The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Hertfordshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Architect
Rank - 65 56
Contract jobs requiring a Java Architect 0 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 1.024% 0.937%
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.092% 0.982%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 7
Average daily rate - £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £488 £463 £475
% change year-on-year
+5.40% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
621 916 815
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.39% 93.76% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 397 345
Average daily rate £400 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 89 102
Average hourly rate £17.50 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.54% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.13 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Architect
East of England

Java Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Java Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Java Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Java Architect Daily Rate Trend

Java Architect
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Java Architect 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 Architect in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Struts2
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis

Java Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Java Architect 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 Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Struts2
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle