The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Java Developer 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 Developer
Rank 47 38 24
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 827 1133 1866
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 3.819% 4.206% 6.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.147% 4.549% 6.490%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 868 1361
Average daily rate £525 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £42.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.81 £32.10 £38.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.48 £34.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.53%
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 Developer
England

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Java Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 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 -8 243 £546 -5.00%
Canary Wharf -4 25 £600 -4.00%
Docklands, London 0 5 £488 -7.14%
Westminster - 4 £500 -
Barnet - 2 £350 -
Hounslow -5 1 £450 +5.88%
Bromley - 1 - -
Java Developer
England

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1538 (99.94%) Java
2 720 (46.78%) Spring
3 496 (32.23%) TDD
4 427 (27.75%) Hibernate
5 421 (27.36%) Banking
6 392 (25.47%) J2EE
7 351 (22.81%) SQL
8 335 (21.77%) Multithreading
9 330 (21.44%) Oracle
10 325 (21.12%) Finance
11 321 (20.86%) Agile Software Development
12 305 (19.82%) JavaScript
13 279 (18.13%) Front Office
14 276 (17.93%) Web Services
15 269 (17.48%) XML
16 258 (16.76%) JUnit
17 248 (16.11%) Investment Banking
18 226 (14.68%) HTML
19 210 (13.65%) E-Commerce
20 208 (13.52%) Linux
21 206 (13.39%) Maven
22 205 (13.32%) CSS
23 199 (12.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
24 197 (12.80%) OO
25 195 (12.67%) UNIX
26 191 (12.41%) Scrum
26 191 (12.41%) BDD
27 172 (11.18%) JMS
28 169 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
29 165 (10.72%) MVC

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 720 (46.78%) Spring
2 427 (27.75%) Hibernate
3 392 (25.47%) J2EE
4 276 (17.93%) Web Services
5 269 (17.48%) XML
6 226 (14.68%) HTML
7 205 (13.32%) CSS
8 172 (11.18%) JMS
9 157 (10.20%) RESTful
10 139 (9.032%) JSP
11 137 (8.902%) Spring MVC
12 135 (8.772%) SOAP
13 115 (7.472%) Java EE
14 114 (7.407%) jQuery
15 101 (6.563%) REST
16 89 (5.783%) JSON
17 86 (5.588%) JPA
18 79 (5.133%) Struts
19 78 (5.068%) Swing
20 77 (5.003%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 108 (7.018%) Tomcat
2 98 (6.368%) Apache
3 68 (4.418%) WebLogic
4 52 (3.379%) CMS
5 44 (2.859%) Oracle Coherence
6 41 (2.664%) Adobe CQ
7 28 (1.819%) Rendezvous
8 22 (1.429%) ESB
9 21 (1.365%) RabbitMQ
10 20 (1.300%) ActiveMQ
10 20 (1.300%) TIBCO EMS
11 19 (1.235%) GlassFish
12 16 (1.040%) Apache Solr
13 15 (0.975%) Mule
13 15 (0.975%) Apache Pig
14 14 (0.910%) Alfresco
15 12 (0.780%) Confluence
16 11 (0.715%) WebSphere MQ
16 11 (0.715%) WebSphere Message Broker
16 11 (0.715%) GemFire
Applications
1 23 (1.494%) MS Excel
2 11 (0.715%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.260%) Mingle
4 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.065%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 18 (1.170%) ION MarketView
2 14 (0.910%) RMDS
3 9 (0.585%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.260%) Murex MxG2000
5 3 (0.195%) Kondor+
6 2 (0.130%) Summit
6 2 (0.130%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.065%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.065%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.065%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.884%) HTTP
2 28 (1.819%) Internet
3 14 (0.910%) LDAP
4 8 (0.520%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.455%) Kerberos
5 7 (0.455%) AMQP
6 5 (0.325%) SSL
7 4 (0.260%) CTI
8 3 (0.195%) FTP
8 3 (0.195%) Intranet
9 2 (0.130%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.130%) Extranet
9 2 (0.130%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.065%) GSM
10 1 (0.065%) SMS
10 1 (0.065%) DVB
10 1 (0.065%) DSL
10 1 (0.065%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (6.238%) MySQL
2 91 (5.913%) SQL Server
3 89 (5.783%) RDBMS
4 64 (4.159%) NoSQL
5 60 (3.899%) MongoDB
6 57 (3.704%) Hadoop
7 55 (3.574%) Big Data
8 33 (2.144%) DB2
8 33 (2.144%) Apache Cassandra
9 19 (1.235%) Apache Hive
10 18 (1.170%) MarkLogic
11 16 (1.040%) Oracle 11g
12 13 (0.845%) Hazelcast
13 11 (0.715%) Redis
14 10 (0.650%) Oracle 8/8i
14 10 (0.650%) Oracle 10g
15 9 (0.585%) CouchDB
16 8 (0.520%) InterSystems Cache
17 7 (0.455%) Oracle Reports
17 7 (0.455%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 258 (16.76%) JUnit
2 206 (13.39%) Maven
3 122 (7.927%) Eclipse
4 120 (7.797%) Subversion
5 74 (4.808%) JIRA
6 71 (4.613%) Selenium
7 70 (4.548%) Hudson
8 69 (4.483%) Ant
9 61 (3.964%) Jenkins
10 59 (3.834%) Git (software)
11 56 (3.639%) Mockito
12 54 (3.509%) TeamCity
13 44 (2.859%) Cucumber
14 36 (2.339%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 30 (1.949%) CruiseControl
16 28 (1.819%) jMock
17 25 (1.624%) EasyMock
18 16 (1.040%) WebDriver
19 14 (0.910%) JBehave
20 13 (0.845%) TestNG
General
1 421 (27.36%) Banking
2 325 (21.12%) Finance
3 279 (18.13%) Front Office
4 248 (16.11%) Investment Banking
5 39 (2.534%) Publishing
6 38 (2.469%) Games
6 38 (2.469%) Retail
7 22 (1.429%) Back Office
8 18 (1.170%) French Language
8 18 (1.170%) German Language
9 16 (1.040%) Financial Institution
10 14 (0.910%) Telecoms
11 7 (0.455%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.325%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.325%) Advertising
12 5 (0.325%) Multimedia
13 4 (0.260%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.195%) Marketing
15 2 (0.130%) Online Betting
15 2 (0.130%) Private Banking
Miscellaneous
1 199 (12.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 164 (10.66%) Derivative
3 116 (7.537%) Fixed Income
4 112 (7.277%) Open Source
5 64 (4.159%) Equity Derivative
6 62 (4.029%) Computer Science
7 41 (2.664%) Equities
8 38 (2.469%) Credit Risk
9 36 (2.339%) Mathematics
10 27 (1.754%) Grid Computing
11 26 (1.689%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.365%) Credit Derivative
12 21 (1.365%) Mobile App
13 18 (1.170%) Market Risk
13 18 (1.170%) N-Tier
14 14 (0.910%) Kindle
14 14 (0.910%) Cloud Computing
14 14 (0.910%) iPhone
15 12 (0.780%) Online Games
16 11 (0.715%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 208 (13.52%) Linux
2 195 (12.67%) UNIX
3 47 (3.054%) Windows
4 44 (2.859%) Android
5 42 (2.729%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.780%) Solaris
7 8 (0.520%) zOS
8 4 (0.260%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.195%) AIX
9 3 (0.195%) CentOS
10 2 (0.130%) SUSE
10 2 (0.130%) Debian
10 2 (0.130%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.065%) HPUX
11 1 (0.065%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (32.23%) TDD
2 335 (21.77%) Multithreading
3 321 (20.86%) Agile Software Development
4 210 (13.65%) E-Commerce
5 197 (12.80%) OO
6 191 (12.41%) Scrum
6 191 (12.41%) BDD
7 169 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
8 165 (10.72%) MVC
9 90 (5.848%) Pair Programming
10 86 (5.588%) Unit Testing
11 72 (4.678%) SOA
12 71 (4.613%) Risk Management
13 65 (4.224%) Web Development
14 63 (4.094%) UML
15 59 (3.834%) Electronic Trading
16 58 (3.769%) Kanban
17 49 (3.184%) Data Modelling
18 35 (2.274%) OOD
18 35 (2.274%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1538 (99.94%) Java
2 351 (22.81%) SQL
3 305 (19.82%) JavaScript
4 129 (8.382%) C#
5 122 (7.927%) Scala
6 107 (6.953%) Groovy
7 103 (6.693%) Ruby
8 68 (4.418%) C++
9 59 (3.834%) Python
10 48 (3.119%) PL/SQL
11 35 (2.274%) Perl
12 31 (2.014%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.040%) XQuery
14 15 (0.975%) PHP
15 14 (0.910%) Bash shell
15 14 (0.910%) C
16 11 (0.715%) T-SQL
16 11 (0.715%) Clojure
17 9 (0.585%) ActionScript
17 9 (0.585%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (5.588%) Degree
2 34 (2.209%) Security Cleared
3 24 (1.559%) SC Cleared
4 9 (0.585%) DV Cleared
5 6 (0.390%) CIPD
6 1 (0.065%) PhD
6 1 (0.065%) Sun Certification
6 1 (0.065%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (2.209%) QA
2 6 (0.390%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (0.390%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.195%) SLA
3 3 (0.195%) Basel II
3 3 (0.195%) Basel III
4 1 (0.065%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.065%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (0.585%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (0.520%) Squid
3 6 (0.390%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.260%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 4 (0.260%) Varnish
5 3 (0.195%) vSphere
5 3 (0.195%) vCloud
6 2 (0.130%) ClearTrust
7 1 (0.065%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 25 (1.624%) Puppet
2 6 (0.390%) MOM
3 5 (0.325%) Splunk
4 4 (0.260%) Nagios
5 2 (0.130%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.065%) Business Desktop Deployment
6 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 330 (21.44%) Oracle
2 102 (6.628%) Sybase
3 65 (4.224%) JBoss
4 55 (3.574%) TIBCO
5 38 (2.469%) IBM
5 38 (2.469%) Google
6 33 (2.144%) Adobe
7 30 (1.949%) 29West
8 27 (1.754%) DataSynapse
9 25 (1.624%) ION Trading
10 19 (1.235%) hybris
11 18 (1.170%) Informatica
12 17 (1.105%) Reuters
13 14 (0.910%) Endeca
13 14 (0.910%) VMware
14 13 (0.845%) Bloomberg
14 13 (0.845%) Murex
15 12 (0.780%) Microsoft
16 11 (0.715%) FatWire
16 11 (0.715%) Intershop
London
Java Developer - London - Contract I am currently working with a top University within London who currently require a Java Developer to come on board as soon as possible...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
They are one the UK?s leading insurance companies and are now looking to expand their team of JAVA Developers.This is a great opportunity for you to...
TRG
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Java developer urgently required by a leading Investment Bank - the Java Developer will have strong fixed income/bonds exposure, and excellent communication skills... The Java developer will have:...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Java developer urgently required by a leading financial software company - the developer will have strong Java knowledge and some exposure with CQB, and ideally Futures & Options exposure (paying £...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Leading Investment Bank requires a strong Java Developer with excellent knowledge of FX to work in their Algorithmic development team on order strategies and pricing models. The successful...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £600 - £750 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with NoSQL databases is essential in particularly Cassandra... Experience with noSQL databases. Exposure to working in Agile environments... Desirable; Experience...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £450.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Implement: - Integration of cross-asset trading system feeds (Futures, Rates and Forward FX instruments) into Risk Viewer trade repositories. - Server side development of Risk Viewer (scheduling, configuring and...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £600 - £750 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Job Title: Java DeveloperLocation: LondonContract: 12 months fixed termSalary: £45k - £50kStart: Immediate Key skills: Developer, Java, SQL, SOAP, REST, Testing Project Details: My client urgently requires an experienced...
Real Staffing
Rate: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The ideal candidate for this Java and Filenet position will have: - Excellent Java Experience: J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, XML - Strong Filenet experience with implementation knowledge - Excellent communication skills - Financial...
Orgtel
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
The successful Java Developer will have the following: - Strong Java - Very good working knowledge of Spring - Very good working knowledge of Hibernate - JQuery, Ajax and JSP background - Good...
Orgtel
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Location: London Key tech: Java, low latency, multi-threading, high frequency, algorithmic development, 29 west, SQL, agile, TDD. Leading Investment Bank requires a strong Java Developer with excellent...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Position: Java & Spring Software Developer (Linux/Unix)Rate: Up to £600 / Day Location: Central London Duration: Initial 7 Months (Extension possible)Apply To: The Background:Due to an...
JAM
Rate: £0.00 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
City of London
Java/Oracle 11g/Spring/CMS/Server Side/Agile/Waterfall/FatwireJava Developer - A retail Bank I am working with is currently looking for 2 Java Developers to work on...
Salt
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Leading eCommerce company requires 2 Java Big Data Developers to join their greenfield Big Data team based in Central London. The successful candidate will have previous experience of...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
My client has an immediate requirement for a Java Web Developer to join their team of in house developers in their Central London offices. As well as having...
Senitor Associates
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
The right candidate will have experience in the following: -Java -C# -VSTO(Visual Studio Tools for Office) -C programming -Oracle and Sql Server You will be involved in...
Intapeople
Rate: £360 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
The Java/PHP Developer would have previous experience in E-commerce and would be comfortable using HTML, JavaScript and CSS. The Java/PHP developer would have previously worked...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Java, J2EE, Big Data, No SQL, Hadoop or Cassandra, Rabbit MQ, Storm, KafKa, Senior Java Developer... As these are the first hands on Java Developers on the initial...
Edison Hill Ltd
Rate: From £500 to £700 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Canary Wharf, London
The team is also piloting Scala for certain projects.The successful candidate needs to understand design patterns, have a strong command of core java concepts like multi-threading,...
Rate: £Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
The team develops using a variety of technologies; Java, C++, C# Python on both Linux and Windows platforms, exposure to any of these technologies would be of value...
Montash
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, Server-side Java, multi-threading, SQL, Oracle or Sybase, Test Driven Development, TDD, Front to Back Office, Fixed Income, Emerging Markets,...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Java FX Analyst / Developer - Banking - London - Up to £600pd Our Client, an investment bank, are currently looking for a Java FX Developer to work in their London Office,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Java/J2EE Developer/GWT. 6 month 280GBP Location: London, England A leading consultancy is looking for a experienced Java Developer to join their lively and dynamic team in...
SEC Recruitment Limited
Rate: £260 - £280 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
An experienced Java Developer is required for a Leading Investment Bank in London. The successful candidate will work on developing new and enhancing current Low Latency trading application...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Summary of Role -A Strong technical Java Developer. -Excellent FX ecommerce knowledge. -Experience is working on and developing in-house FX ecommerce system in an investment bank -Design...
Aston Carter
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013