West Yorkshire Java Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Street Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	31
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	77	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.086 %
As % of the category below	4.413 %	4.527 %
Daily rates quoted	22	21
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£330
Average daily rate	£330	£343
% change on same period last year	-3.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£330
% change on same period last year	+6.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£70.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£70.00
% change on same period last year	-50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.69	£37.68
% change on same period last year	+0.04 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1745	1922
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.359 %	1.895 %
Daily rates quoted	417	328
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£335
Average daily rate	£345	£356
% change on same period last year	-3.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	125	178
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.78	£23.40
Average hourly rate	£23.01	£24.77
% change on same period last year	-7.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.24	£26.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java Developer across the West Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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.

Location	Rank 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
Leeds	-3	54	£318	-9.00 %
Halifax	-12	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Java Developer in their job title 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 with Java Developer in their job title.

1 131 (100.00 %) Java 2 79 (60.31 %) Oracle 3 52 (39.69 %) J2EE 3 52 (39.69 %) Hibernate 4 47 (35.88 %) Spring 5 36 (27.48 %) Finance 5 36 (27.48 %) JUnit 5 36 (27.48 %) JSP 6 33 (25.19 %) Agile Software Development 7 27 (20.61 %) XML 8 26 (19.85 %) WebSphere 9 25 (19.08 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 24 (18.32 %) Degree 11 23 (17.56 %) UNIX 12 22 (16.79 %) Computer Science

13 16 (12.21 %) SQL 13 16 (12.21 %) Eclipse 14 15 (11.45 %) Multithreading 15 13 (9.924 %) UML 16 12 (9.160 %) Struts 17 11 (8.397 %) Solaris 17 11 (8.397 %) Ant 18 9 (6.870 %) JavaScript 18 9 (6.870 %) EJB 19 8 (6.107 %) WebServices 19 8 (6.107 %) C 19 8 (6.107 %) JMS 19 8 (6.107 %) Microsoft 19 8 (6.107 %) Banking 19 8 (6.107 %) Software Engineering

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Java Developer in their job title 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 with Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 52 (39.69 %) J2EE 1 52 (39.69 %) Hibernate 2 47 (35.88 %) Spring 3 36 (27.48 %) JSP 4 27 (20.61 %) XML 5 26 (19.85 %) WebSphere 6 12 (9.160 %) Struts 7 9 (6.870 %) EJB 8 8 (6.107 %) WebServices 8 8 (6.107 %) JMS 9 7 (5.344 %) JSF 10 6 (4.580 %) Servlets 10 6 (4.580 %) JDBC 11 5 (3.817 %) Swing 11 5 (3.817 %) HTML 11 5 (3.817 %) .NET 12 4 (3.053 %) SWT 13 3 (2.290 %) Java SE 13 3 (2.290 %) Java EE 13 3 (2.290 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 6 (4.580 %) Apache 1 6 (4.580 %) WebLogic 2 5 (3.817 %) Tomcat 3 4 (3.053 %) IIS 3 4 (3.053 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 3 (2.290 %) JBoss 5 2 (1.527 %) Commerce Server 5 2 (1.527 %) ATG Dynamo 5 2 (1.527 %) TIBCO EMS 5 2 (1.527 %) Jetty 5 2 (1.527 %) Resin 6 1 (0.763 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (3.817 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.527 %) Internet 2 1 (0.763 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 25 (19.08 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 5 (3.817 %) SQL Server 2 5 (3.817 %) DataStage 3 3 (2.290 %) MySQL 3 3 (2.290 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (1.527 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (1.527 %) ETL 4 2 (1.527 %) RDBMS 4 2 (1.527 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 36 (27.48 %) JUnit 2 16 (12.21 %) Eclipse 3 11 (8.397 %) Ant 4 3 (2.290 %) ClearCase 5 1 (0.763 %) Flash 5 1 (0.763 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (0.763 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (0.763 %) XMLSpy
General 1 36 (27.48 %) Finance 2 8 (6.107 %) Banking 3 3 (2.290 %) Financial Institution 4 2 (1.527 %) Telecoms 4 2 (1.527 %) Government 4 2 (1.527 %) Retail 4 2 (1.527 %) Billing 5 1 (0.763 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 22 (16.79 %) Computer Science 2 15 (11.45 %) Multithreading 3 1 (0.763 %) Social Network 3 1 (0.763 %) N-Tier 3 1 (0.763 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 23 (17.56 %) UNIX 2 11 (8.397 %) Solaris 3 7 (5.344 %) Windows 4 3 (2.290 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (25.19 %) Agile Software Development 2 13 (9.924 %) UML 3 8 (6.107 %) Software Engineering 4 7 (5.344 %) OO 4 7 (5.344 %) E-Commerce 5 6 (4.580 %) SOA 6 5 (3.817 %) Scrum 6 5 (3.817 %) Unit Testing 6 5 (3.817 %) SC Cleared 6 5 (3.817 %) Security Cleared 7 4 (3.053 %) TDD 8 3 (2.290 %) Automated Testing 9 2 (1.527 %) Information Management 9 2 (1.527 %) RAD 9 2 (1.527 %) RUP 9 2 (1.527 %) Technical Architecture 10 1 (0.763 %) Content Management 10 1 (0.763 %) Systems Analysis 10 1 (0.763 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 131 (100.00 %) Java 2 16 (12.21 %) SQL 3 9 (6.870 %) JavaScript 4 8 (6.107 %) C 5 5 (3.817 %) C++ 6 3 (2.290 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (1.527 %) C# 7 2 (1.527 %) Shell Script 7 2 (1.527 %) XPath 8 1 (0.763 %) VB6 8 1 (0.763 %) VB	Qualifications 1 24 (18.32 %) Degree 2 3 (2.290 %) Sun Certification
Vendors 1 79 (60.31 %) Oracle 2 8 (6.107 %) Microsoft 3 5 (3.817 %) IBM 4 4 (3.053 %) Perforce 5 3 (2.290 %) ATG 5 3 (2.290 %) Sun 6 2 (1.527 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.763 %) HP 7 1 (0.763 %) Apple