The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 14 19 14
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 3 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 3.191% 1.111% 10.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.00% 4.167% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
Average daily rate £488 - £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £478 - £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
25 24 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 26.60% 26.67% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 19
Average daily rate £325 £313 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -13.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.91% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Java
Cambridgeshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 4 (57.14%) C
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
1 4 (57.14%) T-SQL
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle OWB
1 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Flex
1 4 (57.14%) GWT
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle BI EE
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Subversion
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Talend Open Studio
3 2 (28.57%) Talend
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio
4 1 (14.29%) Banking

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Flex
1 4 (57.14%) GWT
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle OWB
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Subversion
2 2 (28.57%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Development Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (14.29%) IT Development Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Java Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C
1 4 (57.14%) C#
1 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
1 4 (57.14%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Talend
3 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Informatica
3 1 (14.29%) TIBCO