The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wilmslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 23 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 Wilmslow 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank - 3 2
Contract jobs citing Java 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wilmslow - 25.00% 42.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 25.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
- -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Wilmslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
1 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wilmslow 100.00% 100.00% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £275 £285 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -28.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
Cheshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wilmslow 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 Wilmslow region.

Wilmslow Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wilmslow 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 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wilmslow 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 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Support Technician
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet