Kent Java Developer Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Kent region.

Java Developer
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Crawley Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds Leicestershire Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Swindon UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 17 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	36	25	28
Rank change year-on-year	-11 +3
Matching contract IT job ads	2	11	24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent	0.772 %	3.107 %	3.974 %
As % of the Job Titles category	0.926 %	3.395 %	4.293 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4	2
Average daily rate	£325	£288	£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+13.04 % -20.68 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£300	£350
% change year-on-year	+10.41 % -14.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2	0
Average hourly rate	-	£38.75	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.00	£32.75	£39.25
% change year-on-year	+16.03 % -16.56 %
All Job Titles Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Job Titles category	216	324	559
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent	83.40 %	91.53 %	92.55 %
Daily rates quoted	96	116	97
Average daily rate	£288	£275	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.540 % -8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£215	£150	£180
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£375	£400	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£340	£350
% change year-on-year	-4.410 % -2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	42	72
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£16.00	£20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-31.25 % -21.95 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.60	£20.00	£22.00
% change year-on-year	-12.00 % -9.090 %
Java Developer South East

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.

Java Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the Kent region.

Java Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010. 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	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
Folkestone	-	1	-	-

Java Developer South East

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 16 (100.00 %) Java 2 12 (75.00 %) Oracle 3 9 (56.25 %) Web Services 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 4 6 (37.50 %) Hibernate 5 5 (31.25 %) PL/SQL 6 4 (25.00 %) Swing 6 4 (25.00 %) J2EE 6 4 (25.00 %) Multithreading 7 2 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 7 2 (12.50 %) Workflow 7 2 (12.50 %) Spring 7 2 (12.50 %) XML 7 2 (12.50 %) Ant 7 2 (12.50 %) Struts

7 2 (12.50 %) OOP 7 2 (12.50 %) WAN 7 2 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (12.50 %) Continuous Integration 8 1 (6.250 %) JBoss Seam 8 1 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) IBM 8 1 (6.250 %) XQuery 8 1 (6.250 %) PowerDesigner 8 1 (6.250 %) MVC 8 1 (6.250 %) FileNet 8 1 (6.250 %) OO 8 1 (6.250 %) JBoss 8 1 (6.250 %) XHTML 8 1 (6.250 %) J2SE

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 9 (56.25 %) Web Services 2 6 (37.50 %) Hibernate 3 4 (25.00 %) Swing 3 4 (25.00 %) J2EE 4 2 (12.50 %) Spring 4 2 (12.50 %) XML 4 2 (12.50 %) Struts 5 1 (6.250 %) JBoss Seam 5 1 (6.250 %) XHTML 5 1 (6.250 %) J2SE 5 1 (6.250 %) JMS 5 1 (6.250 %) EJB 5 1 (6.250 %) CSS 5 1 (6.250 %) JSP 5 1 (6.250 %) Servlets 5 1 (6.250 %) GWT 5 1 (6.250 %) Ext JS 5 1 (6.250 %) EJB 3.0 5 1 (6.250 %) Facelets 5 1 (6.250 %) RichFaces	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) WebLogic
Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (6.250 %) ETL 1 1 (6.250 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Ant 2 1 (6.250 %) PowerDesigner 2 1 (6.250 %) Eclipse 2 1 (6.250 %) JUnit 2 1 (6.250 %) CruiseControl 2 1 (6.250 %) Subversion 2 1 (6.250 %) Selenium 2 1 (6.250 %) Maven	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 2 1 (6.250 %) Health
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Multithreading 2 1 (6.250 %) Ergonomics 2 1 (6.250 %) Open Source	Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Workflow 1 2 (12.50 %) OOP 1 2 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 2 (12.50 %) Continuous Integration 2 1 (6.250 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (6.250 %) MVC 2 1 (6.250 %) OO 2 1 (6.250 %) UML 2 1 (6.250 %) Time Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 16 (100.00 %) Java 2 6 (37.50 %) SQL 3 5 (31.25 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (6.250 %) XQuery 4 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) SCJP 1 1 (6.250 %) SCJA	Vendors 1 12 (75.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) IBM 2 1 (6.250 %) FileNet 2 1 (6.250 %) JBoss 2 1 (6.250 %) Google