Surrey Eclipse Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Crewe Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Jersey Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surrey Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	72
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	17	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	5.105 %	13.87 %
Daily rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum daily rate	£550	£269
Average daily rate	£550	£311
% change on same period last year	+76.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£550	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£428	£343
% change on same period last year	+24.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+60.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.32	£38.52
% change on same period last year	+4.68 %
Development Applications Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	333	238
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.439 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	125	73
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£318
Average daily rate	£337	£334
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.81	£28.40
Average hourly rate	£35.35	£30.23
% change on same period last year	+16.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.88	£32.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.57	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Eclipse South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Eclipse across the Surrey 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 Eclipse across the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Eclipse within the Surrey 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
Guildford	+8	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 25 (78.13 %) Java 2 20 (62.50 %) J2EE 3 17 (53.13 %) Struts 3 17 (53.13 %) XML 3 17 (53.13 %) UML 4 16 (50.00 %) Hibernate 5 15 (46.88 %) JSP 6 11 (34.38 %) OOD 6 11 (34.38 %) JSF 7 10 (31.25 %) WebSphere 7 10 (31.25 %) Oracle 8 9 (28.13 %) WebLogic 8 9 (28.13 %) EJB 8 9 (28.13 %) HTML 8 9 (28.13 %) SOAP

8 9 (28.13 %) Finance 8 9 (28.13 %) Security Cleared 9 8 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 9 8 (25.00 %) HTTP 9 8 (25.00 %) XSL 9 8 (25.00 %) OO 9 8 (25.00 %) SQL 9 8 (25.00 %) JDBC 10 7 (21.88 %) JavaScript 10 7 (21.88 %) OOA/OOD 10 7 (21.88 %) XSLT 11 6 (18.75 %) Project Management 11 6 (18.75 %) JSR 168 12 5 (15.63 %) RUP 13 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 20 (62.50 %) J2EE 2 17 (53.13 %) Struts 2 17 (53.13 %) XML 3 16 (50.00 %) Hibernate 4 15 (46.88 %) JSP 5 11 (34.38 %) JSF 6 10 (31.25 %) WebSphere 7 9 (28.13 %) SOAP 7 9 (28.13 %) EJB 7 9 (28.13 %) HTML 8 8 (25.00 %) JDBC 8 8 (25.00 %) XSL 9 7 (21.88 %) XSLT 10 6 (18.75 %) JSR 168 11 3 (9.375 %) Java EE 11 3 (9.375 %) .NET 12 2 (6.250 %) WebServices 12 2 (6.250 %) AJAX 13 1 (3.125 %) JAX-WS 13 1 (3.125 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 9 (28.13 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.125 %) IIS 2 1 (3.125 %) JBoss 2 1 (3.125 %) Tomcat 2 1 (3.125 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 8 (25.00 %) HTTP 2 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.125 %) MySQL 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) ClearCase 1 3 (9.375 %) Synon 2 1 (3.125 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (3.125 %) JMeter 2 1 (3.125 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 1 (3.125 %) TestDirector 2 1 (3.125 %) Ant 2 1 (3.125 %) JUnit	General 1 9 (28.13 %) Finance 2 3 (9.375 %) Insurance 3 1 (3.125 %) Government
Job Titles 1 24 (75.00 %) Developer 2 19 (59.38 %) Java Developer 3 12 (37.50 %) J2EE Developer 4 8 (25.00 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (12.50 %) J2EE Software Engineer 5 4 (12.50 %) Architect 5 4 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (9.375 %) Applications Architect 7 2 (6.250 %) Senior Software Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Senior J2EE Software Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) JSP Developer 8 1 (3.125 %) J2EE Architect	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.125 %) Unix 1 1 (3.125 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (53.13 %) UML 2 11 (34.38 %) OOD 3 9 (28.13 %) Security Cleared 4 8 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 4 8 (25.00 %) OO 5 7 (21.88 %) OOA/OOD 6 6 (18.75 %) Project Management 7 5 (15.63 %) RUP 8 4 (12.50 %) SOA 9 3 (9.375 %) Configuration Management 9 3 (9.375 %) Migration 9 3 (9.375 %) EAI 9 3 (9.375 %) Data Modelling 10 2 (6.250 %) RAD 11 1 (3.125 %) E-Commerce 11 1 (3.125 %) Scrum 11 1 (3.125 %) Agile Software Development 11 1 (3.125 %) TDD 11 1 (3.125 %) Software Engineering 11 1 (3.125 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 25 (78.13 %) Java 2 8 (25.00 %) SQL 3 7 (21.88 %) JavaScript 4 3 (9.375 %) VB.NET 4 3 (9.375 %) RPG 5 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (12.50 %) Degree 2 1 (3.125 %) Sun Certification	Vendors 1 10 (31.25 %) Oracle 2 4 (12.50 %) IBM 3 1 (3.125 %) Sun 3 1 (3.125 %) salesforce.com