The first table below looks at the demand for Eclipse skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Eclipse over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Development Applications category.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Eclipse
Rank 287 277 186
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -91
Contract jobs citing Eclipse 282 358 621
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.586% 0.617% 0.998%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.334% 6.498% 9.295%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 187 387
Average daily rate £400 £410 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% -3.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £275 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 41
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.15 £34.45 £27.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5287 5509 6681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.99% 9.493% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3305 3239 3901
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 213 289
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%

Eclipse
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Eclipse within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Eclipse Jobs Demand Trend

Eclipse
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Eclipse within the UK.

Eclipse Daily Rate Trend

Eclipse
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Eclipse within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Eclipse Daily Rate Histogram

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Eclipse within the UK.

Eclipse Hourly Rate Trend

Eclipse
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Eclipse within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Eclipse Hourly Rate Histogram

Eclipse
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Eclipse within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -22 250 £413 -2.94% 107
London +24 157 £475 +5.55% 42
City of London +5 36 £400 -11.11% 11
South East -18 33 £310 -22.50% 15
North West +26 23 £350 +20.68% 8
Scotland -15 13 £350 - 7
East Midlands +2 11 - - 7
East of England +11 9 £250 -44.44% 8
Surrey -5 9 £300 -31.62% 3
Manchester +8 8 £295 +1.72% 3
Hampshire -13 8 £335 -4.28% 3
Edinburgh +6 7 £350 +12.90% 1
Middlesex +8 6 £308 -12.14%
Cheshire +5 6 £375 +36.36% 3
South West +19 5 £288 -36.00% 9
Berkshire +14 5 £250 -30.55% 4
Lancashire +11 5 £350 -7.89% 2
West Midlands -3 5 £293 +0.86% 7
Reading - 5 £250 - 1
Yorkshire +3 4 £355 +31.48% 9
Milton Keynes - 4 £425 -
Buckinghamshire - 4 £425 -
Hertfordshire +10 3 £250 -44.44% 2
Nottingham -4 3 - - 6
Nottinghamshire -5 3 - - 6
Cambridgeshire - 3 - - 4
Blackburn - 3 - - 2
Cambridge - 3 - - 4
Wiltshire +4 2 £300 - 5
Birmingham -1 2 £325 -2.25% 1

Eclipse
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 525 (87.94%) Java
2 225 (37.69%) SQL
3 222 (37.19%) Spring
4 211 (35.34%) XML
5 195 (32.66%) JavaScript
6 193 (32.33%) J2EE
7 189 (31.66%) Oracle
8 177 (29.65%) Subversion
9 171 (28.64%) Web Services
10 167 (27.97%) JUnit
11 164 (27.47%) OO
12 162 (27.14%) CSS
13 161 (26.97%) HTML
14 159 (26.63%) Hibernate
15 144 (24.12%) Maven
16 128 (21.44%) JSP
17 124 (20.77%) Agile Software Development
18 117 (19.60%) TDD
19 110 (18.43%) Linux
20 107 (17.92%) Finance
20 107 (17.92%) Ajax
21 104 (17.42%) UML
22 100 (16.75%) MVC
22 100 (16.75%) jQuery
23 96 (16.08%) Ant
24 94 (15.75%) Tomcat
25 92 (15.41%) Apache
26 91 (15.24%) UNIX
26 91 (15.24%) Banking
27 88 (14.74%) SOAP

Eclipse
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 222 (37.19%) Spring
2 211 (35.34%) XML
3 193 (32.33%) J2EE
4 171 (28.64%) Web Services
5 162 (27.14%) CSS
6 161 (26.97%) HTML
7 159 (26.63%) Hibernate
8 128 (21.44%) JSP
9 107 (17.92%) Ajax
10 100 (16.75%) jQuery
11 88 (14.74%) SOAP
12 87 (14.57%) Servlets
12 87 (14.57%) JSON
13 79 (13.23%) WebSphere
14 66 (11.06%) JDBC
15 64 (10.72%) REST
16 63 (10.55%) JPA
17 62 (10.39%) XSLT
18 58 (9.715%) RESTful
19 56 (9.380%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 94 (15.75%) Tomcat
2 92 (15.41%) Apache
3 35 (5.863%) WebSphere Application Server
4 32 (5.360%) WebLogic
5 21 (3.518%) Liferay
6 17 (2.848%) ESB
7 15 (2.513%) Alfresco
8 14 (2.345%) WebLogic Portal
9 12 (2.010%) CMS
10 11 (1.843%) MQSeries
11 9 (1.508%) Mule
12 8 (1.340%) GlassFish
12 8 (1.340%) Oracle Service Bus
12 8 (1.340%) Adobe CQ
13 7 (1.173%) Oracle Workflow
13 7 (1.173%) Oracle Coherence
14 6 (1.005%) Documentum
14 6 (1.005%) Force.com
15 5 (0.838%) Jetty
15 5 (0.838%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 28 (4.690%) MS Excel
2 21 (3.518%) Photoshop
3 6 (1.005%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (0.670%) Fireworks
5 1 (0.168%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.168%) MS Office
5 1 (0.168%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.168%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (1.508%) Tridion
2 4 (0.670%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.168%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.685%) HTTP
2 14 (2.345%) Internet
3 11 (1.843%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.340%) FTP
5 7 (1.173%) TDMA
6 4 (0.670%) ASN.1
6 4 (0.670%) LDAP
7 3 (0.503%) TELNET
7 3 (0.503%) NFC
8 2 (0.335%) SNMP
9 1 (0.168%) LTE
9 1 (0.168%) NAS
9 1 (0.168%) SSL
9 1 (0.168%) DNS
9 1 (0.168%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.168%) WAN
9 1 (0.168%) DHCP
9 1 (0.168%) LAN
9 1 (0.168%) 2G
9 1 (0.168%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (13.74%) SQL Server
2 53 (8.878%) RDBMS
3 34 (5.695%) MySQL
4 31 (5.193%) DB2
5 12 (2.010%) Oracle 8/8i
6 11 (1.843%) Oracle 11g
7 10 (1.675%) Oracle 10g
8 9 (1.508%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.508%) SQLite
9 6 (1.005%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.838%) Ingres
10 5 (0.838%) JasperReports
11 4 (0.670%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (0.670%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.670%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.503%) KDB
13 2 (0.335%) GIS
13 2 (0.335%) Oracle 9i
13 2 (0.335%) TOAD
13 2 (0.335%) Redis
Development Applications
1 177 (29.65%) Subversion
2 167 (27.97%) JUnit
3 144 (24.12%) Maven
4 96 (16.08%) Ant
5 56 (9.380%) Selenium
6 55 (9.213%) Jenkins
7 52 (8.710%) JIRA
8 36 (6.030%) Hudson
9 35 (5.863%) Git (software)
10 27 (4.523%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
10 27 (4.523%) Team Foundation Server
11 26 (4.355%) Cucumber
12 25 (4.188%) Visual Studio
13 24 (4.020%) ClearCase
14 21 (3.518%) NetBeans
14 21 (3.518%) IntelliJ
14 21 (3.518%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 20 (3.350%) Mockito
16 19 (3.183%) JDeveloper
16 19 (3.183%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 107 (17.92%) Finance
2 91 (15.24%) Banking
3 43 (7.203%) Investment Banking
4 39 (6.533%) Front Office
5 25 (4.188%) Retail
6 15 (2.513%) Games
6 15 (2.513%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.178%) Electronics
8 10 (1.675%) Military
9 9 (1.508%) Publishing
10 6 (1.005%) Back Office
11 3 (0.503%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.335%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.335%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.335%) Automotive
13 1 (0.168%) Legal
13 1 (0.168%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.168%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.168%) Danish Language
13 1 (0.168%) Finnish Language
Job Titles
1 467 (78.22%) Developer
2 286 (47.91%) Java Developer
3 57 (9.548%) Android Developer
4 45 (7.538%) Senior Developer
4 45 (7.538%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 39 (6.533%) Web Developer
6 35 (5.863%) Analyst
7 34 (5.695%) Senior Java Developer
8 31 (5.193%) Software Engineer
9 28 (4.690%) Java Web Developer
10 21 (3.518%) WebSphere Developer
11 20 (3.350%) Programmer
12 19 (3.183%) Consultant
13 16 (2.680%) J2EE Developer
13 16 (2.680%) Agile Java Developer
14 14 (2.345%) Architect
14 14 (2.345%) Front-End Developer
15 13 (2.178%) Software Developer
15 13 (2.178%) Java Programmer
16 12 (2.010%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (5.528%) Open Source
2 31 (5.193%) Mobile App
3 25 (4.188%) Computer Science
3 25 (4.188%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (3.685%) Web 2.0
5 21 (3.518%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (3.015%) Digital Media
6 18 (3.015%) Blackberry
7 17 (2.848%) Fixed Income
8 15 (2.513%) Social Media
9 9 (1.508%) N-Tier
10 7 (1.173%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.173%) W3C
11 6 (1.005%) Derivative
11 6 (1.005%) Clustering
11 6 (1.005%) NHS
11 6 (1.005%) Embedded Systems
11 6 (1.005%) Augmented Reality
11 6 (1.005%) iPhone
12 5 (0.838%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 110 (18.43%) Linux
2 91 (15.24%) UNIX
3 83 (13.90%) Android
4 68 (11.39%) Windows
5 37 (6.198%) Apple iOS
6 18 (3.015%) Solaris
7 11 (1.843%) HPUX
8 6 (1.005%) Windows Mobile
8 6 (1.005%) Windows XP
8 6 (1.005%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.838%) VxWorks
10 4 (0.670%) Mac OS X
10 4 (0.670%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.503%) bada
12 2 (0.335%) AIX
12 2 (0.335%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.335%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.168%) Windows Phone
13 1 (0.168%) BlackBerry OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (27.47%) OO
2 124 (20.77%) Agile Software Development
3 117 (19.60%) TDD
4 104 (17.42%) UML
5 100 (16.75%) MVC
6 79 (13.23%) Scrum
7 72 (12.06%) Continuous Integration
8 65 (10.89%) Multithreading
9 49 (8.208%) SOA
10 45 (7.538%) Unit Testing
11 44 (7.370%) Content Management
11 44 (7.370%) Data Modelling
12 43 (7.203%) E-Commerce
12 43 (7.203%) RAD
13 34 (5.695%) OOD
14 29 (4.858%) Test Automation
15 23 (3.853%) BDD
16 22 (3.685%) OOP
16 22 (3.685%) Web Development
17 20 (3.350%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 525 (87.94%) Java
2 225 (37.69%) SQL
3 195 (32.66%) JavaScript
4 53 (8.878%) C++
5 52 (8.710%) PL/SQL
6 51 (8.543%) Perl
7 46 (7.705%) C#
8 38 (6.365%) C
8 38 (6.365%) XPath
9 34 (5.695%) Bash shell
10 22 (3.685%) Python
11 21 (3.518%) Groovy
12 19 (3.183%) T-SQL
13 17 (2.848%) PHP
14 15 (2.513%) Scala
15 14 (2.345%) Shell Script
15 14 (2.345%) VB
15 14 (2.345%) Apex Code
16 8 (1.340%) XQuery
17 7 (1.173%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (11.89%) Degree
2 50 (8.375%) Security Cleared
3 23 (3.853%) Sun Certification
4 21 (3.518%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.350%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.670%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.335%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.335%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.188%) QA
2 6 (1.005%) WAI
3 4 (0.670%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.503%) SLA
4 3 (0.503%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.335%) HL7
5 2 (0.335%) TickIT
System Software
1 3 (0.503%) Active Directory
1 3 (0.503%) MetaFrame
2 2 (0.335%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.335%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.168%) Cygwin
3 1 (0.168%) NDS
3 1 (0.168%) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.005%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.335%) Sun Identity Manager
3 1 (0.168%) SCOM
3 1 (0.168%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.168%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 1 (0.168%) Control-M
Vendors
1 189 (31.66%) Oracle
2 70 (11.73%) IBM
3 54 (9.045%) JBoss
4 42 (7.035%) Sybase
5 36 (6.030%) Google
6 25 (4.188%) Sun
7 21 (3.518%) Microsoft
8 18 (3.015%) Adobe
9 16 (2.680%) Salesforce.com
10 12 (2.010%) ATG
11 10 (1.675%) Perforce
12 9 (1.508%) Elastic Path
12 9 (1.508%) Interwoven
12 9 (1.508%) Informatica
12 9 (1.508%) Blue Martini
13 8 (1.340%) Atlassian
14 7 (1.173%) Twitter
14 7 (1.173%) SAP
14 7 (1.173%) Software AG
14 7 (1.173%) webMethods
Warwickshire, West Midlands
You need to be an experienced senior developer with extensive experience in: - 5+ years commercial Java experience - Spring - Hibernate - Eclipse RCP Additional desirables: - Previous experience working on projects...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
West Midlands
You need to be an experienced senior developer with extensive experience in: - 5+ years commercial Java experience - Spring - Hibernate - Eclipse RCP Additional desirables: - Previous experience working on projects...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum + DOE
Posted: 7 June 2013
South Yorkshire
You need to be an experienced developer with the following skill sets: - 5+ years Java - Spring framework (MVC, Webflow) - Maven - Tomcat - JUnit - Eclipse - CSS & HTML The successful candidate...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cheshire, North West
Essential Skills: Good positive team attitude Background in Java Web Development J2EE Spring Hibernate Eclipse Tomcat Weblogic Oracle This is an initial 12 month contract with excellent possibility...
Real Staffing
Rate: £270 - £271 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
Android Developer | Android, Java, Eclipse | Contract | London. Austin Fraser Digital Media are working with a leading digital agency in London who are looking for an Android developer for...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £500-£600 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
Austin Fraser
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Computer People
Rate: £400.00 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £325 per day + DOE
Posted: 13 June 2013
West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 4 June 2013
London
ITHR
Rate: £250 - £325 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Computer People
Rate: Good Daily Rates
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
McGregor Boyall
Rate: Market Rate Negotiable
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £200 - £210 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
PS Computer Services LTD
Rate: From £378 to £425 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hook, Hampshire
LA International
Rate: £410 - £420 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £450.00 - £580.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
UK
Roc Search
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sittingbourne, Kent
1st Choice Computer Appointments Ltd
Rate: From £500 to £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Sanderson
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Mason Frank International
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Surrey, South East
Computer Futures
Rate: £32 - £35 per hour
Posted: 5 June 2013
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