SCJP Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SCJP in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SCJP over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP)
Rank 531 - 585
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SCJP 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.024% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £463 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8421 10091 9517
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 17.30% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4511 5263 4536
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 547 656
Average hourly rate £23.20 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.45% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%

SCJP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SCJP Jobs Demand Trend

SCJP
Daily Rate Trend

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

SCJP Daily Rate Trend

SCJP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SCJP Hourly Rate Trend

SCJP
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SCJP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Faversham - 2 £463 -
Kent - 2 £463 -
South East - 2 £463 -
England - 2 £463 -

SCJP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SCJP 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 SCJP.

1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) SCJA
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (33.33%) MS Project
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
3 1 (33.33%) Adabas
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) ISEB
3 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification

SCJP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) JPA
2 2 (66.67%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Ant
2 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
2 1 (33.33%) RequisitePro
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) UML
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) NATURAL
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SCJA
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
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