The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised for the York region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java over the 3 months to 22 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 York 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java
Rank 4 6 9
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing Java 15 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 17.65% 14.52% 2.941%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.88% 40.91% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 0
Average daily rate £354 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -13.33%
All Programming Languages
York
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
43 22 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 50.59% 35.48% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 4
Average daily rate £363 £325 £170
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% +91.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £251 £108
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £325 £200
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
Java
North Yorkshire

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

York Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 16 (94.12%) J2EE
2 13 (76.47%) Oracle
3 10 (58.82%) Unit Testing
4 9 (52.94%) PL/SQL
5 8 (47.06%) SQL
5 8 (47.06%) ITIL
5 8 (47.06%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (47.06%) Oracle 10g
5 8 (47.06%) Maven
6 7 (41.18%) Subversion
6 7 (41.18%) Tomcat
7 6 (35.29%) WebLogic
7 6 (35.29%) Spring
7 6 (35.29%) Hibernate
7 6 (35.29%) Hudson
8 5 (29.41%) Open Source
8 5 (29.41%) Jetty
8 5 (29.41%) Spring MVC
8 5 (29.41%) JMS
8 5 (29.41%) MVC
8 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
8 5 (29.41%) Tapestry
9 4 (23.53%) Content Management
9 4 (23.53%) Apache
9 4 (23.53%) JUnit
9 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (17.65%) Apache Axis
10 3 (17.65%) jMock
10 3 (17.65%) FreeMarker
10 3 (17.65%) TestNG

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 16 (94.12%) J2EE
2 6 (35.29%) Spring
2 6 (35.29%) Hibernate
3 5 (29.41%) Spring MVC
3 5 (29.41%) JMS
3 5 (29.41%) WebSphere
3 5 (29.41%) Tapestry
4 3 (17.65%) Apache Axis
4 3 (17.65%) FreeMarker
4 3 (17.65%) Ehcache
4 3 (17.65%) RESTful
4 3 (17.65%) JDBC
4 3 (17.65%) Web Services
4 3 (17.65%) SiteMesh
5 2 (11.76%) JSP
5 2 (11.76%) Struts
6 1 (5.882%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) Tomcat
2 6 (35.29%) WebLogic
3 5 (29.41%) Jetty
4 4 (23.53%) Apache
5 1 (5.882%) IIS
5 1 (5.882%) CMS
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) LDAP
1 1 (5.882%) Firewall
1 1 (5.882%) BIG-IP
1 1 (5.882%) NAS
1 1 (5.882%) iSCSI
1 1 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (5.882%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 3 (17.65%) JasperReports
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle Forms
1 8 (47.06%) Maven
2 7 (41.18%) Subversion
3 6 (35.29%) Hudson
4 4 (23.53%) JUnit
5 3 (17.65%) jMock
5 3 (17.65%) TestNG
5 3 (17.65%) EasyMock
5 3 (17.65%) Subclipse
5 3 (17.65%) Eclipse
5 3 (17.65%) Log4j
6 1 (5.882%) CruiseControl
6 1 (5.882%) Selenium
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 8 (47.06%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
4 3 (17.65%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Open Source
2 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) HPUX
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
1 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
1 1 (5.882%) Debian
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (5.882%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Unit Testing
2 8 (47.06%) ITIL
3 5 (29.41%) MVC
4 4 (23.53%) Content Management
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) AOP
6 2 (11.76%) OO
7 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.882%) OOD
7 1 (5.882%) Workflow
7 1 (5.882%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) PL/SQL
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) vSphere
1 1 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) Nagios
1 1 (5.882%) Cacti
1 1 (5.882%) CA Wily
1 1 (5.882%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) JBoss
3 1 (5.882%) Vignette
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco
3 1 (5.882%) HP
3 1 (5.882%) EMC
3 1 (5.882%) Juniper
3 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.882%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.882%) VMware
3 1 (5.882%) Tangosol
3 1 (5.882%) F5
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