The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java Developer
Rank 48 55 45
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.201% 0.157% 0.196%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.216% 0.164% 0.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £45.00
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
462 609 452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 92.96% 95.60% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 334 233
Average daily rate £350 £320 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £439 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 32 29
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.60 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Java Developer
West Midlands

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java Developer
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL