Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java skills 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 Java over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

 Java
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8107
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-3
Matching contract IT job ads14364221098
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London16.74 %10.44 %13.63 %
As % of the Programming Languages category37.76 %26.76 %31.95 %
Daily rates quoted1017231583
Average daily rate£550£475£525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.78 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£350£380
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£625£605£675
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£325£363
% change year-on-year
+4.610 %-10.34 %
Hourly rates quoted933
Average hourly rate£36.00£28.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57 %-13.84 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.60£25.20£26.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£64.00£36.80£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-7.690 %-7.140 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
380315773437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London44.34 %39.00 %42.66 %
Daily rates quoted25338431732
Average daily rate£500£450£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£315£290£318
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted431570
Average hourly rate£36.00£28.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57 %-13.84 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£24.50£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£52.00£42.50£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
Java LondonJava
London

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.

Java
Demand Trend

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

City of London Java Demand Trend

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Java Daily Rate Trend

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London Java Daily Rate Histogram

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Java Hourly Rate Trend

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London Java Hourly Rate Histogram

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Java 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.

11049 (39.30 %)Banking
2873 (32.71 %)Investment Banking
3817 (30.61 %)Front Office
4780 (29.22 %)SQL
5653 (24.47 %)Oracle
6638 (23.90 %)Derivative
7592 (22.18 %)Sybase
8566 (21.21 %)UNIX
9529 (19.82 %)Finance
10523 (19.60 %)Spring
11477 (17.87 %)C#
12449 (16.82 %)XML
13440 (16.49 %)Hibernate
14431 (16.15 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
15421 (15.77 %)J2EE
16412 (15.44 %)Fixed Income
17374 (14.01 %)OO
18364 (13.64 %)C++
19353 (13.23 %)Linux
20280 (10.49 %).NET
21272 (10.19 %)Agile Software Development
22254 (9.517 %)Multithreading
23237 (8.880 %)JUnit
24234 (8.767 %)Credit Derivative
25202 (7.568 %)TIBCO
26197 (7.381 %)Swing
27195 (7.306 %)Perl
28194 (7.269 %)SQL Server
29188 (7.044 %)TDD
30186 (6.969 %)E-Commerce

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Java 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1523 (19.60 %)Spring
2449 (16.82 %)XML
3440 (16.49 %)Hibernate
4421 (15.77 %)J2EE
5280 (10.49 %).NET
6197 (7.381 %)Swing
7165 (6.182 %)J2SE
8160 (5.995 %)JSP
9139 (5.208 %)HTML
10125 (4.683 %)Web Services
11120 (4.496 %)JMS
12107 (4.009 %)JDBC
13105 (3.934 %)Oracle Coherence
14101 (3.784 %)Struts
14101 (3.784 %)WebSphere
1588 (3.297 %)CSS
1680 (2.997 %)AJAX
1771 (2.660 %)Middleware
1868 (2.548 %)WinForms
1964 (2.398 %)XSLT
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1129 (4.833 %)Tomcat
292 (3.447 %)WebLogic
378 (2.922 %)Apache
441 (1.536 %)TIBCO EMS
535 (1.311 %)Rendezvous
633 (1.236 %)IIS
731 (1.161 %)MTS
828 (1.049 %)WebSphere MQ
927 (1.012 %)WebSphere Application Server
1023 (0.862 %)ESB
1121 (0.787 %)MQSeries
1218 (0.674 %)CMS
1315 (0.562 %)SharePoint
1413 (0.487 %)WebLogic Portal
1413 (0.487 %)Alfresco
1511 (0.412 %)IBM HTTP Server
1610 (0.375 %)AquaLogic
1610 (0.375 %)Confluence
179 (0.337 %)Liferay
188 (0.300 %)Jetty
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
126 (0.974 %)MS Excel
212 (0.450 %)MS Visio
310 (0.375 %)MS Office
45 (0.187 %)Photoshop
45 (0.187 %)MS Project
54 (0.150 %)Adobe Illustrator
63 (0.112 %)MATLAB
63 (0.112 %)SPSS
63 (0.112 %)Spreadsheet
63 (0.112 %)MS PowerPoint
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
129 (1.087 %)BusinessWorks
129 (1.087 %)ION MarketView
217 (0.637 %)RMDS
315 (0.562 %)Endur
413 (0.487 %)TIBCO iProcess
512 (0.450 %)Summit
611 (0.412 %)Bloomberg TOMS
79 (0.337 %)Loan IQ
88 (0.300 %)Oracle 11i
97 (0.262 %)Oracle BPM
106 (0.225 %)Kondor+
106 (0.225 %)AquaLogic BPM
115 (0.187 %)Maximo
124 (0.150 %)Oracle EBS R12
133 (0.112 %)Oracle Applications
142 (0.075 %)FENICS FX
142 (0.075 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
142 (0.075 %)GL Clearvision
142 (0.075 %)Algo Collateral
142 (0.075 %)Oracle iProcurement
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
162 (2.323 %)Internet
228 (1.049 %)HTTP
326 (0.974 %)Firewall
422 (0.824 %)Intranet
512 (0.450 %)BT 21CN
512 (0.450 %)LDAP
611 (0.412 %)TCP/IP
611 (0.412 %)SSL
611 (0.412 %)BIG-IP
710 (0.375 %)SAN
87 (0.262 %)VPN
94 (0.150 %)Kerberos
94 (0.150 %)LAN
94 (0.150 %)WAN
103 (0.112 %)X.500
112 (0.075 %)Wireshark
112 (0.075 %)NAS
112 (0.075 %)SNMP
112 (0.075 %)DNS
112 (0.075 %)FTP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1194 (7.269 %)SQL Server
2108 (4.046 %)RDBMS
377 (2.885 %)Oracle 10g
442 (1.574 %)Oracle 8/8i
536 (1.349 %)Datawarehouse
629 (1.087 %)MySQL
726 (0.974 %)SQL Server 2005
726 (0.974 %)DB2
823 (0.862 %)SQL Server Integration Services
920 (0.749 %)ETL
1019 (0.712 %)Oracle Reports
1117 (0.637 %)BusinessObjects
1214 (0.525 %)Reference Data
1313 (0.487 %)SQL Server 2000
1412 (0.450 %)TOAD
1511 (0.412 %)Sybase IQ
1511 (0.412 %)SQLPlus
1610 (0.375 %)KDB
1610 (0.375 %)OLAP
1610 (0.375 %)MS Access
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1237 (8.880 %)JUnit
2151 (5.658 %)Subversion
3127 (4.758 %)Maven
486 (3.222 %)Ant
584 (3.147 %)Eclipse
661 (2.286 %)FitNesse
741 (1.536 %)Selenium
838 (1.424 %)jMock
936 (1.349 %)ClearCase
1035 (1.311 %)NUnit
1132 (1.199 %)JIRA
1228 (1.049 %)EasyMock
1321 (0.787 %)LoadRunner
1321 (0.787 %)IntelliJ
1420 (0.749 %)CruiseControl
1420 (0.749 %)QuickTest Pro
1518 (0.674 %)TeamCity
1614 (0.525 %)ProC
1712 (0.450 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1810 (0.375 %)WebDriver
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11049 (39.30 %)Banking
2873 (32.71 %)Investment Banking
3817 (30.61 %)Front Office
4529 (19.82 %)Finance
5175 (6.557 %)Back Office
652 (1.948 %)Government
719 (0.712 %)Telecoms
818 (0.674 %)Marketing
917 (0.637 %)Retail
1016 (0.599 %)Financial Institution
1112 (0.450 %)Law
1211 (0.412 %)Education
1310 (0.375 %)Legal
149 (0.337 %)Games
158 (0.300 %)Publishing
166 (0.225 %)General Ledger
166 (0.225 %)Insurance
166 (0.225 %)Online Banking
166 (0.225 %)Construction
175 (0.187 %)Advertising
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12018 (75.61 %)Developer
21459 (54.66 %)Java Developer
3231 (8.655 %)Senior Developer
4203 (7.606 %)Analyst
5183 (6.857 %)C# Developer
6171 (6.407 %)Senior Java Developer
7102 (3.822 %)Front Office Developer
885 (3.185 %)Architect
980 (2.997 %)Java Swing Developer
1076 (2.848 %)Sybase Developer
1171 (2.660 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1269 (2.585 %)Agile Java Developer
1366 (2.473 %)C++ Developer
1463 (2.360 %)Project Manager
1561 (2.286 %)J2EE Developer
1647 (1.761 %)Programmer
1745 (1.686 %)Team Leader
1843 (1.611 %)SQL Developer
1843 (1.611 %)GUI Developer
1942 (1.574 %)Business Analyst
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1638 (23.90 %)Derivative
2431 (16.15 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3412 (15.44 %)Fixed Income
4254 (9.517 %)Multithreading
5234 (8.767 %)Credit Derivative
6159 (5.957 %)Equities
7126 (4.721 %)Grid Computing
8125 (4.683 %)Interest Rate Derivative
9123 (4.608 %)Credit Risk
10103 (3.859 %)Equity Derivative
1197 (3.634 %)Market Risk
1289 (3.335 %)Open Source
1356 (2.098 %)N-Tier
1449 (1.836 %)Client/Server
1518 (0.674 %)Cloud Computing
1615 (0.562 %)W3C
1615 (0.562 %)iPhone
1615 (0.562 %)Exotic Derivative
1713 (0.487 %)Computer Science
1812 (0.450 %)Statistics
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1566 (21.21 %)UNIX
2353 (13.23 %)Linux
3172 (6.444 %)Windows
489 (3.335 %)Solaris
523 (0.862 %)Red Hat Linux
619 (0.712 %)AIX
714 (0.525 %)Windows XP
812 (0.450 %)Windows Server 2003
99 (0.337 %)VMS
108 (0.300 %)Android
115 (0.187 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
122 (0.075 %)CentOS
122 (0.075 %)Windows Server 2008
122 (0.075 %)MVS
122 (0.075 %)Windows 2000
122 (0.075 %)Debian
131 (0.037 %)Tru64
131 (0.037 %)Windows NT
131 (0.037 %)HPUX
131 (0.037 %)Windows 2000 Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1374 (14.01 %)OO
2272 (10.19 %)Agile Software Development
3188 (7.044 %)TDD
4186 (6.969 %)E-Commerce
5173 (6.482 %)Risk Management
6125 (4.683 %)Unit Testing
7120 (4.496 %)Electronic Trading
895 (3.559 %)Web Development
993 (3.484 %)UML
1091 (3.410 %)Continuous Integration
1180 (2.997 %)OOD
1277 (2.885 %)Scrum
1367 (2.510 %)Data Modelling
1465 (2.435 %)User Acceptance Testing
1559 (2.211 %)SOA
1655 (2.061 %)Project Management
1754 (2.023 %)MVC
1847 (1.761 %)Workflow
1942 (1.574 %)Business Analysis
2041 (1.536 %)Asset Management
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1780 (29.22 %)SQL
2477 (17.87 %)C#
3364 (13.64 %)C++
4195 (7.306 %)Perl
5185 (6.931 %)JavaScript
6134 (5.021 %)Shell Script
7119 (4.459 %)C
8107 (4.009 %)PL/SQL
976 (2.848 %)VBA
1071 (2.660 %)VB
1149 (1.836 %)Python
1245 (1.686 %)T-SQL
1336 (1.349 %)PHP
1430 (1.124 %)VC++
1526 (0.974 %)Korn
1526 (0.974 %)Groovy
1625 (0.937 %)Ruby
1716 (0.599 %)VB6
1815 (0.562 %)Bash shell
1914 (0.525 %)VB.NET
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
183 (3.110 %)Degree
228 (1.049 %)Security Cleared
321 (0.787 %)SC Cleared
47 (0.262 %)PhD
47 (0.262 %)DV Cleared
55 (0.187 %)Sun Certification
62 (0.075 %)ISEB
62 (0.075 %)Microsoft Certification
62 (0.075 %)PMI Certification
71 (0.037 %)CCSA
71 (0.037 %)Postgraduate
71 (0.037 %)MCP
71 (0.037 %)MCSD
71 (0.037 %)CCNA
71 (0.037 %)PMP
71 (0.037 %)ITIL Certification
71 (0.037 %)IBM Certification
71 (0.037 %)OCP
71 (0.037 %)Oracle Certification
71 (0.037 %)PRINCE2 Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
152 (1.948 %)QA
24 (0.150 %)WAI
31 (0.037 %)SLA
31 (0.037 %)WCAG
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
111 (0.412 %)OpenSSO
28 (0.300 %)Active Directory
35 (0.187 %)Oracle RMAN
35 (0.187 %)Squid
35 (0.187 %)Oracle RAC
43 (0.112 %)NFS
52 (0.075 %)Samba
61 (0.037 %)Postfix
61 (0.037 %)Sendmail
61 (0.037 %)VMware Infrastructure
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
143 (1.611 %)AutoSys
212 (0.450 %)CONTROL-M
311 (0.412 %)Tivoli NetView
311 (0.412 %)Dollar Universe
46 (0.225 %)Data Guard
54 (0.150 %)MOM
63 (0.112 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
63 (0.112 %)HP Quality Center
72 (0.075 %)Oracle Statspack
72 (0.075 %)ServiceCenter
81 (0.037 %)MSI
81 (0.037 %)NetBackup
81 (0.037 %)BMC PATROL
81 (0.037 %)Netcool
81 (0.037 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
81 (0.037 %)Tivoli
81 (0.037 %)EMC NetWorker
81 (0.037 %)Netcool/Webtop
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1653 (24.47 %)Oracle
2592 (22.18 %)Sybase
3202 (7.568 %)TIBCO
4119 (4.459 %)DataSynapse
561 (2.286 %)Microsoft
656 (2.098 %)Bloomberg
748 (1.798 %)JBoss
748 (1.798 %)Calypso
846 (1.723 %)Murex
937 (1.386 %)Reuters
937 (1.386 %)ION Trading
1032 (1.199 %)IBM
1125 (0.937 %)Sun
1224 (0.899 %)Red Hat
1323 (0.862 %)Tradeweb
1421 (0.787 %)eSpeed
1519 (0.712 %)Cognos
1617 (0.637 %)Business Objects
1716 (0.599 %)Google
1716 (0.599 %)Tangosol