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The table below looks at the demand for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) skills across the UK with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited JDBC over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkJava Database Connectivity (JDBC)
Location
3 months to
6 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank343263
Rank change on same period last yearDown-80
Matching contract IT job ads252575
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.352 %0.578 %
As % of the category below1.522 %2.370 %
Daily rates quoted97251
Average minimum daily rate£421£386
Average daily rate£451£410
% change on same period last year+9.91 %
Average maximum daily rate£481£434
UK excluding London average daily rate£336£341
% change on same period last year-1.51 %
Hourly rates quoted77
Average minimum hourly rate£37.86£27.14
Average hourly rate£40.07£30.36
% change on same period last year+32.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate£42.29£33.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.07£27.00
% change on same period last year+48.41 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1655524259
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled23.13 %24.37 %
Daily rates quoted54697384
Average minimum daily rate£349£361
Average daily rate£375£384
% change on same period last year-2.46 %
Average maximum daily rate£400£408
UK excluding London average daily rate£331£333
% change on same period last year-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted9791482
Average minimum hourly rate£29.53£30.12
Average hourly rate£31.67£32.33
% change on same period last year-2.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate£33.81£34.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.32£32.24
% change on same period last year-2.87 %

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.

JDBC
Demand Trend

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

JDBC Demand Trend

JDBC
Daily Rate Trend

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

JDBC Daily Rate Trend

JDBC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JDBC within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

JDBC Daily Rate Histogram

JDBC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

JDBC Hourly Rate Trend

JDBC
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JDBC within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

JDBC Hourly Rate Histogram

JDBC
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 JDBC within the UK over the 3 months to 6 October 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.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-76245£450+9.39 %
LondonDown-43163£487+12.68 %
City of LondonUp+1257£506+7.87 %
South EastDown-3023£281-14.69 %
East MidlandsUp+1815£359-
East of EnglandUp+2114£475+35.71 %
HampshireUp+3811£350+16.66 %
NottinghamshireNew entry-10£358-
NottinghamNew entry-10£358-
West YorkshireUp+98£348-
North WestDown-38£307-12.46 %
YorkshireUp+78£348-
HertfordshireUp+248--
LeedsDown-47£348-
BerkshireUp+246£150-57.32 %
West MidlandsUp+166--
South WestDown-25£310-6.41 %
NorfolkNew entry-5£475-
WalesNew entry-5£490-
NewportNew entry-5£490-
South WalesNew entry-5£490-
NorwichNew entry-5£475-
Docklands, LondonUp+245£290-17.32 %
Canary WharfUp+104--
SloughUp+64--
BirminghamNew entry-4--
MidlandsUp+134--
Thames ValleyNew entry-3£208-
SouthamptonNew entry-3--
LancashireUp+43--

JDBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JDBC 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 JDBC.

1508 (92.20 %)Java
2323 (58.62 %)J2EE
3256 (46.46 %)SQL
4248 (45.01 %)XML
5230 (41.74 %)Hibernate
6215 (39.02 %)Oracle
7194 (35.21 %)Spring
8186 (33.76 %)JSP
9178 (32.30 %)EJB
10162 (29.40 %)Servlets
11151 (27.40 %)Finance
12150 (27.22 %)OO
13132 (23.96 %)WebSphere
14131 (23.77 %)JMS
15129 (23.41 %)WebServices
16127 (23.05 %)UML
17112 (20.33 %)Swing
17112 (20.33 %)Banking
18109 (19.78 %)Ant
19107 (19.42 %)Struts
2099 (17.97 %)HTML
2194 (17.06 %)UNIX
2293 (16.88 %)Agile Software Development
2387 (15.79 %)XSLT
2481 (14.70 %)Investment Banking
2580 (14.52 %)Tomcat
2679 (14.34 %)JavaScript
2679 (14.34 %)Eclipse
2777 (13.97 %)JUnit
2876 (13.79 %)Degree

JDBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing JDBC 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 JDBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1323 (58.62 %)J2EE
2248 (45.01 %)XML
3230 (41.74 %)Hibernate
4194 (35.21 %)Spring
5186 (33.76 %)JSP
6178 (32.30 %)EJB
7162 (29.40 %)Servlets
8132 (23.96 %)WebSphere
9131 (23.77 %)JMS
10129 (23.41 %)WebServices
11112 (20.33 %)Swing
12107 (19.42 %)Struts
1399 (17.97 %)HTML
1487 (15.79 %)XSLT
1562 (11.25 %)MVC
1655 (9.982 %)J2SE
1754 (9.800 %)CSS
1849 (8.893 %).NET
1943 (7.804 %)AJAX
2042 (7.623 %)JSF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
180 (14.52 %)Tomcat
273 (13.25 %)JBoss
360 (10.89 %)WebSphere Application Server
450 (9.074 %)WebLogic
542 (7.623 %)Apache
616 (2.904 %)IIS
616 (2.904 %)MQSeries
712 (2.178 %)WebSphere MQ
810 (1.815 %)Oracle Application Server
99 (1.633 %)WPS
107 (1.270 %)ATG Dynamo
115 (0.907 %)Oracle 9iAS
124 (0.726 %)CMS
124 (0.726 %)IBM HTTP Server
133 (0.544 %)Rendezvous
142 (0.363 %)TIBCO EMS
142 (0.363 %)ESB
142 (0.363 %)Oracle HTTP Server
142 (0.363 %)CICS
142 (0.363 %)Documentum
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
112 (2.178 %)MS Office
112 (2.178 %)MS Visio
25 (0.907 %)MS Excel
25 (0.907 %)MS Project
31 (0.181 %)Spreadsheet
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (0.363 %)SAP CRM
21 (0.181 %)Oracle Applications
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
127 (4.900 %)HTTP
221 (3.811 %)LDAP
317 (3.085 %)Internet
49 (1.633 %)TCP/IP
54 (0.726 %)IIOP
54 (0.726 %)SSL
62 (0.363 %)Intranet
62 (0.363 %)DNS
62 (0.363 %)SSH
71 (0.181 %)Wireless
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
163 (11.43 %)SQL Server
262 (11.25 %)DB2
352 (9.437 %)Oracle 10g
431 (5.626 %)RDBMS
529 (5.263 %)BusinessObjects
623 (4.174 %)Oracle 9i
713 (2.359 %)MySQL
713 (2.359 %)DB2 UDB
812 (2.178 %)GIS
97 (1.270 %)Oracle Reports
106 (1.089 %)SQL Server 2005
115 (0.907 %)Oracle 11g
124 (0.726 %)Oracle 8/8i
124 (0.726 %)MS Access
124 (0.726 %)JasperReports
124 (0.726 %)TOAD
133 (0.544 %)ETL
133 (0.544 %)PostgreSQL
142 (0.363 %)Datawarehouse
142 (0.363 %)Informix
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1109 (19.78 %)Ant
279 (14.34 %)Eclipse
377 (13.97 %)JUnit
422 (3.993 %)Log4j
521 (3.811 %)Subversion
619 (3.448 %)ClearCase
619 (3.448 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
718 (3.267 %)JDeveloper
814 (2.541 %)JBuilder
99 (1.633 %)Oracle Forms
106 (1.089 %)VSS/SourceSafe
106 (1.089 %)PowerBuilder
115 (0.907 %)Rational Rose
124 (0.726 %)RequisitePro
124 (0.726 %)Visual Studio
133 (0.544 %)ClearQuest
142 (0.363 %)JProbe
142 (0.363 %)Bugzilla
142 (0.363 %)jMock
142 (0.363 %)PVCS
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1151 (27.40 %)Finance
2112 (20.33 %)Banking
381 (14.70 %)Investment Banking
446 (8.348 %)Front Office
523 (4.174 %)Retail
620 (3.630 %)Back Office
713 (2.359 %)Construction
89 (1.633 %)Government
97 (1.270 %)Telecoms
105 (0.907 %)3D Graphics
114 (0.726 %)Pharmaceutical
123 (0.544 %)Games
123 (0.544 %)Insurance
123 (0.544 %)Health
123 (0.544 %)Advertising
132 (0.363 %)Education
132 (0.363 %)Online Games
132 (0.363 %)International Banking
141 (0.181 %)Online Banking
141 (0.181 %)Marketing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1434 (78.77 %)Developer
2327 (59.35 %)Java Developer
388 (15.97 %)J2EE Developer
468 (12.34 %)Java/J2EE Developer
542 (7.623 %)Architect
631 (5.626 %)WebSphere Developer
721 (3.811 %)Java Architect
820 (3.630 %)J2EE Architect
820 (3.630 %)Senior Developer
916 (2.904 %)Analyst
1014 (2.541 %)Web Developer
1014 (2.541 %)Java Swing Developer
1113 (2.359 %)Consultant
1113 (2.359 %)DBA
1212 (2.178 %)Technical Architect
1212 (2.178 %)J2EE Technical Architect
1212 (2.178 %)Java Technical Architect
1311 (1.996 %)Programmer
1410 (1.815 %)Project Manager
159 (1.633 %)Software Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
138 (6.897 %)Derivative
236 (6.534 %)Multithreading
334 (6.171 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
427 (4.900 %)Equities
520 (3.630 %)Credit Risk
614 (2.541 %)N-Tier
712 (2.178 %)Chip and PIN
712 (2.178 %)Thin Client
712 (2.178 %)Credit Derivative
712 (2.178 %)Fixed Income
712 (2.178 %)Fat Client
810 (1.815 %)Grid Computing
99 (1.633 %)Replication
107 (1.270 %)W3C
116 (1.089 %)RIA
116 (1.089 %)Mathematics
125 (0.907 %)Equity Derivative
125 (0.907 %)Client/Server
125 (0.907 %)Clustering
134 (0.726 %)AS400
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
194 (17.06 %)UNIX
272 (13.07 %)Linux
348 (8.711 %)Windows
419 (3.448 %)AIX
512 (2.178 %)Solaris
66 (1.089 %)Windows XP
75 (0.907 %)Windows NT
84 (0.726 %)HPUX
84 (0.726 %)Red Hat Linux
92 (0.363 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
92 (0.363 %)SUSE
101 (0.181 %)Windows Server 2003
101 (0.181 %)Windows 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1150 (27.22 %)OO
2127 (23.05 %)UML
393 (16.88 %)Agile Software Development
459 (10.71 %)Scrum
535 (6.352 %)OOA/OOD
632 (5.808 %)OOD
730 (5.445 %)RUP
826 (4.719 %)Continuous Integration
925 (4.537 %)OOP
1023 (4.174 %)RAD
1122 (3.993 %)Web Development
1220 (3.630 %)E-Commerce
1318 (3.267 %)Unified Process
1318 (3.267 %)Migration
1416 (2.904 %)Risk Management
1416 (2.904 %)Security Cleared
1515 (2.722 %)Unit Testing
1515 (2.722 %)Data Modelling
1613 (2.359 %)Project Management
1712 (2.178 %)EAI
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1508 (92.20 %)Java
2256 (46.46 %)SQL
379 (14.34 %)JavaScript
451 (9.256 %)PL/SQL
540 (7.260 %)C++
636 (6.534 %)Perl
723 (4.174 %)Shell Script
818 (3.267 %)C#
913 (2.359 %)C
913 (2.359 %)XPath
1010 (1.815 %)DHTML
119 (1.633 %)VBA
128 (1.452 %)Python
137 (1.270 %)Korn
146 (1.089 %)Jython
154 (0.726 %)VB6
154 (0.726 %)VB
163 (0.544 %)Transact-SQL
163 (0.544 %)Ruby
172 (0.363 %)ABAP
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
176 (13.79 %)Degree
28 (1.452 %)Sun Certification
33 (0.544 %)SCJP
33 (0.544 %)SCJA
41 (0.181 %)SCJD
41 (0.181 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
110 (1.815 %)QA
24 (0.726 %)ISO9001
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
17 (1.270 %)Oracle RAC
24 (0.726 %)Active Directory
32 (0.363 %)AquaLogic
41 (0.181 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
15 (0.907 %)Tivoli
24 (0.726 %)AutoSys
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1215 (39.02 %)Oracle
269 (12.52 %)IBM
345 (8.167 %)Sybase
436 (6.534 %)SAP
531 (5.626 %)Microsoft
629 (5.263 %)Business Objects
716 (2.904 %)BEA
810 (1.815 %)Tangosol
97 (1.270 %)ATG
97 (1.270 %)Altova
106 (1.089 %)Sun
106 (1.089 %)Calypso
106 (1.089 %)Adobe
115 (0.907 %)Macromedia
115 (0.907 %)TIBCO
115 (0.907 %)InterSystems
124 (0.726 %)Red Hat
124 (0.726 %)DataSynapse
124 (0.726 %)FatWire
133 (0.544 %)Yolus