The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile 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 City of London 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
Agile Java Developer
Rank 181 205 220
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +15
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Java Developer 20 8 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.318% 0.103% 0.264%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.343% 0.112% 0.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 26
Average daily rate £525 £500 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £408 £431
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £588
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Agile Java Developer
London

Agile Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Agile Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Agile Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Java Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Agile Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Agile 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 Agile Java Developer in their job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (86.36%) TDD
3 36 (81.82%) BDD
4 22 (50.00%) Scrum
5 20 (45.45%) Web Services
6 19 (43.18%) JavaScript
6 19 (43.18%) Spring
6 19 (43.18%) Selenium
6 19 (43.18%) Agile Software Development
7 18 (40.91%) Hibernate
7 18 (40.91%) Front Office
8 17 (38.64%) HTML
9 16 (36.36%) CSS
10 15 (34.09%) Grails
10 15 (34.09%) Groovy
10 15 (34.09%) Pair Programming
10 15 (34.09%) Derivative
10 15 (34.09%) Cucumber
11 14 (31.82%) Ruby
11 14 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (29.55%) Unit Testing
12 13 (29.55%) Equity Derivative
12 13 (29.55%) Dependency Injection
13 12 (27.27%) Refactoring
13 12 (27.27%) J2EE
13 12 (27.27%) JUnit
14 7 (15.91%) Scala
15 6 (13.64%) RESTful
15 6 (13.64%) HTML5
15 6 (13.64%) REST

Agile Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Agile 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 Agile Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (45.45%) Web Services
2 19 (43.18%) Spring
3 18 (40.91%) Hibernate
4 17 (38.64%) HTML
5 16 (36.36%) CSS
6 15 (34.09%) Grails
7 12 (27.27%) J2EE
8 6 (13.64%) RESTful
8 6 (13.64%) HTML5
8 6 (13.64%) REST
9 4 (9.091%) SOAP
10 2 (4.545%) ASP
10 2 (4.545%) Ajax
10 2 (4.545%) XML
10 2 (4.545%) CSS3
10 2 (4.545%) jQuery
10 2 (4.545%) JSON
10 2 (4.545%) Spring MVC
11 1 (2.273%) Gherkin
11 1 (2.273%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.273%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.091%) Internet
2 2 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.545%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.545%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (43.18%) Selenium
2 15 (34.09%) Cucumber
3 12 (27.27%) JUnit
4 5 (11.36%) Mockito
5 3 (6.818%) Git (software)
6 2 (4.545%) Maven
6 2 (4.545%) Hudson
6 2 (4.545%) QUnit
6 2 (4.545%) Jasmine
7 1 (2.273%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.273%) JIRA
7 1 (2.273%) FitNesse
7 1 (2.273%) EasyMock
General
1 18 (40.91%) Front Office
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.273%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.273%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Derivative
2 13 (29.55%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.273%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.818%) Linux
2 2 (4.545%) Mac OS X
2 2 (4.545%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (86.36%) TDD
2 36 (81.82%) BDD
3 22 (50.00%) Scrum
4 19 (43.18%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (34.09%) Pair Programming
6 14 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (29.55%) Unit Testing
7 13 (29.55%) Dependency Injection
8 12 (27.27%) Refactoring
9 5 (11.36%) Software Engineering
9 5 (11.36%) Multithreading
10 3 (6.818%) Kanban
10 3 (6.818%) OO
11 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
11 2 (4.545%) MVC
11 2 (4.545%) Test Automation
11 2 (4.545%) Continuous Improvement
12 1 (2.273%) User Stories
12 1 (2.273%) Test Scripting
12 1 (2.273%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (43.18%) JavaScript
3 15 (34.09%) Groovy
4 14 (31.82%) Ruby
5 7 (15.91%) Scala
6 2 (4.545%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.273%) C#
7 1 (2.273%) SQL
7 1 (2.273%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 1 (2.273%) Oracle
1 1 (2.273%) Atlassian
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, Core Java, Agile, SCRUM, Test Driven Development, TDD, Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, CI, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, API Design, REST, HTML5, Javascript.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013