The first table below looks at the demand for GWT skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GWT over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Development category for the South East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Rank 199 231 239
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +8
Contract jobs citing GWT 25 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.321% 0.079% 0.135%
As % of the Application Development category 1.319% 0.352% 0.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 7
Average daily rate £398 £325 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.30% -21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £285 £410
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £345 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £700 £413
% change year-on-year
-43.92% +69.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £23.13 £16.61 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.26% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year
-25.40% -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1895 2272 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.31% 22.39% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1005 1122 1263
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 103 197
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.50 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
GWT
England

GWT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing GWT across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South East GWT Jobs Demand Trend

GWT
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GWT across the South East region.

South East GWT Daily Rate Trend

GWT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GWT across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East GWT Daily Rate Histogram

GWT
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GWT across the South East region.

South East GWT Hourly Rate Trend

GWT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GWT within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey - 18 £413 -
Hampshire - 4 £390 -
Berkshire - 2 £458 -
Oxfordshire -1 1 £320 -1.53%
GWT
England

GWT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing GWT 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 GWT.

1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (90.63%) Hibernate
2 29 (90.63%) Spring
3 17 (53.13%) Google
4 14 (43.75%) Maven
5 13 (40.63%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
7 11 (34.38%) DbUnit
7 11 (34.38%) Mockito
7 11 (34.38%) Groovy
7 11 (34.38%) Guice
7 11 (34.38%) TestNG
8 9 (28.13%) Spring Security
8 9 (28.13%) Spring Batch
9 7 (21.88%) CSS
10 6 (18.75%) SQL
10 6 (18.75%) Finance
11 5 (15.63%) HL7
11 5 (15.63%) SOA
11 5 (15.63%) Web Services
12 4 (12.50%) J2EE
12 4 (12.50%) ESB
12 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (9.375%) Web Development
13 3 (9.375%) TDD
13 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
13 3 (9.375%) HTML
13 3 (9.375%) Apache
13 3 (9.375%) Eclipse
13 3 (9.375%) MVC

GWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing GWT 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 GWT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (90.63%) Hibernate
1 29 (90.63%) Spring
2 11 (34.38%) Guice
3 9 (28.13%) Spring Security
3 9 (28.13%) Spring Batch
4 7 (21.88%) CSS
5 5 (15.63%) Web Services
6 4 (12.50%) J2EE
7 3 (9.375%) HTML
8 1 (3.125%) Spring MVC
8 1 (3.125%) WebKit
8 1 (3.125%) JMS
8 1 (3.125%) XML
8 1 (3.125%) XSL
8 1 (3.125%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) ESB
2 3 (9.375%) Apache
3 2 (6.250%) Mule
4 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Maven
2 12 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 11 (34.38%) DbUnit
3 11 (34.38%) Mockito
3 11 (34.38%) TestNG
4 3 (9.375%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.125%) Selenium
5 1 (3.125%) Git (software)
5 1 (3.125%) CruiseControl
5 1 (3.125%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 30 (93.75%) Developer
2 19 (59.38%) Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.250%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (6.250%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Java Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Architect
5 1 (3.125%) Java Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.125%) Semantic Web
2 1 (3.125%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.125%) Windows
1 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (15.63%) SOA
3 3 (9.375%) Web Development
3 3 (9.375%) TDD
3 3 (9.375%) MVC
4 2 (6.250%) UML
4 2 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (6.250%) OO
5 1 (3.125%) User Stories
5 1 (3.125%) Web Application Development
5 1 (3.125%) RUP
5 1 (3.125%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (34.38%) Groovy
3 6 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.125%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) HL7
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Google
2 2 (6.250%) Oracle
Farnborough, Hampshire
Core Java Developer with knowledge of GWT , Spring and Hibernate urgently required by a leading Software House based in Farnborough... The organisation is looking to recruit a Java...
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £350 - £430 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
The Developer must have Java 1.6, Spring 3, Hibernate and GWT 2.2+ skills and any of the following are considered an advantage: Spring Security, Spring Batch,...
Quindell Plc - Metaskil
Rate: £neg on experience (good rates)
Posted: 23 May 2013