Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the East of England region.

 Java Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank687340
Rank change year-on-year
Up+5Down-33
Matching contract IT job ads2533159
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England1.503 %1.528 %3.624 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.660 %1.671 %3.857 %
Daily rates quoted9958
Average daily rate£293£290£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.860 %-22.66 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£242£229£267
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£338£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£313£350
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted645
Average hourly rate£30.00£31.25£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.000 %+4.160 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.50£24.75£27.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£33.00£32.50£43.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.50£32.50£39.25
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-17.19 %
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
150619754122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England90.56 %91.44 %93.96 %
Daily rates quoted5856061347
Average daily rate£300£320£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.250 %-8.570 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£85£175£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£485£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted299242562
Average hourly rate£23.75£22.50£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.550 %+2.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.30£11.00£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.50£35.15£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Java Developer EnglandJava Developer
England

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 Developer
Demand Trend

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

East of England Java Developer Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East of England Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
CambridgeshireUp+1217£338+14.40 %
HertfordshireUp+63£346+33.17 %
NorfolkUp+71--
Java Developer EnglandJava Developer
England

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited 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 Java Developer in their job title.

142 (100.00 %)Java
224 (57.14 %)JavaScript
224 (57.14 %)J2EE
321 (50.00 %)Spring
420 (47.62 %)HTML
420 (47.62 %)Hibernate
516 (38.10 %)Tomcat
614 (33.33 %)OO
614 (33.33 %)AJAX
713 (30.95 %)MVC
812 (28.57 %)Agile Software Development
911 (26.19 %)Linux
1010 (23.81 %)XML
1010 (23.81 %)JSP
1010 (23.81 %)Oracle
1010 (23.81 %)Maven
119 (21.43 %)Ant
119 (21.43 %)Servlets
128 (19.05 %)Struts
128 (19.05 %)Solaris
128 (19.05 %)SQL
128 (19.05 %)HTTP
128 (19.05 %)Tapestry
136 (14.29 %)JUnit
145 (11.90 %)EJB
145 (11.90 %)CSS
145 (11.90 %)MySQL
145 (11.90 %)UML
145 (11.90 %)Eclipse
154 (9.524 %)Internet

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited 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 Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
124 (57.14 %)J2EE
221 (50.00 %)Spring
320 (47.62 %)HTML
320 (47.62 %)Hibernate
414 (33.33 %)AJAX
510 (23.81 %)XML
510 (23.81 %)JSP
69 (21.43 %)Servlets
78 (19.05 %)Struts
78 (19.05 %)Tapestry
85 (11.90 %)EJB
85 (11.90 %)CSS
93 (7.143 %)Java EE
93 (7.143 %)Grails
93 (7.143 %)J2SE
102 (4.762 %)Web Services
102 (4.762 %)SOAP
102 (4.762 %)JSF
102 (4.762 %)JSTL
102 (4.762 %)Apache Wicket
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (38.10 %)Tomcat
24 (9.524 %)Apache
33 (7.143 %)WebLogic
41 (2.381 %)WebSphere Process Server
41 (2.381 %)WebSphere Application Server
41 (2.381 %)IIS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
18 (19.05 %)HTTP
24 (9.524 %)Internet
32 (4.762 %)SSL
41 (2.381 %)Kerberos
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (11.90 %)MySQL
22 (4.762 %)SQL Server
31 (2.381 %)Oracle Reports
31 (2.381 %)RDBMS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
110 (23.81 %)Maven
29 (21.43 %)Ant
36 (14.29 %)JUnit
45 (11.90 %)Eclipse
53 (7.143 %)IntelliJ
53 (7.143 %)ClearCase
61 (2.381 %)EasyMock
61 (2.381 %)Subversion
61 (2.381 %)Oracle Forms
61 (2.381 %)JDeveloper
61 (2.381 %)ProC
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (2.381 %)Retail
11 (2.381 %)Telecoms
11 (2.381 %)Government
11 (2.381 %)Health
11 (2.381 %)Pharmaceutical
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (4.762 %)Open Source
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
111 (26.19 %)Linux
28 (19.05 %)Solaris
33 (7.143 %)UNIX
42 (4.762 %)CentOS
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
114 (33.33 %)OO
213 (30.95 %)MVC
312 (28.57 %)Agile Software Development
45 (11.90 %)UML
54 (9.524 %)E-Commerce
54 (9.524 %)Web Development
63 (7.143 %)QMS
63 (7.143 %)Quality Management
63 (7.143 %)Scrum
71 (2.381 %)Unit Testing
71 (2.381 %)RUP
71 (2.381 %)CRM
71 (2.381 %)Extreme Programming
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
142 (100.00 %)Java
224 (57.14 %)JavaScript
38 (19.05 %)SQL
43 (7.143 %)Groovy
52 (4.762 %)C
61 (2.381 %)C#
61 (2.381 %)PL/SQL
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (4.762 %)Security Cleared
12 (4.762 %)Degree
21 (2.381 %)Sun Certification
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (7.143 %)GAMP
13 (7.143 %)ISO9001
13 (7.143 %)GxP
East of England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
110 (23.81 %)Oracle
23 (7.143 %)ATG
32 (4.762 %)JBoss
41 (2.381 %)Microsoft
41 (2.381 %)Sun
41 (2.381 %)MetaSolv