City of London Java RMI Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Java RMI over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI)
Location Aylesbury Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley City of London Docklands, London East Midlands England Hampshire Kent Lancashire London North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire South East South West UK	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	203	185
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	20	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.941 %	0.834 %
Daily rates quoted	17	14
Average minimum daily rate	£512	£508
Average daily rate	£571	£529
% change on same period last year	+7.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£631	£551
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£293
% change on same period last year	+20.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£47.50	£26.50
% change on same period last year	+79.24 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2125	1679
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.822 %	1.723 %
Daily rates quoted	1233	741
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£455
Average daily rate	£436	£491
% change on same period last year	-11.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£473	£526
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.51	£25.73
Average hourly rate	£32.70	£29.12
% change on same period last year	+12.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.88	£32.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
Java RMI 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 RMI
Demand Trend

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

Java RMI
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java RMI
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java RMI across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Java RMI
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java RMI across the City of London region.

Java RMI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Java RMI also 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 that cited Java RMI.

1 53 (98.15 %) Java 2 35 (64.81 %) XML 3 25 (46.30 %) J2EE 3 25 (46.30 %) JMS 4 24 (44.44 %) Hibernate 4 24 (44.44 %) Derivative 5 22 (40.74 %) Banking 5 22 (40.74 %) Eclipse 6 21 (38.89 %) RDBMS 6 21 (38.89 %) Sybase 7 19 (35.19 %) JDBC 7 19 (35.19 %) Front Office 8 18 (33.33 %) XSLT 8 18 (33.33 %) CORBA 9 15 (27.78 %) Linux

10 14 (25.93 %) Tomcat 10 14 (25.93 %) Ant 10 14 (25.93 %) SQL 10 14 (25.93 %) Finance 10 14 (25.93 %) Spring 10 14 (25.93 %) Investment Banking 10 14 (25.93 %) Equity Derivative 11 13 (24.07 %) Log4j 11 13 (24.07 %) JSP 12 12 (22.22 %) Oracle 12 12 (22.22 %) MQSeries 13 11 (20.37 %) Calypso 13 11 (20.37 %) TIBCO 13 11 (20.37 %) SOA 13 11 (20.37 %) Equities

Java RMI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Java RMI also 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 that cited Java RMI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 35 (64.81 %) XML 2 25 (46.30 %) JMS 2 25 (46.30 %) J2EE 3 24 (44.44 %) Hibernate 4 19 (35.19 %) JDBC 5 18 (33.33 %) XSLT 5 18 (33.33 %) CORBA 6 14 (25.93 %) Spring 7 13 (24.07 %) JSP 8 11 (20.37 %) Struts 8 11 (20.37 %) EJB 9 10 (18.52 %) .NET 9 10 (18.52 %) JMX 10 7 (12.96 %) Swing 10 7 (12.96 %) AJAX 10 7 (12.96 %) WebSphere 11 4 (7.407 %) WebServices 12 3 (5.556 %) HTML 13 1 (1.852 %) J2SE 13 1 (1.852 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 14 (25.93 %) Tomcat 2 12 (22.22 %) MQSeries 3 10 (18.52 %) WebLogic 3 10 (18.52 %) JBoss 4 8 (14.81 %) Rendezvous 5 5 (9.259 %) WebSphere MQ 6 1 (1.852 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 1 (1.852 %) Apache 6 1 (1.852 %) IIS
Business Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) RMDS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.852 %) Internet 1 1 (1.852 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (38.89 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 22 (40.74 %) Eclipse 2 14 (25.93 %) Ant 3 13 (24.07 %) Log4j 4 5 (9.259 %) JUnit
General 1 22 (40.74 %) Banking 2 19 (35.19 %) Front Office 3 14 (25.93 %) Investment Banking 3 14 (25.93 %) Finance 4 8 (14.81 %) Financial Institution 5 5 (9.259 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.852 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 51 (94.44 %) Developer 2 36 (66.67 %) Java Developer 3 24 (44.44 %) Senior Developer 4 15 (27.78 %) Senior Java Developer 5 10 (18.52 %) Calypso Developer 6 9 (16.67 %) Architect 7 7 (12.96 %) Java Architect 8 6 (11.11 %) Senior Java Architect 9 3 (5.556 %) .NET Developer 9 3 (5.556 %) C# Developer 10 1 (1.852 %) Applications Support Analyst 10 1 (1.852 %) J2EE Developer 10 1 (1.852 %) Technical Specialist 10 1 (1.852 %) Support Analyst 10 1 (1.852 %) Applications Support 10 1 (1.852 %) Analyst 10 1 (1.852 %) Front Office Developer 10 1 (1.852 %) Java/J2EE Developer 10 1 (1.852 %) J2EE Architect 10 1 (1.852 %) Senior J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 24 (44.44 %) Derivative 2 14 (25.93 %) Equity Derivative 3 11 (20.37 %) Equities 4 3 (5.556 %) Credit Risk 5 2 (3.704 %) Fixed Income 6 1 (1.852 %) Interest Rate Derivative	Operating Systems 1 15 (27.78 %) Linux 2 6 (11.11 %) Solaris 2 6 (11.11 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.852 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (20.37 %) SOA 2 10 (18.52 %) OO 3 7 (12.96 %) Agile Software Development 3 7 (12.96 %) AOP 4 5 (9.259 %) Technical Architecture 4 5 (9.259 %) Continuous Integration 4 5 (9.259 %) UML 5 3 (5.556 %) Risk Management 6 1 (1.852 %) Extreme Programming 6 1 (1.852 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (1.852 %) Electronic Trading 6 1 (1.852 %) Investment Management	Programming Languages 1 53 (98.15 %) Java 2 14 (25.93 %) SQL 3 10 (18.52 %) Perl 4 5 (9.259 %) C++ 5 3 (5.556 %) C# 6 1 (1.852 %) Shell Script
Vendors 1 21 (38.89 %) Sybase 2 12 (22.22 %) Oracle 3 11 (20.37 %) Calypso 3 11 (20.37 %) TIBCO 4 5 (9.259 %) SeeBeyond 5 4 (7.407 %) Reuters 6 3 (5.556 %) Bloomberg 7 1 (1.852 %) Microsoft