Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank362528
Rank change year-on-year
Down-11Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads21124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent0.772 %3.107 %3.974 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.926 %3.395 %4.293 %
Daily rates quoted142
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 quoted020
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 %
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
216324559
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent83.40 %91.53 %92.55 %
Daily rates quoted9611697
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 quoted254272
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 EastJava 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.

Kent Java Developer Demand Trend

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.

Kent Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

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.

Kent Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

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.

LocationRank 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
FolkestoneNew entry-1--
Java Developer South EastJava 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.

116 (100.00 %)Java
212 (75.00 %)Oracle
39 (56.25 %)Web Services
46 (37.50 %)SQL
46 (37.50 %)Hibernate
55 (31.25 %)PL/SQL
64 (25.00 %)Swing
64 (25.00 %)J2EE
64 (25.00 %)Multithreading
72 (12.50 %)Pharmaceutical
72 (12.50 %)Workflow
72 (12.50 %)Spring
72 (12.50 %)XML
72 (12.50 %)Ant
72 (12.50 %)Struts
72 (12.50 %)OOP
72 (12.50 %)WAN
72 (12.50 %)Business Intelligence
72 (12.50 %)Continuous Integration
81 (6.250 %)JBoss Seam
81 (6.250 %)Unit Testing
81 (6.250 %)IBM
81 (6.250 %)XQuery
81 (6.250 %)PowerDesigner
81 (6.250 %)MVC
81 (6.250 %)FileNet
81 (6.250 %)OO
81 (6.250 %)JBoss
81 (6.250 %)XHTML
81 (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.

Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19 (56.25 %)Web Services
26 (37.50 %)Hibernate
34 (25.00 %)Swing
34 (25.00 %)J2EE
42 (12.50 %)Spring
42 (12.50 %)XML
42 (12.50 %)Struts
51 (6.250 %)JBoss Seam
51 (6.250 %)XHTML
51 (6.250 %)J2SE
51 (6.250 %)JMS
51 (6.250 %)EJB
51 (6.250 %)CSS
51 (6.250 %)JSP
51 (6.250 %)Servlets
51 (6.250 %)GWT
51 (6.250 %)Ext JS
51 (6.250 %)EJB 3.0
51 (6.250 %)Facelets
51 (6.250 %)RichFaces
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (6.250 %)WebLogic
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (12.50 %)WAN
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (6.250 %)Datawarehouse
11 (6.250 %)ETL
11 (6.250 %)MySQL
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (12.50 %)Ant
21 (6.250 %)PowerDesigner
21 (6.250 %)Eclipse
21 (6.250 %)JUnit
21 (6.250 %)CruiseControl
21 (6.250 %)Subversion
21 (6.250 %)Selenium
21 (6.250 %)Maven
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (12.50 %)Pharmaceutical
21 (6.250 %)Insurance
21 (6.250 %)Health
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (25.00 %)Multithreading
21 (6.250 %)Ergonomics
21 (6.250 %)Open Source
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (6.250 %)Linux
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (12.50 %)Workflow
12 (12.50 %)OOP
12 (12.50 %)Business Intelligence
12 (12.50 %)Continuous Integration
21 (6.250 %)Unit Testing
21 (6.250 %)MVC
21 (6.250 %)OO
21 (6.250 %)UML
21 (6.250 %)Time Management
21 (6.250 %)Web Development
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116 (100.00 %)Java
26 (37.50 %)SQL
35 (31.25 %)PL/SQL
41 (6.250 %)XQuery
41 (6.250 %)JavaScript
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (6.250 %)SCJP
11 (6.250 %)SCJA
Kent IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112 (75.00 %)Oracle
21 (6.250 %)IBM
21 (6.250 %)FileNet
21 (6.250 %)JBoss
21 (6.250 %)Google