The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Applications 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 Java Applications 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
Java Application Developer
Rank 522 557 550
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Java Applications Developer 19 8 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.014% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.015% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 16
Average daily rate £315 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.10% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £290 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.29% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
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%

Java Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Java Applications Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Applications Developer
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Applications 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 +55 16 £315 -37.10%
London +40 11 £320 -40.46%
City of London +22 4 £300 -44.18%
North West +14 4 £294 +1.29%
Manchester - 4 £294 -
Craigavon - 3 - -
County Armagh - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Canary Wharf - 2 £478 -
South East - 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -

Java Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) Spring
3 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 10 (38.46%) Oracle
4 9 (34.62%) SQL
5 7 (26.92%) Hibernate
6 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
6 6 (23.08%) CSS
6 6 (23.08%) JSP
6 6 (23.08%) J2EE
6 6 (23.08%) XML
7 5 (19.23%) Servlets
7 5 (19.23%) UNIX
7 5 (19.23%) Finance
7 5 (19.23%) MVC
7 5 (19.23%) JSON
7 5 (19.23%) jQuery
7 5 (19.23%) HTML5
7 5 (19.23%) CSS3
8 4 (15.38%) JPA
8 4 (15.38%) JSTL
8 4 (15.38%) JIRA
8 4 (15.38%) Equity Derivative
8 4 (15.38%) Dojo
8 4 (15.38%) Spring Web Flow
8 4 (15.38%) Release Management
8 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (15.38%) Ajax
8 4 (15.38%) NetBeans
8 4 (15.38%) Web Design

Java Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (46.15%) Spring
2 7 (26.92%) Hibernate
3 6 (23.08%) CSS
3 6 (23.08%) JSP
3 6 (23.08%) J2EE
3 6 (23.08%) XML
4 5 (19.23%) Servlets
4 5 (19.23%) JSON
4 5 (19.23%) jQuery
4 5 (19.23%) HTML5
4 5 (19.23%) CSS3
5 4 (15.38%) JPA
5 4 (15.38%) JSTL
5 4 (15.38%) Dojo
5 4 (15.38%) Spring Web Flow
5 4 (15.38%) Ajax
5 4 (15.38%) SOAP
5 4 (15.38%) Web Services
5 4 (15.38%) HTML
6 3 (11.54%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) FileNet
2 2 (7.692%) Apache
3 1 (3.846%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.846%) IIS
3 1 (3.846%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.846%) CMS
3 1 (3.846%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Photoshop
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.846%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.846%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.846%) Big Data
1 1 (3.846%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Eclipse
2 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) NetBeans
3 3 (11.54%) JDeveloper
3 3 (11.54%) Subversion
4 2 (7.692%) Maven
4 2 (7.692%) JUnit
5 1 (3.846%) Ant
5 1 (3.846%) Hudson
5 1 (3.846%) PhoneGap
5 1 (3.846%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (3.846%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.846%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 2 (7.692%) Front Office
4 1 (3.846%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Equity Derivative
2 3 (11.54%) Derivative
3 2 (7.692%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.846%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.846%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.846%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) UNIX
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 2 (7.692%) Android
4 1 (3.846%) Linux
4 1 (3.846%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (19.23%) MVC
2 4 (15.38%) Release Management
2 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (15.38%) Web Design
3 3 (11.54%) OO
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 3 (11.54%) Multithreading
4 2 (7.692%) Service Delivery
5 1 (3.846%) UML
5 1 (3.846%) Migration
5 1 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.846%) Workflow
5 1 (3.846%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.846%) OOD
5 1 (3.846%) Code Coverage
5 1 (3.846%) Content Management
5 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.846%) BDD
5 1 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.846%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) VB
6 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
6 2 (7.692%) Python
7 1 (3.846%) VBA
7 1 (3.846%) VBScript
7 1 (3.846%) Jython
7 1 (3.846%) Objective-C
7 1 (3.846%) Korn
7 1 (3.846%) VB6
7 1 (3.846%) Groovy
7 1 (3.846%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Sybase
3 2 (7.692%) Facebook
3 2 (7.692%) Twitter
4 1 (3.846%) JBoss
4 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.846%) Adobe
Crawley, West Sussex
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years of experience as a Java Developer using Javascript, XML, Java and MVC Frameworks. The ideal candidate will have...
Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £329 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013