The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the 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 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 64 51 40
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1248 1683 2473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 2.851% 3.174% 4.325%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.083% 3.430% 4.669%
Number of daily rates quoted 946 1223 1680
Average daily rate £470 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.05% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £308 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £335 £330
% change year-on-year
+6.71% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 73
Average hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% -4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £33.50 £31.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.71%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Java Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -3 944 £500 -9.09% 258
South East -32 93 £350 +1.81% 47
Yorkshire 0 47 £275 -14.72% 44
South West -10 43 £361 -1.70% 24
North West -30 36 £323 -0.76% 35
East of England -12 32 £400 - 17
East Midlands -19 23 £425 +70.00% 9
Midlands -4 13 - -
West Midlands -26 8 £300 +3.44% 16
North East +21 5 £375 +31.00% 6
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 2310 (99.91%) Java
2 1128 (48.79%) Spring
3 763 (33.00%) Hibernate
4 681 (29.46%) J2EE
5 670 (28.98%) TDD
6 614 (26.56%) SQL
7 547 (23.66%) JavaScript
8 544 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
9 520 (22.49%) Oracle
10 480 (20.76%) Web Services
11 475 (20.54%) Banking
12 459 (19.85%) XML
13 408 (17.65%) Finance
14 407 (17.60%) HTML
15 388 (16.78%) CSS
16 387 (16.74%) JUnit
17 367 (15.87%) Multithreading
18 357 (15.44%) Maven
19 314 (13.58%) Front Office
20 296 (12.80%) Linux
21 293 (12.67%) JSP
22 292 (12.63%) OO
23 289 (12.50%) MVC
24 285 (12.33%) Scrum
25 275 (11.89%) JMS
26 273 (11.81%) jQuery
27 272 (11.76%) Investment Banking
28 271 (11.72%) E-Commerce
29 266 (11.51%) BDD
30 265 (11.46%) UNIX

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

Application Development
1 1128 (48.79%) Spring
2 763 (33.00%) Hibernate
3 681 (29.46%) J2EE
4 480 (20.76%) Web Services
5 459 (19.85%) XML
6 407 (17.60%) HTML
7 388 (16.78%) CSS
8 293 (12.67%) JSP
9 275 (11.89%) JMS
10 273 (11.81%) jQuery
11 225 (9.732%) SOAP
12 223 (9.645%) Spring MVC
13 211 (9.126%) Java EE
14 205 (8.867%) JPA
15 196 (8.478%) REST
16 182 (7.872%) RESTful
17 176 (7.612%) EJB
18 169 (7.310%) Ajax
19 162 (7.007%) JSON
20 153 (6.618%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 182 (7.872%) Tomcat
2 178 (7.699%) Apache
3 112 (4.844%) WebLogic
4 60 (2.595%) ESB
5 55 (2.379%) Adobe CQ
6 50 (2.163%) CMS
7 49 (2.119%) Oracle Coherence
8 27 (1.168%) Apache Solr
8 27 (1.168%) WebSphere Application Server
9 24 (1.038%) Mule
9 24 (1.038%) GlassFish
9 24 (1.038%) TIBCO EMS
9 24 (1.038%) Amazon AWS
10 23 (0.995%) FileNet
10 23 (0.995%) MQSeries
11 18 (0.779%) Apache Pig
12 16 (0.692%) Amazon S3
12 16 (0.692%) BizTalk Server
13 15 (0.649%) Alfresco
13 15 (0.649%) Jetty
Applications
1 34 (1.471%) MS Excel
2 14 (0.606%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.260%) Mingle
4 3 (0.130%) MS Office
5 1 (0.043%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.043%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (0.779%) ION MarketView
2 14 (0.606%) RMDS
3 13 (0.562%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.433%) Tridion
4 10 (0.433%) Oracle BPM
5 6 (0.260%) BusinessWorks
6 5 (0.216%) Murex MxG2000
6 5 (0.216%) Apache OFBiz
7 3 (0.130%) Kondor+
8 2 (0.087%) Summit
9 1 (0.043%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.043%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.984%) Internet
2 51 (2.206%) HTTP
3 21 (0.908%) LDAP
4 14 (0.606%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.433%) Kerberos
6 8 (0.346%) DNS
7 7 (0.303%) FTP
8 5 (0.216%) AMQP
8 5 (0.216%) SSL
8 5 (0.216%) CTI
9 4 (0.173%) Intranet
10 2 (0.087%) TELNET
10 2 (0.087%) Extranet
10 2 (0.087%) SNMP
10 2 (0.087%) SMS
10 2 (0.087%) SMTP
10 2 (0.087%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (0.043%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.043%) GSM
11 1 (0.043%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (7.569%) SQL Server
2 138 (5.969%) MySQL
3 135 (5.839%) RDBMS
4 88 (3.806%) NoSQL
5 70 (3.028%) MongoDB
6 63 (2.725%) DB2
7 58 (2.509%) Hadoop
8 55 (2.379%) Big Data
9 38 (1.644%) Apache Cassandra
9 38 (1.644%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 37 (1.600%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (0.995%) Redis
12 22 (0.952%) Apache Hive
13 20 (0.865%) MarkLogic
13 20 (0.865%) Oracle 11g
14 19 (0.822%) Oracle 8/8i
14 19 (0.822%) Oracle 10g
15 14 (0.606%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (0.562%) KDB
16 13 (0.562%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 387 (16.74%) JUnit
2 357 (15.44%) Maven
3 227 (9.818%) Eclipse
4 189 (8.175%) Subversion
5 135 (5.839%) Git (software)
6 111 (4.801%) Ant
7 97 (4.196%) Mockito
7 97 (4.196%) Jenkins
8 91 (3.936%) Selenium
9 88 (3.806%) JIRA
10 87 (3.763%) Hudson
11 56 (2.422%) Cucumber
12 48 (2.076%) TeamCity
13 34 (1.471%) EasyMock
13 34 (1.471%) jMock
14 33 (1.427%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 31 (1.341%) TestNG
15 31 (1.341%) CruiseControl
16 27 (1.168%) JBehave
17 23 (0.995%) ClearCase
General
1 475 (20.54%) Banking
2 408 (17.65%) Finance
3 314 (13.58%) Front Office
4 272 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 79 (3.417%) Retail
6 53 (2.292%) Games
7 37 (1.600%) Publishing
8 33 (1.427%) Back Office
9 26 (1.125%) Telecoms
10 18 (0.779%) Financial Institution
11 17 (0.735%) French Language
11 17 (0.735%) German Language
12 9 (0.389%) Retail Banking
12 9 (0.389%) Marketing
13 6 (0.260%) Spanish Language
13 6 (0.260%) Advertising
13 6 (0.260%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.130%) Billing
14 3 (0.130%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.130%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 192 (8.304%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 181 (7.829%) Derivative
3 143 (6.185%) Open Source
4 127 (5.493%) Fixed Income
5 80 (3.460%) Computer Science
6 65 (2.811%) Equity Derivative
7 48 (2.076%) Equities
8 47 (2.033%) Mathematics
8 47 (2.033%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.773%) Credit Risk
10 31 (1.341%) Mobile App
11 27 (1.168%) Grid Computing
12 25 (1.081%) Client/Server
13 22 (0.952%) Credit Derivative
14 19 (0.822%) Market Risk
15 18 (0.779%) N-Tier
16 17 (0.735%) Web 2.0
16 17 (0.735%) Physics
17 15 (0.649%) RIA
17 15 (0.649%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 296 (12.80%) Linux
2 265 (11.46%) UNIX
3 74 (3.201%) Windows
4 57 (2.465%) Apple iOS
5 56 (2.422%) Android
6 30 (1.298%) Solaris
7 13 (0.562%) HPUX
8 8 (0.346%) zOS
8 8 (0.346%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.260%) CentOS
10 4 (0.173%) AIX
11 2 (0.087%) SUSE
12 1 (0.043%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (28.98%) TDD
2 544 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
3 367 (15.87%) Multithreading
4 292 (12.63%) OO
5 289 (12.50%) MVC
6 285 (12.33%) Scrum
7 271 (11.72%) E-Commerce
8 266 (11.51%) BDD
9 230 (9.948%) Continuous Integration
10 179 (7.742%) UML
11 144 (6.228%) Web Development
12 141 (6.099%) Pair Programming
13 139 (6.012%) Unit Testing
14 114 (4.931%) SOA
15 92 (3.979%) OOD
16 73 (3.157%) Risk Management
16 73 (3.157%) Kanban
17 62 (2.682%) Electronic Trading
18 57 (2.465%) Data Modelling
19 55 (2.379%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2310 (99.91%) Java
2 614 (26.56%) SQL
3 547 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 155 (6.704%) C#
5 149 (6.445%) Scala
6 125 (5.407%) Groovy
7 120 (5.190%) Ruby
8 93 (4.022%) C++
9 92 (3.979%) PL/SQL
10 88 (3.806%) Python
11 70 (3.028%) Perl
12 57 (2.465%) C
13 48 (2.076%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.514%) Bash shell
15 29 (1.254%) PHP
16 27 (1.168%) XPath
17 24 (1.038%) XQuery
18 16 (0.692%) Clojure
19 13 (0.562%) T-SQL
20 10 (0.433%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 123 (5.320%) Degree
2 108 (4.671%) Security Cleared
3 59 (2.552%) DV Cleared
4 38 (1.644%) SC Cleared
5 7 (0.303%) Sun Certification
6 6 (0.260%) CIPD
7 5 (0.216%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.216%) PhD
8 3 (0.130%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.087%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.087%) SCJP
9 2 (0.087%) SCJA
10 1 (0.043%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.043%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (2.163%) QA
2 7 (0.303%) HL7
2 7 (0.303%) SLA
3 6 (0.260%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.173%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.130%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.130%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.043%) TickIT
System Software
1 10 (0.433%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (0.389%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.346%) Squid
4 4 (0.173%) Varnish
5 3 (0.130%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.130%) OpenSSO
6 2 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.087%) ClearTrust
7 1 (0.043%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 24 (1.038%) Puppet
2 5 (0.216%) Splunk
3 4 (0.173%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (0.173%) MOM
3 4 (0.173%) Nagios
4 2 (0.087%) BladeLogic
4 2 (0.087%) Sun Identity Manager
5 1 (0.043%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.043%) Business Desktop Deployment
5 1 (0.043%) SCOM
Vendors
1 520 (22.49%) Oracle
2 176 (7.612%) JBoss
3 116 (5.017%) Sybase
4 88 (3.806%) IBM
5 69 (2.984%) Google
6 68 (2.941%) TIBCO
7 57 (2.465%) hybris
8 54 (2.336%) Adobe
9 30 (1.298%) DataSynapse
10 29 (1.254%) 29West
11 28 (1.211%) Microsoft
12 26 (1.125%) ION Trading
13 20 (0.865%) Twitter
14 18 (0.779%) Reuters
14 18 (0.779%) ATG
14 18 (0.779%) Perforce
15 17 (0.735%) Informatica
16 15 (0.649%) FatWire
16 15 (0.649%) Elastic Path
17 14 (0.606%) Endeca
City, London
Java Developer (J2EE) Experience of Hybris - anything around payments would be advantageous. Extensive Java development experience. Ideally some telco domain experience. Central London. 3 months, with potential extension.
Sanderson
Rate: £340 - £430 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
South East
My client has a urgent requirement for a Hybris developer for a contract role in South East. The ideal candidate must have experience of Hybris eCommerce platforms and...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: Neg
Posted: 17 June 2013
South Yorkshire
A large part of the job will involve testing of the code written.Ideally they are seeking candidates with the following must haves: - 3 years Java experience - J2EE -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
City of London
Java JBoss Developer - London URGENT CONTRACT Needed for an immediate start in London - I am looking for people with proven experience in the following: Good development Experience in...
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Camberley, Surrey
You will be working with service oriented architecture (SOA) and Apache Camel. The ServiceMix toolkit is the preferred Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using the Spring Framework, however, Fuse...
TRG
Rate: £375 - 420 Per Day Send CV
Posted: 12 June 2013
Surrey, South East
TRG
Rate: 375-420 Per Day Send CV
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
TRG
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Sanderson
Posted: 13 June 2013
West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum + DOE
Posted: 7 June 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Swindon, South West
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Claymore Minds
Rate: From £400 to £450 per day
Posted: 2 June 2013
City, London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £500.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
West Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £285 - £330 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
West Yorkshire
The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Unspecified Neg
Posted: 14 June 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
West Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £340 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
OPUS
Rate: GBP450 to GBP550 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leicestershire, East Midlands
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £400 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Cheshire, North West
Real Staffing
Rate: £270 - £271 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £450 to £550 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Gloucestershire, South West
Computer Futures
Rate: £30 - £40 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
TRG
Rate: 400-450 Per Day pls send CV
Posted: 5 June 2013