The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Programmer
Rank 71 58 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Programmer 9 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.955% 0.259% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.009% 0.272% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
Average daily rate £319 £272 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.49% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £335 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.77% -16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
892 735 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.69% 95.21% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 350 388
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 £215 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 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 £38.75 £34.54 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Java Programmer
Scotland

Java Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Java Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Java Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Java Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Java Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Java Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Java
1 22 (100.00%) J2EE
2 21 (95.45%) Oracle
3 17 (77.27%) Hibernate
3 17 (77.27%) Spring
3 17 (77.27%) JSF
4 16 (72.73%) RDBMS
5 14 (63.64%) Struts
6 13 (59.09%) XML
6 13 (59.09%) HTML
6 13 (59.09%) Eclipse
6 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
6 13 (59.09%) JDeveloper
6 13 (59.09%) Maven
7 12 (54.55%) EJB
7 12 (54.55%) JSP
8 10 (45.45%) Servlets
8 10 (45.45%) Finance
8 10 (45.45%) JSTL
9 9 (40.91%) Sun
9 9 (40.91%) Sun Certification
10 7 (31.82%) Change Management
10 7 (31.82%) QA
10 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
11 5 (22.73%) Ant
12 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
12 4 (18.18%) Tapestry
12 4 (18.18%) WebSphere
13 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
14 2 (9.091%) MVC

Java Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Java Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (100.00%) J2EE
2 17 (77.27%) Hibernate
2 17 (77.27%) Spring
2 17 (77.27%) JSF
3 14 (63.64%) Struts
4 13 (59.09%) XML
4 13 (59.09%) HTML
5 12 (54.55%) EJB
5 12 (54.55%) JSP
6 10 (45.45%) Servlets
6 10 (45.45%) JSTL
7 4 (18.18%) Tapestry
7 4 (18.18%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (72.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Eclipse
1 13 (59.09%) JDeveloper
1 13 (59.09%) Maven
2 5 (22.73%) Ant
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Change Management
1 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
2 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
3 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (9.091%) MVC
4 2 (9.091%) UML
4 2 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (9.091%) Database Tuning
5 1 (4.545%) Waterfall
5 1 (4.545%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) OOD
5 1 (4.545%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.091%) PL/SQL
3 2 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Oracle
2 9 (40.91%) Sun
3 2 (9.091%) JBoss