The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield 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 22 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 Sheffield 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 21 17 13
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 7 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 0.680% 4.828% 9.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.746% 5.036% 9.459%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 10
Average daily rate £293 £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% +5.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.71%
All Job Titles
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
134 139 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 91.16% 95.86% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 73 72
Average daily rate £300 £281 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £165 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 20
Average hourly rate £12.44 £20.06 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.98% -45.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.79 £11.83 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
South Yorkshire

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 15 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) Hibernate
2 11 (73.33%) Struts
2 11 (73.33%) Spring
3 10 (66.67%) J2EE
4 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (60.00%) TDD
5 6 (40.00%) JSP
6 5 (33.33%) Eclipse
7 4 (26.67%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (26.67%) HTML
7 4 (26.67%) XML
7 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (26.67%) Oracle
7 4 (26.67%) CSS
8 3 (20.00%) JUnit
8 3 (20.00%) MySQL
8 3 (20.00%) Subversion
8 3 (20.00%) Maven
8 3 (20.00%) Selenium
8 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
8 3 (20.00%) Alfresco
8 3 (20.00%) Liferay
8 3 (20.00%) Struts2
8 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 2 (13.33%) SPML
9 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
9 2 (13.33%) GlassFish
9 2 (13.33%) Sun Identity Manager
9 2 (13.33%) LDAP

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 11 (73.33%) Hibernate
1 11 (73.33%) Struts
1 11 (73.33%) Spring
2 10 (66.67%) J2EE
3 6 (40.00%) JSP
4 4 (26.67%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) XML
4 4 (26.67%) CSS
5 3 (20.00%) Struts2
6 2 (13.33%) SPML
6 2 (13.33%) JDBC
7 1 (6.667%) J2SE
7 1 (6.667%) JSF
7 1 (6.667%) Spring Web Flow
7 1 (6.667%) Velocity
7 1 (6.667%) Spring MVC
7 1 (6.667%) Facelets
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Alfresco
1 3 (20.00%) Liferay
2 2 (13.33%) GlassFish
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 3 (20.00%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Subversion
2 3 (20.00%) Maven
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (60.00%) TDD
2 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) OOP
2 2 (13.33%) OO
2 2 (13.33%) Workflow
2 2 (13.33%) Web Design
2 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
3 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Sun