The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software 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 Software Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Developer
Rank 383 404 427
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Developer 6 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.027% 0.004% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.004% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
Average daily rate £650 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -11.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £288 £500
% change year-on-year
- -42.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.81 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
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 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
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%
Java Software Developer
England

Java Software Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Java Software Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Java Software Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Software Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Software Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Java Software Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Software Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Java Software Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Software Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java Software 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 Software Developer in their job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) J2SE
2 7 (63.64%) Multithreading
3 6 (54.55%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (36.36%) Guice
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Spring
5 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (27.27%) Front Office
5 3 (27.27%) Scala
6 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
6 1 (9.091%) BDD
6 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.091%) C#
6 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
6 1 (9.091%) SQL
6 1 (9.091%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) XML
6 1 (9.091%) UNIX
6 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (9.091%) TDD
6 1 (9.091%) Pair Programming
6 1 (9.091%) Statistics
6 1 (9.091%) Degree
6 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
6 1 (9.091%) Physics
6 1 (9.091%) Computer Science

Java Software Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java Software 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 Software Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (63.64%) J2SE
2 4 (36.36%) Guice
2 4 (36.36%) Spring
3 1 (9.091%) Web Services
3 1 (9.091%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Open Source
2 1 (9.091%) Statistics
2 1 (9.091%) Mathematics
2 1 (9.091%) Physics
2 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Multithreading
2 4 (36.36%) Dependency Injection
3 3 (27.27%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) BDD
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) TDD
4 1 (9.091%) Pair Programming
4 1 (9.091%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Scala
3 1 (9.091%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
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