Yorkshire Java Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts within the 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 21 August 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 City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead 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 Scotland Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stockport 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 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	29
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	99	162
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.131 %	0.161 %
As % of the category below	3.323 %	4.569 %
Daily rates quoted	27	29
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£344
Average daily rate	£339	£352
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£333
% change on same period last year	+7.52 %
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	£38.04	£38.16
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2979	3546
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.931 %	3.532 %
Daily rates quoted	637	679
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£329
Average daily rate	£339	£348
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	303	319
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.47	£23.82
Average hourly rate	£23.16	£25.26
% change on same period last year	-8.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.84	£26.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
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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 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 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
West Yorkshire	+2	75	£335	-8.58 %
North Yorkshire	-1	8	£344	+7.00 %
South Yorkshire	-3	4	£329	-9.87 %
East Yorkshire	0	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 182 (100.00 %) Java 2 103 (56.59 %) Oracle 3 77 (42.31 %) J2EE 4 65 (35.71 %) Hibernate 5 60 (32.97 %) Spring 6 51 (28.02 %) JUnit 7 50 (27.47 %) JSP 8 43 (23.63 %) Agile Software Development 9 42 (23.08 %) Finance 9 42 (23.08 %) XML 10 30 (16.48 %) Eclipse 10 30 (16.48 %) WebSphere 11 28 (15.38 %) Struts 12 27 (14.84 %) UNIX 12 27 (14.84 %) Oracle 8/8i

13 25 (13.74 %) SQL 13 25 (13.74 %) Degree 14 22 (12.09 %) Computer Science 15 19 (10.44 %) UML 16 17 (9.341 %) Multithreading 17 16 (8.791 %) Ant 18 14 (7.692 %) EJB 19 13 (7.143 %) HTML 19 13 (7.143 %) Solaris 20 12 (6.593 %) JavaScript 21 11 (6.044 %) Servlets 21 11 (6.044 %) Banking 21 11 (6.044 %) Unit Testing 21 11 (6.044 %) JSF 21 11 (6.044 %) Software Engineering

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 77 (42.31 %) J2EE 2 65 (35.71 %) Hibernate 3 60 (32.97 %) Spring 4 50 (27.47 %) JSP 5 42 (23.08 %) XML 6 30 (16.48 %) WebSphere 7 28 (15.38 %) Struts 8 14 (7.692 %) EJB 9 13 (7.143 %) HTML 10 11 (6.044 %) Servlets 10 11 (6.044 %) JSF 11 9 (4.945 %) CSS 11 9 (4.945 %) WebServices 11 9 (4.945 %) Swing 12 8 (4.396 %) JMS 13 7 (3.846 %) JDBC 14 6 (3.297 %) .NET 14 6 (3.297 %) MVC 15 5 (2.747 %) SWT 15 5 (2.747 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 7 (3.846 %) Apache 1 7 (3.846 %) JBoss 2 6 (3.297 %) Tomcat 3 5 (2.747 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 5 (2.747 %) WebLogic 4 3 (1.648 %) IIS 5 2 (1.099 %) ATG Dynamo 5 2 (1.099 %) Commerce Server 5 2 (1.099 %) TIBCO EMS 5 2 (1.099 %) Jetty 6 1 (0.549 %) Resin 6 1 (0.549 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 1 (0.549 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (3.846 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.549 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 5 (2.747 %) Internet 2 2 (1.099 %) HTTP 3 1 (0.549 %) Wireless 3 1 (0.549 %) SNMP 3 1 (0.549 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (14.84 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 9 (4.945 %) Oracle 9i 3 8 (4.396 %) Oracle 10g 4 7 (3.846 %) DataStage 4 7 (3.846 %) SQL Server 5 4 (2.198 %) MySQL 6 3 (1.648 %) RDBMS 7 2 (1.099 %) ETL 7 2 (1.099 %) DB2 7 2 (1.099 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (0.549 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (0.549 %) NonStop SQL	Development Applications 1 51 (28.02 %) JUnit 2 30 (16.48 %) Eclipse 3 16 (8.791 %) Ant 4 3 (1.648 %) ClearCase 5 2 (1.099 %) JDeveloper 5 2 (1.099 %) HttpUnit 6 1 (0.549 %) CheckStyle 6 1 (0.549 %) QuickTest Pro 6 1 (0.549 %) XMLSpy 6 1 (0.549 %) Subversion 6 1 (0.549 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.549 %) Rational Rose 6 1 (0.549 %) Flash
General 1 42 (23.08 %) Finance 2 11 (6.044 %) Banking 3 5 (2.747 %) Government 4 3 (1.648 %) Financial Institution 4 3 (1.648 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (1.648 %) Publishing 4 3 (1.648 %) Retail 5 2 (1.099 %) Billing 5 2 (1.099 %) Telecoms 5 2 (1.099 %) Legal 5 2 (1.099 %) Education 6 1 (0.549 %) Insurance 6 1 (0.549 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 22 (12.09 %) Computer Science 2 17 (9.341 %) Multithreading 3 2 (1.099 %) E-Learning 4 1 (0.549 %) Smartcard 4 1 (0.549 %) Blackberry 4 1 (0.549 %) Handset 4 1 (0.549 %) Tandem 4 1 (0.549 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 27 (14.84 %) UNIX 2 13 (7.143 %) Solaris 3 8 (4.396 %) Windows 4 5 (2.747 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 43 (23.63 %) Agile Software Development 2 19 (10.44 %) UML 3 11 (6.044 %) Unit Testing 3 11 (6.044 %) Software Engineering 4 9 (4.945 %) Security Cleared 4 9 (4.945 %) SOA 5 8 (4.396 %) E-Commerce 5 8 (4.396 %) Scrum 6 6 (3.297 %) OO 6 6 (3.297 %) TDD 6 6 (3.297 %) SC Cleared 7 4 (2.198 %) Identity Management 7 4 (2.198 %) RUP 7 4 (2.198 %) Automated Testing 8 3 (1.648 %) Content Management 8 3 (1.648 %) Systems Analysis 8 3 (1.648 %) OOA/OOD 9 2 (1.099 %) RAD 9 2 (1.099 %) Technical Architecture 9 2 (1.099 %) Information Management
Programming Languages 1 182 (100.00 %) Java 2 25 (13.74 %) SQL 3 12 (6.593 %) JavaScript 4 9 (4.945 %) C 5 6 (3.297 %) C++ 6 5 (2.747 %) PL/SQL 7 4 (2.198 %) XPath 8 2 (1.099 %) C# 8 2 (1.099 %) Shell Script 9 1 (0.549 %) VB6 9 1 (0.549 %) COBOL 9 1 (0.549 %) VB 9 1 (0.549 %) Python	Qualifications 1 25 (13.74 %) Degree 2 5 (2.747 %) Sun Certification
Vendors 1 103 (56.59 %) Oracle 2 8 (4.396 %) Microsoft 2 8 (4.396 %) Perforce 3 7 (3.846 %) IBM 4 5 (2.747 %) Sun 5 3 (1.648 %) ATG 6 2 (1.099 %) BEA 6 2 (1.099 %) TIBCO 7 1 (0.549 %) HP 7 1 (0.549 %) Sybase