Java Contracts in Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 17 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 Programming Languages category for the Wales region.

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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 18 11 14
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 26 49 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 6.436% 8.829% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.16% 31.61% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 29
Average daily rate £319 £408 £349
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.83% +16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £225 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £539 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 129 155 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 31.93% 27.93% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 76 91
Average daily rate £325 £315 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 12
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Java
UK

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Wales Java Jobs Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java across the Wales region.

Wales Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the Wales region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wales Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java across the Wales region.

Wales Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 17 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
South Wales +1 19 £315 +14.54%
West Wales -4 3 £314 -33.99%
North Wales -2 1 £350 +40.00%
Java
UK

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

1 43 (49.43%) XML
2 42 (48.28%) Oracle
3 40 (45.98%) Security Cleared
4 36 (41.38%) Spring
4 36 (41.38%) SQL
5 33 (37.93%) WebLogic
6 28 (32.18%) ClearQuest
6 28 (32.18%) XSLT
6 28 (32.18%) J2EE
6 28 (32.18%) ClearCase
7 25 (28.74%) PL/SQL
7 25 (28.74%) JSF
7 25 (28.74%) Liferay
8 24 (27.59%) CSS
8 24 (27.59%) UML
8 24 (27.59%) Hibernate
9 23 (26.44%) Web Services
10 22 (25.29%) XSD
10 22 (25.29%) Agile Software Development
11 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
11 21 (24.14%) Eclipse
12 19 (21.84%) DOM
12 19 (21.84%) SAX
12 19 (21.84%) XPath
13 18 (20.69%) JAXP
14 16 (18.39%) IBM
15 14 (16.09%) WebLogic Portal
16 13 (14.94%) HTML
16 13 (14.94%) Maven
17 12 (13.79%) .NET

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

Application Development
1 43 (49.43%) XML
2 36 (41.38%) Spring
3 28 (32.18%) XSLT
3 28 (32.18%) J2EE
4 25 (28.74%) JSF
5 24 (27.59%) Hibernate
5 24 (27.59%) CSS
6 23 (26.44%) Web Services
7 22 (25.29%) XSD
8 19 (21.84%) DOM
8 19 (21.84%) SAX
9 18 (20.69%) JAXP
10 13 (14.94%) HTML
11 12 (13.79%) .NET
12 7 (8.046%) WebSphere
12 7 (8.046%) RESTful
13 5 (5.747%) jQuery
13 5 (5.747%) J2SE
13 5 (5.747%) Java EE
14 4 (4.598%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 33 (37.93%) WebLogic
2 25 (28.74%) Liferay
3 14 (16.09%) WebLogic Portal
4 5 (5.747%) SAS
5 4 (4.598%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (4.598%) FileNet
5 4 (4.598%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (3.448%) Apache
7 2 (2.299%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (2.299%) LiveLink
8 1 (1.149%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.149%) Tomcat
8 1 (1.149%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (1.149%) ESB
8 1 (1.149%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 1 (1.149%) Mule
8 1 (1.149%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
Applications
1 3 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.299%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (2.299%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (2.299%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.149%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.149%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.448%) HTTP
2 1 (1.149%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.149%) SSL
2 1 (1.149%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (6.897%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.747%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (4.598%) MySQL
4 4 (4.598%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.149%) TOAD
6 1 (1.149%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (1.149%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.149%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.149%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (32.18%) ClearCase
1 28 (32.18%) ClearQuest
2 21 (24.14%) Eclipse
3 13 (14.94%) Maven
4 10 (11.49%) Ant
5 6 (6.897%) Rational Functional Tester
6 5 (5.747%) Subversion
6 5 (5.747%) Jenkins
7 4 (4.598%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.448%) Hudson
8 3 (3.448%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.448%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (2.299%) JUnit
9 2 (2.299%) WATIR
9 2 (2.299%) Selenium
9 2 (2.299%) Capybara
10 1 (1.149%) Firebug
10 1 (1.149%) COOL:Gen
10 1 (1.149%) TestNG
10 1 (1.149%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (6.897%) Telecoms
2 5 (5.747%) Finance
3 2 (2.299%) Banking
3 2 (2.299%) General Ledger
4 1 (1.149%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (57.47%) Developer
2 30 (34.48%) Java Developer
3 8 (9.195%) Lead Developer
3 8 (9.195%) Lead Java Developer
4 7 (8.046%) Release Engineer
4 7 (8.046%) Analyst
5 5 (5.747%) Test Analyst
5 5 (5.747%) Tester
5 5 (5.747%) Administrator
6 4 (4.598%) Development Manager
6 4 (4.598%) Functional Tester
6 4 (4.598%) Designer
7 3 (3.448%) Software Team Leader
7 3 (3.448%) WebSphere Developer
7 3 (3.448%) Team Leader
7 3 (3.448%) Development Team Leader
7 3 (3.448%) Consultant
7 3 (3.448%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.448%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.448%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.448%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.299%) Open Source
3 1 (1.149%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.149%) DataPower
3 1 (1.149%) EPoS
3 1 (1.149%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.149%) Replication
3 1 (1.149%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.046%) UNIX
1 7 (8.046%) Windows
2 3 (3.448%) Linux
3 1 (1.149%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.149%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.149%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (27.59%) UML
2 22 (25.29%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (9.195%) TDD
3 8 (9.195%) Scrum
3 8 (9.195%) Release Management
3 8 (9.195%) Test Automation
4 7 (8.046%) Configuration Management
5 6 (6.897%) OO
5 6 (6.897%) Web Development
6 5 (5.747%) SOA
6 5 (5.747%) Test Scripting
7 4 (4.598%) Workflow
8 3 (3.448%) CAD
8 3 (3.448%) PLM
8 3 (3.448%) PDM
8 3 (3.448%) Data Management
8 3 (3.448%) Unit Testing
8 3 (3.448%) Software Engineering
8 3 (3.448%) SysML
8 3 (3.448%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.38%) SQL
2 25 (28.74%) PL/SQL
3 19 (21.84%) XPath
4 7 (8.046%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 6 (6.897%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.598%) C#
6 4 (4.598%) PHP
6 4 (4.598%) Ruby
7 2 (2.299%) Perl
7 2 (2.299%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.149%) ABAP
8 1 (1.149%) Python
8 1 (1.149%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.149%) Jython
8 1 (1.149%) C
8 1 (1.149%) Korn
Qualifications
1 40 (45.98%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.448%) Degree
3 3 (3.448%) HND
4 1 (1.149%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.299%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.149%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 42 (48.28%) Oracle
2 16 (18.39%) IBM
3 5 (5.747%) Adobe
4 4 (4.598%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.598%) ILOG
5 2 (2.299%) SAP
5 2 (2.299%) JBoss
6 1 (1.149%) Cognos
6 1 (1.149%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.149%) CA
6 1 (1.149%) Mercator
6 1 (1.149%) Perforce
Oracle Financials Administrator and Developer
South Wales
Oracle Financials Applications Developer. Rate: £400 -£450 per day Duration: 3 months Location: Newport, South Wales Key skills are the day-to-day administration and support of the...
LA International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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