The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead 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 Lead Java Developer 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
Lead Java Developer
Rank 509 566 554
Rank change year-on-year
+57 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 20 18 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.043% 0.031% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.033% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 23
Average daily rate £625 £550 £513
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% +7.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £371 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £688 £900 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate - £388 £375
% change year-on-year
- +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Job Titles
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%

Lead Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lead Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lead Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Lead Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Lead Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lead Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Lead Java Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Java Developer 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 +48 20 £625 +13.63%
London +49 19 £625 -21.87%
City of London +22 9 £625 -9.09%
South West +27 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Cheltenham - 1 - -

Lead Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (46.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (34.69%) E-Commerce
3 17 (34.69%) Spring
4 15 (30.61%) Oracle
5 14 (28.57%) 29West
6 13 (26.53%) JMS
6 13 (26.53%) TIBCO
6 13 (26.53%) Hibernate
6 13 (26.53%) Multithreading
7 12 (24.49%) SQL
8 11 (22.45%) Web Services
8 11 (22.45%) Front Office
8 11 (22.45%) Electronic Trading
9 10 (20.41%) Scrum
9 10 (20.41%) Banking
9 10 (20.41%) UML
10 9 (18.37%) UNIX
10 9 (18.37%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (16.33%) TDD
11 8 (16.33%) Degree
11 8 (16.33%) J2EE
11 8 (16.33%) Rendezvous
11 8 (16.33%) RESTful
12 7 (14.29%) JUnit
13 6 (12.24%) PL/SQL
13 6 (12.24%) OO
13 6 (12.24%) CSS
13 6 (12.24%) SOAP
13 6 (12.24%) Eclipse

Lead Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (34.69%) Spring
2 13 (26.53%) JMS
2 13 (26.53%) Hibernate
3 11 (22.45%) Web Services
4 8 (16.33%) J2EE
4 8 (16.33%) RESTful
5 6 (12.24%) CSS
5 6 (12.24%) SOAP
5 6 (12.24%) jQuery
6 5 (10.20%) JSF
6 5 (10.20%) XML
6 5 (10.20%) HTML
6 5 (10.20%) REST
7 4 (8.163%) XSD
7 4 (8.163%) DOM
7 4 (8.163%) XSLT
7 4 (8.163%) JAXP
7 4 (8.163%) SAX
8 3 (6.122%) JSON
8 3 (6.122%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 8 (16.33%) Rendezvous
2 6 (12.24%) TIBCO EMS
3 5 (10.20%) Liferay
4 4 (8.163%) WebLogic
4 4 (8.163%) WebLogic Portal
5 2 (4.082%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.082%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (2.041%) CMS
6 1 (2.041%) FileNet
6 1 (2.041%) GemFire
6 1 (2.041%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.163%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.082%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.082%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.082%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (4.082%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.082%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.041%) KDB
3 1 (2.041%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.041%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.041%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.041%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.041%) Big Data
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.041%) Sqoop
3 1 (2.041%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JUnit
2 6 (12.24%) Eclipse
2 6 (12.24%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) Maven
4 4 (8.163%) ClearQuest
4 4 (8.163%) ClearCase
5 3 (6.122%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.122%) Mockito
6 2 (4.082%) JBehave
6 2 (4.082%) Ant
6 2 (4.082%) CruiseControl
6 2 (4.082%) Selenium
6 2 (4.082%) Git (software)
7 1 (2.041%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.041%) Subversion
7 1 (2.041%) IntelliJ
7 1 (2.041%) FishEye
7 1 (2.041%) Hudson
General
1 11 (22.45%) Front Office
2 10 (20.41%) Banking
3 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.163%) Finance
5 3 (6.122%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.041%) Retail
6 1 (2.041%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 23 (46.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (8.163%) Derivative
3 3 (6.122%) Fixed Income
4 2 (4.082%) Open Source
5 1 (2.041%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.041%) Statistics
5 1 (2.041%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) UNIX
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
3 2 (4.082%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) E-Commerce
2 13 (26.53%) Multithreading
3 11 (22.45%) Electronic Trading
4 10 (20.41%) Scrum
4 10 (20.41%) UML
5 9 (18.37%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (16.33%) TDD
7 6 (12.24%) OO
8 4 (8.163%) BDD
8 4 (8.163%) Data Modelling
9 3 (6.122%) Web Development
9 3 (6.122%) OOD
9 3 (6.122%) MVC
9 3 (6.122%) Analytics
9 3 (6.122%) Software Architecture
10 2 (4.082%) Risk Management
10 2 (4.082%) Pair Programming
10 2 (4.082%) Software Engineering
11 1 (2.041%) Resource Management
11 1 (2.041%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (24.49%) SQL
3 6 (12.24%) PL/SQL
4 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.163%) XPath
6 3 (6.122%) Python
7 2 (4.082%) C++
8 1 (2.041%) Ruby
8 1 (2.041%) C
8 1 (2.041%) C#
8 1 (2.041%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.082%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.041%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.041%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 2 (4.082%) Splunk
1 2 (4.082%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 15 (30.61%) Oracle
2 14 (28.57%) 29West
3 13 (26.53%) TIBCO
4 4 (8.163%) Sybase
5 3 (6.122%) JBoss
6 2 (4.082%) Twitter
6 2 (4.082%) BMC
6 2 (4.082%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.041%) IBM
7 1 (2.041%) Terracotta
City, London
An experienced Java Developer is required for a Leading Investment Bank in London. The successful candidate will work on developing new and enhancing current Low Latency trading application...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £600 - £650 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
This is a globally recognised leading FX trading platform. Key Skills required: § Java (strong server side multi threading experience) § TDD, Scrum, Agile, § Experience in working on an eCommerce...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: VP level or £550-600
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
This is a globally recognised leading FX trading platform. Key Skills required: Java (strong server side multi threading experience) TDD, Scrum, Agile, Experience in working on an eCommerce...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £550 - £650 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013