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 February 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 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank71610
Rank change year-on-year
Up+9Down-6
Matching contract IT job ads487329797191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK11.13 %6.477 %8.785 %
As % of the Programming Languages category29.39 %20.79 %25.21 %
Daily rates quoted266310442438
Average daily rate£500£421£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.69 %-6.380 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£601£575£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£350
Hourly rates quoted10199189
Average hourly rate£35.00£34.50£37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.440 %-8.000 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.65£24.20£25.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.40£42.50£47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.50£34.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
+0.720 %-2.140 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165781433028524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.87 %31.16 %34.85 %
Daily rates quoted807247888851
Average daily rate£401£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.57 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£305£325
% change year-on-year
-1.630 %-6.150 %
Hourly rates quoted83212302017
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.88£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£32.50£33.50
% change year-on-year
-13.84 %-2.980 %

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 February 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 February 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 February 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+104656£500+17.64 %
LondonUp+33508£525+16.66 %
City of LondonUp+81299£525+13.51 %
South EastUp+5456£350-3.44 %
BerkshireUp+34184£375-
ScotlandUp+11152£365+4.28 %
South WestUp+14132£390-2.50 %
East of EnglandNo change0115£300-14.28 %
North WestDown-1115£375-
YorkshireUp+15112£290-7.20 %
West MidlandsUp+14102£350+7.69 %
Canary WharfDown-486£525-
ReadingUp+2784£338+8.00 %
HampshireDown-368£300-10.44 %
GlasgowUp+1163£365-2.01 %
East MidlandsUp+1061£375+36.36 %
West YorkshireUp+753£301-6.82 %
SurreyDown-151£300-13.04 %
EdinburghUp+449£350-22.22 %
CambridgeshireUp+846£363+20.83 %
CheshireUp+444£375+7.14 %
Docklands, LondonDown-544£525-4.54 %
South YorkshireUp+2041£278-7.88 %
LeedsUp+1740£300+0.08 %
ManchesterDown-940£325-13.33 %
SheffieldUp+1633£275-5.17 %
BristolDown-133£325+51.16 %
HertfordshireUp+731£300-17.24 %
CambridgeUp+330£400+33.33 %
BirminghamUp+1429£250-28.57 %

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

12636 (30.47 %)Banking
22481 (28.68 %)SQL
32349 (27.15 %)Oracle
41853 (21.42 %)UNIX
51790 (20.69 %)J2EE
61781 (20.58 %)XML
71754 (20.27 %)Investment Banking
81738 (20.09 %)Spring
91501 (17.35 %)Front Office
101381 (15.96 %)Finance
111338 (15.46 %)C#
121324 (15.30 %)Hibernate
131302 (15.05 %)Derivative
141159 (13.40 %)Linux
151119 (12.93 %)C++
161100 (12.71 %)Sybase
171036 (11.97 %).NET
181021 (11.80 %)OO
19993 (11.48 %)Agile Software Development
20921 (10.64 %)JavaScript
21842 (9.732 %)Web Services
22768 (8.877 %)Windows
23758 (8.761 %)HTML
24741 (8.564 %)Fixed Income
25719 (8.310 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
26671 (7.755 %)SQL Server
27664 (7.675 %)JUnit
28639 (7.386 %)JSP
29577 (6.669 %)CSS
30560 (6.472 %)WebSphere

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 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
11790 (20.69 %)J2EE
21781 (20.58 %)XML
31738 (20.09 %)Spring
41324 (15.30 %)Hibernate
51036 (11.97 %).NET
6842 (9.732 %)Web Services
7758 (8.761 %)HTML
8639 (7.386 %)JSP
9577 (6.669 %)CSS
10560 (6.472 %)WebSphere
11473 (5.467 %)Swing
12453 (5.236 %)AJAX
13405 (4.681 %)Struts
14342 (3.953 %)XSLT
15336 (3.883 %)Middleware
16335 (3.872 %)J2SE
17322 (3.722 %)JMS
18317 (3.664 %)SOAP
19297 (3.433 %)JDBC
20260 (3.005 %)Servlets
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1511 (5.906 %)Tomcat
2482 (5.571 %)WebLogic
3414 (4.785 %)Apache
4172 (1.988 %)ESB
5119 (1.375 %)WebSphere Application Server
6110 (1.271 %)IIS
799 (1.144 %)WebSphere MQ
897 (1.121 %)CMS
993 (1.075 %)MQSeries
1086 (0.994 %)Rendezvous
1184 (0.971 %)SharePoint
1283 (0.959 %)TIBCO EMS
1369 (0.798 %)WebSphere Portal
1466 (0.763 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1562 (0.717 %)Oracle Application Server
1657 (0.659 %)Oracle Workflow
1747 (0.543 %)WebLogic Portal
1840 (0.462 %)MTS
1938 (0.439 %)Documentum
2036 (0.416 %)SAP Portal
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1120 (1.387 %)MS Excel
264 (0.740 %)MS Office
359 (0.682 %)MS Visio
430 (0.347 %)MS Project
528 (0.324 %)Photoshop
614 (0.162 %)MS PowerPoint
710 (0.116 %)MATLAB
89 (0.104 %)Spreadsheet
98 (0.092 %)Adobe Illustrator
106 (0.069 %)InfoPath
115 (0.058 %)Quicktime
115 (0.058 %)Fireworks
124 (0.046 %)SPSS
133 (0.035 %)CATIA
142 (0.023 %)Windchill
151 (0.012 %)Shockwave
151 (0.012 %)SmartSuite
151 (0.012 %)CA Clarity
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
147 (0.543 %)BusinessWorks
245 (0.520 %)ION MarketView
343 (0.497 %)Oracle Applications
436 (0.416 %)RMDS
530 (0.347 %)Endur
629 (0.335 %)TIBCO iProcess
629 (0.335 %)Oracle 11i
719 (0.220 %)Oracle EBS
815 (0.173 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
914 (0.162 %)Bloomberg TOMS
1013 (0.150 %)Summit
1013 (0.150 %)Maximo
1013 (0.150 %)Dynamics CRM
1112 (0.139 %)Misys Midas
1112 (0.139 %)GL Clearvision
1211 (0.127 %)Oracle EBS R12
1211 (0.127 %)SAP xRPM
1310 (0.116 %)Sophis RISQUE
1310 (0.116 %)SAP HR
1310 (0.116 %)Singl.eView
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1281 (3.248 %)Internet
2164 (1.896 %)HTTP
3115 (1.329 %)LDAP
484 (0.971 %)TCP/IP
575 (0.867 %)Firewall
661 (0.705 %)Intranet
750 (0.578 %)SAN
845 (0.520 %)SSL
941 (0.474 %)Bluetooth
1025 (0.289 %)SNMP
1123 (0.266 %)DNS
1220 (0.231 %)FTP
1318 (0.208 %)WAN
1416 (0.185 %)SMTP
1515 (0.173 %)SMS
1614 (0.162 %)BIG-IP
1712 (0.139 %)BT 21CN
1712 (0.139 %)BSS
1811 (0.127 %)HTTPS
1910 (0.116 %)Kerberos
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1671 (7.755 %)SQL Server
2351 (4.057 %)RDBMS
3344 (3.976 %)Oracle 10g
4221 (2.554 %)MySQL
5159 (1.838 %)Oracle Reports
6141 (1.630 %)SQL Server 2005
7125 (1.445 %)DB2
8124 (1.433 %)Datawarehouse
9106 (1.225 %)Oracle 9i
1098 (1.133 %)Oracle 8/8i
1191 (1.052 %)Oracle 11g
1279 (0.913 %)ETL
1363 (0.728 %)BusinessObjects
1457 (0.659 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1457 (0.659 %)GIS
1541 (0.474 %)Oracle Discoverer
1634 (0.393 %)SQL Server 2000
1733 (0.381 %)OLAP
1830 (0.347 %)SQLPlus
1927 (0.312 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1664 (7.675 %)JUnit
2461 (5.328 %)Subversion
3403 (4.658 %)Maven
4399 (4.612 %)Eclipse
5359 (4.149 %)Ant
6171 (1.976 %)ClearCase
7142 (1.641 %)Selenium
8114 (1.318 %)Oracle Forms
9104 (1.202 %)FitNesse
1074 (0.855 %)JIRA
1162 (0.717 %)ClearQuest
1258 (0.670 %)LoadRunner
1355 (0.636 %)NUnit
1454 (0.624 %)Visual Studio
1553 (0.613 %)QuickTest Pro
1652 (0.601 %)JDeveloper
1748 (0.555 %)TeamCity
1847 (0.543 %)jMock
1944 (0.509 %)JMeter
2041 (0.474 %)JCAPS
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12636 (30.47 %)Banking
21754 (20.27 %)Investment Banking
31501 (17.35 %)Front Office
41381 (15.96 %)Finance
5384 (4.438 %)Back Office
6264 (3.051 %)Government
7162 (1.872 %)Telecoms
8118 (1.364 %)Retail
9101 (1.167 %)Games
1073 (0.844 %)Insurance
1155 (0.636 %)Financial Institution
1252 (0.601 %)Education
1350 (0.578 %)Health
1447 (0.543 %)Law
1543 (0.497 %)Billing
1631 (0.358 %)Marketing
1729 (0.335 %)Home Office
1827 (0.312 %)Legal
1924 (0.277 %)Pharmaceutical
2023 (0.266 %)Construction
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15871 (67.86 %)Developer
23669 (42.41 %)Java Developer
3721 (8.333 %)Senior Developer
4625 (7.224 %)Analyst
5456 (5.270 %)C# Developer
6451 (5.213 %)Senior Java Developer
7438 (5.062 %)Architect
8294 (3.398 %)J2EE Developer
9293 (3.387 %)Java/J2EE Developer
10276 (3.190 %)Consultant
11234 (2.705 %)Oracle Developer
12221 (2.554 %)Project Manager
13207 (2.393 %)Java Swing Developer
14199 (2.300 %)C++ Developer
14199 (2.300 %)Web Developer
15180 (2.080 %)Designer
16172 (1.988 %)Front Office Developer
17151 (1.745 %)Business Analyst
18150 (1.734 %)Software Engineer
19143 (1.653 %)Programmer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11302 (15.05 %)Derivative
2741 (8.564 %)Fixed Income
3719 (8.310 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4437 (5.051 %)Multithreading
5418 (4.831 %)Equities
6377 (4.357 %)Equity Derivative
7322 (3.722 %)Credit Derivative
8225 (2.601 %)Open Source
9208 (2.404 %)Credit Risk
10201 (2.323 %)Interest Rate Derivative
11168 (1.942 %)Grid Computing
12157 (1.815 %)Client/Server
13121 (1.399 %)Market Risk
14105 (1.214 %)N-Tier
1593 (1.075 %)Computer Science
1682 (0.948 %)iPhone
1756 (0.647 %)Social Network
1756 (0.647 %)Mathematics
1850 (0.578 %)Blackberry
1850 (0.578 %)Mainframe
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11853 (21.42 %)UNIX
21159 (13.40 %)Linux
3768 (8.877 %)Windows
4386 (4.461 %)Solaris
5122 (1.410 %)Red Hat Linux
6106 (1.225 %)AIX
799 (1.144 %)Windows Server 2003
874 (0.855 %)Windows XP
958 (0.670 %)Windows Mobile
1049 (0.566 %)Android
1137 (0.428 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1228 (0.324 %)Windows NT
1324 (0.277 %)Windows Server 2008
1423 (0.266 %)HPUX
1521 (0.243 %)VMS
1521 (0.243 %)Windows 2000
1612 (0.139 %)Windows Vista
179 (0.104 %)Windows 7
188 (0.092 %)CentOS
197 (0.081 %)NetWare
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11021 (11.80 %)OO
2993 (11.48 %)Agile Software Development
3470 (5.432 %)UML
4446 (5.155 %)TDD
5441 (5.097 %)Scrum
5441 (5.097 %)E-Commerce
6417 (4.820 %)SOA
7335 (3.872 %)Unit Testing
8321 (3.710 %)Risk Management
9279 (3.225 %)Web Development
10250 (2.890 %)OOD
11248 (2.866 %)Continuous Integration
12218 (2.520 %)Project Management
13216 (2.497 %)Electronic Trading
14201 (2.323 %)Workflow
15179 (2.069 %)User Acceptance Testing
16156 (1.803 %)CRM
17150 (1.734 %)Data Modelling
18146 (1.687 %)Configuration Management
19143 (1.653 %)Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12481 (28.68 %)SQL
21338 (15.46 %)C#
31119 (12.93 %)C++
4921 (10.64 %)JavaScript
5549 (6.345 %)C
6538 (6.218 %)Perl
7500 (5.779 %)PL/SQL
8311 (3.595 %)Shell Script
9237 (2.739 %)VB
10218 (2.520 %)PHP
11152 (1.757 %)Python
12146 (1.687 %)VBA
13105 (1.214 %)T-SQL
1474 (0.855 %)Ruby
1474 (0.855 %)Korn
1572 (0.832 %)VB.NET
1572 (0.832 %)ActionScript
1661 (0.705 %)Groovy
1661 (0.705 %)XPath
1760 (0.693 %)ABAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1474 (5.479 %)Security Cleared
2318 (3.675 %)SC Cleared
3283 (3.271 %)Degree
487 (1.006 %)DV Cleared
554 (0.624 %)BC Cleared
650 (0.578 %)ISEB
735 (0.405 %)Oracle Certification
824 (0.277 %)Sun Certification
922 (0.254 %)OCA
1019 (0.220 %)OCP
1114 (0.162 %)PMI Certification
1212 (0.139 %)ISTQB
1311 (0.127 %)Microsoft Certification
1311 (0.127 %)PRINCE2 Certification
148 (0.092 %)CTC Cleared
148 (0.092 %)IBM Certification
157 (0.081 %)PMP
157 (0.081 %)ISEB Practitioner
166 (0.069 %)ITIL Certification
166 (0.069 %)PhD
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1180 (2.080 %)QA
222 (0.254 %)SLA
310 (0.116 %)WCAG
48 (0.092 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
56 (0.069 %)HL7
64 (0.046 %)Basel II
71 (0.012 %)ISO9000
71 (0.012 %)TickIT
71 (0.012 %)ISO8583
71 (0.012 %)PCI DSS
71 (0.012 %)WAI
71 (0.012 %)COBIT
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
170 (0.809 %)AquaLogic
246 (0.532 %)Active Directory
345 (0.520 %)Oracle RAC
439 (0.451 %)VMware Infrastructure
514 (0.162 %)OpenSSO
613 (0.150 %)VMware ESX
78 (0.092 %)Squid
84 (0.046 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
84 (0.046 %)Citrix Presentation Server
84 (0.046 %)Oracle RMAN
93 (0.035 %)MSMQ
93 (0.035 %)NFS
93 (0.035 %)ISA Server
93 (0.035 %)Sendmail
102 (0.023 %)Hadoop
102 (0.023 %)Shibboleth
102 (0.023 %)Terminal Server
111 (0.012 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
111 (0.012 %)Samba
111 (0.012 %)Postfix
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
167 (0.774 %)Tivoli
255 (0.636 %)AutoSys
322 (0.254 %)CONTROL-M
421 (0.243 %)Tivoli Monitoring
515 (0.173 %)HP Quality Center
612 (0.139 %)Data Guard
711 (0.127 %)Sun Identity Manager
810 (0.116 %)Tivoli NetView
99 (0.104 %)OpenView
108 (0.092 %)Dollar Universe
108 (0.092 %)Netcool
117 (0.081 %)EMC NetWorker
126 (0.069 %)Oracle Statspack
126 (0.069 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
135 (0.058 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
135 (0.058 %)TIBCO Hawk
135 (0.058 %)OVSD
135 (0.058 %)ServiceCenter
135 (0.058 %)Netcool/Webtop
144 (0.046 %)MSI
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12349 (27.15 %)Oracle
21100 (12.71 %)Sybase
3391 (4.519 %)TIBCO
4265 (3.063 %)Microsoft
5251 (2.901 %)JBoss
6229 (2.647 %)IBM
7163 (1.884 %)DataSynapse
8152 (1.757 %)SAP
9147 (1.699 %)Sun
10122 (1.410 %)Calypso
11110 (1.271 %)Red Hat
1290 (1.040 %)VMware
1384 (0.971 %)Murex
1482 (0.948 %)BEA
1581 (0.936 %)Bloomberg
1674 (0.855 %)HP
1773 (0.844 %)Adobe
1863 (0.728 %)Business Objects
1957 (0.659 %)Reuters
2054 (0.624 %)Cognos