The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 19 June 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 Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 50 39 51
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 25 43 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.607% 3.485% 1.918%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.790% 3.819% 2.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 36 6
Average daily rate £323 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £281 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £363 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £335 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.46% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+6.20% -11.58%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
896 1126 981
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.43% 91.25% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 542 455
Average daily rate £333 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 88
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 £15.05
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.94% +29.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £11.20 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stockport +4 4 £350 +7.69% 5
Salford - 4 £323 -
Altrincham - - - -
Bolton - - - -
Cheadle - - - -
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 58 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (74.14%) Spring
3 35 (60.34%) JavaScript
4 30 (51.72%) J2EE
5 25 (43.10%) Hibernate
6 23 (39.66%) Agile Software Development
7 22 (37.93%) jQuery
8 20 (34.48%) Ajax
9 19 (32.76%) MVC
9 19 (32.76%) SQL
10 18 (31.03%) HTML
11 17 (29.31%) CSS
11 17 (29.31%) JSP
11 17 (29.31%) OO
11 17 (29.31%) TDD
12 16 (27.59%) Pair Programming
12 16 (27.59%) Web Services
13 15 (25.86%) XML
14 14 (24.14%) Servlets
15 13 (22.41%) XSLT
15 13 (22.41%) Eclipse
16 12 (20.69%) JSON
17 11 (18.97%) JSTL
17 11 (18.97%) XPath
17 11 (18.97%) REST
18 10 (17.24%) E-Commerce
18 10 (17.24%) Linux
19 9 (15.52%) Struts
19 9 (15.52%) Subversion
19 9 (15.52%) BDD

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 43 (74.14%) Spring
2 30 (51.72%) J2EE
3 25 (43.10%) Hibernate
4 22 (37.93%) jQuery
5 20 (34.48%) Ajax
6 18 (31.03%) HTML
7 17 (29.31%) CSS
7 17 (29.31%) JSP
8 16 (27.59%) Web Services
9 15 (25.86%) XML
10 14 (24.14%) Servlets
11 13 (22.41%) XSLT
12 12 (20.69%) JSON
13 11 (18.97%) JSTL
13 11 (18.97%) REST
14 9 (15.52%) Struts
15 8 (13.79%) JPA
15 8 (13.79%) JSR 286
15 8 (13.79%) JSR 168
15 8 (13.79%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (12.07%) ESB
2 4 (6.897%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.172%) MQSeries
4 2 (3.448%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.724%) Apache
5 1 (1.724%) GlassFish
Business Applications
1 3 (5.172%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.897%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.172%) DB2
2 3 (5.172%) MySQL
3 2 (3.448%) Redis
3 2 (3.448%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.724%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.724%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.724%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Eclipse
2 9 (15.52%) Subversion
3 5 (8.621%) JUnit
3 5 (8.621%) NetBeans
3 5 (8.621%) Gradle
4 4 (6.897%) JIRA
5 3 (5.172%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 3 (5.172%) Ant
5 3 (5.172%) Log4j
6 2 (3.448%) TestNG
6 2 (3.448%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.448%) Hudson
6 2 (3.448%) GitHub
6 2 (3.448%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.724%) Maven
7 1 (1.724%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (13.79%) Finance
2 4 (6.897%) Retail
3 3 (5.172%) Games
4 1 (1.724%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.724%) Banking
4 1 (1.724%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.897%) Web 2.0
2 4 (6.897%) Statistics
3 3 (5.172%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.448%) Open Source
4 2 (3.448%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (3.448%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.724%) W3C
5 1 (1.724%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 5 (8.621%) UNIX
3 4 (6.897%) HPUX
3 4 (6.897%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (32.76%) MVC
3 17 (29.31%) OO
3 17 (29.31%) TDD
4 16 (27.59%) Pair Programming
5 10 (17.24%) E-Commerce
6 9 (15.52%) BDD
7 8 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.07%) RDF
9 6 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (10.34%) Web Design
9 6 (10.34%) Scrum
10 5 (8.621%) Benchmarking
10 5 (8.621%) SOA
10 5 (8.621%) Test Automation
11 4 (6.897%) Web Application Development
11 4 (6.897%) ITIL
11 4 (6.897%) UML
12 3 (5.172%) RAD
12 3 (5.172%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (60.34%) JavaScript
3 19 (32.76%) SQL
4 11 (18.97%) XPath
5 7 (12.07%) XQuery
6 5 (8.621%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.621%) Ruby
6 5 (8.621%) Scala
7 4 (6.897%) Bash shell
7 4 (6.897%) Perl
8 2 (3.448%) Groovy
8 2 (3.448%) SPARQL
8 2 (3.448%) Haskell
8 2 (3.448%) Python
9 1 (1.724%) PHP
9 1 (1.724%) C#
9 1 (1.724%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.724%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.448%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.724%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle
2 6 (10.34%) JBoss
3 4 (6.897%) Blue Martini
3 4 (6.897%) ATG
3 4 (6.897%) IBM
4 3 (5.172%) Interwoven
4 3 (5.172%) Elastic Path
5 2 (3.448%) Facebook
5 2 (3.448%) Twitter
6 1 (1.724%) Sage
6 1 (1.724%) VMware
Greater Manchester, North West
Experience of Spring and Hibernate. * Knowledge of agile methodologies including TDD, SCRUM and Pair Programming. * Working knowledge of database systems, SQL, stored procedures, data modelling. * Experience in applying...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
Stockport, North West
My client has an urgent project requirement for a 3 month contract, which is likely to extend, for a Java developer with Spring MVC, Hibernate and Agile methodology...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013