The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 67 78 60
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 3 3 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.361% 0.282% 1.892%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.393% 0.308% 2.146%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 10
Average daily rate £325 £425 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +10.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £425 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+7.58% -11.58%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
763 974 932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.93% 91.54% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 323 416
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 39
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.40 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Java Developer
Berkshire

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 11 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) J2EE
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Spring
3 5 (45.45%) Web Development
4 4 (36.36%) JUnit
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
4 4 (36.36%) jQuery
5 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
5 3 (27.27%) Eclipse
5 3 (27.27%) XML
5 3 (27.27%) Banking
5 3 (27.27%) Maven
5 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Retail
6 2 (18.18%) Derivative
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Apache CXF
6 2 (18.18%) XSL
6 2 (18.18%) Web Services
6 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) UML
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
6 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 2 (18.18%) Apache
6 2 (18.18%) RUP
6 2 (18.18%) J2SE

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (54.55%) J2EE
2 5 (45.45%) Spring
3 4 (36.36%) Hibernate
3 4 (36.36%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) XML
5 2 (18.18%) XSL
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
5 2 (18.18%) XML Schema
5 2 (18.18%) J2SE
5 2 (18.18%) Apache CXF
5 2 (18.18%) HTML5
6 1 (9.091%) CSS3
6 1 (9.091%) JavaFX
6 1 (9.091%) JMS
6 1 (9.091%) JSON
6 1 (9.091%) Velocity
6 1 (9.091%) Spring MVC
6 1 (9.091%) FreeMarker
6 1 (9.091%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 2 (18.18%) Apache
3 1 (9.091%) ESB
3 1 (9.091%) Jetty
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) LDAP
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JUnit
2 3 (27.27%) Eclipse
2 3 (27.27%) Maven
3 1 (9.091%) Selenium
3 1 (9.091%) Gradle
3 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.091%) IntelliJ
3 1 (9.091%) Subversion
3 1 (9.091%) Ant
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
4 1 (9.091%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Derivative
2 1 (9.091%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Web Development
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) UML
3 2 (18.18%) RUP
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 1 (9.091%) SOA
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Predictive Analytics
4 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Integration Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Multithreading
4 1 (9.091%) Time Management
4 1 (9.091%) OWASP
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) Software Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) JBoss