The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Software 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 Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Software Engineer
Rank 497 542 541
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 43 39 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.091% 0.067% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.072% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 31 17
Average daily rate £400 £375 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £301 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £425 £389
UK excluding London average daily rate £321 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 18
Average hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.75% +15.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.34 £40.00 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.70 £40.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.75 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-20.62% +14.28%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Java Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Java Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Java Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Java Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Software Engineer
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +44 37 £400 +6.66%
London +28 22 £475 +11.76%
South East +27 5 £350 -
Yorkshire +8 5 £320 -14.66%
West Yorkshire +6 5 £320 -14.66%
Leeds -3 5 £320 -14.66%
Hampshire -6 5 £350 -
Scotland - 5 £400 -
South West +20 4 £300 -23.07%
City of London +13 2 £413 -10.81%
Bristol +6 2 £400 +2.56%
Somerset - 2 £200 -
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Barnet - 2 £350 -
Manchester +7 1 £323 +3.03%
North West +6 1 £323 -0.76%
Fife - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £350 -
Salford - 1 £323 -
Bridgwater - 1 - -
Bath - 1 £200 -
Eastleigh - 1 - -

Java Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Java Software 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 Software Engineer in their job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (42.86%) Spring
3 26 (37.14%) J2EE
4 24 (34.29%) Multithreading
5 22 (31.43%) TDD
6 21 (30.00%) Open Source
7 20 (28.57%) Web Services
8 18 (25.71%) Agile Software Development
9 16 (22.86%) OO
9 16 (22.86%) RESTful
10 14 (20.00%) Linux
10 14 (20.00%) SQL
11 13 (18.57%) XML
12 12 (17.14%) Hibernate
12 12 (17.14%) Finance
12 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
12 12 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
13 11 (15.71%) BDD
13 11 (15.71%) Degree
13 11 (15.71%) JavaScript
13 11 (15.71%) J2SE
14 10 (14.29%) Oracle
14 10 (14.29%) UNIX
14 10 (14.29%) Ruby
14 10 (14.29%) Front Office
15 9 (12.86%) Pair Programming
15 9 (12.86%) HTML
15 9 (12.86%) REST
15 9 (12.86%) Cucumber
16 8 (11.43%) Jenkins

Java Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Java Software 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 Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 30 (42.86%) Spring
2 26 (37.14%) J2EE
3 20 (28.57%) Web Services
4 16 (22.86%) RESTful
5 13 (18.57%) XML
6 12 (17.14%) Hibernate
7 11 (15.71%) J2SE
8 9 (12.86%) HTML
8 9 (12.86%) REST
9 7 (10.00%) CSS
10 6 (8.571%) JMS
11 5 (7.143%) HTML5
12 4 (5.714%) Guice
12 4 (5.714%) JDBC
12 4 (5.714%) Grails
13 3 (4.286%) Lucene
13 3 (4.286%) JSON
13 3 (4.286%) Java EE
13 3 (4.286%) JSP
13 3 (4.286%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.714%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.286%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (2.857%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.429%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.429%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (1.429%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.143%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.714%) HTTP
3 3 (4.286%) DVB
4 1 (1.429%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.143%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.714%) Big Data
3 3 (4.286%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.286%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.857%) MarkLogic
4 2 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.429%) Ingres
5 1 (1.429%) MySQL
5 1 (1.429%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Cucumber
2 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.43%) Maven
3 6 (8.571%) Git (software)
3 6 (8.571%) JUnit
4 5 (7.143%) GitHub
5 3 (4.286%) Eclipse
5 3 (4.286%) Ant
5 3 (4.286%) Hudson
6 1 (1.429%) NetBeans
6 1 (1.429%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.429%) Selenium
6 1 (1.429%) Checkstyle
6 1 (1.429%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.429%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.429%) Mockito
6 1 (1.429%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.429%) FindBugs
General
1 12 (17.14%) Finance
2 10 (14.29%) Front Office
3 7 (10.00%) Publishing
4 5 (7.143%) Banking
4 5 (7.143%) Retail
5 4 (5.714%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.429%) Games
6 1 (1.429%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Open Source
2 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
3 7 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 5 (7.143%) Blog
5 4 (5.714%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.286%) DTV
7 2 (2.857%) Semantic Web
7 2 (2.857%) Interactive TV
7 2 (2.857%) Streaming Video
8 1 (1.429%) N-Tier
8 1 (1.429%) iPhone
8 1 (1.429%) iPad
8 1 (1.429%) Digital Media
8 1 (1.429%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.00%) Linux
2 10 (14.29%) UNIX
3 5 (7.143%) Windows
4 2 (2.857%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.429%) Android
5 1 (1.429%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (34.29%) Multithreading
2 22 (31.43%) TDD
3 18 (25.71%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (22.86%) OO
5 12 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (15.71%) BDD
7 9 (12.86%) Pair Programming
8 8 (11.43%) Content Management
9 7 (10.00%) Unit Testing
9 7 (10.00%) Analytics
10 6 (8.571%) E-Commerce
10 6 (8.571%) Software Engineering
11 5 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
11 5 (7.143%) Electronic Trading
12 4 (5.714%) OOD
13 3 (4.286%) MVC
13 3 (4.286%) Scrum
13 3 (4.286%) Web Development
13 3 (4.286%) RDF
13 3 (4.286%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 70 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (20.00%) SQL
3 11 (15.71%) JavaScript
4 10 (14.29%) Ruby
5 8 (11.43%) Groovy
6 7 (10.00%) Scala
7 5 (7.143%) XPath
7 5 (7.143%) Python
8 4 (5.714%) PHP
8 4 (5.714%) C#
9 2 (2.857%) SPARQL
9 2 (2.857%) VB
9 2 (2.857%) XQuery
10 1 (1.429%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.429%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 2 (2.857%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.857%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.429%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.429%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Oracle
2 5 (7.143%) JBoss
3 2 (2.857%) hybris
3 2 (2.857%) BEA
4 1 (1.429%) Google
4 1 (1.429%) IBM
4 1 (1.429%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.429%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.429%) Apple
4 1 (1.429%) Coverity
Southampton, Hampshire
Java Developer - Southampton - £400 per day... You will have experience in developing both Software and Systems as well excellent experience with Java Messaging (JMS) Skills *Java / J2EE *JMS *...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
The contract is based in London and requires 2 years experience of the following: Java Coding. Java Design patterns. Java Algorithms. XML Web Services... Lazy loading (dynamic function...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £21.75 - £29.86 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Java/Scala developer required for a 6 month contract in Leeds/London. Essential skills: Java. Scala. Oracle. Rabbit MQ or exposure to message queuing... Nice to have: C#, ...
ReThink Recruitment
Rate: £0.00 per day + market rates
Posted: 17 May 2013
Fife
The role will involve working closely with the internal development team to deliver a client project and will require your skills in the following technologies: -Java, J2EE Programming (...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: £27 - £32 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013