 2 (4.348 %) NetBeans

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 44 (95.65 %) Spring 2 43 (93.48 %) Hibernate 3 35 (76.09 %) J2EE 4 22 (47.83 %) WebSphere 5 2 (4.348 %) NetBeans 5 2 (4.348 %) JMS 5 2 (4.348 %) JSP 5 2 (4.348 %) Servlets 5 2 (4.348 %) Struts 6 1 (2.174 %) XML 6 1 (2.174 %) XHTML 6 1 (2.174 %) HTML 6 1 (2.174 %) EJB 6 1 (2.174 %) CSS 6 1 (2.174 %) PicoContainer 6 1 (2.174 %) AJAX 6 1 (2.174 %) Acegi Security	Application Platforms 1 17 (36.96 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (4.348 %) ESB 3 1 (2.174 %) WebLogic 3 1 (2.174 %) JBoss 3 1 (2.174 %) Apache 3 1 (2.174 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.174 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (36.96 %) DB2 2 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 30 (65.22 %) JUnit 2 27 (58.70 %) Ant 3 18 (39.13 %) Eclipse 4 17 (36.96 %) CruiseControl 4 17 (36.96 %) Atlassian Bamboo 5 16 (34.78 %) IntelliJ 6 2 (4.348 %) JDeveloper 6 2 (4.348 %) JBuilder 6 2 (4.348 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 25 (54.35 %) Finance 2 4 (8.696 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.174 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 26 (56.52 %) Unix 2 25 (54.35 %) HPUX 2 25 (54.35 %) Solaris 2 25 (54.35 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (39.13 %) UML 1 18 (39.13 %) SOA 2 17 (36.96 %) OO 3 13 (28.26 %) Continuous Integration 4 9 (19.57 %) CRM 5 6 (13.04 %) Scrum 5 6 (13.04 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (4.348 %) MVC 6 2 (4.348 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (4.348 %) RAD 7 1 (2.174 %) RUP 7 1 (2.174 %) B2C	Programming Languages 1 46 (100.00 %) Java 2 17 (36.96 %) SQL 3 1 (2.174 %) JavaScript 3 1 (2.174 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (2.174 %) Sun Certification 1 1 (2.174 %) Degree	Vendors 1 15 (32.61 %) IBM 2 1 (2.174 %) Sun 2 1 (2.174 %) BEA 2 1 (2.174 %) Oracle