The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java/J2EE 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 Senior Java/J2EE 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
Senior Java J2EE Developer
Rank 382 389 420
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java/J2EE Developer 7 16 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.059% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.064% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 9
Average daily rate £487 £650 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.15% +36.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £408 £351
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £650 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £388 £386
% change year-on-year
-22.58% +0.32%
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
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%
Senior Java/J2EE Developer
England

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Senior Java/J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Java
1 13 (100.00%) J2EE
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
2 11 (84.62%) JUnit
3 10 (76.92%) MVC
3 10 (76.92%) Spring MVC
3 10 (76.92%) Maven
4 9 (69.23%) Oracle
4 9 (69.23%) Unit Testing
4 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (61.54%) Multithreading
5 8 (61.54%) TeamCity
5 8 (61.54%) jMock
5 8 (61.54%) Credit Risk
5 8 (61.54%) Market Risk
5 8 (61.54%) CruiseControl
5 8 (61.54%) Business Analysis
5 8 (61.54%) JMS
5 8 (61.54%) Web Services
5 8 (61.54%) JDBC
6 5 (38.46%) Mathematics
6 5 (38.46%) Finance
7 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
7 4 (30.77%) TDD
7 4 (30.77%) Banking
7 4 (30.77%) JIRA
7 4 (30.77%) JSP
7 4 (30.77%) UML
7 4 (30.77%) MS Visio
7 4 (30.77%) Tomcat

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) J2EE
1 13 (100.00%) Spring
2 10 (76.92%) Spring MVC
3 8 (61.54%) JMS
3 8 (61.54%) Web Services
3 8 (61.54%) JDBC
4 4 (30.77%) JSP
5 3 (23.08%) REST
5 3 (23.08%) EJB
5 3 (23.08%) XML
5 3 (23.08%) Servlets
5 3 (23.08%) SOAP
5 3 (23.08%) JSON
5 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
6 2 (15.38%) XML-RPC
6 2 (15.38%) Velocity
6 2 (15.38%) jQuery
7 1 (7.692%) SAML
7 1 (7.692%) XSLT
7 1 (7.692%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
2 3 (23.08%) Mule
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) MS Visio
1 4 (30.77%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (7.692%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) Hazelcast
2 1 (7.692%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) JUnit
2 10 (76.92%) Maven
3 8 (61.54%) TeamCity
3 8 (61.54%) jMock
3 8 (61.54%) CruiseControl
4 4 (30.77%) JIRA
5 3 (23.08%) Git (software)
6 2 (15.38%) Spring Roo
6 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Investment Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.692%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Credit Risk
1 8 (61.54%) Market Risk
2 5 (38.46%) Mathematics
3 2 (15.38%) Open Source
4 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) MVC
2 9 (69.23%) Unit Testing
2 9 (69.23%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (61.54%) Multithreading
3 8 (61.54%) Business Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 4 (30.77%) UML
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) SOA
5 2 (15.38%) B2C
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 1 (7.692%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Groovy
3 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Basel II
1 4 (30.77%) Basel III
2 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle