The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java Applications 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 Glasgow 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 Application Developer
Rank - 56 59
Contract jobs requiring a Java Applications Developer 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.494% 0.262%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.522% 0.279%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £375 £335
% change year-on-year
-21.33% +11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
843 767 718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 93.36% 94.81% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 355 423
Average daily rate £338 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.46% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £238 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 17
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.41 £173.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Applications Developer
Scotland

Java Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Java Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Java Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Java Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Sybase
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) VB
4 1 (25.00%) J2EE
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Jython
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (25.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (25.00%) FTP
4 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
4 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) Maven
4 1 (25.00%) Korn
4 1 (25.00%) Derivative
4 1 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA

Java Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Java Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Smart GWT
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Release Management
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Jython
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
3 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Sybase