The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 24 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank - 69 57
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 0 6 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire - 0.615% 1.966%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.657% 2.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 14
Average daily rate - £400 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.53%
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 £37.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.53%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
749 913 1015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.47% 93.55% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 393 383
Average daily rate £315 £318 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% -6.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 67 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (40.00%) JMS
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ant
2 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (40.00%) EJB
2 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) JSF
3 1 (20.00%) DHTML
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Dojo
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Hudson
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Servlets
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 5 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) JMS
2 2 (40.00%) EJB
2 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Ajax
3 1 (20.00%) JSF
3 1 (20.00%) DHTML
3 1 (20.00%) Dojo
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JSP
3 1 (20.00%) Servlets
3 1 (20.00%) Struts
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaBeans
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Ant
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (20.00%) ClearCase
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Web Development
1 1 (20.00%) Use Case
1 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) UML
1 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (20.00%) OO
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
The Java stack is based around J2EE, Spring and Hibernate. Key skills required are: Java J2EE Spring Hibernate JavaScript JSP My client is keen to secure the right...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013