The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 15 10 11
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Contract jobs citing Java 84 182 186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 7.285% 11.30% 10.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.49% 28.71% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 110 107
Average daily rate £350 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £263 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £488 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.90 £29.90 £21.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.30 £40.60 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
431 634 650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 37.38% 39.35% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 336 349
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 49 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £21.75 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.65 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
South East

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Surrey Java Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Surrey 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
Camberley - 21 £348 -
Guildford -3 18 £320 -4.47%
Staines +5 11 £375 +4.16%
Reigate +4 3 £425 -26.08%
Epsom +1 2 £345 -
Weybridge - 2 £290 -
Woking -2 1 £400 +33.33%
Walton-on-Thames - 1 £380 -
Addlestone - 1 £350 -
Java
South East

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 62 (37.13%) Oracle
2 60 (35.93%) Spring
3 47 (28.14%) SQL
4 45 (26.95%) Hibernate
5 44 (26.35%) Apache
6 30 (17.96%) Agile Software Development
7 27 (16.17%) Linux
8 26 (15.57%) Tomcat
8 26 (15.57%) J2EE
9 25 (14.97%) SQL Server
9 25 (14.97%) Maven
9 25 (14.97%) Security Cleared
10 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
10 24 (14.37%) CSS
11 23 (13.77%) SAP
11 23 (13.77%) .NET
12 22 (13.17%) GWT
13 21 (12.57%) HTML
13 21 (12.57%) XML
14 20 (11.98%) Web Services
14 20 (11.98%) C#
14 20 (11.98%) TDD
14 20 (11.98%) ESB
15 19 (11.38%) SC Cleared
16 18 (10.78%) Jenkins
16 18 (10.78%) Scrum
16 18 (10.78%) WebLogic
16 18 (10.78%) JBoss
17 17 (10.18%) Degree
18 16 (9.581%) Finance

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 60 (35.93%) Spring
2 45 (26.95%) Hibernate
3 26 (15.57%) J2EE
4 24 (14.37%) CSS
5 23 (13.77%) .NET
6 22 (13.17%) GWT
7 21 (12.57%) HTML
7 21 (12.57%) XML
8 20 (11.98%) Web Services
9 14 (8.383%) WebSphere
10 12 (7.186%) JDBC
11 11 (6.587%) Guice
12 9 (5.389%) JSP
12 9 (5.389%) SOAP
12 9 (5.389%) Middleware
12 9 (5.389%) Spring Security
12 9 (5.389%) REST
12 9 (5.389%) Spring Batch
13 8 (4.790%) EJB
14 7 (4.192%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 44 (26.35%) Apache
2 26 (15.57%) Tomcat
3 20 (11.98%) ESB
4 18 (10.78%) WebLogic
5 9 (5.389%) Adobe CQ
6 7 (4.192%) SAS
6 7 (4.192%) CMS
7 6 (3.593%) Mule
8 5 (2.994%) SAP EP
8 5 (2.994%) Liferay
9 4 (2.395%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (1.796%) Amazon AWS
10 3 (1.796%) OpenStack
11 2 (1.198%) NetWeaver
11 2 (1.198%) IIS
12 1 (0.599%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.599%) ActiveMQ
12 1 (0.599%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.599%) Force.com
Applications
1 1 (0.599%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.599%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.599%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.790%) DNS
2 7 (4.192%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.192%) SSL
3 5 (2.994%) HTTP
3 5 (2.994%) Internet
3 5 (2.994%) SNMP
4 4 (2.395%) iSCSI
4 4 (2.395%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (2.395%) NAS
4 4 (2.395%) tcpdump
4 4 (2.395%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (2.395%) Firewall
4 4 (2.395%) TELNET
4 4 (2.395%) NetScreen
4 4 (2.395%) SAN
4 4 (2.395%) SMTP
4 4 (2.395%) DHCP
4 4 (2.395%) LDAP
5 2 (1.198%) Extranet
5 2 (1.198%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.587%) MySQL
3 9 (5.389%) DB2
4 5 (2.994%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.395%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.796%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.796%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.198%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (1.198%) TOAD
7 2 (1.198%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (1.198%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.599%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.599%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (14.97%) Maven
2 18 (10.78%) Jenkins
3 14 (8.383%) TestNG
4 11 (6.587%) DbUnit
4 11 (6.587%) Mockito
5 10 (5.988%) JUnit
6 9 (5.389%) Eclipse
7 8 (4.790%) Hudson
8 7 (4.192%) ClearCase
8 7 (4.192%) Git (software)
8 7 (4.192%) Mercurial
9 4 (2.395%) Subversion
10 3 (1.796%) Eclipse RCP
11 2 (1.198%) jMock
11 2 (1.198%) EasyMock
11 2 (1.198%) JMeter
11 2 (1.198%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.198%) Ant
12 1 (0.599%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.599%) Rational Rose
General
1 16 (9.581%) Finance
2 13 (7.784%) Telecoms
3 6 (3.593%) Retail
3 6 (3.593%) Electronics
4 5 (2.994%) Automotive
4 5 (2.994%) Banking
5 4 (2.395%) Korean Language
5 4 (2.395%) Marketing
5 4 (2.395%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.198%) Billing
7 1 (0.599%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.599%) Games
7 1 (0.599%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 93 (55.69%) Developer
2 45 (26.95%) Java Developer
3 16 (9.581%) Senior Developer
4 15 (8.982%) Consultant
5 12 (7.186%) Administrator
5 12 (7.186%) Analyst
6 9 (5.389%) Linux Administrator
7 8 (4.790%) C# Developer
8 7 (4.192%) .NET Developer
8 7 (4.192%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (4.192%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (4.192%) Android Developer
8 7 (4.192%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 6 (3.593%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (3.593%) Technical Consultant
9 6 (3.593%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (2.994%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.994%) Applications Developer
10 5 (2.994%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (2.994%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.587%) Computer Science
2 9 (5.389%) Mathematics
3 7 (4.192%) Open Source
4 5 (2.994%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.395%) SaaS
5 4 (2.395%) Cryptography
5 4 (2.395%) Clustering
5 4 (2.395%) 3D Graphics
6 3 (1.796%) IaaS
6 3 (1.796%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.198%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.198%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.599%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.599%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.599%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.599%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.599%) Animation
8 1 (0.599%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 27 (16.17%) Linux
2 13 (7.784%) UNIX
3 11 (6.587%) Android
4 8 (4.790%) Windows
5 7 (4.192%) CentOS
6 5 (2.994%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.395%) Solaris
8 2 (1.198%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.198%) AIX
9 1 (0.599%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.96%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (11.98%) TDD
3 18 (10.78%) Scrum
4 15 (8.982%) SOA
5 14 (8.383%) Configuration Management
5 14 (8.383%) OO
5 14 (8.383%) UML
6 13 (7.784%) Project Management
7 11 (6.587%) E-Commerce
7 11 (6.587%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (6.587%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (5.988%) ERP
9 8 (4.790%) Web Application Development
9 8 (4.790%) Analytics
9 8 (4.790%) MVC
10 7 (4.192%) OOD
10 7 (4.192%) Technical Architecture
11 6 (3.593%) Dependency Injection
11 6 (3.593%) Software Testing
11 6 (3.593%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.14%) SQL
2 24 (14.37%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.98%) C#
4 12 (7.186%) PHP
5 11 (6.587%) Groovy
6 9 (5.389%) ABAP
7 8 (4.790%) C++
7 8 (4.790%) C
8 7 (4.192%) PL/SQL
8 7 (4.192%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.593%) Bash shell
9 6 (3.593%) R
9 6 (3.593%) Perl
10 4 (2.395%) sed
10 4 (2.395%) AWK
11 3 (1.796%) Ruby
11 3 (1.796%) Scala
12 2 (1.198%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.599%) VB
13 1 (0.599%) VC++
Qualifications
1 25 (14.97%) Security Cleared
2 19 (11.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.18%) Degree
4 2 (1.198%) ISEB
4 2 (1.198%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.599%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.994%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.395%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (2.395%) Postfix
1 4 (2.395%) Sendmail
1 4 (2.395%) Squid
1 4 (2.395%) Nmap
1 4 (2.395%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.192%) Puppet
2 4 (2.395%) Nagios
Vendors
1 62 (37.13%) Oracle
2 23 (13.77%) SAP
3 18 (10.78%) JBoss
4 14 (8.383%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.389%) Adobe
5 9 (5.389%) Google
6 8 (4.790%) Perforce
6 8 (4.790%) NetApp
7 5 (2.994%) IBM
7 5 (2.994%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.395%) Blue Coat
8 4 (2.395%) VMware
8 4 (2.395%) McAfee
8 4 (2.395%) Sun
8 4 (2.395%) Juniper
8 4 (2.395%) Cisco
8 4 (2.395%) EMC
8 4 (2.395%) Business Objects
9 2 (1.198%) Twitter
9 2 (1.198%) BEA
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Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013
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Posted: 10 May 2013
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Rate: £neg on experience (good rates)
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Rate: £good day rate available
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