The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 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 Chester 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
Senior Java Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £379 £355
% change year-on-year
+5.61% +6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Job Titles
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
132 111 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 95.65% 95.69% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 52
Average daily rate £315 £375 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +5.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £215 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £464 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +292.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.54 £50.00 £6.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Java Developer
Cheshire

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) TELNET
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) MyEclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) REST

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) MyEclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe