The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 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 Leeds 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 Developer
Rank 44 47 47
Rank change year-on-year
+3 0
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 32 21 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 4.295% 2.360% 1.597%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.533% 2.485% 1.678%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 11 5
Average daily rate £260 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.71% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+7.58% -11.58%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Java Developer
West Yorkshire

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 50 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (70.00%) J2EE
3 25 (50.00%) Hibernate
4 24 (48.00%) Spring
5 22 (44.00%) TDD
6 19 (38.00%) JavaScript
6 19 (38.00%) Web Services
7 18 (36.00%) Oracle
8 17 (34.00%) jQuery
9 16 (32.00%) Maven
10 15 (30.00%) Adobe CQ
10 15 (30.00%) SOAP
10 15 (30.00%) Adobe
11 14 (28.00%) Scrum
11 14 (28.00%) Struts
11 14 (28.00%) Jenkins
11 14 (28.00%) HTML5
11 14 (28.00%) hybris
11 14 (28.00%) BDD
11 14 (28.00%) REST
12 12 (24.00%) MongoDB
12 12 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (24.00%) Amazon S3
12 12 (24.00%) Amazon AWS
12 12 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (24.00%) Route 53
12 12 (24.00%) Redis
12 12 (24.00%) Percona
12 12 (24.00%) Security Testing
12 12 (24.00%) Git (software)

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 35 (70.00%) J2EE
2 25 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 24 (48.00%) Spring
4 19 (38.00%) Web Services
5 17 (34.00%) jQuery
6 15 (30.00%) SOAP
7 14 (28.00%) Struts
7 14 (28.00%) HTML5
7 14 (28.00%) REST
8 12 (24.00%) .NET
9 10 (20.00%) CSS
9 10 (20.00%) Java EE
10 9 (18.00%) CSS3
10 9 (18.00%) XML
11 8 (16.00%) JSP
12 7 (14.00%) Node.js
13 6 (12.00%) Ajax
14 5 (10.00%) Struts2
15 4 (8.000%) Grails
15 4 (8.000%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 15 (30.00%) Adobe CQ
2 12 (24.00%) Route 53
2 12 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (24.00%) Amazon S3
2 12 (24.00%) Amazon AWS
3 10 (20.00%) Tomcat
4 9 (18.00%) Apache
5 7 (14.00%) nginx
5 7 (14.00%) Apache Solr
6 4 (8.000%) WebLogic
7 3 (6.000%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (2.000%) Magento
Business Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) Internet
2 9 (18.00%) HTTP
3 7 (14.00%) DNS
4 1 (2.000%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) MySQL
1 12 (24.00%) MongoDB
1 12 (24.00%) Redis
1 12 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (18.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.000%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.000%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 16 (32.00%) Maven
2 14 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 12 (24.00%) Git (software)
4 3 (6.000%) Hudson
4 3 (6.000%) JUnit
4 3 (6.000%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (6.000%) Subversion
5 1 (2.000%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (16.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.000%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.000%) Mathematics
2 2 (4.000%) Open Source
3 1 (2.000%) New Media
3 1 (2.000%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) UNIX
2 5 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.000%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) TDD
2 14 (28.00%) Scrum
2 14 (28.00%) BDD
3 12 (24.00%) Security Testing
3 12 (24.00%) SOA
4 9 (18.00%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
5 7 (14.00%) Kanban
5 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (8.000%) Unit Testing
7 3 (6.000%) Multithreading
7 3 (6.000%) Regression Testing
7 3 (6.000%) OO
7 3 (6.000%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.000%) RUP
9 1 (2.000%) RAD
9 1 (2.000%) Migration
9 1 (2.000%) ETL
9 1 (2.000%) Configuration Management
9 1 (2.000%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (38.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (24.00%) SQL
4 10 (20.00%) Perl
5 7 (14.00%) PHP
5 7 (14.00%) Python
5 7 (14.00%) Ruby
5 7 (14.00%) C++
5 7 (14.00%) Bash shell
6 3 (6.000%) Groovy
6 3 (6.000%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.000%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.000%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (2.000%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Oracle
2 15 (30.00%) Adobe
3 14 (28.00%) hybris
4 12 (24.00%) Percona
5 3 (6.000%) JBoss