The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Consultant 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 Java Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Consultant
Rank 370 405 430
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Java Consultant 7 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.037% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.040% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 8
Average daily rate £575 £600 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +37.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £382 £352
10% offered a daily rate of more than £595 £600 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate - £326 £330
% change year-on-year
- -1.36%
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
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
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 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Consultant
England

Java Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Java Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Java Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Java Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Java Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Java Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Java Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Consultant within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +18 4 £588 -
Java Consultant
England

Java Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 9 (47.37%) JUnit
3 7 (36.84%) J2EE
3 7 (36.84%) Finance
4 6 (31.58%) SQL
5 5 (26.32%) Web Services
5 5 (26.32%) Eclipse
5 5 (26.32%) Spring
5 5 (26.32%) Maven
6 4 (21.05%) Banking
6 4 (21.05%) JMeter
6 4 (21.05%) LoadRunner
6 4 (21.05%) XML
6 4 (21.05%) Linux
6 4 (21.05%) OO
6 4 (21.05%) Ant
6 4 (21.05%) Load Testing
7 3 (15.79%) TIBCO EMS
7 3 (15.79%) TDD
7 3 (15.79%) REST
7 3 (15.79%) JBoss
7 3 (15.79%) JMS
7 3 (15.79%) UNIX
7 3 (15.79%) TIBCO
7 3 (15.79%) SOA
7 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
7 3 (15.79%) JRules
8 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum

Java Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (36.84%) J2EE
2 5 (26.32%) Web Services
2 5 (26.32%) Spring
3 4 (21.05%) XML
4 3 (15.79%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) JMS
4 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
4 3 (15.79%) JRules
5 2 (10.53%) Struts
5 2 (10.53%) XSLT
5 2 (10.53%) Servlets
5 2 (10.53%) CORBA
5 2 (10.53%) EJB
5 2 (10.53%) HTML5
6 1 (5.263%) WebCenter
6 1 (5.263%) JBoss Seam
6 1 (5.263%) GWT
6 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
6 1 (5.263%) HTML
6 1 (5.263%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (5.263%) ESB
3 1 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (10.53%) Big Data
1 2 (10.53%) MarkLogic
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.263%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (5.263%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JUnit
2 5 (26.32%) Eclipse
2 5 (26.32%) Maven
3 4 (21.05%) JMeter
3 4 (21.05%) LoadRunner
3 4 (21.05%) Ant
4 2 (10.53%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) jMock
4 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
4 2 (10.53%) EasyMock
4 2 (10.53%) Mockito
5 1 (5.263%) ClearCase
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.263%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Derivative
1 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
1 2 (10.53%) Physics
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.263%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.263%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) UNIX
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) OO
1 4 (21.05%) Load Testing
2 3 (15.79%) TDD
2 3 (15.79%) SOA
3 2 (10.53%) Scrum
3 2 (10.53%) UML
3 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (10.53%) Multithreading
3 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Analytics
4 1 (5.263%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.263%) OOD
4 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
4 1 (5.263%) Decision Table
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) XQuery
3 2 (10.53%) Perl
3 2 (10.53%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) C++
3 2 (10.53%) XPath
4 1 (5.263%) C-shell
4 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) JBoss
2 3 (15.79%) TIBCO
3 1 (5.263%) Sybase
3 1 (5.263%) FatWire
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Agile, SCRUM, XP, TDD, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Java, MQ, REST, HTML5 Leading Investment Bank requires a number of Java Developers...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Agile, SCRUM, XP, TDD, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Java, MQ, REST, HTML5 Leading financial institution requires a number of Java Developer /...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per month
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Agile, SCRUM, XP, TDD, Ant, Maven, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Java, MQ, REST, HTML5 Leading financial institution requires a number of Java Developer /...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013