The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java Developer
Rank 308 287 278
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 236 296 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.545% 0.559% 0.608%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.590% 0.604% 0.657%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 229 244
Average daily rate £525 £550 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% +2.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £375 £357
10% offered a daily rate of more than £626 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £385 £379 £351
% change year-on-year
+1.65% +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £45.00
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
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 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Java Developer
UK

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Senior Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Java Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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 -2 204 £558 -2.95% 53
South East +28 13 £365 -1.68% 10
North West +11 7 £350 -6.66% 9
East of England +10 4 £380 -7.87% 2
East Midlands +2 4 - - 2
South West +22 2 £380 -5.00% 2
West Midlands +5 1 £325 -13.33% 6
Yorkshire +5 1 £260 -28.27% 10
North East - - - - 1
Senior Java Developer
UK

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title.

1 391 (100.00%) Java
2 194 (49.62%) Spring
3 123 (31.46%) Banking
4 122 (31.20%) Hibernate
5 120 (30.69%) TDD
5 120 (30.69%) Multithreading
6 113 (28.90%) SQL
7 104 (26.60%) J2EE
8 92 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
9 86 (21.99%) Finance
10 76 (19.44%) Front Office
11 75 (19.18%) XML
12 71 (18.16%) E-Commerce
13 70 (17.90%) Oracle
14 66 (16.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 65 (16.62%) Web Services
16 63 (16.11%) JavaScript
17 58 (14.83%) Investment Banking
18 52 (13.30%) Maven
18 52 (13.30%) Linux
18 52 (13.30%) BDD
19 47 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
19 47 (12.02%) MVC
20 45 (11.51%) Scrum
20 45 (11.51%) jQuery
21 44 (11.25%) JUnit
22 43 (11.00%) UNIX
23 41 (10.49%) JMS
24 40 (10.23%) Spring MVC
25 37 (9.463%) JSP

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 194 (49.62%) Spring
2 122 (31.20%) Hibernate
3 104 (26.60%) J2EE
4 75 (19.18%) XML
5 65 (16.62%) Web Services
6 45 (11.51%) jQuery
7 41 (10.49%) JMS
8 40 (10.23%) Spring MVC
9 37 (9.463%) JSP
10 31 (7.928%) RESTful
10 31 (7.928%) HTML
11 28 (7.161%) CSS
12 26 (6.650%) Servlets
13 25 (6.394%) EJB
14 24 (6.138%) Struts
15 22 (5.627%) Ajax
16 19 (4.859%) SOAP
16 19 (4.859%) Swing
17 18 (4.604%) JSON
18 17 (4.348%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 33 (8.440%) Apache
2 26 (6.650%) Tomcat
3 17 (4.348%) ESB
4 15 (3.836%) WebLogic
5 9 (2.302%) Mule
6 6 (1.535%) Apache Solr
7 5 (1.279%) CMS
8 4 (1.023%) Liferay
8 4 (1.023%) Apache Pig
9 3 (0.767%) WebLogic Portal
9 3 (0.767%) MQSeries
9 3 (0.767%) MTS
9 3 (0.767%) TIBCO EMS
9 3 (0.767%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.767%) FileNet
9 3 (0.767%) Progress Apama
10 2 (0.512%) Jetty
10 2 (0.512%) Oracle Coherence
10 2 (0.512%) Adobe CQ
10 2 (0.512%) GemFire
Applications
1 4 (1.023%) MS Excel
1 4 (1.023%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.535%) ION MarketView
1 6 (1.535%) RMDS
2 2 (0.512%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.256%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.256%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.558%) HTTP
2 3 (0.767%) SSL
3 2 (0.512%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (0.512%) LDAP
3 2 (0.512%) Internet
4 1 (0.256%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.256%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.650%) RDBMS
2 25 (6.394%) NoSQL
3 21 (5.371%) SQL Server
4 20 (5.115%) MongoDB
5 19 (4.859%) Big Data
5 19 (4.859%) MySQL
6 11 (2.813%) KDB
7 10 (2.558%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.046%) DB2
9 7 (1.790%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.279%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.023%) CouchDB
11 4 (1.023%) MarkLogic
11 4 (1.023%) Riak
12 3 (0.767%) GIS
12 3 (0.767%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.767%) JasperReports
12 3 (0.767%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.256%) Oracle 8/8i
13 1 (0.256%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 52 (13.30%) Maven
2 44 (11.25%) JUnit
3 32 (8.184%) Eclipse
4 25 (6.394%) Subversion
5 20 (5.115%) Git (software)
6 19 (4.859%) Ant
7 16 (4.092%) Jenkins
8 9 (2.302%) CruiseControl
9 8 (2.046%) jMock
9 8 (2.046%) Gradle
10 7 (1.790%) JIRA
11 5 (1.279%) JDeveloper
11 5 (1.279%) ClearCase
11 5 (1.279%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.279%) EasyMock
11 5 (1.279%) Mockito
12 4 (1.023%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.023%) Spring Roo
12 4 (1.023%) Hudson
13 3 (0.767%) WebLogic Workshop
General
1 123 (31.46%) Banking
2 86 (21.99%) Finance
3 76 (19.44%) Front Office
4 58 (14.83%) Investment Banking
5 17 (4.348%) Games
6 11 (2.813%) Publishing
7 8 (2.046%) Back Office
8 5 (1.279%) Marketing
8 5 (1.279%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.767%) Billing
9 3 (0.767%) Retail
10 2 (0.512%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.512%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.256%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.256%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 37 (9.463%) Derivative
3 31 (7.928%) Fixed Income
4 30 (7.673%) Open Source
5 23 (5.882%) Computer Science
6 19 (4.859%) Equities
7 14 (3.581%) Equity Derivative
8 12 (3.069%) Mathematics
9 10 (2.558%) Credit Risk
9 10 (2.558%) Market Risk
10 7 (1.790%) N-Tier
10 7 (1.790%) Credit Derivative
11 5 (1.279%) PMI
11 5 (1.279%) Grid Computing
11 5 (1.279%) Physics
11 5 (1.279%) Equity Risk
12 4 (1.023%) PaaS
12 4 (1.023%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (1.023%) iPhone
12 4 (1.023%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.30%) Linux
2 43 (11.00%) UNIX
3 9 (2.302%) Windows
4 6 (1.535%) Android
4 6 (1.535%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.279%) Solaris
6 2 (0.512%) SUSE
7 1 (0.256%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (30.69%) TDD
1 120 (30.69%) Multithreading
2 92 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
3 71 (18.16%) E-Commerce
4 52 (13.30%) BDD
5 47 (12.02%) Continuous Integration
5 47 (12.02%) MVC
6 45 (11.51%) Scrum
7 34 (8.696%) OO
8 31 (7.928%) Pair Programming
9 27 (6.905%) UML
10 22 (5.627%) Risk Management
11 18 (4.604%) Unit Testing
12 15 (3.836%) Electronic Trading
13 11 (2.813%) SOA
13 11 (2.813%) RUP
14 10 (2.558%) Web Development
15 9 (2.302%) Extreme Programming
15 9 (2.302%) Kanban
16 8 (2.046%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 391 (100.00%) Java
2 113 (28.90%) SQL
3 63 (16.11%) JavaScript
4 33 (8.440%) C#
5 32 (8.184%) Groovy
6 29 (7.417%) Scala
7 21 (5.371%) Shell Script
8 17 (4.348%) Python
9 16 (4.092%) PL/SQL
9 16 (4.092%) C++
10 15 (3.836%) Ruby
11 10 (2.558%) Perl
12 5 (1.279%) Clojure
13 4 (1.023%) Haskell
13 4 (1.023%) Erlang
14 2 (0.512%) Bash shell
14 2 (0.512%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.512%) C
15 1 (0.256%) XQuery
15 1 (0.256%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 19 (4.859%) Degree
2 7 (1.790%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.279%) PMI Certification
3 5 (1.279%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.767%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (0.512%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.256%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.790%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.256%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (0.256%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 4 (1.023%) Splunk
2 3 (0.767%) MOM
2 3 (0.767%) Puppet
Vendors
1 70 (17.90%) Oracle
2 22 (5.627%) JBoss
3 19 (4.859%) TIBCO
3 19 (4.859%) Sybase
4 13 (3.325%) Google
5 8 (2.046%) 29West
6 6 (1.535%) ION Trading
6 6 (1.535%) Reuters
7 5 (1.279%) Chordiant
7 5 (1.279%) Informatica
8 3 (0.767%) eSpeed
8 3 (0.767%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.767%) Symantec
8 3 (0.767%) IBM
8 3 (0.767%) Tradeweb
8 3 (0.767%) MarketAxess
9 2 (0.512%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.512%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.512%) Murex
10 1 (0.256%) Calypso
West Midlands
You need to be an experienced senior developer with extensive experience in: - 5+ years commercial Java experience - Spring - Hibernate - Eclipse RCP Additional desirables: - Previous experience working on projects...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum + DOE
Posted: 7 June 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
You need to be an experienced senior developer with extensive experience in: - 5+ years commercial Java experience - Spring - Hibernate - Eclipse RCP Additional desirables: - Previous experience working on projects...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
Java Developer - TDD, Agile, Hibernate, Oracle, SeniorThis fantastic online media, PR, intelligence and insight organisation currently seek a Senior level Java Developer with outstanding Test Driven Development ( TDD )...
TRG
Rate: 400-450 Per Day pls send CV
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Award winning media company is looking for a hard working senior Java developer -Java- J2ee-Spring-Hibernante-Agile to join its London offices. The senior Java developer will...
ITHR
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 19 June 2013
City, London
Potential candidate's will have: - A proven background in Java development (Object Oriented Analysis & Design)... - Experience in an Agile environment. - Experience in TDD... - Experience with search tools such...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
London
IT Human Resources
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 10 June 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £360.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Aston Carter
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Roc Search
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Rate: £550 - £585 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
Crawley, South East
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £325 per day + DOE
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £300.00 - £360.00 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £40000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
People Source Consulting
Rate: £425 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013