Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkJava
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank7914
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+5
Matching contract IT job ads690334445789
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK11.46 %9.000 %7.956 %
As % of the Programming Languages category28.32 %25.65 %24.19 %
Daily rates quoted416415162243
Average daily rate£500£450£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£650£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£330£350
% change year-on-year
--5.710 %
Hourly rates quoted138172177
Average hourly rate£34.50£35.00£37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.420 %-5.400 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.35£24.30£29.55
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£58.44£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.00£33.00£37.00
% change year-on-year
--10.81 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
243741342823933
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK40.46 %35.09 %32.89 %
Daily rates quoted1342854968414
Average daily rate£425£372£380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.24 %-2.100 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£325
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted113910031649
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£16.25£19.84
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£43.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£29.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
+3.440 %-17.14 %

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.

Java
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Java Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

Java Hourly Rate Histogram

Java
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 Java within the UK over the 3 months to 9 September 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+26572£500+11.11 %
LondonUp+24965£525+8.24 %
City of LondonUp+31756£550+10.00 %
South EastDown-5692£325-2.98 %
East of EnglandUp+24240£343-1.79 %
BerkshireUp+5240£325-13.33 %
South WestUp+2192£378+16.15 %
ScotlandUp+4183£330+50.68 %
North WestNo change0158£313+4.16 %
Canary WharfNo change0143£600+9.09 %
HampshireDown-4133£325-5.79 %
HertfordshireUp+18120£350+3.70 %
SurreyDown-12112£325-5.79 %
YorkshireUp+9108£325+8.33 %
West MidlandsDown-1104£325-13.33 %
ReadingUp+796£325-9.84 %
Northern IrelandUp+968£350+33.33 %
East MidlandsDown-1166£400+30.00 %
ManchesterUp+1264£313-5.30 %
GlasgowUp+863£338+56.61 %
EdinburghUp+463£264-17.57 %
CambridgeshireUp+1262£300+13.20 %
BelfastUp+752£350+33.33 %
County AntrimUp+752£350+33.33 %
BristolUp+351£463+54.16 %
CambridgeUp+1449£300+17.64 %
West YorkshireDown-149£300-
CheshireUp+946£325+19.15 %
WatfordDown-144£250-28.57 %
StainesUp+443£350-

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

14125 (30.24 %)Banking
24052 (29.70 %)SQL
33887 (28.49 %)Oracle
43582 (26.26 %)Spring
53173 (23.26 %)XML
63091 (22.66 %)UNIX
72942 (21.57 %)J2EE
82875 (21.07 %)Investment Banking
92614 (19.16 %)Finance
102582 (18.93 %)Hibernate
112102 (15.41 %)Front Office
121970 (14.44 %)C#
131868 (13.69 %)C++
141867 (13.69 %)Linux
151619 (11.87 %)Derivative
161618 (11.86 %)Agile Software Development
171575 (11.55 %)OO
181565 (11.47 %)JavaScript
191556 (11.41 %)Sybase
201532 (11.23 %)Web Services
211447 (10.61 %).NET
221416 (10.38 %)HTML
231244 (9.119 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
241235 (9.053 %)JUnit
251168 (8.562 %)JSP
261131 (8.291 %)SQL Server
271087 (7.968 %)TDD
281037 (7.602 %)Windows
291036 (7.594 %)CSS
301026 (7.521 %)WebSphere

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13582 (26.26 %)Spring
23173 (23.26 %)XML
32942 (21.57 %)J2EE
42582 (18.93 %)Hibernate
51532 (11.23 %)Web Services
61447 (10.61 %).NET
71416 (10.38 %)HTML
81168 (8.562 %)JSP
91036 (7.594 %)CSS
101026 (7.521 %)WebSphere
11986 (7.228 %)AJAX
12857 (6.282 %)JMS
13750 (5.498 %)Struts
14726 (5.322 %)Swing
15725 (5.314 %)XSLT
16709 (5.197 %)Middleware
17636 (4.662 %)JDBC
18576 (4.222 %)EJB
19565 (4.142 %)Adobe Flex
20541 (3.966 %)SOAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1911 (6.678 %)WebLogic
2872 (6.392 %)Tomcat
3729 (5.344 %)Apache
4306 (2.243 %)Rendezvous
5289 (2.118 %)CMS
6261 (1.913 %)WebSphere Application Server
7239 (1.752 %)ESB
8202 (1.481 %)TIBCO EMS
9201 (1.473 %)MQSeries
10138 (1.012 %)WebSphere MQ
11111 (0.814 %)IIS
12100 (0.733 %)WebSphere Portal
1395 (0.696 %)MTS
1395 (0.696 %)WebLogic Portal
1490 (0.660 %)NetWeaver
1589 (0.652 %)Oracle Workflow
1683 (0.608 %)SharePoint
1782 (0.601 %)AquaLogic
1881 (0.594 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1965 (0.476 %)Jetty
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1263 (1.928 %)MS Excel
2109 (0.799 %)MS Office
3100 (0.733 %)MS Visio
465 (0.476 %)MS Project
551 (0.374 %)Photoshop
646 (0.337 %)Spreadsheet
738 (0.279 %)MATLAB
831 (0.227 %)Adobe Illustrator
926 (0.191 %)MS PowerPoint
1018 (0.132 %)Shockwave
116 (0.044 %)CA Clarity
124 (0.029 %)Open Workbench
133 (0.022 %)Acrobat
133 (0.022 %)SPSS
142 (0.015 %)RoboHelp
142 (0.015 %)Fireworks
142 (0.015 %)Simulink
142 (0.015 %)FrameMaker
142 (0.015 %)S-PLUS
151 (0.007 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1125 (0.916 %)Oracle BPM
2101 (0.740 %)ION MarketView
392 (0.674 %)RMDS
485 (0.623 %)BusinessWorks
534 (0.249 %)AquaLogic BPM
534 (0.249 %)Oracle Applications
627 (0.198 %)Global One
627 (0.198 %)Dynamics CRM
726 (0.191 %)TIBCO iProcess
726 (0.191 %)Oracle EBS
825 (0.183 %)Summit
825 (0.183 %)SAP HR
923 (0.169 %)Maximo
923 (0.169 %)SAP CRM
1020 (0.147 %)Bloomberg TOMS
1118 (0.132 %)Teamcenter
1215 (0.110 %)SAP GRC
1314 (0.103 %)Oracle 11i
1314 (0.103 %)SAP PM
1412 (0.088 %)SAP IS-U
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1496 (3.636 %)Internet
2295 (2.162 %)HTTP
3193 (1.415 %)TCP/IP
4170 (1.246 %)LDAP
5119 (0.872 %)Firewall
667 (0.491 %)SAN
764 (0.469 %)DNS
848 (0.352 %)Intranet
941 (0.301 %)FTP
1034 (0.249 %)SSH
1124 (0.176 %)BIG-IP
1220 (0.147 %)SSL
1318 (0.132 %)VoIP
1318 (0.132 %)3G
1417 (0.125 %)ATM
1417 (0.125 %)GSM
1516 (0.117 %)NAS
1516 (0.117 %)GPRS
1516 (0.117 %)Kerberos
1516 (0.117 %)BSS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11131 (8.291 %)SQL Server
2549 (4.024 %)RDBMS
3521 (3.819 %)Oracle 10g
4407 (2.983 %)MySQL
5381 (2.793 %)DB2
6224 (1.642 %)Oracle 8/8i
7222 (1.627 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
8171 (1.253 %)ETL
9147 (1.078 %)SQL Server 2005
10121 (0.887 %)Oracle Reports
11114 (0.836 %)Oracle 11g
12110 (0.806 %)BusinessObjects
1389 (0.652 %)Oracle 9i
1389 (0.652 %)SQL Server 2008
1485 (0.623 %)SQL Server 2000
1573 (0.535 %)Sybase ASE
1664 (0.469 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1756 (0.410 %)Data Mining
1853 (0.389 %)TOAD
1950 (0.367 %)Oracle Discoverer
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11235 (9.053 %)JUnit
2897 (6.575 %)Subversion
3793 (5.813 %)Eclipse
4786 (5.762 %)Ant
5747 (5.476 %)Maven
6327 (2.397 %)Selenium
7280 (2.052 %)ClearCase
8174 (1.275 %)JIRA
9122 (0.894 %)QuickTest Pro
10116 (0.850 %)CruiseControl
11113 (0.828 %)NUnit
12111 (0.814 %)ClearQuest
12111 (0.814 %)TeamCity
1390 (0.660 %)EasyMock
1489 (0.652 %)Visual Studio
1585 (0.623 %)FitNesse
1684 (0.616 %)IntelliJ
1782 (0.601 %)FlexUnit
1879 (0.579 %)LoadRunner
1975 (0.550 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14125 (30.24 %)Banking
22875 (21.07 %)Investment Banking
32614 (19.16 %)Finance
42102 (15.41 %)Front Office
5406 (2.976 %)Back Office
6384 (2.815 %)Telecoms
7332 (2.434 %)Retail
8227 (1.664 %)Government
9166 (1.217 %)Insurance
10124 (0.909 %)Education
11117 (0.858 %)Games
12116 (0.850 %)Financial Institution
13111 (0.814 %)Publishing
14104 (0.762 %)Marketing
1564 (0.469 %)Billing
1644 (0.323 %)Health
1737 (0.271 %)Manufacturing
1737 (0.271 %)Advertising
1836 (0.264 %)Pensions
1935 (0.257 %)Construction
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
19447 (69.25 %)Developer
26344 (46.50 %)Java Developer
31055 (7.733 %)Senior Developer
4902 (6.612 %)Analyst
5709 (5.197 %)Architect
6686 (5.029 %)Senior Java Developer
7525 (3.848 %)Java/J2EE Developer
8524 (3.841 %)J2EE Developer
9456 (3.343 %)C# Developer
10376 (2.756 %)Consultant
11330 (2.419 %)Java Swing Developer
11330 (2.419 %)C++ Developer
12325 (2.382 %)Web Developer
13314 (2.302 %)Software Engineer
14294 (2.155 %)Flex Developer
15288 (2.111 %)Oracle Developer
16277 (2.030 %)Designer
17214 (1.569 %)Project Manager
18211 (1.547 %)C++/Java Developer
19208 (1.525 %)Agile Java Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11619 (11.87 %)Derivative
21244 (9.119 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3960 (7.037 %)Fixed Income
4903 (6.619 %)Multithreading
5590 (4.325 %)Equities
6470 (3.445 %)Equity Derivative
7385 (2.822 %)Open Source
8371 (2.720 %)Credit Risk
9343 (2.514 %)Credit Derivative
10312 (2.287 %)Market Risk
11246 (1.803 %)Computer Science
12234 (1.715 %)Grid Computing
13164 (1.202 %)N-Tier
14162 (1.188 %)Web 2.0
15149 (1.092 %)Hedge funds
16148 (1.085 %)Client/Server
17140 (1.026 %)RIA
18138 (1.012 %)Interest Rate Derivative
19122 (0.894 %)Mathematics
20107 (0.784 %)Clustering
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13091 (22.66 %)UNIX
21867 (13.69 %)Linux
31037 (7.602 %)Windows
4689 (5.051 %)Solaris
5174 (1.275 %)AIX
6173 (1.268 %)Red Hat Linux
7158 (1.158 %)Windows Server 2003
8126 (0.924 %)Windows XP
985 (0.623 %)Android
1058 (0.425 %)HPUX
1155 (0.403 %)Windows Server 2008
1249 (0.359 %)Windows 2000
1343 (0.315 %)VMS
1441 (0.301 %)Windows NT
1540 (0.293 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1633 (0.242 %)SUSE
1722 (0.161 %)Windows Mobile
1814 (0.103 %)zOS
1912 (0.088 %)NetWare
208 (0.059 %)Maemo
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11618 (11.86 %)Agile Software Development
21575 (11.55 %)OO
31087 (7.968 %)TDD
4962 (7.052 %)E-Commerce
5823 (6.033 %)UML
6748 (5.483 %)SOA
7740 (5.424 %)Scrum
8630 (4.618 %)Continuous Integration
9625 (4.581 %)MVC
10531 (3.892 %)Web Development
11512 (3.753 %)Unit Testing
12468 (3.431 %)Electronic Trading
13407 (2.983 %)Risk Management
14354 (2.595 %)OOD
15349 (2.558 %)Workflow
16323 (2.368 %)Project Management
17307 (2.250 %)Configuration Management
18300 (2.199 %)CRM
19250 (1.833 %)Migration
20239 (1.752 %)Content Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14052 (29.70 %)SQL
21970 (14.44 %)C#
31868 (13.69 %)C++
41565 (11.47 %)JavaScript
5850 (6.231 %)Perl
6808 (5.923 %)PL/SQL
7806 (5.908 %)C
8556 (4.076 %)Shell Script
9380 (2.786 %)VB
10290 (2.126 %)Python
11289 (2.118 %)VBA
12264 (1.935 %)PHP
13240 (1.759 %)ActionScript
14171 (1.253 %)XPath
15136 (0.997 %)T-SQL
16128 (0.938 %)Groovy
17120 (0.880 %)ActionScript 3.0
18113 (0.828 %)Ruby
19109 (0.799 %)ABAP
20108 (0.792 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1617 (4.523 %)Degree
2507 (3.716 %)Security Cleared
3359 (2.632 %)SC Cleared
4135 (0.990 %)ISEB
584 (0.616 %)Sun Certification
653 (0.389 %)DV Cleared
736 (0.264 %)ISTQB
830 (0.220 %)PMI Certification
926 (0.191 %)CTC Cleared
926 (0.191 %)Microsoft Certification
1022 (0.161 %)HND
1121 (0.154 %)Postgraduate
1121 (0.154 %)BC Cleared
1219 (0.139 %)RHCE
1317 (0.125 %)Oracle Certification
1317 (0.125 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1416 (0.117 %)PhD
1513 (0.095 %)RHCA
1611 (0.081 %)IBM Certification
178 (0.059 %)CCNA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1321 (2.353 %)QA
226 (0.191 %)SLA
317 (0.125 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
416 (0.117 %)ISO 9001
515 (0.110 %)WAI
69 (0.066 %)ISO/IEC 27001
76 (0.044 %)PCI DSS
85 (0.037 %)TickIT
85 (0.037 %)BS7799
85 (0.037 %)WCAG
94 (0.029 %)COBIT
94 (0.029 %)MiFID
94 (0.029 %)Basel II
101 (0.007 %)21 CFR Part 11
101 (0.007 %)PAS 78
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
195 (0.696 %)Active Directory
271 (0.520 %)VMware Infrastructure
327 (0.198 %)Veritas Cluster Server
422 (0.161 %)Oracle RAC
422 (0.161 %)VMware ESX
518 (0.132 %)Citrix Presentation Server
617 (0.125 %)Samba
716 (0.117 %)Veritas Volume Manager
716 (0.117 %)NFS
815 (0.110 %)Xen
914 (0.103 %)OpenSSO
914 (0.103 %)ISA Server
1013 (0.095 %)Hyper-V
1112 (0.088 %)XenApp
129 (0.066 %)MSMQ
138 (0.059 %)Hadoop
147 (0.051 %)OpenLDAP
156 (0.044 %)vSphere
156 (0.044 %)Novell eDirectory
156 (0.044 %)Terminal Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
173 (0.535 %)HP Quality Center
265 (0.476 %)Tivoli
349 (0.359 %)AutoSys
433 (0.242 %)MSI
529 (0.213 %)MOM
624 (0.176 %)TIBCO Hawk
721 (0.154 %)CA SiteMinder
721 (0.154 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
818 (0.132 %)YUM
917 (0.125 %)Tivoli NetView
1016 (0.117 %)Dollar Universe
1113 (0.095 %)Puppet
1113 (0.095 %)Nagios
1113 (0.095 %)BladeLogic
1212 (0.088 %)Control-M
1311 (0.081 %)Zenoss
1410 (0.073 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
157 (0.051 %)Unicenter
157 (0.051 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
166 (0.044 %)Sun Identity Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13887 (28.49 %)Oracle
21556 (11.41 %)Sybase
3860 (6.304 %)TIBCO
4524 (3.841 %)Microsoft
5500 (3.665 %)JBoss
6441 (3.233 %)IBM
7307 (2.250 %)Adobe
8290 (2.126 %)SAP
9263 (1.928 %)Sun
10220 (1.613 %)Bloomberg
11176 (1.290 %)BEA
12165 (1.210 %)ATG
13164 (1.202 %)Red Hat
14154 (1.129 %)VMware
15150 (1.100 %)HP
16147 (1.078 %)DataSynapse
16147 (1.078 %)Reuters
17144 (1.056 %)ION Trading
18128 (0.938 %)Fidessa
19122 (0.894 %)Murex