The first table below looks at the demand for the Java 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 Developer in their job title 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 9 30 13
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 136 31 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 14.38% 3.959% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.16% 4.161% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 18 51
Average daily rate £350 £308 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -12.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £251 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £504 £350 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+7.58% -11.58%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
897 745 652
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.82% 95.15% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 354 377
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 37 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
Scotland

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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.

1 232 (100.00%) Java
2 142 (61.21%) Spring
3 95 (40.95%) XML
4 79 (34.05%) SQL
5 72 (31.03%) Finance
6 71 (30.60%) Hibernate
7 69 (29.74%) Oracle
8 68 (29.31%) UNIX
9 54 (23.28%) Sybase
9 54 (23.28%) J2EE
10 52 (22.41%) Agile Software Development
11 51 (21.98%) Banking
11 51 (21.98%) JavaScript
11 51 (21.98%) OO
12 42 (18.10%) JMS
13 41 (17.67%) Perl
14 40 (17.24%) Tomcat
15 38 (16.38%) Web Services
15 38 (16.38%) Multithreading
16 37 (15.95%) RDBMS
17 36 (15.52%) C#
18 35 (15.09%) Maven
19 33 (14.22%) MVC
20 32 (13.79%) JSP
21 30 (12.93%) JUnit
21 30 (12.93%) Linux
21 30 (12.93%) Eclipse
21 30 (12.93%) JSF
21 30 (12.93%) Unit Testing
22 29 (12.50%) Struts

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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
1 142 (61.21%) Spring
2 95 (40.95%) XML
3 71 (30.60%) Hibernate
4 54 (23.28%) J2EE
5 42 (18.10%) JMS
6 38 (16.38%) Web Services
7 32 (13.79%) JSP
8 30 (12.93%) JSF
9 29 (12.50%) HTML
9 29 (12.50%) Struts
10 28 (12.07%) HTML5
11 26 (11.21%) CSS
12 24 (10.34%) Spring MVC
12 24 (10.34%) Apache Flex
13 20 (8.621%) JDBC
13 20 (8.621%) J2SE
14 18 (7.759%) Servlets
15 17 (7.328%) SOAP
15 17 (7.328%) XSLT
15 17 (7.328%) Cairngorm
Application Platforms
1 40 (17.24%) Tomcat
2 17 (7.328%) Apache
3 7 (3.017%) Mule
4 5 (2.155%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (1.724%) ESB
6 1 (0.431%) GemFire
6 1 (0.431%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.431%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (0.431%) MS Excel
1 1 (0.431%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.431%) SMS
1 1 (0.431%) FTP
1 1 (0.431%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.95%) RDBMS
2 20 (8.621%) DB2
3 18 (7.759%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.017%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.724%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.431%) MySQL
6 1 (0.431%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.431%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.431%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.431%) KDB
Development Applications
1 35 (15.09%) Maven
2 30 (12.93%) JUnit
2 30 (12.93%) Eclipse
3 19 (8.190%) Subversion
4 18 (7.759%) Selenium
5 12 (5.172%) CruiseControl
5 12 (5.172%) JDeveloper
6 9 (3.879%) Ant
7 7 (3.017%) JIRA
7 7 (3.017%) Hudson
8 6 (2.586%) Jenkins
9 5 (2.155%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.724%) ClearCase
11 3 (1.293%) PVCS
12 2 (0.862%) Eclipse RCP
13 1 (0.431%) JMeter
13 1 (0.431%) IntelliJ
13 1 (0.431%) Spring Roo
13 1 (0.431%) Aptana Studio
13 1 (0.431%) Git (software)
General
1 72 (31.03%) Finance
2 51 (21.98%) Banking
3 11 (4.741%) Investment Banking
4 9 (3.879%) Front Office
5 4 (1.724%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.724%) Retail
6 2 (0.862%) Retail Banking
6 2 (0.862%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.21%) Fixed Income
2 15 (6.466%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (6.034%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.741%) N-Tier
5 8 (3.448%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (2.586%) Derivative
7 5 (2.155%) Equities
8 4 (1.724%) Clustering
9 3 (1.293%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.293%) Open Source
9 3 (1.293%) Mathematics
9 3 (1.293%) Computer Science
10 2 (0.862%) W3C
11 1 (0.431%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.431%) RIA
11 1 (0.431%) iPhone
11 1 (0.431%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.431%) Ergonomics
Operating Systems
1 68 (29.31%) UNIX
2 30 (12.93%) Linux
3 7 (3.017%) Windows
4 3 (1.293%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.431%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (22.41%) Agile Software Development
2 51 (21.98%) OO
3 38 (16.38%) Multithreading
4 33 (14.22%) MVC
5 30 (12.93%) Unit Testing
6 24 (10.34%) Scrum
7 20 (8.621%) TDD
8 18 (7.759%) OOP
9 14 (6.034%) Data Modelling
10 12 (5.172%) SOA
10 12 (5.172%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (5.172%) Web Application Development
11 11 (4.741%) Kanban
12 10 (4.310%) Electronic Trading
12 10 (4.310%) UML
13 7 (3.017%) Test Automation
14 6 (2.586%) BDD
14 6 (2.586%) Extreme Programming
15 5 (2.155%) Software Engineering
15 5 (2.155%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 232 (100.00%) Java
2 79 (34.05%) SQL
3 51 (21.98%) JavaScript
4 41 (17.67%) Perl
5 36 (15.52%) C#
6 25 (10.78%) C++
7 21 (9.052%) PL/SQL
8 14 (6.034%) Shell Script
8 14 (6.034%) Scala
9 9 (3.879%) Python
10 8 (3.448%) VB
11 4 (1.724%) Ruby
11 4 (1.724%) XPath
12 3 (1.293%) Jython
12 3 (1.293%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.862%) VBScript
13 2 (0.862%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.862%) Korn
13 2 (0.862%) Bash shell
14 1 (0.431%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 12 (5.172%) Degree
2 10 (4.310%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.293%) QA
2 2 (0.862%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.431%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.431%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 69 (29.74%) Oracle
2 54 (23.28%) Sybase
3 22 (9.483%) Adobe
4 17 (7.328%) Sencha
5 13 (5.603%) TIBCO
6 10 (4.310%) Sun
7 8 (3.448%) Informatica
8 5 (2.155%) JBoss
9 4 (1.724%) Perforce
10 3 (1.293%) Microsoft
11 1 (0.431%) HP
11 1 (0.431%) IBM
11 1 (0.431%) VMware
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