South Yorkshire Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire 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	28	35
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	15	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	4.000 %	0.733 %
Daily rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£326
Average daily rate	£314	£326
% change on same period last year	-3.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£328	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£341
% change on same period last year	+9.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	-
Average hourly rate	£47.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.65	£40.25
% change on same period last year	-3.97 %
Job Titles South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	375	409
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.494 %	0.434 %
Daily rates quoted	92	50
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£267
Average daily rate	£312	£281
% change on same period last year	+11.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.59	£21.40
Average hourly rate	£25.97	£22.13
% change on same period last year	+17.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.36	£22.86
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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield	+8	10	£310	-11.38 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 19 (100.00 %) Java 2 15 (78.95 %) J2EE 3 12 (63.16 %) Struts 4 9 (47.37 %) Spring 5 8 (42.11 %) Hibernate 5 8 (42.11 %) XML 6 7 (36.84 %) JSP 6 7 (36.84 %) JUnit 7 4 (21.05 %) JSTL 7 4 (21.05 %) Identity Management 7 4 (21.05 %) JBoss 7 4 (21.05 %) CSS 7 4 (21.05 %) RSS 7 4 (21.05 %) HTML 7 4 (21.05 %) Oracle

8 3 (15.79 %) Lucene 9 2 (10.53 %) Content Management 9 2 (10.53 %) E-Learning 9 2 (10.53 %) Education 9 2 (10.53 %) HttpUnit 9 2 (10.53 %) AJAX 9 2 (10.53 %) Ant 9 2 (10.53 %) EJB 9 2 (10.53 %) Servlets 9 2 (10.53 %) UML 9 2 (10.53 %) Oracle 9i 9 2 (10.53 %) Tomcat 9 2 (10.53 %) MVC 9 2 (10.53 %) Eclipse 9 2 (10.53 %) HTTP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 15 (78.95 %) J2EE 2 12 (63.16 %) Struts 3 9 (47.37 %) Spring 4 8 (42.11 %) XML 4 8 (42.11 %) Hibernate 5 7 (36.84 %) JSP 6 4 (21.05 %) HTML 6 4 (21.05 %) CSS 6 4 (21.05 %) RSS 6 4 (21.05 %) JSTL 7 3 (15.79 %) Lucene 8 2 (10.53 %) AJAX 8 2 (10.53 %) EJB 8 2 (10.53 %) Servlets 9 1 (5.263 %) SOAP 9 1 (5.263 %) WebServices 9 1 (5.263 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 4 (21.05 %) JBoss 2 2 (10.53 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 2 (10.53 %) HTTP 1 2 (10.53 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (10.53 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (10.53 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (5.263 %) DB2 2 1 (5.263 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 7 (36.84 %) JUnit 2 2 (10.53 %) Eclipse 2 2 (10.53 %) HttpUnit 2 2 (10.53 %) Ant	General 1 2 (10.53 %) Education 2 1 (5.263 %) Government 2 1 (5.263 %) Banking 2 1 (5.263 %) Marketing 2 1 (5.263 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 2 (10.53 %) E-Learning	Operating Systems 1 1 (5.263 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (21.05 %) Identity Management 2 2 (10.53 %) MVC 2 2 (10.53 %) Content Management 2 2 (10.53 %) UML 3 1 (5.263 %) OO 3 1 (5.263 %) RAD 3 1 (5.263 %) CRM 3 1 (5.263 %) Use Case 3 1 (5.263 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 19 (100.00 %) Java 2 1 (5.263 %) SQL
Vendors 1 4 (21.05 %) Oracle