J2SE Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2SE over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Application Development category 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 338 305 289
Rank change year-on-year
-33 -16
Contract jobs citing J2SE 39 105 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.180% 0.390% 0.471%
As % of the Application Development category 0.619% 1.393% 1.540%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 98 75
Average daily rate £600 £600 £600
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £493 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £448 £338 £275
% change year-on-year
+32.59% +22.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2SE
England

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2SE across the London region.

London J2SE Daily Rate Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2SE across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London J2SE Daily Rate Histogram

J2SE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the London region.

London J2SE Hourly Rate Trend

J2SE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2SE within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 -1 2 £563 -4.25%
J2SE
England

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing J2SE also 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 that cited J2SE.

1 90 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (43.33%) Front Office
3 38 (42.22%) Multithreading
4 34 (37.78%) Spring
5 31 (34.44%) J2EE
6 27 (30.00%) Banking
7 21 (23.33%) Linux
7 21 (23.33%) Open Source
8 18 (20.00%) Finance
8 18 (20.00%) TDD
9 17 (18.89%) Hibernate
9 17 (18.89%) UNIX
10 15 (16.67%) SQL
10 15 (16.67%) Maven
11 14 (15.56%) Dependency Injection
11 14 (15.56%) MongoDB
12 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (14.44%) Subversion
12 13 (14.44%) Scrum
12 13 (14.44%) Electronic Trading
13 12 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
13 12 (13.33%) Derivative
13 12 (13.33%) Investment Banking
13 12 (13.33%) Oracle
13 12 (13.33%) Sybase
13 12 (13.33%) Guice
14 11 (12.22%) Hudson
14 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
14 11 (12.22%) Data Modelling
15 10 (11.11%) RDBMS

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing J2SE also 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 that cited J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (37.78%) Spring
2 31 (34.44%) J2EE
3 17 (18.89%) Hibernate
4 12 (13.33%) Guice
5 10 (11.11%) CSS
5 10 (11.11%) Web Services
6 8 (8.889%) JPA
6 8 (8.889%) JSON
7 6 (6.667%) Java SE
7 6 (6.667%) Java EE
8 5 (5.556%) HTML5
8 5 (5.556%) HTML
8 5 (5.556%) LAMP
9 4 (4.444%) GWT
10 3 (3.333%) REST
10 3 (3.333%) CSS3
10 3 (3.333%) Lucene
11 2 (2.222%) Grails
11 2 (2.222%) XHTML
11 2 (2.222%) XML
Application Platforms
1 10 (11.11%) Apache
2 6 (6.667%) Rendezvous
3 5 (5.556%) OpenStack
3 5 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (4.444%) GemFire
5 3 (3.333%) Progress Apama
5 3 (3.333%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (2.222%) MQSeries
7 1 (1.111%) Apache Pig
7 1 (1.111%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.111%) IIS
7 1 (1.111%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.111%) GlassFish
Applications
1 6 (6.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.111%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.222%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.56%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 8 (8.889%) DB2
4 6 (6.667%) MySQL
4 6 (6.667%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.556%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.444%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.333%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.333%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (2.222%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.222%) Big Data
9 1 (1.111%) HBase
9 1 (1.111%) Riak
9 1 (1.111%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Maven
2 13 (14.44%) Subversion
3 11 (12.22%) Hudson
3 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.889%) Ant
4 8 (8.889%) JUnit
5 6 (6.667%) Mockito
6 4 (4.444%) jMock
7 2 (2.222%) Git (software)
7 2 (2.222%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.222%) EasyMock
8 1 (1.111%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.111%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.111%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.111%) Selenium
General
1 39 (43.33%) Front Office
2 27 (30.00%) Banking
3 18 (20.00%) Finance
4 12 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.222%) Games
5 2 (2.222%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 75 (83.33%) Developer
2 68 (75.56%) Java Developer
3 11 (12.22%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.22%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 9 (10.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 7 (7.778%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.778%) Java Software Developer
6 6 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
7 5 (5.556%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.556%) Mobile Developer
7 5 (5.556%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.556%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.556%) Linux Administrator
8 4 (4.444%) Scala Developer
9 3 (3.333%) Agile Java Developer
9 3 (3.333%) Administrator
9 3 (3.333%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (3.333%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.33%) Open Source
2 12 (13.33%) Derivative
3 9 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (10.00%) Equities
3 9 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 8 (8.889%) Mathematics
5 6 (6.667%) IaaS
6 5 (5.556%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (5.556%) Fixed Income
7 4 (4.444%) Credit Derivative
8 3 (3.333%) SaaS
9 2 (2.222%) Online Games
9 2 (2.222%) Smartcard
9 2 (2.222%) EFT
9 2 (2.222%) EFTPOS
9 2 (2.222%) N-Tier
10 1 (1.111%) Hedge funds
10 1 (1.111%) PaaS
10 1 (1.111%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.111%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 17 (18.89%) UNIX
3 5 (5.556%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.556%) Android
3 5 (5.556%) CentOS
3 5 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.556%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.22%) Multithreading
2 18 (20.00%) TDD
3 14 (15.56%) Dependency Injection
4 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (14.44%) Scrum
4 13 (14.44%) Electronic Trading
5 12 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (12.22%) Data Modelling
7 9 (10.00%) Kanban
8 8 (8.889%) BDD
9 7 (7.778%) E-Commerce
10 6 (6.667%) Web Development
10 6 (6.667%) Algorithmic Trading
10 6 (6.667%) UML
11 5 (5.556%) OO
11 5 (5.556%) SOA
11 5 (5.556%) Configuration Management
12 4 (4.444%) Business Analysis
12 4 (4.444%) Pair Programming
12 4 (4.444%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 90 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (16.67%) SQL
3 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.889%) Scala
5 5 (5.556%) PHP
6 3 (3.333%) Clojure
6 3 (3.333%) C#
6 3 (3.333%) C++
7 2 (2.222%) Ruby
7 2 (2.222%) Groovy
8 1 (1.111%) Perl
8 1 (1.111%) Haskell
8 1 (1.111%) Erlang
Systems Management
1 2 (2.222%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Oracle
1 12 (13.33%) Sybase
2 6 (6.667%) TIBCO
3 5 (5.556%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.444%) Perforce
4 4 (4.444%) 29West
5 3 (3.333%) Reuters
6 2 (2.222%) DataSynapse
7 1 (1.111%) StreamBase
7 1 (1.111%) IBM
7 1 (1.111%) Murex
7 1 (1.111%) ION Trading
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