The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford 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 Salford 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 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing Java 9 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 36.00% 23.08% 14.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 81.82% 75.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 0
Average daily rate £323 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
11 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 44.00% 30.77% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 0
Average daily rate £323 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Java
Manchester

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 13 (76.47%) Agile Software Development
1 13 (76.47%) TDD
2 12 (70.59%) Web Services
2 12 (70.59%) XML
2 12 (70.59%) XSLT
3 11 (64.71%) OO
4 10 (58.82%) XQuery
5 9 (52.94%) BDD
6 8 (47.06%) REST
6 8 (47.06%) RDF
6 8 (47.06%) J2EE
6 8 (47.06%) Pair Programming
6 8 (47.06%) Spring
6 8 (47.06%) XPath
6 8 (47.06%) JSON
6 8 (47.06%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (47.06%) RESTful
7 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
7 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (41.18%) Benchmarking
7 7 (41.18%) JAX-RS
8 6 (35.29%) Scrum
9 5 (29.41%) Internet
9 5 (29.41%) Flash
9 5 (29.41%) HTML
9 5 (29.41%) ActionScript
9 5 (29.41%) Content Management
10 4 (23.53%) Subversion
10 4 (23.53%) Statistics
10 4 (23.53%) MTASC

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 12 (70.59%) Web Services
1 12 (70.59%) XML
1 12 (70.59%) XSLT
2 8 (47.06%) REST
2 8 (47.06%) J2EE
2 8 (47.06%) Spring
2 8 (47.06%) JSON
2 8 (47.06%) RESTful
3 7 (41.18%) JAX-RS
4 5 (29.41%) Flash
4 5 (29.41%) HTML
5 4 (23.53%) CSS
6 2 (11.76%) XHTML
6 2 (11.76%) XML Schema
7 1 (5.882%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Internet
2 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MarkLogic
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Subversion
1 4 (23.53%) MTASC
2 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.882%) Xcode
3 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (23.53%) Publishing
2 1 (5.882%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Java Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Flash ActionScript Developer
3 3 (17.65%) ActionScript Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Flash Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Statistics
1 4 (23.53%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Interactive TV
2 2 (11.76%) Semantic Web
2 2 (11.76%) Streaming Video
3 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Android
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile Software Development
1 13 (76.47%) TDD
2 11 (64.71%) OO
3 9 (52.94%) BDD
4 8 (47.06%) RDF
4 8 (47.06%) Pair Programming
4 8 (47.06%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (41.18%) Benchmarking
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
7 5 (29.41%) Content Management
8 4 (23.53%) Performance Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Memory Management
8 4 (23.53%) OOP
9 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
9 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
10 1 (5.882%) Project Management
10 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
10 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) XQuery
2 8 (47.06%) XPath
3 5 (29.41%) ActionScript
4 4 (23.53%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) C++
5 3 (17.65%) PHP
5 3 (17.65%) SPARQL
5 3 (17.65%) Ruby
6 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.882%) Objective-C