The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 20 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 Canary Wharf 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 31 19 26
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 24 29 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 6.061% 7.775% 6.814%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.575% 8.455% 7.249%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 12 25
Average daily rate £600 £625 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £555 £550
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £900 £700
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
365 343 469
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 92.17% 91.96% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 215 365
Average daily rate £525 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £350 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -13.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
London

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Canary Wharf Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 44 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (61.36%) SQL
2 27 (61.36%) Banking
3 23 (52.27%) Oracle
4 22 (50.00%) Investment Banking
5 18 (40.91%) C#
6 16 (36.36%) JMS
7 14 (31.82%) Java EE
8 13 (29.55%) Spring
8 13 (29.55%) Web Services
9 12 (27.27%) Linux
9 12 (27.27%) Multithreading
10 11 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
10 11 (25.00%) TDD
10 11 (25.00%) Sybase
10 11 (25.00%) Front Office
11 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (18.18%) UNIX
12 8 (18.18%) XML
13 6 (13.64%) Derivative
13 6 (13.64%) Oracle Coherence
13 6 (13.64%) UML
13 6 (13.64%) OO
14 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
14 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
14 5 (11.36%) E-Commerce
14 5 (11.36%) Performance Testing
14 5 (11.36%) Equity Derivative
14 5 (11.36%) Agile Software Development
15 4 (9.091%) Maven

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 16 (36.36%) JMS
2 14 (31.82%) Java EE
3 13 (29.55%) Spring
3 13 (29.55%) Web Services
4 8 (18.18%) XML
5 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
6 4 (9.091%) Middleware
6 4 (9.091%) XSLT
6 4 (9.091%) Swing
6 4 (9.091%) SOAP
6 4 (9.091%) WebSphere
6 4 (9.091%) Java SE
7 3 (6.818%) Murex Flex
7 3 (6.818%) RESTful
7 3 (6.818%) HTML
8 2 (4.545%) Struts
8 2 (4.545%) CSS
8 2 (4.545%) JDBC
8 2 (4.545%) JSP
8 2 (4.545%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle Coherence
2 4 (9.091%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.545%) MQSeries
3 2 (4.545%) TIBCO EMS
4 1 (2.273%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.273%) FileNet
4 1 (2.273%) IIS
4 1 (2.273%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.818%) Murex MxG2000
1 3 (6.818%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.091%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.818%) DataStage
3 3 (6.818%) DB2
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (9.091%) Maven
1 4 (9.091%) JIRA
1 4 (9.091%) Hudson
2 3 (6.818%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.818%) Eclipse
2 3 (6.818%) Subversion
3 2 (4.545%) Ant
3 2 (4.545%) JUnit
4 1 (2.273%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.273%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (61.36%) Banking
2 22 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 11 (25.00%) Front Office
4 4 (9.091%) Finance
5 3 (6.818%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (13.64%) Derivative
3 5 (11.36%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.818%) Mathematics
4 3 (6.818%) Grid Computing
5 2 (4.545%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) UNIX
3 3 (6.818%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Multithreading
2 11 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 11 (25.00%) TDD
3 6 (13.64%) UML
3 6 (13.64%) OO
4 5 (11.36%) E-Commerce
4 5 (11.36%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (11.36%) Performance Testing
5 4 (9.091%) Data Modelling
6 3 (6.818%) Stress Testing
6 3 (6.818%) Integration Testing
6 3 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (6.818%) Scrum
6 3 (6.818%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (4.545%) Electronic Trading
8 1 (2.273%) Reverse Engineering
8 1 (2.273%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.273%) Document Management
8 1 (2.273%) SOA
8 1 (2.273%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (61.36%) SQL
3 18 (40.91%) C#
4 4 (9.091%) C++
5 3 (6.818%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.818%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.818%) Bash shell
6 2 (4.545%) Scala
6 2 (4.545%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.273%) VBScript
7 1 (2.273%) VB
7 1 (2.273%) VBA
7 1 (2.273%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.273%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Oracle
2 11 (25.00%) Sybase
3 4 (9.091%) Reuters
4 3 (6.818%) IBM
4 3 (6.818%) Adobe
4 3 (6.818%) Murex
4 3 (6.818%) DataSynapse
4 3 (6.818%) 29West
5 2 (4.545%) TIBCO
6 1 (2.273%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.273%) JBoss
6 1 (2.273%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.273%) Perforce
6 1 (2.273%) Endeca
6 1 (2.273%) Google
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