The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Engineer
Rank 518 572 585
Rank change year-on-year
+54 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 12 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.010% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.011% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
Average daily rate £375 £500 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +73.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £510 £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £456 £325
% change year-on-year
-17.80% +40.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Java Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Java Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Engineer
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +52 10 £363 -27.50%
London +27 8 £363 -27.50%
South East - 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 - -

Java Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Java Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (65.00%) Spring
3 10 (50.00%) Linux
4 9 (45.00%) Web Services
4 9 (45.00%) TDD
5 8 (40.00%) UNIX
6 7 (35.00%) OO
7 6 (30.00%) JUnit
7 6 (30.00%) SQL
7 6 (30.00%) Multithreading
7 6 (30.00%) REST
8 5 (25.00%) RESTful
8 5 (25.00%) Mockito
8 5 (25.00%) PHP
8 5 (25.00%) MySQL
8 5 (25.00%) UML
9 4 (20.00%) Windows
9 4 (20.00%) Swing
9 4 (20.00%) OOD
9 4 (20.00%) Ant
9 4 (20.00%) XML
9 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (20.00%) ClearCase
9 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
9 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (15.00%) AOP
10 3 (15.00%) Refactoring

Java Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Java Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (65.00%) Spring
2 9 (45.00%) Web Services
3 6 (30.00%) REST
4 5 (25.00%) RESTful
5 4 (20.00%) XML
5 4 (20.00%) Swing
5 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.00%) JDBC
7 2 (10.00%) HTML
7 2 (10.00%) HTML5
7 2 (10.00%) CSS
7 2 (10.00%) SOAP
7 2 (10.00%) PowerMock
8 1 (5.000%) Java EE
8 1 (5.000%) JSON
8 1 (5.000%) Spring MVC
8 1 (5.000%) JPA
8 1 (5.000%) J2EE
8 1 (5.000%) JSP
8 1 (5.000%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) ESB
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.000%) GlassFish
3 1 (5.000%) Jetty
3 1 (5.000%) Amazon S3
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
1 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.000%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.000%) SSL
1 1 (5.000%) Internet
1 1 (5.000%) Firewall
1 1 (5.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) Ingres
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.00%) GIS
4 1 (5.000%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (5.000%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.000%) CouchDB
4 1 (5.000%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.000%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JUnit
2 5 (25.00%) Mockito
3 4 (20.00%) ClearCase
3 4 (20.00%) Ant
4 3 (15.00%) Eclipse
4 3 (15.00%) NetBeans
4 3 (15.00%) CruiseControl
4 3 (15.00%) Hudson
4 3 (15.00%) FindBugs
4 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (10.00%) Maven
6 1 (5.000%) Checkstyle
General
1 1 (5.000%) Games
1 1 (5.000%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Interactive TV
1 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) TDD
2 7 (35.00%) OO
3 6 (30.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (25.00%) UML
5 4 (20.00%) OOD
5 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (15.00%) BDD
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) AOP
6 3 (15.00%) Refactoring
6 3 (15.00%) Code Coverage
7 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Pair Programming
7 2 (10.00%) Scrum
7 2 (10.00%) Time Management
8 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) PHP
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.000%) C
5 1 (5.000%) C++
5 1 (5.000%) Python
5 1 (5.000%) Ruby
5 1 (5.000%) Lua
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Cognizant
2 1 (5.000%) TIBCO
2 1 (5.000%) Perforce
2 1 (5.000%) Coverity
2 1 (5.000%) JBoss
East London
Java/Spring/ESB/REST-Opus Recruitment Solutions require an experienced Java engineer for a flagship client in East London- Working alongside a team of exceptionally gifted server-side...
OPUS
Rate: GBP350 to GBP450 per day
Posted: 20 April 2013
North West
The successful Java Engineer will have in depth knowledge of Java and J2EE and experience of Spring, REST or Camel frameworks... Other beneficial skills will be - XML - XQuery -...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £320.00 - £360.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013