The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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 54 48 34
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 9 15 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.243% 1.877% 4.128%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.364% 2.058% 4.535%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 32
Average daily rate £375 £355 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -0.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £243 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.53%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
660 729 882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 91.16% 91.24% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 375 482
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 21 35
Average hourly rate £39.00 £22.41 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +44.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester -4 2 £338 +12.50%
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 20 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (80.00%) J2EE
3 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (70.00%) Hibernate
5 13 (65.00%) Oracle
5 13 (65.00%) Web Services
6 12 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (55.00%) jQuery
8 10 (50.00%) Spring
9 9 (45.00%) TDD
9 9 (45.00%) SQL
10 8 (40.00%) JSP
10 8 (40.00%) WSDL
11 7 (35.00%) Finance
11 7 (35.00%) Servlets
11 7 (35.00%) JBoss
11 7 (35.00%) Ajax
11 7 (35.00%) WebSphere
11 7 (35.00%) Waterfall
11 7 (35.00%) BDD
12 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (30.00%) Subversion
12 6 (30.00%) JUnit
12 6 (30.00%) CSS
12 6 (30.00%) SOAP
12 6 (30.00%) XML
13 5 (25.00%) XSD
13 5 (25.00%) Struts
13 5 (25.00%) HTML
13 5 (25.00%) DB2

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (80.00%) J2EE
2 14 (70.00%) Hibernate
3 13 (65.00%) Web Services
4 11 (55.00%) jQuery
5 10 (50.00%) Spring
6 8 (40.00%) JSP
6 8 (40.00%) WSDL
7 7 (35.00%) Servlets
7 7 (35.00%) Ajax
7 7 (35.00%) WebSphere
8 6 (30.00%) CSS
8 6 (30.00%) SOAP
8 6 (30.00%) XML
9 5 (25.00%) XSD
9 5 (25.00%) Struts
9 5 (25.00%) HTML
9 5 (25.00%) EJB
9 5 (25.00%) JMS
9 5 (25.00%) Struts2
10 3 (15.00%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) Mule
3 1 (5.000%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.000%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) TELNET
1 3 (15.00%) SNMP
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
2 1 (5.000%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) DB2
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (5.000%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.000%) Couchbase
4 1 (5.000%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Subversion
1 6 (30.00%) JUnit
2 5 (25.00%) ClearCase
2 5 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 4 (20.00%) Gradle
4 3 (15.00%) Git (software)
4 3 (15.00%) TestNG
4 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 3 (15.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) MyEclipse
5 2 (10.00%) Mercurial
5 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.000%) Ant
6 1 (5.000%) Maven
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.000%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) PMI
2 3 (15.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (10.00%) Web 2.0
3 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.000%) E-Learning
4 1 (5.000%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Android
1 4 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.000%) UNIX
2 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (45.00%) TDD
3 7 (35.00%) Waterfall
3 7 (35.00%) BDD
4 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (25.00%) RUP
5 5 (25.00%) PRINCE2
5 5 (25.00%) CMMI
5 5 (25.00%) Project Management
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) PRINCE
6 3 (15.00%) MVC
6 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Web Development
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.000%) OO
8 1 (5.000%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (45.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Groovy
5 2 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle
2 7 (35.00%) JBoss
3 5 (25.00%) Chordiant
4 3 (15.00%) Adobe
5 1 (5.000%) IBM
5 1 (5.000%) Perforce
Chester, North West
To be suitable for this role you should have; * Minimum 5yrs commercial Java/J2EE experience incorporating the Spring Framework * Comprehensive experience in Web Service development using Spring-WS,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
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Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013