The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 currently tracked.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Java Developer
Rank 490 512 475
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -37
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Java Developer 51 53 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.091% 0.179%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.119% 0.098% 0.193%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 99
Average daily rate £500 £500 £500
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £399 £435
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Agile Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Agile Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Java Developer within the UK.

Agile Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Agile Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Agile Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Java Developer within the UK.

Agile Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Java Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +43 51 £500 -
London +32 46 £513 -2.38%
City of London +31 19 £525 +16.66%
South East +21 3 £450 +12.50%
Berkshire - 3 £450 -
North West - 2 £475 -
Manchester - 2 £475 -

Agile Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile 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 Agile Java Developer in their job title.

1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 91 (84.26%) TDD
3 72 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 59 (54.63%) BDD
5 57 (52.78%) Spring
6 49 (45.37%) Scrum
7 48 (44.44%) Hibernate
8 46 (42.59%) Web Services
9 42 (38.89%) JavaScript
10 38 (35.19%) HTML
10 38 (35.19%) Pair Programming
11 35 (32.41%) CSS
12 33 (30.56%) J2EE
12 33 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (26.85%) Selenium
13 29 (26.85%) JUnit
14 28 (25.93%) Groovy
15 25 (23.15%) Front Office
16 22 (20.37%) Derivative
16 22 (20.37%) Java EE
16 22 (20.37%) Cucumber
17 21 (19.44%) Banking
17 21 (19.44%) OO
18 20 (18.52%) Equity Derivative
18 20 (18.52%) RESTful
19 19 (17.59%) Ruby
19 19 (17.59%) Maven
20 18 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
21 17 (15.74%) REST
21 17 (15.74%) Grails

Agile Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile 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 Agile Java Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 57 (52.78%) Spring
2 48 (44.44%) Hibernate
3 46 (42.59%) Web Services
4 38 (35.19%) HTML
5 35 (32.41%) CSS
6 33 (30.56%) J2EE
7 22 (20.37%) Java EE
8 20 (18.52%) RESTful
9 17 (15.74%) REST
9 17 (15.74%) Grails
9 17 (15.74%) SOAP
10 13 (12.04%) Ajax
11 12 (11.11%) JSON
11 12 (11.11%) WebSphere
12 11 (10.19%) jQuery
12 11 (10.19%) Spring MVC
13 10 (9.259%) JPA
13 10 (9.259%) HTML5
14 9 (8.333%) KnockoutJS
14 9 (8.333%) OpenSocial
Application Platforms
1 9 (8.333%) Alfresco
2 5 (4.630%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.852%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (1.852%) Mule
4 1 (0.926%) Windows Azure
4 1 (0.926%) Apache
4 1 (0.926%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.926%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 2 (1.852%) Mingle
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.259%) Internet
2 2 (1.852%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.19%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.852%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.852%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.852%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 29 (26.85%) Selenium
1 29 (26.85%) JUnit
2 22 (20.37%) Cucumber
3 19 (17.59%) Maven
4 15 (13.89%) Hudson
5 13 (12.04%) Eclipse
6 12 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 10 (9.259%) Mockito
8 7 (6.481%) EasyMock
8 7 (6.481%) Ant
9 6 (5.556%) TeamCity
10 5 (4.630%) CruiseControl
10 5 (4.630%) FitNesse
11 3 (2.778%) Git (software)
11 3 (2.778%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (2.778%) Subversion
11 3 (2.778%) JIRA
11 3 (2.778%) Capistrano
11 3 (2.778%) JBehave
12 2 (1.852%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (23.15%) Front Office
2 21 (19.44%) Banking
3 15 (13.89%) Finance
4 11 (10.19%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.630%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.852%) Publishing
7 1 (0.926%) Games
7 1 (0.926%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.37%) Derivative
2 20 (18.52%) Equity Derivative
3 12 (11.11%) Open Source
4 6 (5.556%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.778%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.852%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.852%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.852%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.852%) Blog
7 1 (0.926%) RIA
7 1 (0.926%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.333%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.630%) Linux
3 2 (1.852%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.852%) UNIX
3 2 (1.852%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (84.26%) TDD
2 72 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 59 (54.63%) BDD
4 49 (45.37%) Scrum
5 38 (35.19%) Pair Programming
6 33 (30.56%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (19.44%) OO
8 18 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
9 16 (14.81%) Refactoring
10 14 (12.96%) Unit Testing
11 11 (10.19%) Extreme Programming
11 11 (10.19%) Kanban
11 11 (10.19%) MVC
12 9 (8.333%) Configuration Management
12 9 (8.333%) Data Modelling
12 9 (8.333%) OOD
12 9 (8.333%) SOA
12 9 (8.333%) RAD
13 8 (7.407%) E-Commerce
14 6 (5.556%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 28 (25.93%) Groovy
4 19 (17.59%) Ruby
5 13 (12.04%) SQL
6 11 (10.19%) Scala
7 3 (2.778%) C#
7 3 (2.778%) C++
8 2 (1.852%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.852%) Python
8 2 (1.852%) Korn
9 1 (0.926%) PHP
9 1 (0.926%) Smalltalk
9 1 (0.926%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (1.852%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.704%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.778%) Nagios
1 3 (2.778%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (11.11%) Oracle
2 9 (8.333%) Google
2 9 (8.333%) IBM
3 3 (2.778%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.778%) hybris
4 2 (1.852%) Sybase
5 1 (0.926%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.926%) Adobe
City of London
Location: City of London Key skills: Java, Core Java, Agile, SCRUM, Test Driven Development, TDD, Behaviour Driven Development, BDD, CI, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, API Design, REST, HTML5, Javascript.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The ideal candidate must have: At least 5 years commercial experience designing and building enterprise applications on OO technologies Experience of working in an agile/ scrum environment, as...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
The ideal candidate must have: At least 5 years commercial experience designing and building enterprise applications on OO technologies Experience of working in an agile/ scrum environment, as...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013