The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Java Developer 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 London 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
Agile Java Developer
Rank 341 371 335
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -36
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Java Developer 46 47 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.209% 0.172% 0.320%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.227% 0.186% 0.346%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 88
Average daily rate £513 £525 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.38% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £411 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20276 25280 28359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.19% 92.47% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13665 16302 18233
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 629 676
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Agile Java Developer
England

Agile Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Agile Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Agile Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Java Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Agile Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Agile Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Agile 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 Agile Java Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
City of London +21 19 £525 +16.66%
Agile Java Developer
England

Agile Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 88 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (86.36%) TDD
3 55 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
4 51 (57.95%) BDD
5 46 (52.27%) Spring
6 42 (47.73%) Web Services
7 41 (46.59%) Hibernate
8 37 (42.05%) JavaScript
9 36 (40.91%) Scrum
10 34 (38.64%) HTML
11 31 (35.23%) CSS
11 31 (35.23%) Pair Programming
12 29 (32.95%) J2EE
13 28 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (30.68%) Groovy
15 26 (29.55%) JUnit
16 25 (28.41%) Front Office
16 25 (28.41%) Selenium
17 22 (25.00%) Derivative
18 21 (23.86%) Banking
19 20 (22.73%) Equity Derivative
20 19 (21.59%) Ruby
20 19 (21.59%) RESTful
20 19 (21.59%) Cucumber
21 18 (20.45%) Dependency Injection
21 18 (20.45%) Maven
21 18 (20.45%) OO
22 17 (19.32%) Java EE
23 16 (18.18%) Grails
23 16 (18.18%) SOAP

Agile Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 46 (52.27%) Spring
2 42 (47.73%) Web Services
3 41 (46.59%) Hibernate
4 34 (38.64%) HTML
5 31 (35.23%) CSS
6 29 (32.95%) J2EE
7 19 (21.59%) RESTful
8 17 (19.32%) Java EE
9 16 (18.18%) Grails
9 16 (18.18%) SOAP
9 16 (18.18%) REST
10 13 (14.77%) Ajax
11 12 (13.64%) JSON
12 11 (12.50%) Spring MVC
12 11 (12.50%) jQuery
13 10 (11.36%) WebSphere
13 10 (11.36%) HTML5
14 9 (10.23%) KnockoutJS
14 9 (10.23%) DHTML
14 9 (10.23%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.23%) Alfresco
2 2 (2.273%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.273%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.136%) Apache
3 1 (1.136%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 2 (2.273%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.091%) Internet
2 2 (2.273%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.273%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.273%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.273%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 26 (29.55%) JUnit
2 25 (28.41%) Selenium
3 19 (21.59%) Cucumber
4 18 (20.45%) Maven
5 15 (17.05%) Hudson
6 10 (11.36%) Eclipse
6 10 (11.36%) Mockito
7 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
8 7 (7.955%) Ant
8 7 (7.955%) EasyMock
9 5 (5.682%) CruiseControl
10 3 (3.409%) TeamCity
10 3 (3.409%) Git (software)
10 3 (3.409%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (3.409%) JIRA
10 3 (3.409%) Capistrano
11 2 (2.273%) QUnit
11 2 (2.273%) Jasmine
11 2 (2.273%) GitHub
11 2 (2.273%) TestNG
General
1 25 (28.41%) Front Office
2 21 (23.86%) Banking
3 14 (15.91%) Finance
4 11 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.682%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.273%) Publishing
7 1 (1.136%) Games
7 1 (1.136%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.00%) Derivative
2 20 (22.73%) Equity Derivative
3 8 (9.091%) Open Source
4 6 (6.818%) Fixed Income
5 3 (3.409%) Computer Science
6 2 (2.273%) Mathematics
6 2 (2.273%) Blog
6 2 (2.273%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.136%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (1.136%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.23%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.545%) Linux
3 2 (2.273%) Windows
3 2 (2.273%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.136%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (86.36%) TDD
2 55 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
3 51 (57.95%) BDD
4 36 (40.91%) Scrum
5 31 (35.23%) Pair Programming
6 28 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (20.45%) Dependency Injection
7 18 (20.45%) OO
8 14 (15.91%) Unit Testing
9 13 (14.77%) Refactoring
10 11 (12.50%) MVC
11 9 (10.23%) Data Modelling
11 9 (10.23%) OOD
11 9 (10.23%) SOA
11 9 (10.23%) RAD
11 9 (10.23%) Configuration Management
12 6 (6.818%) Multithreading
12 6 (6.818%) E-Commerce
13 5 (5.682%) Risk Management
13 5 (5.682%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 88 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (42.05%) JavaScript
3 27 (30.68%) Groovy
4 19 (21.59%) Ruby
5 12 (13.64%) SQL
6 9 (10.23%) Scala
7 3 (3.409%) C#
7 3 (3.409%) C++
8 2 (2.273%) Korn
8 2 (2.273%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.273%) Python
9 1 (1.136%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.136%) PHP
9 1 (1.136%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 2 (2.273%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.545%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.409%) Nagios
1 3 (3.409%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) Oracle
2 9 (10.23%) IBM
2 9 (10.23%) Google
3 3 (3.409%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.136%) Adobe
4 1 (1.136%) hybris
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, Core Java, Agile, SCRUM, Test Driven Development, TDD, Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, CI, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, API Design, REST, HTML5, Javascript.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The ideal candidate must have: At least 5 years commercial experience designing and building enterprise applications on OO technologies Experience of working in an agile/ scrum environment, as...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The ideal candidate must have: At least 5 years commercial experience designing and building enterprise applications on OO technologies Experience of working in an agile/ scrum environment, as...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013