J2SE Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2SE 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 of the Application Development category.

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 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 435 469 397
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -72
Contract jobs citing J2SE 94 115 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.203% 0.197% 0.311%
As % of the Application Development category 0.742% 0.776% 1.130%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 105 87
Average daily rate £480 £588 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.29% +4.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £448 £338 £275
% change year-on-year
+32.59% +22.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 12
Average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 - £38.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.30 - £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 364 388 570
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2SE within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2SE within the UK.

J2SE Daily Rate Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2SE within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

J2SE Daily Rate Histogram

J2SE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2SE within the UK.

J2SE Hourly Rate Trend

J2SE
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2SE within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

J2SE Hourly Rate Histogram

J2SE
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2SE within the UK 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
England -12 57 £480 -18.29%
London -30 38 £575 -4.16%
Scotland - 32 £500 -
Glasgow - 30 £525 -
South West - 11 £440 -
Gloucestershire - 11 £440 -
Gloucester - 10 £440 -
Wales - 5 £500 -
South East +18 4 - -
Hampshire - 4 - -
Cardiff - 3 - -
Basingstoke - 3 - -
South Wales - 3 - -
City of London -7 2 £563 -3.22%
East of England - 2 £325 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £325 -
North West +14 1 - -
Yorkshire +2 1 £293 -
West Lothian - 1 £445 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £293 -
Sheffield - 1 £293 -
Manchester - 1 - -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £325 -

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing J2SE also 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 that cited J2SE.

1 171 (99.42%) Java
2 72 (41.86%) Spring
3 66 (38.37%) J2EE
4 65 (37.79%) SQL
5 54 (31.40%) Linux
6 45 (26.16%) JUnit
7 43 (25.00%) Web Services
8 42 (24.42%) Front Office
8 42 (24.42%) Multithreading
9 40 (23.26%) UNIX
10 38 (22.09%) XML
11 37 (21.51%) Hibernate
12 32 (18.60%) Sybase
13 31 (18.02%) TDD
14 30 (17.44%) Banking
15 29 (16.86%) DB2
16 27 (15.70%) Oracle
16 27 (15.70%) UML
17 26 (15.12%) Swing
17 26 (15.12%) Agile Software Development
18 25 (14.53%) Subversion
19 23 (13.37%) Finance
19 23 (13.37%) Open Source
20 22 (12.79%) JMS
21 21 (12.21%) Scrum
22 19 (11.05%) RDBMS
22 19 (11.05%) JavaScript
22 19 (11.05%) JSP
22 19 (11.05%) Derivative
23 17 (9.884%) Java EE

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing J2SE also 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 that cited J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 72 (41.86%) Spring
2 66 (38.37%) J2EE
3 43 (25.00%) Web Services
4 38 (22.09%) XML
5 37 (21.51%) Hibernate
6 26 (15.12%) Swing
7 22 (12.79%) JMS
8 19 (11.05%) JSP
9 17 (9.884%) Java EE
10 15 (8.721%) Guice
11 14 (8.140%) JSON
12 11 (6.395%) CSS
12 11 (6.395%) Apache Axis
13 9 (5.233%) JPA
14 8 (4.651%) JSF
15 7 (4.070%) J2ME
15 7 (4.070%) Java RMI
15 7 (4.070%) HTML
16 6 (3.488%) WebSphere
16 6 (3.488%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 12 (6.977%) Apache
2 11 (6.395%) ESB
3 6 (3.488%) Rendezvous
4 5 (2.907%) FileNet
4 5 (2.907%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.907%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.907%) Amazon AWS
4 5 (2.907%) OpenStack
5 4 (2.326%) GemFire
6 3 (1.744%) Progress Apama
6 3 (1.744%) Oracle Coherence
7 2 (1.163%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.581%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.581%) IIS
8 1 (0.581%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.581%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.581%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.581%) GlassFish
Applications
1 7 (4.070%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.581%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.581%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.163%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.86%) DB2
2 19 (11.05%) RDBMS
3 17 (9.884%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.233%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.070%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.488%) MySQL
7 5 (2.907%) Data Mining
7 5 (2.907%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.907%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (2.326%) Neo4j
8 4 (2.326%) GIS
9 3 (1.744%) InterSystems Cache
9 3 (1.744%) Big Data
10 2 (1.163%) JasperReports
10 2 (1.163%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.581%) Oracle 8/8i
11 1 (0.581%) HBase
11 1 (0.581%) Riak
11 1 (0.581%) Mahout
11 1 (0.581%) OrientDB
Development Applications
1 45 (26.16%) JUnit
2 25 (14.53%) Subversion
3 17 (9.884%) Maven
3 17 (9.884%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.558%) Eclipse
4 13 (7.558%) Hudson
5 12 (6.977%) Ant
6 6 (3.488%) Mockito
7 4 (2.326%) jMock
8 2 (1.163%) Selenium
8 2 (1.163%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.163%) TestNG
8 2 (1.163%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.163%) EasyMock
8 2 (1.163%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.581%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.581%) FitNesse
General
1 42 (24.42%) Front Office
2 30 (17.44%) Banking
3 23 (13.37%) Finance
4 12 (6.977%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.163%) Games
5 2 (1.163%) Back Office
6 1 (0.581%) Retail
6 1 (0.581%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.581%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 148 (86.05%) Developer
2 133 (77.33%) Java Developer
3 19 (11.05%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 16 (9.302%) Senior Developer
5 12 (6.977%) Software Developer
5 12 (6.977%) Senior Java Developer
6 11 (6.395%) Java Software Engineer
6 11 (6.395%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.814%) Java Swing Developer
8 7 (4.070%) Team Leader
8 7 (4.070%) Java Software Developer
9 6 (3.488%) Scala Developer
9 6 (3.488%) Mobile Developer
9 6 (3.488%) Front-End Developer
10 5 (2.907%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (2.907%) Development Team Leader
10 5 (2.907%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (2.907%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (2.907%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (2.326%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.37%) Open Source
2 19 (11.05%) Derivative
3 14 (8.140%) Computer Science
4 12 (6.977%) Mathematics
5 11 (6.395%) Equity Derivative
6 10 (5.814%) Equities
7 9 (5.233%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (3.488%) IaaS
9 5 (2.907%) Fixed Income
10 4 (2.326%) Credit Derivative
11 3 (1.744%) SaaS
11 3 (1.744%) PDA
12 2 (1.163%) Online Games
12 2 (1.163%) iPhone
12 2 (1.163%) EFT
12 2 (1.163%) EFTPOS
12 2 (1.163%) N-Tier
12 2 (1.163%) Smartcard
13 1 (0.581%) Cloud Computing
13 1 (0.581%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.40%) Linux
2 40 (23.26%) UNIX
3 10 (5.814%) Windows
4 7 (4.070%) Android
4 7 (4.070%) Apple iOS
5 5 (2.907%) CentOS
5 5 (2.907%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.907%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.163%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.42%) Multithreading
2 31 (18.02%) TDD
3 27 (15.70%) UML
4 26 (15.12%) Agile Software Development
5 21 (12.21%) Scrum
6 17 (9.884%) Dependency Injection
7 15 (8.721%) OO
7 15 (8.721%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (8.140%) Data Modelling
9 13 (7.558%) Electronic Trading
10 12 (6.977%) Web Development
11 10 (5.814%) Software Engineering
12 9 (5.233%) Unit Testing
12 9 (5.233%) BDD
12 9 (5.233%) Kanban
13 8 (4.651%) OOD
14 7 (4.070%) E-Commerce
15 6 (3.488%) Algorithmic Trading
15 6 (3.488%) Workflow
15 6 (3.488%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 171 (99.42%) Java
2 65 (37.79%) SQL
3 19 (11.05%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.140%) Scala
5 9 (5.233%) C++
6 7 (4.070%) C
7 6 (3.488%) Perl
8 5 (2.907%) PHP
9 4 (2.326%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.744%) C#
10 3 (1.744%) Clojure
11 2 (1.163%) Ruby
11 2 (1.163%) Groovy
11 2 (1.163%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.581%) VBA
12 1 (0.581%) Haskell
12 1 (0.581%) Erlang
12 1 (0.581%) Korn
Qualifications
1 16 (9.302%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.140%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.488%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (1.163%) Puppet
1 2 (1.163%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (18.60%) Sybase
2 27 (15.70%) Oracle
3 7 (4.070%) webMethods
3 7 (4.070%) Software AG
4 6 (3.488%) IBM
4 6 (3.488%) TIBCO
5 5 (2.907%) Adobe
5 5 (2.907%) ILOG
5 5 (2.907%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.326%) 29West
6 4 (2.326%) Perforce
7 3 (1.744%) Reuters
8 2 (1.163%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.581%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.581%) Murex
9 1 (0.581%) StreamBase
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