The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java 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 Programming Languages category for the Staffordshire 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
Java
Rank 11 17 37
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +20
Contract jobs citing Java 8 17 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 9.524% 7.870% 0.461%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.51% 20.99% 0.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 0
Average daily rate £358 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
39 81 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 46.43% 37.50% 64.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 71
Average daily rate £330 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £386 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 1
Average hourly rate £15.31 £35.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.25% +150.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
West Midlands

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Staffordshire Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Staffordshire Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent 0 3 £365 +12.30%
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 £200 -
Java
West Midlands

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Java 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 Java.

1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Oracle
3 7 (41.18%) .NET
3 7 (41.18%) E-Commerce
4 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
4 6 (35.29%) Android
4 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
5 5 (29.41%) Apple iOS
5 5 (29.41%) iOS SDK
5 5 (29.41%) iPhone
5 5 (29.41%) JSON
5 5 (29.41%) Objective-C
5 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
6 4 (23.53%) SAP
6 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
6 4 (23.53%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
6 4 (23.53%) GIS
6 4 (23.53%) Workflow
7 3 (17.65%) Change Control
7 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
8 2 (11.76%) HTML
8 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
8 2 (11.76%) CSS
8 2 (11.76%) XML
8 2 (11.76%) CMS
8 2 (11.76%) Project Management
8 2 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (11.76%) MS Excel

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) iOS SDK
2 5 (29.41%) JSON
3 2 (11.76%) HTML
3 2 (11.76%) CSS
3 2 (11.76%) XML
4 1 (5.882%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.882%) JSF
4 1 (5.882%) RichFaces
4 1 (5.882%) XHTML
4 1 (5.882%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (23.53%) GIS
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.76%) Local Government
2 1 (5.882%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Mobile Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Applications Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Applications Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Report Developer
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) PHP Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
2 5 (29.41%) iPhone
3 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.882%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Android
2 5 (29.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.882%) Windows Phone
3 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) E-Commerce
2 4 (23.53%) Workflow
3 3 (17.65%) Change Control
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) Content Management
5 1 (5.882%) System Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.882%) OOP
5 1 (5.882%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Objective-C
3 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
4 3 (17.65%) T-SQL
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.882%) PHP
6 1 (5.882%) C#
6 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 1 (5.882%) Symbian
3 1 (5.882%) JBoss