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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 9 February 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
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank256837
Rank change year-on-year
Up+43Down-31
Matching contract IT job ads21079473075
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK4.813 %2.059 %3.757 %
As % of the Job Titles category5.273 %2.269 %4.043 %
Daily rates quoted12403501222
Average daily rate£525£450£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£320£291£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£675
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£339
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %+3.320 %
Hourly rates quoted301747
Average hourly rate£40.00£34.50£47.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.94 %-26.59 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.00£24.00£30.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.40£42.50£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.00£34.25£38.50
% change year-on-year
+16.78 %-11.03 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
399614174576056
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK91.29 %90.76 %92.92 %
Daily rates quoted178101304622755
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£220£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted245839516731
Average hourly rate£18.00£20.84£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.62 %-5.270 %
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£38.50£37.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.00£21.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-4.760 %

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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+432046£525+16.66 %
LondonUp+271709£550+22.22 %
City of LondonUp+26712£550+17.02 %
South EastUp+38151£350-9.67 %
YorkshireUp+3070£295-5.60 %
BerkshireUp+5258£375-6.25 %
Canary WharfDown-554£525-4.54 %
South WestUp+3044£443-19.54 %
ScotlandUp+1544£363-
North WestUp+1334£325-5.79 %
West YorkshireUp+1031£301-3.84 %
South YorkshireUp+2626£275-
GlasgowUp+1525£345-13.75 %
LeedsUp+2023£301+0.16 %
HampshireUp+222£313-10.71 %
SheffieldUp+2121£275-
SurreyUp+1221£300-20.00 %
MiddlesexUp+1118£400-
ManchesterDown-418£313-3.84 %
ReadingUp+1816£388+6.89 %
EdinburghDown-416£400-
Docklands, LondonDown-1216£500-9.09 %
East of EnglandDown-313£295-4.83 %
East MidlandsUp+712£313+13.63 %
SloughNew entry-11£280-
GloucestershireUp+2110£450-18.18 %
UxbridgeUp+1210£381-
Home CountiesUp+19--
South WalesUp+127£390-
WalesUp+107£390-

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 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.

13669 (100.00 %)Java
21412 (38.48 %)Banking
31273 (34.70 %)Spring
41047 (28.54 %)SQL
5976 (26.60 %)Hibernate
6948 (25.84 %)Investment Banking
7946 (25.78 %)J2EE
8942 (25.67 %)Front Office
9824 (22.46 %)Oracle
10751 (20.47 %)XML
11750 (20.44 %)Derivative
12710 (19.35 %)UNIX
13642 (17.50 %)Sybase
14635 (17.31 %)Finance
15507 (13.82 %)Agile Software Development
16489 (13.33 %)Fixed Income
17476 (12.97 %)Linux
18464 (12.65 %)OO
19423 (11.53 %)JUnit
20398 (10.85 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
21374 (10.19 %)JavaScript
22370 (10.08 %)Swing
23341 (9.294 %)JSP
24316 (8.613 %)C#
25315 (8.585 %)Multithreading
26310 (8.449 %)Web Services
27302 (8.231 %)Struts
28291 (7.931 %)Tomcat
29277 (7.550 %)J2SE
30250 (6.814 %)Credit Derivative

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 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
11273 (34.70 %)Spring
2976 (26.60 %)Hibernate
3946 (25.78 %)J2EE
4751 (20.47 %)XML
5370 (10.08 %)Swing
6341 (9.294 %)JSP
7310 (8.449 %)Web Services
8302 (8.231 %)Struts
9277 (7.550 %)J2SE
10243 (6.623 %)HTML
11226 (6.160 %)AJAX
12210 (5.724 %)JMS
13208 (5.669 %)CSS
14187 (5.097 %)JDBC
15183 (4.988 %)WebSphere
16165 (4.497 %)Servlets
16165 (4.497 %)SOAP
17163 (4.443 %).NET
18147 (4.007 %)MVC
19145 (3.952 %)EJB
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1291 (7.931 %)Tomcat
2188 (5.124 %)WebLogic
3174 (4.742 %)Apache
464 (1.744 %)Rendezvous
558 (1.581 %)MQSeries
641 (1.117 %)WebSphere Application Server
733 (0.899 %)TIBCO EMS
829 (0.790 %)WebSphere MQ
927 (0.736 %)CMS
1026 (0.709 %)MTS
1123 (0.627 %)ESB
1123 (0.627 %)GlassFish
1218 (0.491 %)Alfresco
1316 (0.436 %)Jetty
1316 (0.436 %)Oracle Application Server
1415 (0.409 %)WebLogic Portal
1514 (0.382 %)Liferay
1613 (0.354 %)WebSphere Portal
1712 (0.327 %)Oracle Workflow
1811 (0.300 %)SAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
118 (0.491 %)MS Excel
26 (0.164 %)MS Office
35 (0.136 %)Quicktime
44 (0.109 %)MATLAB
53 (0.082 %)MS Visio
53 (0.082 %)MS PowerPoint
62 (0.055 %)Photoshop
71 (0.027 %)Shockwave
71 (0.027 %)Fireworks
71 (0.027 %)Adobe Illustrator
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
138 (1.036 %)ION MarketView
219 (0.518 %)RMDS
314 (0.382 %)Bloomberg TOMS
48 (0.218 %)Kondor+
57 (0.191 %)Oracle 11i
66 (0.164 %)FENICS FX
75 (0.136 %)BusinessWorks
75 (0.136 %)TIBCO iProcess
84 (0.109 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
84 (0.109 %)Summit
93 (0.082 %)SAP R/3
93 (0.082 %)Loan IQ
102 (0.055 %)SunGard Martini
102 (0.055 %)Endur
111 (0.027 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
111 (0.027 %)Oracle EBS
111 (0.027 %)Sophis RISQUE
111 (0.027 %)SAP IS-U
111 (0.027 %)Google Analytics
111 (0.027 %)SAP ERP
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
171 (1.935 %)Internet
259 (1.608 %)HTTP
324 (0.654 %)TCP/IP
324 (0.654 %)Intranet
416 (0.436 %)LDAP
58 (0.218 %)Wireshark
66 (0.164 %)ISDN
74 (0.109 %)DNS
74 (0.109 %)SSL
74 (0.109 %)Bluetooth
74 (0.109 %)GPRS
83 (0.082 %)Firewall
83 (0.082 %)VLAN
83 (0.082 %)Reverse Proxy
92 (0.055 %)FTP
92 (0.055 %)HTTPS
92 (0.055 %)SMS
92 (0.055 %)WAN
101 (0.027 %)SMTP
101 (0.027 %)Kerberos
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1215 (5.860 %)RDBMS
2172 (4.688 %)SQL Server
368 (1.853 %)MySQL
467 (1.826 %)Oracle 10g
547 (1.281 %)DB2
644 (1.199 %)SQL Server 2005
735 (0.954 %)Oracle 8/8i
820 (0.545 %)GIS
918 (0.491 %)Oracle 9i
1012 (0.327 %)KDB
1012 (0.327 %)BusinessObjects
1110 (0.273 %)Reference Data
1110 (0.273 %)ETL
1110 (0.273 %)Oracle Reports
1110 (0.273 %)Datawarehouse
128 (0.218 %)Oracle 11g
137 (0.191 %)PostgreSQL
146 (0.164 %)Sybase ASE
154 (0.109 %)Oracle OLAP
154 (0.109 %)OLAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1423 (11.53 %)JUnit
2244 (6.650 %)Eclipse
3227 (6.187 %)Subversion
4226 (6.160 %)Maven
5190 (5.179 %)Ant
665 (1.772 %)ClearCase
755 (1.499 %)FitNesse
843 (1.172 %)Selenium
942 (1.145 %)jMock
1033 (0.899 %)EasyMock
1123 (0.627 %)TeamCity
1219 (0.518 %)JCAPS
1318 (0.491 %)IntelliJ
1417 (0.463 %)TestNG
1516 (0.436 %)CruiseControl
1614 (0.382 %)ClearQuest
1713 (0.354 %)Rational Rose
1713 (0.354 %)QuickTest Pro
1713 (0.354 %)JDeveloper
1812 (0.327 %)NUnit
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11412 (38.48 %)Banking
2948 (25.84 %)Investment Banking
3942 (25.67 %)Front Office
4635 (17.31 %)Finance
5166 (4.524 %)Back Office
684 (2.289 %)Government
731 (0.845 %)Health
826 (0.709 %)Telecoms
925 (0.681 %)Retail
1022 (0.600 %)Education
1121 (0.572 %)Games
1218 (0.491 %)Insurance
1218 (0.491 %)Publishing
1315 (0.409 %)Financial Institution
1414 (0.382 %)Home Office
1513 (0.354 %)Law
1611 (0.300 %)Pharmaceutical
177 (0.191 %)Legal
177 (0.191 %)Online Games
186 (0.164 %)Marketing
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1750 (20.44 %)Derivative
2489 (13.33 %)Fixed Income
3398 (10.85 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4315 (8.585 %)Multithreading
5250 (6.814 %)Credit Derivative
6230 (6.269 %)Equities
7161 (4.388 %)Equity Derivative
8131 (3.570 %)Credit Risk
9122 (3.325 %)Interest Rate Derivative
10120 (3.271 %)Open Source
11106 (2.889 %)Grid Computing
1289 (2.426 %)Market Risk
1343 (1.172 %)N-Tier
1440 (1.090 %)Client/Server
1529 (0.790 %)Computer Science
1623 (0.627 %)Mathematics
1718 (0.491 %)Cloud Computing
1816 (0.436 %)Management Information System
1914 (0.382 %)Mainframe
2012 (0.327 %)Web 2.0
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1710 (19.35 %)UNIX
2476 (12.97 %)Linux
3128 (3.489 %)Windows
468 (1.853 %)Solaris
528 (0.763 %)Windows XP
622 (0.600 %)Red Hat Linux
715 (0.409 %)Windows NT
810 (0.273 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
95 (0.136 %)Windows 2000
95 (0.136 %)Windows Mobile
104 (0.109 %)Android
104 (0.109 %)AIX
113 (0.082 %)Windows Server 2003
113 (0.082 %)CentOS
121 (0.027 %)Symbian OS
121 (0.027 %)MVS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1507 (13.82 %)Agile Software Development
2464 (12.65 %)OO
3240 (6.541 %)TDD
4205 (5.587 %)E-Commerce
5186 (5.070 %)Risk Management
6175 (4.770 %)UML
7171 (4.661 %)Scrum
8170 (4.633 %)Electronic Trading
9138 (3.761 %)Unit Testing
10133 (3.625 %)Continuous Integration
11129 (3.516 %)OOD
12112 (3.053 %)Web Development
1393 (2.535 %)Algorithmic Trading
1488 (2.398 %)SOA
1573 (1.990 %)OOA/OOD
1662 (1.690 %)User Acceptance Testing
1760 (1.635 %)Data Modelling
1859 (1.608 %)Configuration Management
1958 (1.581 %)RAD
2049 (1.336 %)Pair Programming
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13669 (100.00 %)Java
21047 (28.54 %)SQL
3374 (10.19 %)JavaScript
4316 (8.613 %)C#
5235 (6.405 %)C++
6141 (3.843 %)C
7132 (3.598 %)PL/SQL
8126 (3.434 %)Perl
9117 (3.189 %)Shell Script
1043 (1.172 %)VBA
1139 (1.063 %)T-SQL
1234 (0.927 %)Python
1329 (0.790 %)Groovy
1425 (0.681 %)VB
1524 (0.654 %)XPath
1524 (0.654 %)Korn
1524 (0.654 %)XQuery
1619 (0.518 %)PHP
1716 (0.436 %)VB.NET
1815 (0.409 %)VC++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1128 (3.489 %)Security Cleared
2120 (3.271 %)Degree
392 (2.507 %)SC Cleared
451 (1.390 %)DV Cleared
516 (0.436 %)Sun Certification
62 (0.055 %)BC Cleared
62 (0.055 %)ISEB
71 (0.027 %)OCP
71 (0.027 %)Oracle Certification
71 (0.027 %)ITIL Certification
71 (0.027 %)MBA
71 (0.027 %)SCJP
71 (0.027 %)SCJD
71 (0.027 %)SCJA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
152 (1.417 %)QA
210 (0.273 %)WCAG
32 (0.055 %)SLA
41 (0.027 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.027 %)ISO8583
41 (0.027 %)HL7
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
112 (0.327 %)AquaLogic
28 (0.218 %)OpenSSO
34 (0.109 %)Oracle RAC
43 (0.082 %)VMware Infrastructure
51 (0.027 %)Hadoop
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.354 %)CONTROL-M
211 (0.300 %)AutoSys
37 (0.191 %)Tivoli
45 (0.136 %)OpenView
45 (0.136 %)OVSD
51 (0.027 %)HP Quality Center
51 (0.027 %)Data Guard
51 (0.027 %)Sun Identity Manager
51 (0.027 %)ServiceCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1824 (22.46 %)Oracle
2642 (17.50 %)Sybase
3209 (5.696 %)TIBCO
4132 (3.598 %)DataSynapse
599 (2.698 %)JBoss
680 (2.180 %)Calypso
754 (1.472 %)Bloomberg
843 (1.172 %)IBM
938 (1.036 %)Sun
938 (1.036 %)ION Trading
1034 (0.927 %)Reuters
1132 (0.872 %)Microsoft
1230 (0.818 %)Murex
1326 (0.709 %)Adobe
1424 (0.654 %)Tangosol
1424 (0.654 %)eSpeed
1522 (0.600 %)SeeBeyond
1621 (0.572 %)Terracotta
1719 (0.518 %)Mercator
1817 (0.463 %)ILOG