London Senior Java Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Senior Java Developer
Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Milton Keynes North West Northern Ireland Potters Bar Reading Runcorn South East South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	244	266
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	134	226
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.211 %	0.242 %
As % of the category below	0.553 %	0.572 %
Daily rates quoted	63	130
Average minimum daily rate	£448	£508
Average daily rate	£491	£535
% change on same period last year	-8.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£533	£562
UK excluding London average daily rate	£457	£356
% change on same period last year	+28.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£41.50
Average hourly rate	-	£50.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	24248	39496
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	38.19 %	42.32 %
Daily rates quoted	9874	14909
Average minimum daily rate	£390	£424
Average daily rate	£418	£452
% change on same period last year	-7.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£446	£480
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	1474	2042
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.27	£25.05
Average hourly rate	£24.69	£26.61
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.11	£28.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Senior Java 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.

Senior Java Developer
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 21 November 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	+21	41	£521	-7.68 %
Docklands, London	+23	3	-	-
Canary Wharf	+12	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title.

1 300 (100.00 %) Java 2 162 (54.00 %) Spring 3 127 (42.33 %) J2EE 4 115 (38.33 %) Hibernate 5 110 (36.67 %) Front Office 6 107 (35.67 %) Oracle 7 92 (30.67 %) Derivative 8 77 (25.67 %) Eclipse 9 72 (24.00 %) JBoss 9 72 (24.00 %) Banking 10 71 (23.67 %) Struts 11 70 (23.33 %) Agile Software Development 12 69 (23.00 %) XML 13 68 (22.67 %) WebLogic 14 65 (21.67 %) JSP

15 62 (20.67 %) Finance 16 61 (20.33 %) Ant 17 58 (19.33 %) MySQL 18 54 (18.00 %) Fixed Income 19 52 (17.33 %) UNIX 20 48 (16.00 %) Investment Banking 21 42 (14.00 %) Sybase 22 41 (13.67 %) WebServices 23 40 (13.33 %) Telecoms 24 36 (12.00 %) SQL 25 34 (11.33 %) Pair Programming 26 32 (10.67 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 27 31 (10.33 %) C++ 28 30 (10.00 %) OO 29 28 (9.333 %) Tomcat

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 162 (54.00 %) Spring 2 127 (42.33 %) J2EE 3 115 (38.33 %) Hibernate 4 71 (23.67 %) Struts 5 69 (23.00 %) XML 6 65 (21.67 %) JSP 7 41 (13.67 %) WebServices 8 20 (6.667 %) EJB 9 19 (6.333 %) AJAX 10 15 (5.000 %) Swing 11 14 (4.667 %) J2SE 12 13 (4.333 %) WebSphere 13 12 (4.000 %) Java EE 14 9 (3.000 %) Java RMI 14 9 (3.000 %) XSD 14 9 (3.000 %) XSLT 14 9 (3.000 %) CORBA 15 8 (2.667 %) Middleware 15 8 (2.667 %) JMX 16 7 (2.333 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 72 (24.00 %) JBoss 2 68 (22.67 %) WebLogic 3 28 (9.333 %) Tomcat 4 20 (6.667 %) Apache 5 4 (1.333 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 4 (1.333 %) CMS 6 3 (1.000 %) TIBCO EMS 6 3 (1.000 %) ESB 7 2 (0.667 %) MQSeries 7 2 (0.667 %) SmartSockets 8 1 (0.333 %) WebLogic Portal 8 1 (0.333 %) Alfresco
Database & Business Intelligence 1 58 (19.33 %) MySQL 2 12 (4.000 %) RDBMS 3 9 (3.000 %) SQL Server 3 9 (3.000 %) DB2 4 2 (0.667 %) DB2 UDB 5 1 (0.333 %) TOAD 5 1 (0.333 %) DataStage 5 1 (0.333 %) IDOL 5 1 (0.333 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 77 (25.67 %) Eclipse 2 61 (20.33 %) Ant 3 17 (5.667 %) JUnit 4 9 (3.000 %) Subversion 5 4 (1.333 %) ClearCase 6 2 (0.667 %) Flash 7 1 (0.333 %) IntelliJ 7 1 (0.333 %) JIRA
General 1 110 (36.67 %) Front Office 2 72 (24.00 %) Banking 3 62 (20.67 %) Finance 4 48 (16.00 %) Investment Banking 5 40 (13.33 %) Telecoms 6 9 (3.000 %) Financial Institution 7 8 (2.667 %) Games 8 4 (1.333 %) Back Office 8 4 (1.333 %) Retail 9 3 (1.000 %) Insurance 10 2 (0.667 %) Publishing 10 2 (0.667 %) Pharmaceutical 10 2 (0.667 %) Automotive 10 2 (0.667 %) Health 11 1 (0.333 %) Advertising 11 1 (0.333 %) Government 11 1 (0.333 %) Corporate Banking 11 1 (0.333 %) Auditing 11 1 (0.333 %) Online Games	Miscellaneous 1 92 (30.67 %) Derivative 2 54 (18.00 %) Fixed Income 3 32 (10.67 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 25 (8.333 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 23 (7.667 %) Equity Derivative 6 21 (7.000 %) Multithreading 7 18 (6.000 %) Grid Computing 8 13 (4.333 %) Equities 8 13 (4.333 %) Social Network 9 11 (3.667 %) Credit Derivative 10 10 (3.333 %) Market Risk 11 9 (3.000 %) Web 2.0 12 6 (2.000 %) Computer Science 13 4 (1.333 %) Credit Risk 14 3 (1.000 %) N-Tier 15 2 (0.667 %) Mathematics 15 2 (0.667 %) Physics 16 1 (0.333 %) Hybrid Derivative 16 1 (0.333 %) Exotic Derivative 16 1 (0.333 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 52 (17.33 %) UNIX 2 19 (6.333 %) Linux 3 11 (3.667 %) Solaris 4 10 (3.333 %) Windows 5 1 (0.333 %) Windows XP 5 1 (0.333 %) CentOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 70 (23.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 34 (11.33 %) Pair Programming 3 30 (10.00 %) OO 4 17 (5.667 %) UML 5 16 (5.333 %) Electronic Trading 6 15 (5.000 %) E-Commerce 7 10 (3.333 %) Unit Testing 7 10 (3.333 %) Greeks 8 9 (3.000 %) AOP 9 8 (2.667 %) TDD 10 7 (2.333 %) OOP 11 6 (2.000 %) OOA/OOD 11 6 (2.000 %) SOA 11 6 (2.000 %) Risk Management 12 5 (1.667 %) Load Balancing 12 5 (1.667 %) Continuous Integration 13 4 (1.333 %) Integration Testing 13 4 (1.333 %) Scrum 13 4 (1.333 %) Black-Scholes 13 4 (1.333 %) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages 1 300 (100.00 %) Java 2 36 (12.00 %) SQL 3 31 (10.33 %) C++ 4 22 (7.333 %) C# 5 10 (3.333 %) Shell Script 6 9 (3.000 %) JavaScript 7 7 (2.333 %) PHP 7 7 (2.333 %) XPath 8 5 (1.667 %) Perl 9 3 (1.000 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (1.000 %) Groovy 9 3 (1.000 %) Python 9 3 (1.000 %) XQuery 10 2 (0.667 %) Ruby 10 2 (0.667 %) VB 11 1 (0.333 %) VBA 11 1 (0.333 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 27 (9.000 %) Degree 2 3 (1.000 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.333 %) QA	Vendors 1 107 (35.67 %) Oracle 2 42 (14.00 %) Sybase 3 16 (5.333 %) DataSynapse 4 13 (4.333 %) Bloomberg 4 13 (4.333 %) Calypso 5 5 (1.667 %) Tangosol 5 5 (1.667 %) TIBCO 6 4 (1.333 %) GigaSpaces 6 4 (1.333 %) BEA 6 4 (1.333 %) Murex 6 4 (1.333 %) IBM 7 3 (1.000 %) Reuters 8 2 (0.667 %) Perforce 8 2 (0.667 %) Sun 9 1 (0.333 %) Adobe 9 1 (0.333 %) ION Trading