The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 21 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 Wiltshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 41 26 31
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +5
Contract jobs citing Java 9 29 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 1.978% 4.670% 2.762%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.000% 14.65% 8.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 8
Average daily rate £425 £335 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.86% -8.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £295 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £665 £375 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
150 198 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 32.97% 31.88% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 115 78
Average daily rate £325 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £213 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 13
Average hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.54 £23.88 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
Java
South West

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Swindon -16 6 £600 +79.10%
Salisbury - 2 £375 -
Java
South West

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 11 (50.00%) SQL
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) XML
4 6 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (27.27%) J2EE
4 6 (27.27%) Scrum
5 5 (22.73%) Workflow
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (22.73%) Performance Management
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
5 5 (22.73%) UML
5 5 (22.73%) Middleware
5 5 (22.73%) SOA
6 4 (18.18%) CRM
6 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
6 4 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) SSL
6 4 (18.18%) IBM
6 4 (18.18%) CSS
6 4 (18.18%) LDAP
6 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 4 (18.18%) C
6 4 (18.18%) C++
6 4 (18.18%) SQL Server

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 7 (31.82%) XML
2 6 (27.27%) J2EE
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (22.73%) Middleware
4 4 (18.18%) CSS
5 2 (9.091%) SAML
5 2 (9.091%) JDBC
5 2 (9.091%) HTML
5 2 (9.091%) Grails
5 2 (9.091%) WebSphere
5 2 (9.091%) Java EE
5 2 (9.091%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.545%) Spring
6 1 (4.545%) JSON
6 1 (4.545%) Apache Flex
6 1 (4.545%) HTML5
6 1 (4.545%) REST
6 1 (4.545%) CSS3
6 1 (4.545%) Parsley
6 1 (4.545%) OAuth
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle Workflow
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.091%) Tomcat
3 2 (9.091%) Apache
3 2 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (9.091%) WebLogic
3 2 (9.091%) Liferay
3 2 (9.091%) GlassFish
4 1 (4.545%) Jetty
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.091%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (13.64%) Endur
2 3 (13.64%) Findur
3 2 (9.091%) Maximo
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) SSL
1 4 (18.18%) LDAP
2 3 (13.64%) HTTP
3 2 (9.091%) SAN
3 2 (9.091%) LAN
3 2 (9.091%) WAN
3 2 (9.091%) Firewall
3 2 (9.091%) IPsec
4 1 (4.545%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (9.091%) DB2
3 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 2 (9.091%) NetBeans
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Front-End Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Maximo Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Maximo Specialist
5 2 (9.091%) Maximo Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Flex Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Middleware Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Statistics
1 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) UNIX
1 2 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Scrum
2 5 (22.73%) Workflow
2 5 (22.73%) Performance Management
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
2 5 (22.73%) UML
2 5 (22.73%) SOA
3 4 (18.18%) CRM
3 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Release Management
4 3 (13.64%) ETRM
4 3 (13.64%) OOP
4 3 (13.64%) OO
4 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 2 (9.091%) Service Management
5 2 (9.091%) Resource Management
5 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (9.091%) Asset Management
5 2 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
2 4 (18.18%) C
2 4 (18.18%) C++
3 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.091%) Perl
4 2 (9.091%) PHP
4 2 (9.091%) Groovy
5 1 (4.545%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) OCP
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Tivoli
1 2 (9.091%) Netcool
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) IBM
3 3 (13.64%) Stellent
3 3 (13.64%) OpenLink
3 3 (13.64%) Hyperion
4 2 (9.091%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.091%) CA
4 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.091%) JBoss
4 2 (9.091%) Business Objects
4 2 (9.091%) VMware
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