Scotland Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the Scotland 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.

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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	43	37
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	69	114
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.121 %
As % of the category below	2.805 %	3.397 %
Daily rates quoted	15	31
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£331
Average daily rate	£316	£347
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£363
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 Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2460	3356
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.244 %	3.560 %
Daily rates quoted	520	638
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£307
Average daily rate	£328	£322
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	159	214
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.75	£18.40
Average hourly rate	£20.37	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.00	£20.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Developer within the Scotland 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
Glasgow	-9	35	£318	-4.90 %
Edinburgh	+16	22	£275	-31.25 %
Falkirk	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 153 (100.00 %) Java 2 68 (44.44 %) J2EE 3 63 (41.18 %) XML 4 60 (39.22 %) Spring 5 54 (35.29 %) Finance 6 50 (32.68 %) SQL 7 41 (26.80 %) Hibernate 8 38 (24.84 %) Unix 9 32 (20.92 %) JSP 10 29 (18.95 %) Oracle 11 25 (16.34 %) Struts 11 25 (16.34 %) Eclipse 12 22 (14.38 %) WebSphere 13 20 (13.07 %) Sybase 14 19 (12.42 %) WebServices

14 19 (12.42 %) HTML 14 19 (12.42 %) XSLT 15 18 (11.76 %) JavaScript 15 18 (11.76 %) Banking 16 14 (9.150 %) AJAX 17 13 (8.497 %) EJB 18 12 (7.843 %) Tomcat 18 12 (7.843 %) JMS 18 12 (7.843 %) Tapestry 18 12 (7.843 %) Agile Software Development 19 11 (7.190 %) OO 19 11 (7.190 %) JUnit 20 10 (6.536 %) JBoss 20 10 (6.536 %) RDBMS 20 10 (6.536 %) Adobe

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 68 (44.44 %) J2EE 2 63 (41.18 %) XML 3 60 (39.22 %) Spring 4 41 (26.80 %) Hibernate 5 32 (20.92 %) JSP 6 25 (16.34 %) Struts 7 22 (14.38 %) WebSphere 8 19 (12.42 %) WebServices 8 19 (12.42 %) XSLT 8 19 (12.42 %) HTML 9 14 (9.150 %) AJAX 10 13 (8.497 %) EJB 11 12 (7.843 %) Tapestry 11 12 (7.843 %) JMS 12 10 (6.536 %) Adobe Flex 13 7 (4.575 %) SWT 14 6 (3.922 %) WSDL 14 6 (3.922 %) CSS 14 6 (3.922 %) Servlets 15 5 (3.268 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 12 (7.843 %) Tomcat 2 10 (6.536 %) JBoss 3 7 (4.575 %) MQSeries 4 6 (3.922 %) Apache 5 5 (3.268 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 3 (1.961 %) WebSphere MQ 7 2 (1.307 %) WebLogic 7 2 (1.307 %) ESB 8 1 (0.654 %) Mule 8 1 (0.654 %) WebLogic Portal 8 1 (0.654 %) CMS 8 1 (0.654 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 7 (4.575 %) Internet 2 1 (0.654 %) Extranet 2 1 (0.654 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (6.536 %) RDBMS 2 7 (4.575 %) DB2 3 5 (3.268 %) SQL Server 4 3 (1.961 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (0.654 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.654 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.654 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (0.654 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 25 (16.34 %) Eclipse 2 11 (7.190 %) JUnit 3 9 (5.882 %) ClearCase 4 8 (5.229 %) Ant 5 3 (1.961 %) XMLSpy 6 2 (1.307 %) JDeveloper 6 2 (1.307 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 2 (1.307 %) CruiseControl 7 1 (0.654 %) Subversion 7 1 (0.654 %) Selenium 7 1 (0.654 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.654 %) JMeter 7 1 (0.654 %) Log4j	General 1 54 (35.29 %) Finance 2 18 (11.76 %) Banking 3 6 (3.922 %) Investment Banking 4 5 (3.268 %) Games 5 3 (1.961 %) Telecoms 5 3 (1.961 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (1.307 %) Education 6 2 (1.307 %) Insurance 6 2 (1.307 %) Pensions 7 1 (0.654 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (0.654 %) Retail 7 1 (0.654 %) Government 7 1 (0.654 %) Health 7 1 (0.654 %) Manufacturing 7 1 (0.654 %) Front Office
Miscellaneous 1 7 (4.575 %) Derivative 2 5 (3.268 %) RIA 3 4 (2.614 %) Interest Rate Derivative 3 4 (2.614 %) Fixed Income 3 4 (2.614 %) Equities 4 2 (1.307 %) Asset Management 4 2 (1.307 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.654 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.654 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 1 (0.654 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.654 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 38 (24.84 %) Unix 2 5 (3.268 %) Linux 3 2 (1.307 %) Windows 3 2 (1.307 %) Solaris 4 1 (0.654 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (7.843 %) Agile Software Development 2 11 (7.190 %) OO 3 10 (6.536 %) TDD 4 9 (5.882 %) Workflow 5 7 (4.575 %) Web Design 6 6 (3.922 %) RAD 6 6 (3.922 %) UML 7 5 (3.268 %) SOA 7 5 (3.268 %) Extreme Programming 7 5 (3.268 %) Web Development 8 4 (2.614 %) OOD 8 4 (2.614 %) Pair Programming 9 3 (1.961 %) Data Modelling 9 3 (1.961 %) Use Case 10 2 (1.307 %) Unit Testing 10 2 (1.307 %) Wealth Management 10 2 (1.307 %) Project Management 10 2 (1.307 %) Document Management 10 2 (1.307 %) Workflow Management 11 1 (0.654 %) Process Management	Programming Languages 1 153 (100.00 %) Java 2 50 (32.68 %) SQL 3 18 (11.76 %) JavaScript 4 5 (3.268 %) C++ 4 5 (3.268 %) Transact-SQL 4 5 (3.268 %) VB 5 4 (2.614 %) Ruby 6 3 (1.961 %) XPath 6 3 (1.961 %) XQuery 7 2 (1.307 %) Groovy 7 2 (1.307 %) ActionScript 7 2 (1.307 %) C 7 2 (1.307 %) C# 7 2 (1.307 %) Perl 7 2 (1.307 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (0.654 %) COBOL 8 1 (0.654 %) Python 8 1 (0.654 %) Shell Script 8 1 (0.654 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 3 (1.961 %) Degree 2 2 (1.307 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.654 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 3 (1.961 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 29 (18.95 %) Oracle 2 20 (13.07 %) Sybase 3 10 (6.536 %) Adobe 4 3 (1.961 %) TIBCO 5 2 (1.307 %) Sun 5 2 (1.307 %) BEA 6 1 (0.654 %) RedDot 6 1 (0.654 %) Vignette 6 1 (0.654 %) IBM