The first 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 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Developer
Rank 60 50 40
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 1449 1805 2675
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 3.012% 3.110% 4.297%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.267% 3.364% 4.643%
Number of daily rates quoted 1026 1274 1788
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £648
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £335 £330
% change year-on-year
+7.46% +1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 74
Average hourly rate £33.25 £35.00 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £32.50 £31.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £36.25 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+6.20% -11.58%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -12 1236 £475 - 497
London -5 940 £500 -9.09% 286
City of London -2 267 £525 -8.69% 117
Scotland +22 192 £375 +19.04% 36
Glasgow +16 125 £350 +11.11% 19
South East -29 86 £350 +3.70% 46
Yorkshire +4 47 £275 -14.72% 48
South West -5 42 £363 -0.68% 24
West Yorkshire +2 38 £263 -18.44% 34
North West -27 36 £336 +3.46% 37
East of England -6 33 £400 - 19
Leeds +3 31 £262 -18.91% 19
Hampshire -13 30 £350 +4.86% 5
Surrey -4 26 £356 +6.34% 15
Manchester -11 25 £323 -0.76% 17
Gloucestershire +21 23 £440 -7.36% 2
Canary Wharf -1 23 £600 -4.00% 1
East Midlands -15 23 £425 +70.00% 10
Cambridgeshire +12 19 £400 -5.88% 8
Edinburgh +2 19 £369 +5.35% 11
Berkshire -1 13 £445 +27.14% 11
Midlands -3 13 - -
Leicestershire +1 11 £450 +28.57% 1
Gloucester +22 10 £440 +7.31%
Basingstoke -1 10 £350 +27.27% 1
Somerset - 10 £325 - 2
Cambridge +6 9 £400 -3.03% 6
Cheshire -9 9 £375 +7.14% 10
West Sussex +15 8 £350 +4.47% 2
Southampton +3 8 £353 +8.46% 1

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 2720 (99.93%) Java
2 1328 (48.79%) Spring
3 869 (31.93%) Hibernate
4 778 (28.58%) SQL
5 772 (28.36%) J2EE
6 710 (26.08%) TDD
7 637 (23.40%) Oracle
8 632 (23.22%) Agile Software Development
9 622 (22.85%) XML
10 621 (22.81%) JavaScript
11 554 (20.35%) Web Services
12 546 (20.06%) Banking
13 496 (18.22%) Finance
14 461 (16.94%) HTML
15 459 (16.86%) JUnit
16 449 (16.50%) CSS
17 444 (16.31%) Multithreading
18 408 (14.99%) Maven
19 375 (13.78%) UNIX
20 371 (13.63%) OO
21 366 (13.45%) Linux
22 341 (12.53%) JSP
23 337 (12.38%) JMS
24 329 (12.09%) Front Office
24 329 (12.09%) MVC
25 318 (11.68%) Scrum
26 297 (10.91%) jQuery
27 291 (10.69%) Investment Banking
28 286 (10.51%) Eclipse
29 278 (10.21%) BDD

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 1328 (48.79%) Spring
2 869 (31.93%) Hibernate
3 772 (28.36%) J2EE
4 622 (22.85%) XML
5 554 (20.35%) Web Services
6 461 (16.94%) HTML
7 449 (16.50%) CSS
8 341 (12.53%) JSP
9 337 (12.38%) JMS
10 297 (10.91%) jQuery
11 263 (9.662%) SOAP
12 251 (9.221%) Spring MVC
13 230 (8.450%) Java EE
14 219 (8.046%) JPA
15 208 (7.641%) RESTful
16 203 (7.458%) REST
17 196 (7.201%) Ajax
18 190 (6.980%) EJB
19 185 (6.796%) WebSphere
20 183 (6.723%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 240 (8.817%) Tomcat
2 207 (7.605%) Apache
3 130 (4.776%) WebLogic
4 69 (2.535%) ESB
5 54 (1.984%) Oracle Coherence
6 51 (1.874%) Adobe CQ
7 47 (1.727%) CMS
8 31 (1.139%) Mule
9 30 (1.102%) WebSphere Application Server
10 29 (1.065%) GlassFish
10 29 (1.065%) Apache Solr
11 25 (0.918%) Liferay
12 24 (0.882%) Amazon AWS
12 24 (0.882%) TIBCO EMS
13 23 (0.845%) FileNet
14 22 (0.808%) MQSeries
15 21 (0.771%) WebLogic Portal
16 19 (0.698%) Apache Pig
17 16 (0.588%) Amazon S3
17 16 (0.588%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 33 (1.212%) MS Excel
2 15 (0.551%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.220%) Mingle
4 3 (0.110%) MS Office
4 3 (0.110%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.073%) Fireworks
6 1 (0.037%) Weka
6 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (0.661%) ION MarketView
2 14 (0.514%) RMDS
3 13 (0.478%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.367%) Oracle BPM
5 9 (0.331%) Tridion
6 6 (0.220%) BusinessWorks
6 6 (0.220%) Murex MxG2000
7 5 (0.184%) Apache OFBiz
8 3 (0.110%) Kondor+
9 2 (0.073%) Summit
10 1 (0.037%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.037%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.535%) Internet
2 55 (2.021%) HTTP
3 22 (0.808%) LDAP
4 14 (0.514%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.367%) Kerberos
6 9 (0.331%) FTP
7 8 (0.294%) DNS
8 5 (0.184%) SSL
8 5 (0.184%) CTI
8 5 (0.184%) AMQP
9 4 (0.147%) Intranet
10 3 (0.110%) TELNET
10 3 (0.110%) SMS
11 2 (0.073%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.073%) SMTP
11 2 (0.073%) SNMP
11 2 (0.073%) Extranet
12 1 (0.037%) DSL
12 1 (0.037%) 3G
12 1 (0.037%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (7.531%) SQL Server
2 174 (6.392%) RDBMS
3 148 (5.437%) MySQL
4 96 (3.527%) NoSQL
5 91 (3.343%) DB2
6 81 (2.976%) MongoDB
7 61 (2.241%) Hadoop
8 57 (2.094%) Big Data
9 39 (1.433%) Apache Cassandra
10 38 (1.396%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 37 (1.359%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (0.992%) Oracle 11g
13 24 (0.882%) Oracle 10g
14 23 (0.845%) Apache Hive
14 23 (0.845%) Redis
15 20 (0.735%) MarkLogic
15 20 (0.735%) Oracle 8/8i
16 16 (0.588%) Oracle Reports
17 14 (0.514%) KDB
18 13 (0.478%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 459 (16.86%) JUnit
2 408 (14.99%) Maven
3 286 (10.51%) Eclipse
4 219 (8.046%) Subversion
5 150 (5.511%) Git (software)
6 136 (4.996%) Ant
7 118 (4.335%) Jenkins
8 117 (4.298%) Selenium
9 101 (3.711%) Mockito
10 100 (3.674%) JIRA
11 90 (3.306%) Hudson
12 63 (2.314%) Cucumber
13 49 (1.800%) CruiseControl
14 48 (1.763%) TeamCity
15 41 (1.506%) ClearCase
16 35 (1.286%) EasyMock
16 35 (1.286%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 35 (1.286%) jMock
17 33 (1.212%) TestNG
18 27 (0.992%) JBehave
General
1 546 (20.06%) Banking
2 496 (18.22%) Finance
3 329 (12.09%) Front Office
4 291 (10.69%) Investment Banking
5 83 (3.049%) Retail
6 56 (2.057%) Games
7 39 (1.433%) Telecoms
8 37 (1.359%) Publishing
9 35 (1.286%) Back Office
10 19 (0.698%) French Language
11 18 (0.661%) German Language
11 18 (0.661%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.441%) Retail Banking
13 10 (0.367%) Marketing
14 7 (0.257%) Advertising
15 6 (0.220%) Spanish Language
15 6 (0.220%) Multimedia
15 6 (0.220%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.110%) Billing
16 3 (0.110%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 229 (8.413%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 190 (6.980%) Derivative
3 165 (6.062%) Fixed Income
4 149 (5.474%) Open Source
5 94 (3.453%) Computer Science
6 76 (2.792%) Equity Derivative
7 65 (2.388%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.057%) Equities
9 52 (1.910%) Mathematics
10 42 (1.543%) Credit Risk
11 33 (1.212%) N-Tier
12 32 (1.176%) Mobile App
13 27 (0.992%) Client/Server
13 27 (0.992%) Grid Computing
14 22 (0.808%) Credit Derivative
15 19 (0.698%) Market Risk
16 17 (0.625%) Physics
17 16 (0.588%) Web 2.0
18 15 (0.551%) Online Games
19 14 (0.514%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 375 (13.78%) UNIX
2 366 (13.45%) Linux
3 89 (3.270%) Windows
4 57 (2.094%) Android
5 53 (1.947%) Apple iOS
6 32 (1.176%) Solaris
7 12 (0.441%) HPUX
8 9 (0.331%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.294%) CentOS
9 8 (0.294%) zOS
10 4 (0.147%) AIX
11 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.073%) SUSE
11 2 (0.073%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.037%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (26.08%) TDD
2 632 (23.22%) Agile Software Development
3 444 (16.31%) Multithreading
4 371 (13.63%) OO
5 329 (12.09%) MVC
6 318 (11.68%) Scrum
7 278 (10.21%) BDD
8 272 (9.993%) E-Commerce
9 252 (9.258%) Continuous Integration
10 215 (7.899%) UML
11 178 (6.539%) Unit Testing
12 150 (5.511%) Web Development
12 150 (5.511%) Pair Programming
13 136 (4.996%) SOA
14 101 (3.711%) OOD
15 81 (2.976%) Electronic Trading
16 78 (2.866%) Kanban
17 76 (2.792%) Risk Management
18 72 (2.645%) Data Modelling
19 63 (2.314%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2720 (99.93%) Java
2 778 (28.58%) SQL
3 621 (22.81%) JavaScript
4 211 (7.752%) C#
5 168 (6.172%) Scala
6 141 (5.180%) PL/SQL
7 135 (4.960%) Perl
8 133 (4.886%) Groovy
9 131 (4.813%) C++
10 122 (4.482%) Ruby
11 100 (3.674%) Python
12 68 (2.498%) Shell Script
13 57 (2.094%) C
14 41 (1.506%) XPath
15 39 (1.433%) Bash shell
16 32 (1.176%) PHP
17 24 (0.882%) XQuery
18 18 (0.661%) T-SQL
19 16 (0.588%) Clojure
20 12 (0.441%) VB
Qualifications
1 159 (5.841%) Degree
2 131 (4.813%) Security Cleared
3 62 (2.278%) DV Cleared
4 53 (1.947%) SC Cleared
5 14 (0.514%) Sun Certification
6 6 (0.220%) CIPD
7 5 (0.184%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.184%) PhD
8 3 (0.110%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (0.073%) BC Cleared
9 2 (0.073%) SCJP
9 2 (0.073%) SCJA
10 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.037%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (1.874%) QA
2 7 (0.257%) SLA
2 7 (0.257%) HL7
3 6 (0.220%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.147%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.110%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.110%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.073%) WCAG
7 1 (0.037%) TickIT
System Software
1 11 (0.404%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (0.367%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.294%) Squid
4 4 (0.147%) Varnish
5 3 (0.110%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (0.110%) OpenSSO
6 2 (0.073%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.073%) ClearTrust
6 2 (0.073%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.037%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.037%) Shibboleth
7 1 (0.037%) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management
1 24 (0.882%) Puppet
2 5 (0.184%) Splunk
2 5 (0.184%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (0.147%) Nagios
3 4 (0.147%) MOM
4 2 (0.073%) Sun Identity Manager
4 2 (0.073%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.037%) Netcool
5 1 (0.037%) Control-M
5 1 (0.037%) Oozie
5 1 (0.037%) Oracle Identity Management
5 1 (0.037%) SCOM
5 1 (0.037%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 637 (23.40%) Oracle
2 201 (7.384%) Sybase
3 186 (6.833%) JBoss
4 101 (3.711%) TIBCO
5 91 (3.343%) IBM
6 77 (2.829%) Adobe
7 70 (2.572%) Google
8 55 (2.021%) hybris
9 32 (1.176%) Microsoft
10 30 (1.102%) 29West
10 30 (1.102%) DataSynapse
11 26 (0.955%) ION Trading
12 25 (0.918%) Informatica
13 22 (0.808%) Sencha
13 22 (0.808%) Perforce
14 21 (0.771%) Twitter
15 20 (0.735%) Sun
16 18 (0.661%) Reuters
17 17 (0.625%) ATG
18 16 (0.588%) Murex
City, London
Java Developer (J2EE) Experience of Hybris - anything around payments would be advantageous. Extensive Java development experience. Ideally some telco domain experience. Central London. 3 months, with potential extension.
Sanderson
Rate: £340 - £430 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
South East
My client has a urgent requirement for a Hybris developer for a contract role in South East. The ideal candidate must have experience of Hybris eCommerce platforms and...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: Neg
Posted: 17 June 2013
UK
Looking for Senior Java Engineer with minimum 5 years of experience in Java,J2EE technologies. Experience in webservices is essential for this role.
E-Frontiers
Rate: From £100 to £200 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
South Yorkshire
A large part of the job will involve testing of the code written.Ideally they are seeking candidates with the following must haves: - 3 years Java experience - J2EE -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
My Glasgow based software development house require an experienced Java Developer with experience of Scala to join the team on a contract basis. The following skills are key...
FPSG Connect
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Camberley, Surrey
TRG
Rate: £375 - 420 Per Day Send CV
Posted: 12 June 2013
Surrey, South East
TRG
Rate: 375-420 Per Day Send CV
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
TRG
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Sanderson
Posted: 13 June 2013
West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum + DOE
Posted: 7 June 2013
Warwickshire, West Midlands
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Swindon, South West
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
Claymore Minds
Rate: From £400 to £450 per day
Posted: 2 June 2013
City, London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £500.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
West Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £285 - £330 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Yorkshire
The Bridge Ltd
Rate: Unspecified Neg
Posted: 14 June 2013
Greater Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
London
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
West Yorkshire
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £340 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
OPUS
Rate: GBP450 to GBP550 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leicestershire, East Midlands
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £400 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
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