The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling 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 18 June 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 Stirling 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 8 11 21
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 10 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 10.31% 9.091% 1.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.36% 10.00% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
Average daily rate £425 £250 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -52.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £335 £330
% change year-on-year
+6.71% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.71%
All Job Titles
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
88 50 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 90.72% 90.91% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 27 61
Average daily rate £350 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £138 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 £7.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% +220.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
Scotland

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 8 (72.73%) Spring
2 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 8 (72.73%) XML
3 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) Banking
3 7 (63.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (54.55%) Hibernate
5 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
5 5 (45.45%) UNIX
5 5 (45.45%) Sybase
6 4 (36.36%) J2EE
6 4 (36.36%) Finance
6 4 (36.36%) Java EE
7 3 (27.27%) JMS
7 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
7 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
7 3 (27.27%) XSLT
7 3 (27.27%) JDBC
7 3 (27.27%) JSP
7 3 (27.27%) Java SE
8 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
8 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
8 2 (18.18%) HTML
8 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
8 2 (18.18%) CSS
8 2 (18.18%) Linux
8 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
8 2 (18.18%) Ajax
9 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 8 (72.73%) XML
1 8 (72.73%) Spring
2 6 (54.55%) Hibernate
3 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
4 4 (36.36%) J2EE
4 4 (36.36%) Java EE
5 3 (27.27%) Java SE
5 3 (27.27%) JDBC
5 3 (27.27%) JSP
5 3 (27.27%) XSLT
5 3 (27.27%) JMS
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) CSS
6 2 (18.18%) HTML
7 1 (9.091%) .NET
7 1 (9.091%) Servlets
7 1 (9.091%) Struts
7 1 (9.091%) Web Services
7 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
7 1 (9.091%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Photoshop
1 1 (9.091%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) TOAD
2 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (9.091%) SQLPlus
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
2 1 (9.091%) Firebug
2 1 (9.091%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) ClearCase
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.091%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
2 1 (9.091%) UML
2 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (9.091%) OO
2 1 (9.091%) RAD
2 1 (9.091%) OOD
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
2 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (9.091%) Business Development
2 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 5 (45.45%) Sybase
3 1 (9.091%) JBoss
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
3 1 (9.091%) Murex
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) TIBCO
3 1 (9.091%) MKS
Stirlingshire
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iKas International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Salary: £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013