The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 33 25 24
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.373% 3.137% 5.263%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.402% 3.292% 5.495%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 12
Average daily rate £293 £290 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% -2.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+7.58% -11.58%
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
249 243 273
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 92.91% 95.29% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 130 157
Average daily rate £303 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.39% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £175 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 34
Average hourly rate £15.00 £21.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -16.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.00 £10.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Java Developer
Yorkshire

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Sheffield -8 1 £293 +0.86%
Java Developer
Yorkshire

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 17 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (76.47%) Hibernate
2 13 (76.47%) Spring
3 12 (70.59%) Struts
4 11 (64.71%) J2EE
4 11 (64.71%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (58.82%) TDD
6 7 (41.18%) JSP
7 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
8 5 (29.41%) HTML
8 5 (29.41%) MySQL
8 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
8 5 (29.41%) CSS
9 4 (23.53%) Oracle
9 4 (23.53%) JUnit
9 4 (23.53%) XML
9 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
9 4 (23.53%) Subversion
9 4 (23.53%) Selenium
9 4 (23.53%) FitNesse
9 4 (23.53%) Maven
9 4 (23.53%) Alfresco
9 4 (23.53%) Liferay
9 4 (23.53%) Struts2
9 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
10 3 (17.65%) Web Design
11 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
11 2 (11.76%) GlassFish
11 2 (11.76%) Sun Identity Manager
11 2 (11.76%) SPML

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 13 (76.47%) Hibernate
1 13 (76.47%) Spring
2 12 (70.59%) Struts
3 11 (64.71%) J2EE
4 7 (41.18%) JSP
5 5 (29.41%) HTML
5 5 (29.41%) CSS
6 4 (23.53%) XML
6 4 (23.53%) Struts2
7 2 (11.76%) SPML
7 2 (11.76%) JDBC
7 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
8 1 (5.882%) Spring Web Flow
8 1 (5.882%) YUI
8 1 (5.882%) JPA
8 1 (5.882%) Facelets
8 1 (5.882%) Ehcache
8 1 (5.882%) JSF
8 1 (5.882%) JSON
8 1 (5.882%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Alfresco
1 4 (23.53%) Liferay
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (11.76%) GlassFish
3 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
2 4 (23.53%) JUnit
2 4 (23.53%) Subversion
2 4 (23.53%) Maven
2 4 (23.53%) Selenium
2 4 (23.53%) FitNesse
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (58.82%) TDD
3 3 (17.65%) Web Design
4 2 (11.76%) Software Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) OOP
4 2 (11.76%) OO
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
4 2 (11.76%) MVC
4 2 (11.76%) Workflow
5 1 (5.882%) Scrum
5 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Sun
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