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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the 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 Java Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 11 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

 Java Developer
Location
3 months to
11 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank247034
Rank change year-on-year
Up+46Down-36
Matching contract IT job ads23348803070
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK4.994 %2.170 %3.764 %
As % of the Job Titles category5.458 %2.378 %4.043 %
Daily rates quoted14453301264
Average daily rate£525£450£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£283£301
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£625£575£675
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£313£350
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted261729
Average hourly rate£38.75£34.00£44.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.97 %-23.59 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.50£27.00£29.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£43.50£47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£38.00£32.50£38.50
% change year-on-year
+16.92 %-15.58 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
427603701175926
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.49 %91.25 %93.08 %
Daily rates quoted194581177223309
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£215£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£350
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted245631576672
Average hourly rate£19.50£20.75£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.020 %-5.680 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.50£22.00
% change year-on-year
-14.63 %-6.810 %

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.

Java Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Java Developer Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 11 March 2010.

Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 11 March 2010.

Java Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 11 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+412254£538+19.44 %
LondonUp+251953£550+15.78 %
City of LondonUp+13771£550+12.82 %
South EastUp+42126£325-7.14 %
Canary WharfUp+165£538-2.27 %
ScotlandUp+263£363+3.57 %
South WestUp+3059£415-24.54 %
BerkshireUp+4441£344+10.00 %
YorkshireUp+1937£300-
GlasgowUp+1335£356+1.78 %
North WestDown-229£313-3.84 %
HampshireUp+1525£323-7.19 %
SurreyDown-222£300-8.39 %
East of EnglandUp+1221£293-2.50 %
Docklands, LondonDown-621£550-
South YorkshireUp+3020£285-
DevonUp+419£413-
EdinburghUp+119£400-
ExeterNew entry-19£413-
MiddlesexUp+315£400-
CambridgeshireUp+614£338+12.50 %
UxbridgeUp+813£400-
East MidlandsUp+113£325+18.18 %
ReadingUp+1312£275-15.38 %
CambridgeUp+712£425+41.66 %
West MidlandsUp+511£250+11.11 %
SheffieldNew entry-11£275-
GloucestershireUp+610£450-18.18 %
ManchesterDown-1410£313-3.84 %
West YorkshireDown-39£313+4.16 %

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

14138 (100.00 %)Java
21599 (38.64 %)Banking
31424 (34.41 %)Spring
41185 (28.64 %)SQL
51095 (26.46 %)Hibernate
61042 (25.18 %)J2EE
71040 (25.13 %)Investment Banking
81013 (24.48 %)Front Office
9907 (21.92 %)Oracle
10849 (20.52 %)XML
11844 (20.40 %)Derivative
12822 (19.86 %)UNIX
13746 (18.03 %)Sybase
14665 (16.07 %)Finance
15561 (13.56 %)Fixed Income
15561 (13.56 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
16544 (13.15 %)Agile Software Development
17528 (12.76 %)Linux
18491 (11.87 %)JUnit
19484 (11.70 %)OO
20427 (10.32 %)Swing
21421 (10.17 %)JavaScript
22388 (9.377 %)C#
23384 (9.280 %)JSP
24355 (8.579 %)Multithreading
25331 (7.999 %)Struts
26329 (7.951 %)Web Services
27316 (7.637 %)Tomcat
28306 (7.395 %)J2SE
29293 (7.081 %)TDD

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 11 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11424 (34.41 %)Spring
21095 (26.46 %)Hibernate
31042 (25.18 %)J2EE
4849 (20.52 %)XML
5427 (10.32 %)Swing
6384 (9.280 %)JSP
7331 (7.999 %)Struts
8329 (7.951 %)Web Services
9306 (7.395 %)J2SE
10269 (6.501 %)HTML
11253 (6.114 %)JMS
12248 (5.993 %)AJAX
13234 (5.655 %)JDBC
14232 (5.607 %)CSS
15189 (4.567 %)WebSphere
16182 (4.398 %)MVC
17173 (4.181 %).NET
18171 (4.132 %)XSLT
19167 (4.036 %)SOAP
20160 (3.867 %)Servlets
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1316 (7.637 %)Tomcat
2194 (4.688 %)WebLogic
3191 (4.616 %)Apache
475 (1.812 %)Rendezvous
560 (1.450 %)MQSeries
642 (1.015 %)TIBCO EMS
739 (0.942 %)WebSphere Application Server
833 (0.797 %)MTS
931 (0.749 %)WebSphere MQ
1030 (0.725 %)ESB
1125 (0.604 %)Jetty
1223 (0.556 %)CMS
1321 (0.507 %)GlassFish
1321 (0.507 %)WebLogic Portal
1420 (0.483 %)Alfresco
1519 (0.459 %)JCAPS
1616 (0.387 %)Oracle Application Server
1714 (0.338 %)Liferay
1813 (0.314 %)AquaLogic
1910 (0.242 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
119 (0.459 %)MS Excel
28 (0.193 %)MS Visio
36 (0.145 %)MS Office
36 (0.145 %)MS PowerPoint
45 (0.121 %)Quicktime
53 (0.072 %)MATLAB
62 (0.048 %)Photoshop
71 (0.024 %)Spreadsheet
71 (0.024 %)Adobe Illustrator
71 (0.024 %)Fireworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
147 (1.136 %)ION MarketView
223 (0.556 %)RMDS
316 (0.387 %)Bloomberg TOMS
410 (0.242 %)Oracle BPM
59 (0.217 %)Kondor+
67 (0.169 %)Oracle 11i
67 (0.169 %)BusinessWorks
76 (0.145 %)FENICS FX
76 (0.145 %)Summit
84 (0.097 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
93 (0.072 %)TIBCO iProcess
93 (0.072 %)Loan IQ
102 (0.048 %)SAP R/3
102 (0.048 %)SunGard Martini
102 (0.048 %)AquaLogic BPM
111 (0.024 %)Google Analytics
111 (0.024 %)Oracle Applications
111 (0.024 %)Global One
111 (0.024 %)Sophis RISQUE
111 (0.024 %)ZaiNet
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
170 (1.692 %)Internet
263 (1.522 %)HTTP
325 (0.604 %)TCP/IP
423 (0.556 %)Intranet
513 (0.314 %)LDAP
69 (0.217 %)ISDN
78 (0.193 %)DNS
85 (0.121 %)SSL
94 (0.097 %)GPRS
94 (0.097 %)Wireshark
103 (0.072 %)Firewall
103 (0.072 %)VLAN
103 (0.072 %)Bluetooth
103 (0.072 %)Broadband
103 (0.072 %)PSTN
112 (0.048 %)HTTPS
112 (0.048 %)Kerberos
112 (0.048 %)SMS
112 (0.048 %)WAN
121 (0.024 %)Asterisk PBX
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1269 (6.501 %)RDBMS
2191 (4.616 %)SQL Server
387 (2.102 %)Oracle 10g
468 (1.643 %)MySQL
547 (1.136 %)SQL Server 2005
644 (1.063 %)DB2
740 (0.967 %)Oracle 8/8i
821 (0.507 %)Reference Data
920 (0.483 %)GIS
1017 (0.411 %)Oracle 9i
1114 (0.338 %)Datawarehouse
1114 (0.338 %)KDB
1213 (0.314 %)Oracle Reports
1310 (0.242 %)BusinessObjects
1310 (0.242 %)ETL
146 (0.145 %)Sybase ASE
146 (0.145 %)PostgreSQL
146 (0.145 %)Oracle 11g
154 (0.097 %)OLAP
154 (0.097 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1491 (11.87 %)JUnit
2271 (6.549 %)Eclipse
3255 (6.162 %)Maven
4233 (5.631 %)Subversion
5217 (5.244 %)Ant
671 (1.716 %)ClearCase
671 (1.716 %)FitNesse
754 (1.305 %)jMock
849 (1.184 %)Selenium
944 (1.063 %)EasyMock
1027 (0.652 %)TeamCity
1126 (0.628 %)IntelliJ
1221 (0.507 %)CruiseControl
1317 (0.411 %)QuickTest Pro
1415 (0.362 %)TestNG
1415 (0.362 %)NUnit
1513 (0.314 %)Oracle Forms
1513 (0.314 %)ClearQuest
1612 (0.290 %)WebDriver
1711 (0.266 %)Rational Rose
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11599 (38.64 %)Banking
21040 (25.13 %)Investment Banking
31013 (24.48 %)Front Office
4665 (16.07 %)Finance
5185 (4.471 %)Back Office
697 (2.344 %)Government
736 (0.870 %)Telecoms
833 (0.797 %)Health
931 (0.749 %)Retail
1022 (0.532 %)Publishing
1121 (0.507 %)Education
1219 (0.459 %)Financial Institution
1219 (0.459 %)Home Office
1219 (0.459 %)Games
1317 (0.411 %)Law
1416 (0.387 %)Insurance
1510 (0.242 %)Pharmaceutical
1510 (0.242 %)Marketing
168 (0.193 %)General Ledger
176 (0.145 %)Electric
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1844 (20.40 %)Derivative
2561 (13.56 %)Fixed Income
2561 (13.56 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3355 (8.579 %)Multithreading
4275 (6.646 %)Credit Derivative
5266 (6.428 %)Equities
6183 (4.422 %)Equity Derivative
7138 (3.335 %)Credit Risk
8128 (3.093 %)Market Risk
9124 (2.997 %)Interest Rate Derivative
10118 (2.852 %)Open Source
11101 (2.441 %)Grid Computing
1254 (1.305 %)N-Tier
1254 (1.305 %)Client/Server
1329 (0.701 %)Mathematics
1426 (0.628 %)Computer Science
1517 (0.411 %)Cloud Computing
1517 (0.411 %)Mainframe
1615 (0.362 %)Web 2.0
1713 (0.314 %)Management Information System
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1822 (19.86 %)UNIX
2528 (12.76 %)Linux
3117 (2.827 %)Windows
488 (2.127 %)Solaris
525 (0.604 %)Red Hat Linux
617 (0.411 %)Windows XP
710 (0.242 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
88 (0.193 %)CentOS
95 (0.121 %)Android
95 (0.121 %)Windows 2000
104 (0.097 %)AIX
104 (0.097 %)Windows Mobile
113 (0.072 %)HPUX
113 (0.072 %)Windows Server 2003
121 (0.024 %)Windows NT
121 (0.024 %)MVS
121 (0.024 %)Symbian OS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1544 (13.15 %)Agile Software Development
2484 (11.70 %)OO
3293 (7.081 %)TDD
4260 (6.283 %)E-Commerce
5234 (5.655 %)Electronic Trading
6216 (5.220 %)Risk Management
7185 (4.471 %)UML
8176 (4.253 %)Scrum
9162 (3.915 %)Unit Testing
10156 (3.770 %)Continuous Integration
11135 (3.262 %)OOD
11135 (3.262 %)Web Development
12102 (2.465 %)SOA
1394 (2.272 %)Algorithmic Trading
1475 (1.812 %)OOA/OOD
1569 (1.667 %)Configuration Management
1667 (1.619 %)Data Modelling
1763 (1.522 %)Pair Programming
1859 (1.426 %)Project Management
1955 (1.329 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14138 (100.00 %)Java
21185 (28.64 %)SQL
3421 (10.17 %)JavaScript
4388 (9.377 %)C#
5283 (6.839 %)C++
6157 (3.794 %)PL/SQL
7150 (3.625 %)C
8148 (3.577 %)Shell Script
9146 (3.528 %)Perl
1051 (1.232 %)VBA
1143 (1.039 %)T-SQL
1238 (0.918 %)Groovy
1333 (0.797 %)VB
1430 (0.725 %)Python
1527 (0.652 %)XPath
1623 (0.556 %)PHP
1722 (0.532 %)VB.NET
1821 (0.507 %)Korn
1821 (0.507 %)XQuery
1916 (0.387 %)Ruby
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1147 (3.552 %)Security Cleared
2139 (3.359 %)Degree
3113 (2.731 %)SC Cleared
457 (1.377 %)DV Cleared
521 (0.507 %)Sun Certification
62 (0.048 %)PhD
62 (0.048 %)BC Cleared
71 (0.024 %)SCJA
71 (0.024 %)MBA
71 (0.024 %)SCJP
71 (0.024 %)OCP
71 (0.024 %)Oracle Certification
71 (0.024 %)ITIL Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
152 (1.257 %)QA
27 (0.169 %)WCAG
33 (0.072 %)GAMP
33 (0.072 %)ISO9001
33 (0.072 %)GxP
42 (0.048 %)TickIT
42 (0.048 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
42 (0.048 %)SLA
51 (0.024 %)HL7
51 (0.024 %)ISO8583
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.097 %)OpenSSO
23 (0.072 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (0.048 %)MSMQ
32 (0.048 %)Oracle RAC
41 (0.024 %)Hadoop
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.314 %)AutoSys
210 (0.242 %)CONTROL-M
35 (0.121 %)OVSD
35 (0.121 %)OpenView
44 (0.097 %)MOM
44 (0.097 %)Tivoli
51 (0.024 %)Sun Identity Manager
51 (0.024 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.024 %)ServiceCenter
51 (0.024 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1907 (21.92 %)Oracle
2746 (18.03 %)Sybase
3247 (5.969 %)TIBCO
4133 (3.214 %)DataSynapse
5125 (3.021 %)JBoss
680 (1.933 %)Calypso
766 (1.595 %)Bloomberg
850 (1.208 %)ION Trading
946 (1.112 %)IBM
1044 (1.063 %)Reuters
1134 (0.822 %)Murex
1232 (0.773 %)Sun
1327 (0.652 %)Microsoft
1426 (0.628 %)eSpeed
1525 (0.604 %)Adobe
1622 (0.532 %)Tradeweb
1721 (0.507 %)Tangosol
1721 (0.507 %)ILOG
1820 (0.483 %)SeeBeyond
1919 (0.459 %)Google