The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 24 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 South 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 60 57 75
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 51 88 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.529% 2.720% 1.696%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.691% 2.922% 1.799%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 66 21
Average daily rate £400 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.96% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £300 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £52.25 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.53%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1895 3012 2668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 93.95% 93.11% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1138 1803 1328
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 186 243
Average hourly rate £15.40 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.55% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.70 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Gloucestershire +35 30 £440 -7.36%
Somerset - 8 £325 -
Bristol 0 5 £360 +10.76%
Dorset -7 5 £290 -25.16%
Devon -4 2 £298 -37.36%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (45.97%) Security Cleared
3 54 (43.55%) DV Cleared
4 51 (41.13%) J2EE
5 50 (40.32%) Spring
6 43 (34.68%) Hibernate
7 37 (29.84%) C
8 36 (29.03%) Oracle
8 36 (29.03%) Web Services
9 34 (27.42%) Agile Software Development
10 32 (25.81%) JavaScript
10 32 (25.81%) SQL
11 29 (23.39%) UML
12 28 (22.58%) XML
13 27 (21.77%) HTML
14 25 (20.16%) Maven
15 24 (19.35%) JPA
16 23 (18.55%) Scrum
16 23 (18.55%) CSS
17 21 (16.94%) JBoss
18 19 (15.32%) Swing
18 19 (15.32%) JSP
18 19 (15.32%) jQuery
19 16 (12.90%) Release Management
19 16 (12.90%) MVC
19 16 (12.90%) Eclipse
19 16 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
20 15 (12.10%) J2SE
20 15 (12.10%) OO
21 14 (11.29%) Spring MVC

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 51 (41.13%) J2EE
2 50 (40.32%) Spring
3 43 (34.68%) Hibernate
4 36 (29.03%) Web Services
5 28 (22.58%) XML
6 27 (21.77%) HTML
7 24 (19.35%) JPA
8 23 (18.55%) CSS
9 19 (15.32%) Swing
9 19 (15.32%) JSP
9 19 (15.32%) jQuery
10 15 (12.10%) J2SE
11 14 (11.29%) Spring MVC
11 14 (11.29%) Java EE
12 12 (9.677%) RESTful
13 11 (8.871%) JMS
14 10 (8.065%) EJB
14 10 (8.065%) GWT
14 10 (8.065%) EJB 3.0
15 7 (5.645%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.839%) Apache
2 4 (3.226%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.613%) Mule
3 2 (1.613%) Liferay
3 2 (1.613%) GlassFish
4 1 (0.806%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (0.806%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.806%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.806%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 3 (2.419%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.806%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.806%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.871%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.065%) RDBMS
2 6 (4.839%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.419%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (2.419%) MySQL
4 2 (1.613%) MarkLogic
4 2 (1.613%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.613%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.613%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.806%) DB2
Development Applications
1 25 (20.16%) Maven
2 16 (12.90%) Eclipse
3 6 (4.839%) JUnit
4 5 (4.032%) JIRA
4 5 (4.032%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (3.226%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.226%) Git (software)
5 4 (3.226%) Spring Roo
6 3 (2.419%) NetBeans
6 3 (2.419%) Subversion
7 2 (1.613%) Gradle
7 2 (1.613%) JDeveloper
7 2 (1.613%) Ant
8 1 (0.806%) Selenium
8 1 (0.806%) jMock
8 1 (0.806%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.806%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.806%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.806%) Mockito
General
1 8 (6.452%) Finance
2 3 (2.419%) Retail
3 2 (1.613%) Back Office
4 1 (0.806%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.065%) RIA
2 3 (2.419%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.613%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.613%) Cryptography
4 1 (0.806%) Informatics
4 1 (0.806%) NHS
4 1 (0.806%) iPhone
4 1 (0.806%) iPad
4 1 (0.806%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.48%) Linux
2 3 (2.419%) UNIX
3 2 (1.613%) Android
4 1 (0.806%) HPUX
4 1 (0.806%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (27.42%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (23.39%) UML
3 23 (18.55%) Scrum
4 16 (12.90%) Release Management
4 16 (12.90%) MVC
4 16 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
5 15 (12.10%) OO
6 14 (11.29%) TDD
7 10 (8.065%) Configuration Management
7 10 (8.065%) OOA/OOD
7 10 (8.065%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (6.452%) Software Engineering
8 8 (6.452%) Unit Testing
8 8 (6.452%) Web Development
9 7 (5.645%) E-Commerce
9 7 (5.645%) System Testing
10 5 (4.032%) OOD
10 5 (4.032%) Kanban
11 4 (3.226%) Software Architecture
11 4 (3.226%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (29.84%) C
3 32 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 32 (25.81%) SQL
4 9 (7.258%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.226%) C#
6 3 (2.419%) Groovy
7 2 (1.613%) Scala
8 1 (0.806%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.806%) PHP
8 1 (0.806%) VB
8 1 (0.806%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.806%) HQL
Qualifications
1 57 (45.97%) Security Cleared
2 54 (43.55%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.839%) Degree
4 2 (1.613%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.613%) QA
2 1 (0.806%) TickIT
System Software
1 2 (1.613%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (1.613%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (1.613%) SCOM
Vendors
1 36 (29.03%) Oracle
2 21 (16.94%) JBoss
3 6 (4.839%) IBM
4 5 (4.032%) Perforce
5 4 (3.226%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.613%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.806%) Sun
7 1 (0.806%) Mercator
7 1 (0.806%) hybris
Bristol, South West
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Java Developer to get involved in the development of a brand new offering that is going to market at the...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 2 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Essential core skills: - Java development - TDD - Web development (ASP.NET/Classic ASP/C#/PHP) The role itself is two-fold... java developer j2ee programmer c#.net asp.net...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Rate: Market rate paid weekly
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
parties - for insurance applications using Java Swing, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, Spring framework... You’ll be someone who learns quickly in order to be able to pick up...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £50,000 per annum (pro rata) plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bournemouth
You'll be developing applications and interfaces - both internal and 3rd parties - for insurance applications using Java Swing, JSP, Servlets, Web Services, Spring framework... You'll have successfully...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £50,000 plus benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013