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Browse 1727 Java job vacancies

The first table below looks at the demand for Java skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java 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 of the Programming Languages category.

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.

3 months to
19 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Java

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

-2

Contract jobs citing Java

4643

5316

6643

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

9.650%

9.160%

10.67%

As % of the Programming Languages category

25.62%

26.12%

28.21%

Number of daily rates quoted

2908

3357

4167

Average daily rate

£438

£425

£450

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+2.94%

-5.55%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£300

£293

£300

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£600

£625

UK excluding London average daily rate

£375

£350

% change year-on-year

+7.14%

Number of hourly rates quoted

189

Average hourly rate

£37.50

£33.00

£37.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+13.63%

-12.00%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£23.13

£22.50

£26.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£52.50

£48.15

£47.50

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£37.50

£32.50

£37.50

% change year-on-year

+15.38%

-13.33%

All Programming Languages
UK

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category

18123

20356

23548

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

37.67%

35.08%

37.83%

Number of daily rates quoted

11115

12069

13891

Average daily rate

£400

£375

£413

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+6.66%

-9.09%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£250

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£575

£600

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

Number of hourly rates quoted

594

737

849

Average hourly rate

£35.00

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£17.00

£17.51

£19.83

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£45.00

£46.00

£45.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£35.00

Java
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Java
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Java
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Java
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 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	-2	4098	£450	+2.85%	1618
London	+1	2848	£475	-5.00%	899
City of London	+2	823	£500	-	353
South East	-11	471	£375	+4.16%	206
Scotland	+10	381	£375	+15.38%	88
Glasgow	+4	231	£364	+11.83%	41
East of England	+4	180	£400	-	116
Hampshire	+1	156	£353	-6.00%	40
North West	-18	144	£363	+11.53%	98
Yorkshire	+2	142	£278	-11.20%	104
Berkshire	-3	119	£425	+13.33%	47
South West	-9	117	£375	-	83
West Yorkshire	+7	114	£275	-8.33%	72
Leeds	+11	100	£275	-8.33%	39
Surrey	-3	89	£350	-6.66%	49
Hertfordshire	+4	86	£350	-17.64%	30
East Midlands	0	78	£400	+52.38%	39
Cambridgeshire	+7	57	£400	+3.22%	60
Manchester	-16	55	£323	+3.20%	51
Edinburgh	+13	54	£400	+19.40%	34
Canary Wharf	-2	45	£600	+9.09%	1
West Midlands	-38	43	£375	+11.11%	47
Cheshire	-10	42	£387	+10.42%	27
Midlands	+1	39	£175	-56.25%
Buckinghamshire	-12	39	£400	+45.45%	10
Reading	+5	36	£425	+17.24%	24
Basingstoke	+2	36	£350	-	8
Somerset	+9	32	£325	-23.52%	17
Oxfordshire	-3	32	£328	-6.42%	27
Leicestershire	+12	30	£375	+7.14%	4

Java
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Java also 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 that cited Java.

1	2164 (25.30%)	SQL
2	2113 (24.70%)	Oracle
3	1873 (21.90%)	Spring
4	1658 (19.39%)	XML
5	1639 (19.16%)	JavaScript
6	1626 (19.01%)	Agile Software Development
7	1560 (18.24%)	Finance
8	1559 (18.23%)	J2EE
9	1368 (15.99%)	Banking
10	1367 (15.98%)	Linux
11	1356 (15.85%)	UNIX
12	1309 (15.30%)	TDD
13	1307 (15.28%)	Web Services
14	1286 (15.04%)	HTML
15	1168 (13.66%)	CSS

16	1129 (13.20%)	C#
17	1103 (12.90%)	Hibernate
18	1070 (12.51%)	.NET
18	1070 (12.51%)	OO
19	960 (11.22%)	C++
20	919 (10.74%)	E-Commerce
21	911 (10.65%)	Scrum
22	769 (8.991%)	JUnit
23	762 (8.909%)	Maven
24	736 (8.605%)	Windows
25	732 (8.558%)	SQL Server
26	714 (8.348%)	Continuous Integration
27	709 (8.289%)	WebSphere
28	706 (8.254%)	Multithreading
29	701 (8.196%)	Apache

Java
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Java also 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 that cited Java. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1	1873 (21.90%)	Spring
2	1658 (19.39%)	XML
3	1559 (18.23%)	J2EE
4	1307 (15.28%)	Web Services
5	1286 (15.04%)	HTML
6	1168 (13.66%)	CSS
7	1103 (12.90%)	Hibernate
8	1070 (12.51%)	.NET
9	709 (8.289%)	WebSphere
10	660 (7.717%)	JSP
11	657 (7.682%)	SOAP
12	647 (7.565%)	jQuery
13	543 (6.349%)	REST
14	541 (6.325%)	HTML5
15	522 (6.103%)	JMS
16	500 (5.846%)	JSON
17	494 (5.776%)	Ajax
18	490 (5.729%)	Java EE
19	385 (4.501%)	XSLT
20	377 (4.408%)	RESTful

Application Platforms
1	701 (8.196%)	Apache
2	611 (7.144%)	Tomcat
3	426 (4.981%)	WebLogic
4	208 (2.432%)	IIS
5	201 (2.350%)	ESB
6	185 (2.163%)	CMS
7	176 (2.058%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	137 (1.602%)	SharePoint
9	127 (1.485%)	Adobe CQ
10	96 (1.122%)	Oracle Coherence
10	96 (1.122%)	Amazon AWS
11	79 (0.924%)	BizTalk Server
12	70 (0.818%)	Amazon EC2
13	66 (0.772%)	Oracle Workflow
14	63 (0.737%)	MQSeries
15	60 (0.702%)	Apache Pig
16	59 (0.690%)	GlassFish
17	58 (0.678%)	FileNet
18	56 (0.655%)	Liferay
19	54 (0.631%)	Confluence

Applications
1	223 (2.607%)	MS Excel
2	86 (1.005%)	MS Office
3	74 (0.865%)	Photoshop
4	55 (0.643%)	MS Visio
5	34 (0.398%)	MS Project
6	32 (0.374%)	MS PowerPoint
7	19 (0.222%)	Mingle
8	9 (0.105%)	Fireworks
8	9 (0.105%)	SPSS
9	7 (0.082%)	Windchill
10	5 (0.058%)	Adobe Illustrator
10	5 (0.058%)	InfoPath
10	5 (0.058%)	Spreadsheet
10	5 (0.058%)	GIMP
10	5 (0.058%)	Final Cut Pro
11	3 (0.035%)	Acrobat
12	2 (0.023%)	Google Apps
12	2 (0.023%)	Doxygen
13	1 (0.012%)	Simulink
13	1 (0.012%)	Weka

Business Applications
1	55 (0.643%)	RMDS
2	48 (0.561%)	Oracle EBS
3	47 (0.550%)	Oracle BPM
4	34 (0.398%)	BusinessWorks
5	27 (0.316%)	Summit
6	26 (0.304%)	Dynamics AX
7	25 (0.292%)	Endur
8	24 (0.281%)	ION MarketView
9	14 (0.164%)	Oracle EBS R12
9	14 (0.164%)	Tridion
9	14 (0.164%)	Oracle Applications
10	13 (0.152%)	Murex MxG2000
11	12 (0.140%)	SAP Oil and Gas
12	10 (0.117%)	Oracle Financials
13	9 (0.105%)	Dynamics CRM
14	8 (0.094%)	Aligne
14	8 (0.094%)	TIBCO iProcess
14	8 (0.094%)	ZaiNet
14	8 (0.094%)	ENOVIA
14	8 (0.094%)	Maximo

Communications & Networking
1	386 (4.513%)	HTTP
2	322 (3.765%)	Internet
3	204 (2.385%)	TCP/IP
4	130 (1.520%)	LDAP
5	114 (1.333%)	SSL
6	96 (1.122%)	Firewall
7	93 (1.087%)	DNS
8	75 (0.877%)	SAN
9	56 (0.655%)	BIG-IP
10	53 (0.620%)	3G
11	50 (0.585%)	Kerberos
12	42 (0.491%)	NAS
13	40 (0.468%)	NetScaler
13	40 (0.468%)	Intranet
14	38 (0.444%)	DHCP
15	30 (0.351%)	FTP
15	30 (0.351%)	WAN
16	28 (0.327%)	LAN
17	21 (0.246%)	HTTPS
18	17 (0.199%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	732 (8.558%)	SQL Server
2	443 (5.179%)	MySQL
3	325 (3.800%)	RDBMS
4	226 (2.642%)	DB2
5	216 (2.525%)	NoSQL
6	174 (2.034%)	Big Data
7	168 (1.964%)	MongoDB
8	166 (1.941%)	Hadoop
9	159 (1.859%)	Oracle 11g
10	142 (1.660%)	Oracle 10g
11	126 (1.473%)	Oracle 8/8i
12	109 (1.274%)	Oracle Reports
13	101 (1.181%)	Data Warehouse
14	94 (1.099%)	Apache Cassandra
15	77 (0.900%)	SQL Server Integration Services
16	69 (0.807%)	SQL Server 2008
17	67 (0.783%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
18	63 (0.737%)	Apache Hive
19	60 (0.702%)	Redis
20	51 (0.596%)	PostgreSQL

Development Applications
1	769 (8.991%)	JUnit
2	762 (8.909%)	Maven
3	573 (6.699%)	Subversion
4	525 (6.138%)	Eclipse
5	461 (5.390%)	Selenium
6	369 (4.314%)	Git (software)
7	342 (3.999%)	Ant
8	331 (3.870%)	Jenkins
9	294 (3.437%)	JIRA
10	267 (3.122%)	Cucumber
11	202 (2.362%)	WebDriver
12	200 (2.338%)	Hudson
13	150 (1.754%)	TeamCity
14	148 (1.730%)	CruiseControl
15	143 (1.672%)	Mockito
16	106 (1.239%)	Visual Studio
17	99 (1.157%)	ClearCase
18	91 (1.064%)	Team Foundation Server
19	75 (0.877%)	TestNG
19	75 (0.877%)	Oracle Forms

General
1	1560 (18.24%)	Finance
2	1368 (15.99%)	Banking
3	674 (7.880%)	Investment Banking
4	538 (6.290%)	Front Office
5	364 (4.256%)	Retail
6	281 (3.285%)	Telecoms
7	178 (2.081%)	Games
8	140 (1.637%)	Publishing
9	123 (1.438%)	Back Office
10	85 (0.994%)	Marketing
11	62 (0.725%)	Manufacturing
12	57 (0.666%)	Financial Institution
13	51 (0.596%)	Retail Banking
14	40 (0.468%)	French Language
15	34 (0.398%)	Electronics
16	30 (0.351%)	German Language
16	30 (0.351%)	Billing
17	28 (0.327%)	Pharmaceutical
18	22 (0.257%)	Legal
19	21 (0.246%)	Corporate Banking

Job Titles
1	5147 (60.18%)	Developer
2	2720 (31.80%)	Java Developer
3	660 (7.717%)	Analyst
4	637 (7.448%)	Senior Developer
5	575 (6.723%)	Architect
6	423 (4.946%)	Senior Java Developer
7	377 (4.408%)	Android Developer
8	330 (3.858%)	Consultant
9	245 (2.864%)	Software Engineer
10	219 (2.561%)	Java/J2EE Developer
11	213 (2.490%)	Solutions Architect
12	201 (2.350%)	Web Developer
13	182 (2.128%)	Project Manager
14	175 (2.046%)	Programmer
15	164 (1.917%)	C# Developer
16	155 (1.812%)	Tester
17	145 (1.695%)	Test Analyst
18	141 (1.649%)	Technical Leader
19	130 (1.520%)	Support Analyst
20	129 (1.508%)	Lead Developer

Miscellaneous
1	442 (5.168%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
2	417 (4.875%)	Open Source
3	416 (4.864%)	Computer Science
4	340 (3.975%)	Mobile App
5	332 (3.882%)	Derivative
6	303 (3.543%)	Fixed Income
7	156 (1.824%)	Mathematics
8	151 (1.765%)	Enterprise Software
9	120 (1.403%)	Equities
10	113 (1.321%)	Equity Derivative
11	91 (1.064%)	Client/Server
12	88 (1.029%)	Digital Media
13	81 (0.947%)	iPhone
14	75 (0.877%)	Blackberry
15	70 (0.818%)	SaaS
16	68 (0.795%)	Market Risk
17	66 (0.772%)	Social Media
17	66 (0.772%)	Credit Risk
18	64 (0.748%)	N-Tier
19	61 (0.713%)	Physics

Operating Systems
1	1367 (15.98%)	Linux
2	1356 (15.85%)	UNIX
3	736 (8.605%)	Windows
4	644 (7.530%)	Android
5	301 (3.519%)	Apple iOS
6	221 (2.584%)	Solaris
7	154 (1.801%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	80 (0.935%)	Windows Server 2008
9	78 (0.912%)	Windows Server 2003
10	60 (0.702%)	Windows XP
11	47 (0.550%)	CentOS
12	41 (0.479%)	AIX
13	40 (0.468%)	Windows 7
14	35 (0.409%)	Ubuntu
15	32 (0.374%)	SUSE
16	29 (0.339%)	Windows Mobile
17	28 (0.327%)	Mac OS X
18	24 (0.281%)	HPUX
19	21 (0.246%)	Embedded Linux
20	16 (0.187%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	1626 (19.01%)	Agile Software Development
2	1309 (15.30%)	TDD
3	1070 (12.51%)	OO
4	919 (10.74%)	E-Commerce
5	911 (10.65%)	Scrum
6	714 (8.348%)	Continuous Integration
7	706 (8.254%)	Multithreading
8	629 (7.354%)	MVC
9	586 (6.851%)	UML
10	562 (6.571%)	SOA
10	562 (6.571%)	BDD
11	422 (4.934%)	Unit Testing
12	325 (3.800%)	Web Development
13	273 (3.192%)	Project Management
14	260 (3.040%)	OOP
15	243 (2.841%)	Pair Programming
16	226 (2.642%)	Configuration Management
16	226 (2.642%)	Software Engineering
17	210 (2.455%)	ITIL
18	196 (2.292%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	2164 (25.30%)	SQL
2	1639 (19.16%)	JavaScript
3	1129 (13.20%)	C#
4	960 (11.22%)	C++
5	661 (7.728%)	Perl
6	574 (6.711%)	Python
7	437 (5.109%)	C
7	437 (5.109%)	Ruby
8	404 (4.723%)	PL/SQL
9	379 (4.431%)	PHP
10	302 (3.531%)	Shell Script
11	258 (3.016%)	Scala
12	204 (2.385%)	Groovy
13	203 (2.373%)	Bash shell
14	157 (1.836%)	VB
15	141 (1.649%)	Objective-C
16	113 (1.321%)	XPath
17	95 (1.111%)	VBA
18	71 (0.830%)	ABAP
19	69 (0.807%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	625 (7.307%)	Degree
2	436 (5.098%)	Security Cleared
3	214 (2.502%)	SC Cleared
4	153 (1.789%)	DV Cleared
5	95 (1.111%)	ISEB
6	49 (0.573%)	Sun Certification
7	47 (0.550%)	ISTQB
8	32 (0.374%)	PhD
9	29 (0.339%)	PRINCE2 Certification
10	28 (0.327%)	ITIL Certification
11	25 (0.292%)	CISSP
11	25 (0.292%)	Microsoft Certification
12	21 (0.246%)	BC Cleared
13	20 (0.234%)	PMI Certification
14	16 (0.187%)	GIAC
15	15 (0.175%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
16	13 (0.152%)	MCP
16	13 (0.152%)	MCTS
17	12 (0.140%)	MCPD
18	10 (0.117%)	GWAPT

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	395 (4.618%)	QA
2	34 (0.398%)	SLA
3	18 (0.210%)	ISO 9001
4	11 (0.129%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
5	10 (0.117%)	Data Quality
5	10 (0.117%)	HL7
5	10 (0.117%)	PCI DSS
6	9 (0.105%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	9 (0.105%)	WAI
7	8 (0.094%)	Basel III
7	8 (0.094%)	WCAG
8	7 (0.082%)	Basel II
9	5 (0.058%)	COBIT
10	4 (0.047%)	ISO 9000
10	4 (0.047%)	TickIT
11	2 (0.023%)	ISO/IEC 14443
11	2 (0.023%)	ISO/IEC 7816
12	1 (0.012%)	ISO 8583
12	1 (0.012%)	Solvency II
12	1 (0.012%)	Section 508

System Software
1	70 (0.818%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	48 (0.561%)	Active Directory
3	27 (0.316%)	Oracle RAC
4	21 (0.246%)	NFS
5	15 (0.175%)	Squid
6	11 (0.129%)	Oracle RMAN
6	11 (0.129%)	vSphere
7	10 (0.117%)	Hyper-V
7	10 (0.117%)	Samba
8	9 (0.105%)	Veritas Volume Manager
9	8 (0.094%)	vCloud
9	8 (0.094%)	OpenSSO
9	8 (0.094%)	Tivoli Directory Server
9	8 (0.094%)	Xen
10	7 (0.082%)	ProxySG
10	7 (0.082%)	Nmap
11	6 (0.070%)	Apache ZooKeeper
11	6 (0.070%)	Varnish
11	6 (0.070%)	Shibboleth
12	5 (0.058%)	Snort

Systems Management
1	145 (1.695%)	Puppet
2	60 (0.702%)	HP Quality Center
3	59 (0.690%)	Nagios
4	42 (0.491%)	Tivoli
5	36 (0.421%)	Splunk
6	28 (0.327%)	BladeLogic
7	27 (0.316%)	CA SiteMinder
8	22 (0.257%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
9	19 (0.222%)	MOM
10	15 (0.175%)	Control-M
10	15 (0.175%)	CA Wily
11	13 (0.152%)	Netcool
11	13 (0.152%)	Data Guard
11	13 (0.152%)	HP SiteScope
12	12 (0.140%)	Zenoss
12	12 (0.140%)	SCOM
13	8 (0.094%)	Unicenter
13	8 (0.094%)	Norton AntiVirus
14	7 (0.082%)	BMC PATROL
14	7 (0.082%)	HP Operations Orchestration

Vendors
1	2113 (24.70%)	Oracle
2	501 (5.858%)	JBoss
3	425 (4.969%)	IBM
4	413 (4.829%)	Microsoft
5	387 (4.525%)	Sybase
6	238 (2.783%)	TIBCO
7	227 (2.654%)	Adobe
8	221 (2.584%)	SAP
9	207 (2.420%)	Red Hat
10	197 (2.303%)	Google
11	137 (1.602%)	hybris
12	129 (1.508%)	HP
13	115 (1.345%)	ATG
14	108 (1.263%)	Informatica
15	100 (1.169%)	VMware
16	97 (1.134%)	Sun
17	87 (1.017%)	Citrix
18	84 (0.982%)	Reuters
19	83 (0.970%)	Business Objects
20	77 (0.900%)	Perforce

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Java Developer - Hybris, Payments

City, London

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South Yorkshire

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Senior Java Developer - Contract Dublin Ireland

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E-Frontiers

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Java Developer

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