J2SE Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2SE over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Application Development category for the England 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 443 452 383
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -69
Contract jobs citing J2SE 60 114 193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.144% 0.214% 0.348%
As % of the Application Development category 0.528% 0.811% 1.239%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 103 81
Average daily rate £575 £600 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £370 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £448 £350 £278
% change year-on-year
+27.85% +26.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 12
Average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 - £38.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.30 - £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 11374 14051 15578
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.27% 26.32% 28.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7269 8447 9194
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 355 548
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2SE
UK

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2SE across the England region.

England J2SE Daily Rate Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2SE across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England J2SE Daily Rate Histogram

J2SE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the England region.

England J2SE Hourly Rate Trend

J2SE
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2SE across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England J2SE Hourly Rate Histogram

J2SE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2SE within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
London -42 41 £625 +4.16%
South West - 11 £440 -
South East +24 4 - -
East of England - 2 £325 -
Yorkshire +1 1 £293 -
North West - 1 - -
J2SE
UK

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 128 (99.22%) Java
2 57 (44.19%) J2EE
3 42 (32.56%) Web Services
4 39 (30.23%) Spring
4 39 (30.23%) Multithreading
5 37 (28.68%) Front Office
6 36 (27.91%) SQL
7 31 (24.03%) XML
8 29 (22.48%) Linux
9 28 (21.71%) TDD
9 28 (21.71%) Banking
10 27 (20.93%) Hibernate
11 26 (20.16%) Swing
12 25 (19.38%) UML
13 23 (17.83%) Oracle
14 20 (15.50%) JUnit
14 20 (15.50%) Finance
14 20 (15.50%) Open Source
15 19 (14.73%) Subversion
15 19 (14.73%) JSP
16 15 (11.63%) Agile Software Development
16 15 (11.63%) Dependency Injection
16 15 (11.63%) Security Cleared
16 15 (11.63%) UNIX
17 14 (10.85%) JavaScript
17 14 (10.85%) Scrum
17 14 (10.85%) Derivative
17 14 (10.85%) DV Cleared
17 14 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (10.08%) Electronic Trading

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 57 (44.19%) J2EE
2 42 (32.56%) Web Services
3 39 (30.23%) Spring
4 31 (24.03%) XML
5 27 (20.93%) Hibernate
6 26 (20.16%) Swing
7 19 (14.73%) JSP
8 13 (10.08%) Guice
9 12 (9.302%) JSON
10 11 (8.527%) CSS
10 11 (8.527%) Apache Axis
11 8 (6.202%) Java EE
11 8 (6.202%) JPA
12 7 (5.426%) Java RMI
13 5 (3.876%) LAMP
13 5 (3.876%) Java SE
13 5 (3.876%) HTML
13 5 (3.876%) HTML5
14 4 (3.101%) GWT
14 4 (3.101%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 13 (10.08%) Apache
2 12 (9.302%) ESB
3 6 (4.651%) Rendezvous
4 5 (3.876%) Amazon AWS
4 5 (3.876%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.101%) GemFire
6 3 (2.326%) Progress Apama
6 3 (2.326%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (1.550%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.550%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.775%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.775%) GlassFish
8 1 (0.775%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.775%) IIS
8 1 (0.775%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.775%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 5 (3.876%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.775%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.550%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.302%) MongoDB
2 10 (7.752%) RDBMS
3 8 (6.202%) DB2
4 6 (4.651%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.876%) Hadoop
5 5 (3.876%) MySQL
6 4 (3.101%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.326%) Data Mining
7 3 (2.326%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (2.326%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.550%) Big Data
8 2 (1.550%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.550%) JasperReports
9 1 (0.775%) IDOL
9 1 (0.775%) HBase
9 1 (0.775%) Riak
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) JUnit
2 19 (14.73%) Subversion
3 13 (10.08%) Maven
3 13 (10.08%) Eclipse
4 11 (8.527%) Hudson
5 10 (7.752%) Ant
5 10 (7.752%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.651%) Mockito
7 4 (3.101%) jMock
8 2 (1.550%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.550%) EasyMock
8 2 (1.550%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.775%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.775%) TestNG
9 1 (0.775%) Xcode
9 1 (0.775%) Selenium
9 1 (0.775%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.775%) PhoneGap
9 1 (0.775%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 37 (28.68%) Front Office
2 28 (21.71%) Banking
3 20 (15.50%) Finance
4 11 (8.527%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.326%) Games
6 2 (1.550%) Back Office
7 1 (0.775%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.775%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.775%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (86.05%) Developer
2 101 (78.29%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.18%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 12 (9.302%) Senior Developer
5 11 (8.527%) Java Software Engineer
5 11 (8.527%) Software Engineer
6 10 (7.752%) Java Swing Developer
7 8 (6.202%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (5.426%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (5.426%) Software Developer
9 6 (4.651%) Front-End Developer
10 5 (3.876%) Mobile Developer
10 5 (3.876%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.876%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (3.876%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (3.876%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 4 (3.101%) Architect
11 4 (3.101%) Scala Developer
12 3 (2.326%) Agile Java Developer
12 3 (2.326%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.50%) Open Source
2 14 (10.85%) Derivative
3 9 (6.977%) Computer Science
3 9 (6.977%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (6.202%) Equities
4 8 (6.202%) Mathematics
5 6 (4.651%) IaaS
6 5 (3.876%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (3.876%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.101%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (2.326%) iPhone
8 3 (2.326%) SaaS
9 2 (1.550%) Online Games
9 2 (1.550%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.550%) EFT
9 2 (1.550%) EFTPOS
9 2 (1.550%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.775%) Blackberry
10 1 (0.775%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.775%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 29 (22.48%) Linux
2 15 (11.63%) UNIX
3 11 (8.527%) Windows
4 7 (5.426%) Android
4 7 (5.426%) Apple iOS
5 5 (3.876%) CentOS
5 5 (3.876%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.876%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.326%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.23%) Multithreading
2 28 (21.71%) TDD
3 25 (19.38%) UML
4 15 (11.63%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (11.63%) Dependency Injection
5 14 (10.85%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (10.85%) Scrum
6 13 (10.08%) OO
6 13 (10.08%) Electronic Trading
7 11 (8.527%) Web Development
8 10 (7.752%) Data Modelling
9 8 (6.202%) Kanban
9 8 (6.202%) BDD
10 7 (5.426%) OOD
10 7 (5.426%) E-Commerce
11 6 (4.651%) Workflow
11 6 (4.651%) Algorithmic Trading
12 5 (3.876%) Configuration Management
13 4 (3.101%) SOA
13 4 (3.101%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 128 (99.22%) Java
2 36 (27.91%) SQL
3 14 (10.85%) JavaScript
4 8 (6.202%) Scala
5 5 (3.876%) PHP
6 4 (3.101%) C++
7 3 (2.326%) Clojure
7 3 (2.326%) Ruby
7 3 (2.326%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.326%) C#
8 2 (1.550%) Perl
8 2 (1.550%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.550%) Groovy
9 1 (0.775%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.775%) Haskell
9 1 (0.775%) Erlang
9 1 (0.775%) C
9 1 (0.775%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.85%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.651%) Degree
4 1 (0.775%) PhD
Systems Management
1 2 (1.550%) SCOM
1 2 (1.550%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (17.83%) Oracle
2 11 (8.527%) Sybase
3 7 (5.426%) Software AG
3 7 (5.426%) webMethods
4 6 (4.651%) TIBCO
5 5 (3.876%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.101%) Perforce
6 4 (3.101%) 29West
7 3 (2.326%) Reuters
8 2 (1.550%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.775%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.775%) Google
9 1 (0.775%) StreamBase
9 1 (0.775%) IBM
9 1 (0.775%) Murex
Java Developer (DV Cleared)
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
They are going through extensive growth and are looking for a java developer (DV Cleared) to join their team. The Java developer (DV Cleared) will take ownership of...
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: Up to £440 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Java Developer (DV Cleared / J2SE / J2EE / JSP / SQL)
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
IT Systems are increasingly being exploited as a tool to threaten the nation’s interests, either as a means of attack, or to support criminal or terrorist activities.....
ANSON MCCADE
Rate: Up to £440 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
JAVA DEVELOPER - FX ALGORITHMIC TRADING / LONDON
London
JAVA, CORE JAVA, J2SE, MULTITHREADING, LOW LATENCY, THREADS, LOCKS, QUEUES, GARBAGE COLLECTION, TUNING, GC TUNING, PERFORMANCE TUNING, PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION, HIGH FREQUENCY, ALGORITHMIC TRADING, FX, EQUITIES, FRONT OFFICE, INVESTMENT...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £650 per day + EXCELLENT DAILY BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Posted: 16 May 2013
Java Developer - J2EE, Spring, HTML - 6 Mnths
West Midlands
Experience of the following is required: Java J2SE 6.0 Spring Hibernate JavaScript HTML JSP Build tools including Ant or Maven Unit Testing (JUnit/TestNG) You will also...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 15 May 2013
Java Developer - 6 months - Java, J2SE, Spring
West Midlands
Experience of the following is required: Java J2SE 6.0 Spring Hibernate JavaScript HTML JSP Build tools including Ant or Maven Unit Testing (JUnit/TestNG) You will also...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
Java Mobile Platform Developer - J2EE/J2ME
Yorkshire and the Humber
Contract Java Mobile Developer, Yorkshire £300-£350 Per day. Java: J2EE, J2MEMobile: Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, iOS, BlackberryThis is a 6 month contract opportunity with a good possibility...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Mobile Java Developer - Java (J2SE/J2EE), Spring, Hibernate
South West London
Mobile Java Developer - Java (J2SE/J2EE), Spring, HibernateMy client based in South West London, is currently looking to recruit a Mobile Java Developer to work an initial 6...
Levy Associates Limited
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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