The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead 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 Lead Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Java Developer
Rank 194 216 241
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 9 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.141% 0.025% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.153% 0.028% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
Average daily rate £625 £688 £588
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £610 £678 £470
10% offered a daily rate of more than £663 £698 £670
UK excluding London average daily rate - £388 £375
% change year-on-year
- +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Java Developer
London

Lead Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Lead Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Lead Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Lead Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Lead 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 Lead Java Developer in their job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (72.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (54.55%) TIBCO
3 12 (54.55%) E-Commerce
4 10 (45.45%) JMS
4 10 (45.45%) 29West
5 8 (36.36%) Oracle
5 8 (36.36%) Degree
6 7 (31.82%) Rendezvous
7 5 (22.73%) Front Office
7 5 (22.73%) UNIX
7 5 (22.73%) SQL
7 5 (22.73%) TIBCO EMS
7 5 (22.73%) Multithreading
7 5 (22.73%) Electronic Trading
7 5 (22.73%) Banking
8 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (13.64%) Spring
8 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
8 3 (13.64%) Python
8 3 (13.64%) Sybase
8 3 (13.64%) Finance
8 3 (13.64%) jQuery
9 2 (9.091%) Atlassian
9 2 (9.091%) Splunk
9 2 (9.091%) Scrum
9 2 (9.091%) Risk Management
9 2 (9.091%) Middleware
9 2 (9.091%) ISO 9001
9 2 (9.091%) BMC

Lead Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Lead 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 Lead Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (45.45%) JMS
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) jQuery
3 2 (9.091%) Middleware
3 2 (9.091%) Java SE
4 1 (4.545%) J2EE
4 1 (4.545%) JSP
4 1 (4.545%) Web Services
4 1 (4.545%) XML
4 1 (4.545%) HTML
4 1 (4.545%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) Rendezvous
2 5 (22.73%) TIBCO EMS
3 2 (9.091%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Maven
2 1 (4.545%) Selenium
2 1 (4.545%) Mockito
2 1 (4.545%) JUnit
General
1 5 (22.73%) Front Office
1 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.091%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.545%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (13.64%) Fixed Income
3 2 (9.091%) Derivative
4 1 (4.545%) Statistics
4 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) UNIX
2 1 (4.545%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) E-Commerce
2 5 (22.73%) Multithreading
2 5 (22.73%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (9.091%) Scrum
4 2 (9.091%) Risk Management
5 1 (4.545%) TDD
5 1 (4.545%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.545%) Resource Management
5 1 (4.545%) BDD
5 1 (4.545%) OOP
5 1 (4.545%) OO
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 1 (4.545%) Ruby
4 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.545%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.545%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Splunk
1 2 (9.091%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) TIBCO
2 10 (45.45%) 29West
3 8 (36.36%) Oracle
4 3 (13.64%) Sybase
5 2 (9.091%) Atlassian
5 2 (9.091%) BMC
City, London
An experienced Java Developer is required for a Leading Investment Bank in London. The successful candidate will work on developing new and enhancing current Low Latency trading application...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013