The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Brighton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 26 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.699% - 3.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.735% - 3.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £320 - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+7.58% -11.58%
All Job Titles
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 254 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 95.10% 98.45% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 122 68
Average daily rate £350 £385 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 8
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £13.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.80 £175.00 £20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Java Developer
East Sussex

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) Apache CXF
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) JProfiler
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) JSF
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Checkstyle
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) Grails
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Apache CXF
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) JSF
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) Grails
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Struts
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Checkstyle
1 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
1 1 (33.33%) JProfiler
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Gradle
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) BDD
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree