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The table below looks at the demand for the Java Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Java Application Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank198-
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.002 %0.000 %
As % of the category below0.017 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted10
Average minimum daily rate£200-
Average daily rate£200-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£200-
UK excluding London average daily rate£334£349
% change on same period last year-4.16 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£50.00-
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads58535792
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled9.142 %6.301 %
Daily rates quoted30792456
Average minimum daily rate£399£451
Average daily rate£433£477
% change on same period last year-9.35 %
Average maximum daily rate£466£503
UK excluding London average daily rate£354£350
% change on same period last year+0.95 %
Hourly rates quoted267229
Average minimum hourly rate£22.76£22.69
Average hourly rate£24.69£23.96
% change on same period last year+3.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.62£25.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.35£24.43
% change on same period last year-4.45 %
Java Applications Developer LondonJava Applications Developer
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Java Applications Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java Applications Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Java Applications Developer Demand Trend

Java Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Java Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Java Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

12 (100.00 %)J2EE
12 (100.00 %)Java
21 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %).NET
21 (50.00 %)C#
21 (50.00 %)Finance
21 (50.00 %)Games
21 (50.00 %)Hibernate
21 (50.00 %)Fixed Income
21 (50.00 %)Sybase
21 (50.00 %)Ant
21 (50.00 %)Crystal Reports
21 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
21 (50.00 %)XSLT
21 (50.00 %)JBoss
21 (50.00 %)Swing
21 (50.00 %)Tomcat
21 (50.00 %)XHTML
21 (50.00 %)J2ME
21 (50.00 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 (50.00 %)Internet
21 (50.00 %)TDD
21 (50.00 %)Banking
21 (50.00 %)Spring
21 (50.00 %)JSF
21 (50.00 %)Investment Banking
21 (50.00 %)Derivative
21 (50.00 %)Interest Rate Derivative
21 (50.00 %)Online Games
21 (50.00 %)JBoss Seam

Java Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Java Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (100.00 %)J2EE
21 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
21 (50.00 %)XSLT
21 (50.00 %)Swing
21 (50.00 %)XHTML
21 (50.00 %)J2ME
21 (50.00 %)Hibernate
21 (50.00 %)Spring
21 (50.00 %)JSF
21 (50.00 %)JBoss Seam
21 (50.00 %).NET
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (50.00 %)JBoss
11 (50.00 %)Tomcat
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (50.00 %)Internet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (50.00 %)Crystal Reports
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (50.00 %)Ant
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (50.00 %)Finance
11 (50.00 %)Games
11 (50.00 %)Banking
11 (50.00 %)Investment Banking
11 (50.00 %)Online Games
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (50.00 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 (50.00 %)Fixed Income
11 (50.00 %)Derivative
11 (50.00 %)Interest Rate Derivative
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (50.00 %)TDD
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12 (100.00 %)Java
21 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %)C#
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (50.00 %)Sybase