South East Hibernate Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hibernate skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Hibernate over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Exeter Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Llandudno London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	164
Rank change on same period last year	+38
Matching contract IT job ads	153	139
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.202 %	0.147 %
As % of the category below	5.298 %	3.409 %
Daily rates quoted	48	39
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£330
Average daily rate	£395	£346
% change on same period last year	+14.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£334
% change on same period last year	+12.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.38	£41.67
Average hourly rate	£41.56	£50.83
% change on same period last year	-18.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.75	£60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.00	£48.13
% change on same period last year	-16.88 %
Application Development South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2888	4077
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.808 %	4.325 %
Daily rates quoted	716	965
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£312
Average daily rate	£347	£329
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	281	435
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.77	£34.31
Average hourly rate	£33.78	£36.32
% change on same period last year	-6.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.79	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
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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 Hibernate across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development 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 Hibernate across the South East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hibernate across the South East 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 Hibernate across the South East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hibernate across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Hibernate within the South East 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
Surrey	+39	65	£373	+3.88 %
Berkshire	+44	35	£310	+0.98 %
Hampshire	+11	14	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+1	8	£496	+47.08 %
Middlesex	-	7	-	-
Sussex	-	5	-	-
Kent	+5	4	-	-
Home Counties	-	2	-	-
Thames Valley	+3	2	-	-
Oxfordshire	-7	2	-	-
West Sussex	-	1	-	-
East Sussex	+10	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Hibernate 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 Hibernate.

1 246 (79.35 %) Java 2 220 (70.97 %) J2EE 3 215 (69.35 %) Spring 4 132 (42.58 %) Struts 5 99 (31.94 %) JSP 6 95 (30.65 %) XML 7 88 (28.39 %) Eclipse 8 78 (25.16 %) Oracle 9 77 (24.84 %) SQL 9 77 (24.84 %) Security Cleared 10 61 (19.68 %) WebLogic 11 60 (19.35 %) MVC 12 53 (17.10 %) JUnit 13 52 (16.77 %) EJB 13 52 (16.77 %) SC Cleared

14 48 (15.48 %) UML 15 43 (13.87 %) HTML 16 42 (13.55 %) WebSphere 17 37 (11.94 %) Servlets 17 37 (11.94 %) Finance 18 35 (11.29 %) JavaScript 18 35 (11.29 %) Agile Software Development 19 34 (10.97 %) AJAX 19 34 (10.97 %) C# 20 32 (10.32 %) Ant 21 31 (10.00 %) DV Cleared 22 28 (9.032 %) TDD 22 28 (9.032 %) BEA 23 27 (8.710 %) Government 23 27 (8.710 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Hibernate 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 Hibernate. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 220 (70.97 %) J2EE 2 215 (69.35 %) Spring 3 132 (42.58 %) Struts 4 99 (31.94 %) JSP 5 95 (30.65 %) XML 6 52 (16.77 %) EJB 7 43 (13.87 %) HTML 8 42 (13.55 %) WebSphere 9 37 (11.94 %) Servlets 10 34 (10.97 %) AJAX 11 27 (8.710 %) .NET 12 24 (7.742 %) WebServices 13 23 (7.419 %) JSF 14 20 (6.452 %) SOAP 14 20 (6.452 %) Spring MVC 15 19 (6.129 %) JDBC 16 17 (5.484 %) Swing 16 17 (5.484 %) JMS 16 17 (5.484 %) MonoRail 17 14 (4.516 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 61 (19.68 %) WebLogic 2 15 (4.839 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 15 (4.839 %) Tomcat 3 12 (3.871 %) Apache 4 10 (3.226 %) JBoss 5 4 (1.290 %) WebSphere MQ 5 4 (1.290 %) WebLogic Portal 5 4 (1.290 %) WebSphere Message Broker 6 3 (0.968 %) TIBCO EMS 6 3 (0.968 %) IIS 7 2 (0.645 %) NetWeaver 7 2 (0.645 %) ESB 7 2 (0.645 %) Oracle 10gAS 7 2 (0.645 %) WebLogic Integration 8 1 (0.323 %) CMS 8 1 (0.323 %) WPS 8 1 (0.323 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (0.323 %) TeamSite
Business Applications 1 2 (0.645 %) Advent Geneva	Communications & Networking 1 16 (5.161 %) Internet 2 8 (2.581 %) Extranet 2 8 (2.581 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (6.774 %) Oracle 10g 2 20 (6.452 %) SQL Server 3 15 (4.839 %) DB2 4 12 (3.871 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 9 (2.903 %) MySQL 6 7 (2.258 %) SQL Server 2005 6 7 (2.258 %) DB2 UDB 7 5 (1.613 %) Oracle 9i 8 4 (1.290 %) RDBMS 9 3 (0.968 %) Informix 10 2 (0.645 %) SQL Server 7 11 1 (0.323 %) Data Mining	Development Applications 1 88 (28.39 %) Eclipse 2 53 (17.10 %) JUnit 3 32 (10.32 %) Ant 4 25 (8.065 %) NUnit 5 15 (4.839 %) Rational Rose 6 9 (2.903 %) Log4j 7 5 (1.613 %) Subversion 7 5 (1.613 %) Visual Studio 8 3 (0.968 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 3 (0.968 %) WebLogic Workshop 9 1 (0.323 %) Bugzilla 9 1 (0.323 %) CheckStyle 9 1 (0.323 %) ClearCase 9 1 (0.323 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 9 1 (0.323 %) Dreamweaver 9 1 (0.323 %) TestDirector
General 1 37 (11.94 %) Finance 2 27 (8.710 %) Government 3 26 (8.387 %) Insurance 4 10 (3.226 %) Marketing 5 8 (2.581 %) Education 5 8 (2.581 %) Health 5 8 (2.581 %) Manufacturing 5 8 (2.581 %) Telecoms 6 7 (2.258 %) Retail 7 6 (1.935 %) Banking 8 5 (1.613 %) Pensions 9 4 (1.290 %) Retail Banking 9 4 (1.290 %) Construction 10 3 (0.968 %) Financial Institution 10 3 (0.968 %) Front Office 10 3 (0.968 %) Games 11 1 (0.323 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 268 (86.45 %) Developer 2 189 (60.97 %) Java Developer 3 106 (34.19 %) J2EE Developer 4 104 (33.55 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 32 (10.32 %) C# Developer 6 26 (8.387 %) Senior Developer 7 13 (4.194 %) Architect 7 13 (4.194 %) Senior Java Developer 8 11 (3.548 %) J2EE Architect 9 9 (2.903 %) Senior C# Developer 10 7 (2.258 %) Java Architect 10 7 (2.258 %) Java Swing Developer 11 6 (1.935 %) Analyst 12 5 (1.613 %) Technical Architect 12 5 (1.613 %) Project Leader 12 5 (1.613 %) J2EE Technical Architect 13 4 (1.290 %) Developer Analyst 13 4 (1.290 %) Programmer 13 4 (1.290 %) Senior J2EE Developer 13 4 (1.290 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (1.613 %) N-Tier 1 5 (1.613 %) Web 2.0 2 3 (0.968 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 3 (0.968 %) Handset 3 2 (0.645 %) Equities 4 1 (0.323 %) Replication 4 1 (0.323 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.323 %) Physics 4 1 (0.323 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 24 (7.742 %) Windows 2 23 (7.419 %) Linux 3 14 (4.516 %) Unix 4 1 (0.323 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 77 (24.84 %) Security Cleared 2 60 (19.35 %) MVC 3 52 (16.77 %) SC Cleared 4 48 (15.48 %) UML 5 35 (11.29 %) Agile Software Development 6 31 (10.00 %) DV Cleared 7 28 (9.032 %) TDD 8 26 (8.387 %) E-Commerce 9 21 (6.774 %) Scrum 10 20 (6.452 %) RUP 11 11 (3.548 %) SOA 12 10 (3.226 %) Project Management 12 10 (3.226 %) OOA/OOD 12 10 (3.226 %) Unit Testing 13 9 (2.903 %) Web Development 14 7 (2.258 %) OOD 15 6 (1.935 %) CRM 16 5 (1.613 %) OO 17 4 (1.290 %) RAD 18 3 (0.968 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 246 (79.35 %) Java 2 77 (24.84 %) SQL 3 35 (11.29 %) JavaScript 4 34 (10.97 %) C# 5 20 (6.452 %) C 6 14 (4.516 %) C++ 7 8 (2.581 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (1.613 %) Perl 9 4 (1.290 %) DHTML 10 2 (0.645 %) ActionScript 11 1 (0.323 %) Shell Script 11 1 (0.323 %) Ruby 11 1 (0.323 %) VB
Qualifications 1 18 (5.806 %) Degree 2 4 (1.290 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.290 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (1.935 %) AquaLogic 2 1 (0.323 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 78 (25.16 %) Oracle 2 28 (9.032 %) BEA 3 14 (4.516 %) Microsoft 4 7 (2.258 %) Sun 5 6 (1.935 %) IBM 6 5 (1.613 %) Cisco 6 5 (1.613 %) Motorola 6 5 (1.613 %) TIBCO 7 2 (0.645 %) Sybase 7 2 (0.645 %) SAP 7 2 (0.645 %) Advent 8 1 (0.323 %) FormScape