The first table below looks at the demand for POJO skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited POJO over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Development 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
POJO (Plain Old Java Object)
Rank - 573 -
Contract jobs citing POJO 0 13 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.022% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.086% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 0
Average daily rate - £413 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

POJO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

POJO Jobs Demand Trend

POJO
Daily Rate Trend

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

POJO Daily Rate Trend

POJO
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing POJO 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 POJO.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) MSF

POJO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing POJO 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 POJO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) MSF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft