The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java Developer
Rank 110 114 117
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 8 15 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.341% 0.480% 0.322%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.367% 0.524% 0.349%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 7
Average daily rate £350 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £275 £353
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £400 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £375 £363
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2182 2864 2865
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.09% 91.74% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1045 1414 1422
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 175 192
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +5.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.01 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Java Developer across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Senior Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Java Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Manchester +10 4 £350 -7.89%
Cheshire +3 3 £450 -
Senior Java Developer
England

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) J2EE
2 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
3 11 (73.33%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (66.67%) Oracle
4 10 (66.67%) jQuery
5 9 (60.00%) SQL
5 9 (60.00%) JBoss
6 8 (53.33%) Web Services
7 7 (46.67%) JMS
7 7 (46.67%) EJB
7 7 (46.67%) Servlets
7 7 (46.67%) BDD
8 6 (40.00%) Gradle
8 6 (40.00%) DB2
8 6 (40.00%) XML
8 6 (40.00%) Spring
8 6 (40.00%) Ajax
8 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
9 5 (33.33%) Subversion
9 5 (33.33%) Pair Programming
9 5 (33.33%) Banking
9 5 (33.33%) CMMI
9 5 (33.33%) Project Management
9 5 (33.33%) MVC
9 5 (33.33%) Finance
9 5 (33.33%) WSDL
9 5 (33.33%) PMI
9 5 (33.33%) PMI Certification

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 15 (100.00%) J2EE
2 13 (86.67%) Hibernate
3 10 (66.67%) jQuery
4 8 (53.33%) Web Services
5 7 (46.67%) JMS
5 7 (46.67%) EJB
5 7 (46.67%) Servlets
6 6 (40.00%) XML
6 6 (40.00%) Spring
6 6 (40.00%) Ajax
6 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
7 5 (33.33%) WSDL
7 5 (33.33%) XSD
7 5 (33.33%) JSP
7 5 (33.33%) Struts
7 5 (33.33%) Struts2
8 4 (26.67%) Spring MVC
9 3 (20.00%) HTML
10 2 (13.33%) CSS
10 2 (13.33%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 3 (20.00%) ESB
3 1 (6.667%) Apache
3 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Process Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
1 1 (6.667%) SNMP
1 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.667%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) DB2
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
2 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Gradle
2 5 (33.33%) Subversion
2 5 (33.33%) ClearCase
3 3 (20.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (13.33%) JUnit
5 1 (6.667%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.667%) Mercurial
5 1 (6.667%) Selenium
5 1 (6.667%) JIRA
5 1 (6.667%) TestNG
5 1 (6.667%) MyEclipse
5 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
General
1 5 (33.33%) Banking
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PMI
2 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.667%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (46.67%) BDD
3 5 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 5 (33.33%) CMMI
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (33.33%) MVC
3 5 (33.33%) PRINCE
3 5 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 5 (33.33%) SOA
3 5 (33.33%) RUP
3 5 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.667%) Refactoring
6 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.667%) OO
6 1 (6.667%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Groovy
4 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.667%) XQuery
5 1 (6.667%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (13.33%) BC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 9 (60.00%) JBoss
3 5 (33.33%) Chordiant
4 1 (6.667%) Sybase
4 1 (6.667%) Adobe