The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java J2EE Developer
Rank 504 536 544
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java/J2EE Developer 9 23 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.043% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.047% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 21
Average daily rate £410 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.88% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £364 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £650 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £386
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Java/J2EE Developer
UK

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Senior Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the England region.

England Senior Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Senior Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the England region.

England Senior Java/J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +31 7 £487 -15.39%
East of England +17 1 £380 +1.33%
Yorkshire +1 1 £260 -
Senior Java/J2EE Developer
UK

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Java
1 22 (100.00%) J2EE
2 15 (68.18%) Spring
3 12 (54.55%) JUnit
4 11 (50.00%) Oracle
4 11 (50.00%) Web Services
5 10 (45.45%) MVC
5 10 (45.45%) JMS
5 10 (45.45%) Maven
5 10 (45.45%) Spring MVC
6 9 (40.91%) Unit Testing
6 9 (40.91%) JDBC
7 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
8 7 (31.82%) TeamCity
8 7 (31.82%) jMock
8 7 (31.82%) Credit Risk
8 7 (31.82%) Market Risk
8 7 (31.82%) CruiseControl
8 7 (31.82%) Business Analysis
8 7 (31.82%) TDD
8 7 (31.82%) Hibernate
9 6 (27.27%) Finance
9 6 (27.27%) JSP
9 6 (27.27%) SQL
9 6 (27.27%) XML
9 6 (27.27%) EJB
9 6 (27.27%) UML
10 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
10 5 (22.73%) Servlets

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (100.00%) J2EE
2 15 (68.18%) Spring
3 11 (50.00%) Web Services
4 10 (45.45%) JMS
4 10 (45.45%) Spring MVC
5 9 (40.91%) JDBC
6 7 (31.82%) Hibernate
7 6 (27.27%) JSP
7 6 (27.27%) XML
7 6 (27.27%) EJB
8 5 (22.73%) Servlets
9 4 (18.18%) jQuery
10 3 (13.64%) SOAP
10 3 (13.64%) JSON
10 3 (13.64%) REST
11 2 (9.091%) Ajax
11 2 (9.091%) Velocity
11 2 (9.091%) JPA
11 2 (9.091%) CSS
11 2 (9.091%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
2 4 (18.18%) Apache
3 3 (13.64%) Mule
3 3 (13.64%) ESB
4 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
4 1 (4.545%) GlassFish
4 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) LDAP
1 1 (4.545%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) Hazelcast
1 2 (9.091%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.545%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) JUnit
2 10 (45.45%) Maven
3 7 (31.82%) TeamCity
3 7 (31.82%) jMock
3 7 (31.82%) CruiseControl
4 4 (18.18%) JIRA
5 3 (13.64%) Git (software)
5 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
6 2 (9.091%) Spring Roo
6 2 (9.091%) Eclipse
7 1 (4.545%) Ant
7 1 (4.545%) Subversion
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
4 3 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.545%) Publishing
5 1 (4.545%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Credit Risk
1 7 (31.82%) Market Risk
2 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
3 3 (13.64%) Open Source
4 1 (4.545%) EPoS
4 1 (4.545%) EMV
4 1 (4.545%) EFT
4 1 (4.545%) EFTPOS
4 1 (4.545%) Smartcard
4 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.545%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) UNIX
2 2 (9.091%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) MVC
2 9 (40.91%) Unit Testing
3 8 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
4 7 (31.82%) Business Analysis
4 7 (31.82%) TDD
5 6 (27.27%) UML
6 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 4 (18.18%) SOA
7 3 (13.64%) E-Commerce
7 3 (13.64%) Web Development
7 3 (13.64%) BDD
8 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (9.091%) Scrum
8 2 (9.091%) B2C
9 1 (4.545%) Mobile Commerce
9 1 (4.545%) OOD
9 1 (4.545%) CRM
9 1 (4.545%) RUP
9 1 (4.545%) OO
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.091%) Groovy
4 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) BC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Basel II
1 3 (13.64%) Basel III
2 1 (4.545%) ISO 8583
2 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.545%) BEA
2 1 (4.545%) JBoss
2 1 (4.545%) Wincor Nixdorf
2 1 (4.545%) VeriFone
2 1 (4.545%) Jaspersoft