London Java/J2EE Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java/J2EE Developer
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Ascot Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	236	171
Rank change on same period last year	-65
Matching contract IT job ads	171	437
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.228 %	0.442 %
As % of the category below	0.576 %	1.027 %
Daily rates quoted	59	205
Average minimum daily rate	£397	£413
Average daily rate	£429	£438
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£461	£463
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£340
% change on same period last year	+9.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£42.14
Average hourly rate	-	£46.43
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.50	£45.88
% change on same period last year	-22.61 %
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	29663	42535
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.54 %	43.03 %
Daily rates quoted	12541	15833
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£426
Average daily rate	£438	£455
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£468	£484
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	1576	2120
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£24.40
Average hourly rate	£24.26	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.85	£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Java/J2EE Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Java/J2EE Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the London region.

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the London region.

Java/J2EE Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-38	27	£503	+8.77 %
Docklands, London	+14	7	£329	-42.85 %
Canary Wharf	+2	1	£500	-
Wimbledon	-	1	£450	-
Uxbridge	-	1	-	-

Java/J2EE Developer England

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 469 (100.00 %) Java 1 469 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 235 (50.11 %) Spring 3 230 (49.04 %) Hibernate 4 186 (39.66 %) Oracle 5 143 (30.49 %) Struts 6 134 (28.57 %) SQL 7 133 (28.36 %) XML 8 126 (26.87 %) JSP 9 112 (23.88 %) Finance 10 103 (21.96 %) OO 11 102 (21.75 %) Eclipse 12 99 (21.11 %) EJB 13 92 (19.62 %) Banking 14 82 (17.48 %) WebServices

14 82 (17.48 %) WebLogic 15 70 (14.93 %) UML 16 65 (13.86 %) JBoss 17 61 (13.01 %) HTML 18 60 (12.79 %) Agile Software Development 19 55 (11.73 %) Investment Banking 19 55 (11.73 %) JavaScript 20 52 (11.09 %) WebSphere 21 51 (10.87 %) UNIX 22 49 (10.45 %) Servlets 22 49 (10.45 %) Sybase 22 49 (10.45 %) AJAX 23 45 (9.595 %) Ant 24 44 (9.382 %) JUnit 25 38 (8.102 %) Linux

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 469 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 235 (50.11 %) Spring 3 230 (49.04 %) Hibernate 4 143 (30.49 %) Struts 5 133 (28.36 %) XML 6 126 (26.87 %) JSP 7 99 (21.11 %) EJB 8 82 (17.48 %) WebServices 9 61 (13.01 %) HTML 10 52 (11.09 %) WebSphere 11 49 (10.45 %) AJAX 11 49 (10.45 %) Servlets 12 38 (8.102 %) JMS 13 36 (7.676 %) CSS 14 34 (7.249 %) JDBC 15 31 (6.610 %) .NET 16 27 (5.757 %) J2SE 17 24 (5.117 %) JSF 18 21 (4.478 %) Swing 19 15 (3.198 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 82 (17.48 %) WebLogic 2 65 (13.86 %) JBoss 3 36 (7.676 %) Tomcat 4 31 (6.610 %) Apache 5 17 (3.625 %) Oracle Application Server 6 11 (2.345 %) CMS 7 10 (2.132 %) Oracle 9iAS 7 10 (2.132 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 7 (1.493 %) MQSeries 9 6 (1.279 %) ESB 10 4 (0.853 %) IIS 10 4 (0.853 %) ATG Dynamo 11 3 (0.640 %) TeamSite 11 3 (0.640 %) Oracle 10gAS 11 3 (0.640 %) Documentum 11 3 (0.640 %) Alfresco 12 2 (0.426 %) Resin 12 2 (0.426 %) WPS 12 2 (0.426 %) SharePoint 12 2 (0.426 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 7 (1.493 %) Photoshop 2 3 (0.640 %) MS Excel 3 2 (0.426 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.213 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.213 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 10 (2.132 %) HTTP 2 6 (1.279 %) Internet 2 6 (1.279 %) LDAP 3 3 (0.640 %) Wireless 4 2 (0.426 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.213 %) 3G 5 1 (0.213 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (0.213 %) Broadband 5 1 (0.213 %) GPRS 5 1 (0.213 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (7.036 %) SQL Server 2 28 (5.970 %) MySQL 3 20 (4.264 %) Oracle 10g 4 19 (4.051 %) RDBMS 5 14 (2.985 %) Oracle 9i 6 10 (2.132 %) DB2 7 8 (1.706 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (0.426 %) MS Access 8 2 (0.426 %) Reference Data 8 2 (0.426 %) JasperReports 9 1 (0.213 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1 (0.213 %) TOAD 9 1 (0.213 %) PostgreSQL 9 1 (0.213 %) Crystal Reports	Development Applications 1 102 (21.75 %) Eclipse 2 45 (9.595 %) Ant 3 44 (9.382 %) JUnit 4 10 (2.132 %) FitNesse 5 9 (1.919 %) Selenium 6 7 (1.493 %) JDeveloper 6 7 (1.493 %) Subversion 7 5 (1.066 %) ClearCase 7 5 (1.066 %) Rational Rose 7 5 (1.066 %) Log4j 8 3 (0.640 %) CruiseControl 8 3 (0.640 %) jMock 8 3 (0.640 %) RequisitePro 8 3 (0.640 %) ClearQuest 9 2 (0.426 %) Bugzilla 9 2 (0.426 %) XDoclet 9 2 (0.426 %) Visual Studio 9 2 (0.426 %) Flash 10 1 (0.213 %) PVCS 10 1 (0.213 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 112 (23.88 %) Finance 2 92 (19.62 %) Banking 3 55 (11.73 %) Investment Banking 4 30 (6.397 %) Telecoms 5 25 (5.330 %) Insurance 6 22 (4.691 %) Retail 7 20 (4.264 %) Front Office 8 14 (2.985 %) Financial Institution 8 14 (2.985 %) Games 9 13 (2.772 %) Government 10 10 (2.132 %) Retail Banking 11 9 (1.919 %) Online Games 11 9 (1.919 %) Back Office 12 6 (1.279 %) Publishing 13 3 (0.640 %) Marketing 13 3 (0.640 %) Multimedia 13 3 (0.640 %) Pensions 14 2 (0.426 %) Billing 14 2 (0.426 %) Pharmaceutical 14 2 (0.426 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 38 (8.102 %) Derivative 2 21 (4.478 %) Multithreading 3 19 (4.051 %) Fixed Income 4 18 (3.838 %) Equities 5 15 (3.198 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 12 (2.559 %) Equity Derivative 7 9 (1.919 %) Contract for Difference 7 9 (1.919 %) Spread Betting 7 9 (1.919 %) Handset 8 8 (1.706 %) Credit Risk 9 6 (1.279 %) Web 2.0 9 6 (1.279 %) Interest Rate Derivative 9 6 (1.279 %) Grid Computing 9 6 (1.279 %) Client/Server 9 6 (1.279 %) N-Tier 10 4 (0.853 %) Biometrics 10 4 (0.853 %) Credit Derivative 10 4 (0.853 %) Computer Science 11 3 (0.640 %) French Language 11 3 (0.640 %) Market Risk
Operating Systems 1 51 (10.87 %) UNIX 2 38 (8.102 %) Linux 3 9 (1.919 %) Solaris 4 5 (1.066 %) Windows 5 1 (0.213 %) AIX 5 1 (0.213 %) HPUX 5 1 (0.213 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 103 (21.96 %) OO 2 70 (14.93 %) UML 3 60 (12.79 %) Agile Software Development 4 31 (6.610 %) TDD 5 27 (5.757 %) Scrum 6 26 (5.544 %) Web Development 7 24 (5.117 %) Security Cleared 8 20 (4.264 %) RAD 8 20 (4.264 %) E-Commerce 9 17 (3.625 %) Pair Programming 10 15 (3.198 %) RUP 10 15 (3.198 %) SC Cleared 11 13 (2.772 %) OOD 12 12 (2.559 %) Content Management 13 11 (2.345 %) OOA/OOD 14 9 (1.919 %) Unified Process 14 9 (1.919 %) Data Modelling 15 8 (1.706 %) SOA 16 7 (1.493 %) Workflow 16 7 (1.493 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 469 (100.00 %) Java 2 134 (28.57 %) SQL 3 55 (11.73 %) JavaScript 4 34 (7.249 %) PL/SQL 5 19 (4.051 %) C# 6 16 (3.412 %) C++ 7 10 (2.132 %) Perl 8 7 (1.493 %) C 9 6 (1.279 %) DHTML 9 6 (1.279 %) Transact-SQL 10 5 (1.066 %) XQuery 10 5 (1.066 %) VBA 11 4 (0.853 %) Groovy 12 3 (0.640 %) Shell Script 12 3 (0.640 %) PHP 13 2 (0.426 %) VB6 13 2 (0.426 %) VB 13 2 (0.426 %) Python 14 1 (0.213 %) Smalltalk 14 1 (0.213 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 22 (4.691 %) Degree 2 6 (1.279 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (0.426 %) QA	System Software 1 8 (1.706 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 1 (0.213 %) MOM	Vendors 1 186 (39.66 %) Oracle 2 49 (10.45 %) Sybase 3 24 (5.117 %) BEA 4 11 (2.345 %) Mercator 5 10 (2.132 %) TIBCO 6 9 (1.919 %) IBM 6 9 (1.919 %) Google 7 6 (1.279 %) Sun 7 6 (1.279 %) SeeBeyond 8 5 (1.066 %) Microsoft 9 4 (0.853 %) Macromedia 9 4 (0.853 %) ATG 10 3 (0.640 %) ILOG 10 3 (0.640 %) Yantra 11 2 (0.426 %) DataSynapse 11 2 (0.426 %) Stellent 11 2 (0.426 %) Thunderhead 11 2 (0.426 %) RedDot 11 2 (0.426 %) OpenLink 12 1 (0.213 %) Lotus