South West Eclipse Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Eclipse skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Eclipse over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Exeter Faringdon Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hull Jersey Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swansea Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Winchester Woking Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	117	93
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	21	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.075 %
As % of the category below	5.048 %	11.16 %
Daily rates quoted	1	30
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£327
Average daily rate	£301	£331
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£338
% change on same period last year	+20.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.11	£30.75
Average hourly rate	£39.11	£34.75
% change on same period last year	+12.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.11	£38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.56	£38.60
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Development Applications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	416	663
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.554 %	0.671 %
Daily rates quoted	114	173
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£310
Average daily rate	£321	£324
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	104
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.79	£30.18
Average hourly rate	£36.30	£32.19
% change on same period last year	+12.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.82	£34.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
Eclipse England

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 Eclipse across the South West 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 Eclipse across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Eclipse across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Eclipse across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 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 jobs citing Eclipse within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 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
Somerset	+8	9	-	-
Devon	-4	6	£301	-14.14 %
Dorset	+6	1	-	-
Gloucestershire	-1	1	-	-
Bristol	-8	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Eclipse 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 Eclipse.

1 76 (100.00 %) Java 2 58 (76.32 %) Struts 3 57 (75.00 %) Spring 4 52 (68.42 %) Hibernate 5 47 (61.84 %) OO 6 46 (60.53 %) Linux 7 45 (59.21 %) Unit Testing 8 44 (57.89 %) JSF 9 33 (43.42 %) iBATIS 10 32 (42.11 %) Systems Analysis 10 32 (42.11 %) Tapestry 11 29 (38.16 %) J2EE 12 27 (35.53 %) Oracle 13 20 (26.32 %) Ant 14 18 (23.68 %) UNIX

15 17 (22.37 %) SQL 16 15 (19.74 %) JUnit 16 15 (19.74 %) XML 17 14 (18.42 %) JSP 18 13 (17.11 %) UML 19 11 (14.47 %) Continuous Integration 20 9 (11.84 %) Tomcat 20 9 (11.84 %) EJB 20 9 (11.84 %) C++ 21 7 (9.211 %) HTML 21 7 (9.211 %) Oracle 9i 21 7 (9.211 %) E-Commerce 21 7 (9.211 %) Agile Software Development 21 7 (9.211 %) Subversion 22 6 (7.895 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Eclipse 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 Eclipse. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 58 (76.32 %) Struts 2 57 (75.00 %) Spring 3 52 (68.42 %) Hibernate 4 44 (57.89 %) JSF 5 33 (43.42 %) iBATIS 6 32 (42.11 %) Tapestry 7 29 (38.16 %) J2EE 8 15 (19.74 %) XML 9 14 (18.42 %) JSP 10 9 (11.84 %) EJB 11 7 (9.211 %) HTML 12 4 (5.263 %) JNI 13 3 (3.947 %) Castor 13 3 (3.947 %) XSD 13 3 (3.947 %) XSLT 13 3 (3.947 %) WebServices 14 2 (2.632 %) NetBeans 14 2 (2.632 %) SOAP 15 1 (1.316 %) Servlets 15 1 (1.316 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 9 (11.84 %) Tomcat 2 6 (7.895 %) WebLogic 3 4 (5.263 %) ATG Dynamo 4 2 (2.632 %) Plone 4 2 (2.632 %) JBoss 5 1 (1.316 %) Apache 5 1 (1.316 %) Oracle HTTP Server 5 1 (1.316 %) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.263 %) HTTP 2 3 (3.947 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (9.211 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (5.263 %) MySQL 3 3 (3.947 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.316 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 20 (26.32 %) Ant 2 15 (19.74 %) JUnit 3 7 (9.211 %) Subversion 4 3 (3.947 %) ClearQuest 4 3 (3.947 %) ClearCase 5 2 (2.632 %) Rational Rose 5 2 (2.632 %) OptimalJ 6 1 (1.316 %) jMock 6 1 (1.316 %) WebLogic Workshop	General 1 5 (6.579 %) Military 2 3 (3.947 %) Government 3 2 (2.632 %) Finance 3 2 (2.632 %) Aerospace 4 1 (1.316 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 65 (85.53 %) Developer 2 56 (73.68 %) Java Developer 3 11 (14.47 %) J2EE Developer 4 6 (7.895 %) Software Engineer 4 6 (7.895 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 6 (7.895 %) Senior Developer 5 5 (6.579 %) Senior J2EE Developer 6 3 (3.947 %) Lead Developer 6 3 (3.947 %) C++ Software Engineer 7 2 (2.632 %) Java Software Engineer 8 1 (1.316 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 1 (1.316 %) Senior Java Developer 8 1 (1.316 %) Lead Software Engineer 8 1 (1.316 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer	Operating Systems 1 46 (60.53 %) Linux 2 18 (23.68 %) UNIX 3 3 (3.947 %) Windows 3 3 (3.947 %) Solaris 3 3 (3.947 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (61.84 %) OO 2 45 (59.21 %) Unit Testing 3 32 (42.11 %) Systems Analysis 4 13 (17.11 %) UML 5 11 (14.47 %) Continuous Integration 6 7 (9.211 %) E-Commerce 6 7 (9.211 %) Agile Software Development 7 6 (7.895 %) Security Cleared 8 4 (5.263 %) Scrum 9 3 (3.947 %) Extreme Programming 9 3 (3.947 %) Data Modelling 9 3 (3.947 %) Requirements Analysis 10 2 (2.632 %) Web Development 10 2 (2.632 %) SC Cleared 10 2 (2.632 %) Web Design 11 1 (1.316 %) TDD 11 1 (1.316 %) OOD 11 1 (1.316 %) SOA 11 1 (1.316 %) B2B 11 1 (1.316 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 76 (100.00 %) Java 2 17 (22.37 %) SQL 3 9 (11.84 %) C++ 4 4 (5.263 %) JavaScript 5 3 (3.947 %) Shell Script 5 3 (3.947 %) XPath 6 2 (2.632 %) PHP 7 1 (1.316 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.316 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 3 (3.947 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (2.632 %) Degree	Vendors 1 27 (35.53 %) Oracle 2 4 (5.263 %) ATG 3 3 (3.947 %) Sun 4 1 (1.316 %) BEA