Java Programmer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Programmer
Rank 478 564 533
Rank change year-on-year
+86 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Programmer 51 20 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.110% 0.034% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.119% 0.037% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 33
Average daily rate £363 £335 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.20% -16.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £301 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £595
UK excluding London average daily rate £322 £335 £363
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.81 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 37 Java Programmer jobs
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UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
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 2112 2572 2930
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Java Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Java Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Java Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Programmer
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Programmer within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +72 42 £388 +10.71%
London +61 30 £450 +5.88%
Scotland -3 8 £318 +17.21%
Glasgow -10 6 £319 +17.49%
City of London +18 4 £513 +57.69%
South East +17 4 £315 -10.00%
East of England - 4 £363 -
Yorkshire - 3 £350 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £363 -
North Yorkshire - 3 £350 -
Edinburgh - 2 £310 -
Oxfordshire - 2 - -
South West +24 1 £200 -40.29%
Somerset - 1 £200 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £325 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £315 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £315 -
Bishop's Stortford - 1 £325 -
Bath - 1 £200 -

Java Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Java Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title.

1 86 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (51.16%) J2EE
3 38 (44.19%) Spring
4 37 (43.02%) Oracle
5 28 (32.56%) XML
5 28 (32.56%) Hibernate
5 28 (32.56%) Maven
6 22 (25.58%) JSP
6 22 (25.58%) JavaScript
6 22 (25.58%) Finance
7 21 (24.42%) SQL
8 19 (22.09%) Struts
8 19 (22.09%) TDD
8 19 (22.09%) Multithreading
9 18 (20.93%) Banking
9 18 (20.93%) JUnit
10 17 (19.77%) Servlets
10 17 (19.77%) Eclipse
11 16 (18.60%) HTML
12 14 (16.28%) Web Services
12 14 (16.28%) JMS
12 14 (16.28%) Investment Banking
13 13 (15.12%) MVC
14 12 (13.95%) RDBMS
14 12 (13.95%) Linux
14 12 (13.95%) JSF
14 12 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
15 11 (12.79%) EasyMock
15 11 (12.79%) Java EE
15 11 (12.79%) JSTL

Java Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Java Programmer 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 Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (51.16%) J2EE
2 38 (44.19%) Spring
3 28 (32.56%) XML
3 28 (32.56%) Hibernate
4 22 (25.58%) JSP
5 19 (22.09%) Struts
6 17 (19.77%) Servlets
7 16 (18.60%) HTML
8 14 (16.28%) Web Services
8 14 (16.28%) JMS
9 12 (13.95%) JSF
10 11 (12.79%) Java EE
10 11 (12.79%) JSTL
10 11 (12.79%) EJB
11 10 (11.63%) Spring MVC
12 9 (10.47%) CSS
13 8 (9.302%) jQuery
14 7 (8.140%) JDBC
15 6 (6.977%) jBPM
16 5 (5.814%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 10 (11.63%) Apache
2 9 (10.47%) Tomcat
3 5 (5.814%) GlassFish
3 5 (5.814%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.163%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.163%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.163%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.163%) CMS
4 1 (1.163%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.163%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (1.163%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.163%) FTP
1 1 (1.163%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.95%) RDBMS
2 11 (12.79%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.47%) MySQL
4 5 (5.814%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.163%) MarkLogic
5 1 (1.163%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.163%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.163%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.163%) JasperReports
5 1 (1.163%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.163%) DB2
Development Applications
1 28 (32.56%) Maven
2 18 (20.93%) JUnit
3 17 (19.77%) Eclipse
4 11 (12.79%) EasyMock
4 11 (12.79%) Ant
5 10 (11.63%) JDeveloper
6 6 (6.977%) IntelliJ
6 6 (6.977%) Mockito
7 5 (5.814%) JIRA
8 4 (4.651%) Subversion
9 3 (3.488%) Git (software)
10 1 (1.163%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.163%) Selenium
10 1 (1.163%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.163%) Hudson
General
1 22 (25.58%) Finance
2 18 (20.93%) Banking
3 14 (16.28%) Investment Banking
4 6 (6.977%) Front Office
4 6 (6.977%) French Language
5 5 (5.814%) German Language
5 5 (5.814%) Games
6 1 (1.163%) Law
6 1 (1.163%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.47%) Derivative
2 5 (5.814%) Online Games
3 4 (4.651%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.163%) iPhone
4 1 (1.163%) Semantic Web
4 1 (1.163%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (1.163%) Video on Demand
4 1 (1.163%) iPad
4 1 (1.163%) IPTV
4 1 (1.163%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (1.163%) Streaming Video
4 1 (1.163%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Linux
2 8 (9.302%) UNIX
3 5 (5.814%) Apple iOS
4 4 (4.651%) Windows
5 1 (1.163%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.09%) TDD
1 19 (22.09%) Multithreading
2 13 (15.12%) MVC
3 12 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (11.63%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (10.47%) UML
6 8 (9.302%) Web Development
6 8 (9.302%) Unit Testing
7 7 (8.140%) BDD
7 7 (8.140%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (6.977%) OO
9 5 (5.814%) Kanban
9 5 (5.814%) Business Analysis
9 5 (5.814%) OOD
10 4 (4.651%) Requirements Analysis
10 4 (4.651%) Mobile Application Development
11 3 (3.488%) Software Engineering
11 3 (3.488%) Change Management
11 3 (3.488%) CRM
12 2 (2.326%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (25.58%) JavaScript
3 21 (24.42%) SQL
4 8 (9.302%) C#
5 7 (8.140%) Scala
6 5 (5.814%) ActionScript
7 2 (2.326%) C
7 2 (2.326%) PHP
7 2 (2.326%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.163%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.163%) C++
8 1 (1.163%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.163%) Python
8 1 (1.163%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 8 (9.302%) Sun Certification
2 7 (8.140%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.651%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) Squid
Vendors
1 37 (43.02%) Oracle
2 8 (9.302%) Sun
3 5 (5.814%) JBoss
4 3 (3.488%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (2.326%) Google
5 2 (2.326%) hybris
6 1 (1.163%) Adobe
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