South East JUnit Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for JUnit skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JUnit over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Marlow Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Rickmansworth Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Street Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	204	186
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	43	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.111 %
As % of the category below	3.638 %	7.353 %
Daily rates quoted	12	30
Average minimum daily rate	£421	£279
Average daily rate	£445	£301
% change on same period last year	+48.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£323
% change on same period last year	+17.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.20	£38.40
Average hourly rate	£39.20	£40.20
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.20	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.70	£38.96
% change on same period last year	+4.46 %
Development Applications South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1182	1496
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.664 %	1.512 %
Daily rates quoted	316	385
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£313
Average daily rate	£344	£333
% change on same period last year	+3.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£328
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	126	200
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.74	£30.16
Average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.92
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.89	£33.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.49	£31.36
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
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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 JUnit across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications 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 JUnit 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 JUnit across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 JUnit 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 JUnit across the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JUnit within the South East region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Hampshire	+9	19	£323	-14.81 %
Surrey	+13	12	£438	+36.59 %
Buckinghamshire	+15	5	£556	+202.07 %
Berkshire	+14	2	£413	+37.50 %
Kent	+12	2	£325	-
Thames Valley	+9	1	-	-
West Sussex	-	1	£325	-
Home Counties	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing JUnit 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 JUnit.

1 111 (95.69 %) Java 2 70 (60.34 %) J2EE 3 40 (34.48 %) JSP 4 39 (33.62 %) Spring 5 33 (28.45 %) Hibernate 6 31 (26.72 %) Ant 7 30 (25.86 %) WebSphere 8 29 (25.00 %) Eclipse 9 26 (22.41 %) Linux 9 26 (22.41 %) Swing 9 26 (22.41 %) Security Cleared 10 25 (21.55 %) Unit Testing 11 23 (19.83 %) UML 12 22 (18.97 %) JSF 13 21 (18.10 %) OO

13 21 (18.10 %) Windows 14 20 (17.24 %) WebServices 14 20 (17.24 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 20 (17.24 %) Oracle 14 20 (17.24 %) RUP 15 19 (16.38 %) Tomcat 15 19 (16.38 %) HTML 16 18 (15.52 %) EJB 16 18 (15.52 %) XML 16 18 (15.52 %) Struts 16 18 (15.52 %) MVC 17 17 (14.66 %) Servlets 17 17 (14.66 %) SQL 17 17 (14.66 %) SOA 17 17 (14.66 %) Subversion

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing JUnit 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 JUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 70 (60.34 %) J2EE 2 40 (34.48 %) JSP 3 39 (33.62 %) Spring 4 33 (28.45 %) Hibernate 5 30 (25.86 %) WebSphere 6 26 (22.41 %) Swing 7 22 (18.97 %) JSF 8 20 (17.24 %) WebServices 9 19 (16.38 %) HTML 10 18 (15.52 %) EJB 10 18 (15.52 %) XML 10 18 (15.52 %) Struts 10 18 (15.52 %) MVC 11 17 (14.66 %) Servlets 12 11 (9.483 %) JMS 12 11 (9.483 %) JSTL 12 11 (9.483 %) Spring MVC 13 10 (8.621 %) AJAX 13 10 (8.621 %) J2SE 13 10 (8.621 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 20 (17.24 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 19 (16.38 %) Tomcat 3 14 (12.07 %) Apache 4 9 (7.759 %) WebLogic 5 6 (5.172 %) JBoss 6 4 (3.448 %) MQSeries 7 3 (2.586 %) TIBCO EMS 8 1 (0.862 %) ESB 8 1 (0.862 %) Jetty 8 1 (0.862 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (4.310 %) Quicktime 2 4 (3.448 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 16 (13.79 %) HTTP 2 3 (2.586 %) LDAP 3 1 (0.862 %) SMS 3 1 (0.862 %) CTI 3 1 (0.862 %) SMPP 3 1 (0.862 %) Wireless 3 1 (0.862 %) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (7.759 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (6.034 %) MySQL 2 7 (6.034 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 5 (4.310 %) DB2 4 4 (3.448 %) JasperReports 5 2 (1.724 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.862 %) Informix	Development Applications 1 31 (26.72 %) Ant 2 29 (25.00 %) Eclipse 3 17 (14.66 %) Subversion 4 12 (10.34 %) ClearCase 5 7 (6.034 %) Rational Rose 5 7 (6.034 %) CruiseControl 6 5 (4.310 %) JMeter 7 4 (3.448 %) ClearQuest 8 3 (2.586 %) WebLogic Workshop 9 2 (1.724 %) PVCS 9 2 (1.724 %) NUnit 9 2 (1.724 %) JIRA 9 2 (1.724 %) Selenium 10 1 (0.862 %) FitNesse 10 1 (0.862 %) Telelogic Synergy 10 1 (0.862 %) Atlassian Bamboo 10 1 (0.862 %) Rational Functional Tester 10 1 (0.862 %) Bugzilla 10 1 (0.862 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.862 %) RequisitePro
General 1 10 (8.621 %) Finance 2 6 (5.172 %) Multimedia 3 5 (4.310 %) Insurance 3 5 (4.310 %) Video Editing 4 4 (3.448 %) Government 5 3 (2.586 %) Telecoms 5 3 (2.586 %) Retail 6 1 (0.862 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.862 %) Games	Job Titles 1 88 (75.86 %) Developer 2 52 (44.83 %) Java Developer 3 20 (17.24 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 14 (12.07 %) J2EE Developer 5 13 (11.21 %) Java Swing Developer 6 9 (7.759 %) Tester 7 8 (6.897 %) WebSphere Developer 8 6 (5.172 %) Lead Java Developer 8 6 (5.172 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 8 6 (5.172 %) Applications Developer 8 6 (5.172 %) Lead Developer 9 4 (3.448 %) Software Engineer 10 3 (2.586 %) Software Developer 10 3 (2.586 %) Consultant 10 3 (2.586 %) Java Software Engineer 10 3 (2.586 %) Java Consultant 11 2 (1.724 %) Integration Engineer 11 2 (1.724 %) J2EE Architect 11 2 (1.724 %) Senior Java Developer 11 2 (1.724 %) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.310 %) MPEG 2 4 (3.448 %) Computer Science 3 3 (2.586 %) N-Tier 4 2 (1.724 %) STB 5 1 (0.862 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 26 (22.41 %) Linux 2 21 (18.10 %) Windows 3 7 (6.034 %) Mac OS X 4 5 (4.310 %) UNIX 5 1 (0.862 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (22.41 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (21.55 %) Unit Testing 3 23 (19.83 %) UML 4 21 (18.10 %) OO 5 20 (17.24 %) RUP 6 17 (14.66 %) SOA 7 16 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development 8 14 (12.07 %) Continuous Integration 9 11 (9.483 %) Configuration Management 10 10 (8.621 %) Automated Testing 10 10 (8.621 %) BC Cleared 11 9 (7.759 %) Integration Testing 12 8 (6.897 %) TDD 13 7 (6.034 %) Test-First Development 13 7 (6.034 %) E-business 13 7 (6.034 %) DV Cleared 14 6 (5.172 %) Test Scripting 14 6 (5.172 %) E-Commerce 15 5 (4.310 %) Scrum 16 4 (3.448 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 111 (95.69 %) Java 2 17 (14.66 %) SQL 3 15 (12.93 %) JavaScript 4 14 (12.07 %) C++ 5 7 (6.034 %) C 6 4 (3.448 %) Delphi 6 4 (3.448 %) PHP 6 4 (3.448 %) Python 6 4 (3.448 %) FoxPro (VFP) 7 3 (2.586 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (0.862 %) C# 8 1 (0.862 %) Groovy 8 1 (0.862 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 4 (3.448 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.586 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (2.586 %) AquaLogic	Systems Management 1 14 (12.07 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 20 (17.24 %) Oracle 2 13 (11.21 %) IBM 3 10 (8.621 %) BEA 4 7 (6.034 %) Microsoft 5 3 (2.586 %) TIBCO 6 1 (0.862 %) Telelogic 6 1 (0.862 %) Genesys