Senior Java Developer 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 Senior 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 Senior Java Developer 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
Senior Java Developer
Rank 330 304 281
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 221 320 361
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.468% 0.547% 0.600%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.508% 0.591% 0.647%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 232 231
Average daily rate £525 £575 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% +9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £375 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £379 £355
% change year-on-year
+4.29% +6.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - -
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%

Senior Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Senior Java Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Java Developer
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 Senior Java Developer 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 -28 200 £550 -4.34%
London -32 171 £555 -7.50%
City of London 0 49 £575 -8.00%
Scotland +1 19 £425 -
Glasgow -11 12 £475 -
South East +18 10 £400 -
North West +9 8 £350 -6.66%
Surrey +16 5 £400 -5.88%
Manchester +14 4 £350 -7.89%
Northamptonshire +14 4 - -
East of England +11 4 £415 +10.66%
East Midlands +2 4 - -
Stirling - 4 £401 -
Westminster - 4 £500 -
Cheshire +2 3 £450 -
Stockport - 3 £350 -
South West +19 2 £380 -6.17%
Hertfordshire +13 2 £450 +20.00%
Northampton +7 2 - -
Berkshire +6 2 £358 -11.45%
Hampshire -9 2 £340 -2.85%
Canary Wharf -16 2 £550 -
Gloucestershire +32 1 £400 -33.33%
Reading +7 1 £325 -23.52%
Bournemouth +3 1 £360 -15.29%
Dorset +2 1 £360 -15.29%
Docklands, London +2 1 £463 -38.33%
West Yorkshire -2 1 £260 -28.27%
Hounslow -4 1 £450 +5.88%
Yorkshire -6 1 £260 -20.00%

Senior Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 403 (100.00%) Java
2 216 (53.60%) Spring
3 133 (33.00%) Hibernate
4 126 (31.27%) Banking
5 125 (31.02%) J2EE
6 122 (30.27%) SQL
7 113 (28.04%) Multithreading
8 110 (27.30%) TDD
9 96 (23.82%) Oracle
10 94 (23.33%) Finance
11 92 (22.83%) Agile Software Development
12 91 (22.58%) Web Services
13 83 (20.60%) XML
14 72 (17.87%) E-Commerce
15 69 (17.12%) JavaScript
16 66 (16.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 64 (15.88%) Front Office
18 61 (15.14%) Investment Banking
19 58 (14.39%) JUnit
20 56 (13.90%) Maven
21 55 (13.65%) JMS
22 53 (13.15%) MVC
23 52 (12.90%) UNIX
23 52 (12.90%) BDD
24 50 (12.41%) Linux
25 49 (12.16%) Scrum
26 48 (11.91%) Spring MVC
26 48 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
27 45 (11.17%) Apache
28 44 (10.92%) jQuery

Senior Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 216 (53.60%) Spring
2 133 (33.00%) Hibernate
3 125 (31.02%) J2EE
4 91 (22.58%) Web Services
5 83 (20.60%) XML
6 55 (13.65%) JMS
7 48 (11.91%) Spring MVC
8 44 (10.92%) jQuery
9 41 (10.17%) RESTful
10 39 (9.677%) JSP
11 36 (8.933%) HTML
12 34 (8.437%) CSS
13 30 (7.444%) Servlets
13 30 (7.444%) Struts
14 28 (6.948%) SOAP
15 26 (6.452%) EJB
15 26 (6.452%) Ajax
16 23 (5.707%) JDBC
17 20 (4.963%) JSON
17 20 (4.963%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 45 (11.17%) Apache
2 35 (8.685%) Tomcat
3 16 (3.970%) ESB
4 15 (3.722%) WebLogic
5 12 (2.978%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (2.481%) CMS
6 10 (2.481%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (2.233%) Mule
7 9 (2.233%) Rendezvous
8 7 (1.737%) Adobe CQ
9 6 (1.489%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (1.241%) Liferay
11 4 (0.993%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.993%) Oracle Coherence
12 3 (0.744%) Progress Apama
12 3 (0.744%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.744%) Alfresco
12 3 (0.744%) Kafka
12 3 (0.744%) MTS
13 2 (0.496%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (0.993%) MS Visio
1 4 (0.993%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.489%) RMDS
1 6 (1.489%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.248%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.248%) Summit
2 1 (0.248%) BASE24
2 1 (0.248%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.481%) HTTP
2 3 (0.744%) LDAP
3 2 (0.496%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.496%) SSL
3 2 (0.496%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.248%) AMQP
4 1 (0.248%) TELNET
4 1 (0.248%) Internet
4 1 (0.248%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.248%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.437%) RDBMS
2 27 (6.700%) MySQL
3 23 (5.707%) NoSQL
4 22 (5.459%) SQL Server
5 21 (5.211%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.211%) Big Data
6 10 (2.481%) Hadoop
7 9 (2.233%) DB2
8 5 (1.241%) Riak
9 4 (0.993%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (0.993%) GIS
9 4 (0.993%) JasperReports
9 4 (0.993%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.744%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (0.744%) MarkLogic
10 3 (0.744%) Apache Hive
10 3 (0.744%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.744%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (0.496%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.248%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 58 (14.39%) JUnit
2 56 (13.90%) Maven
3 34 (8.437%) Eclipse
4 21 (5.211%) Subversion
5 20 (4.963%) Git (software)
5 20 (4.963%) Ant
6 18 (4.467%) Jenkins
7 15 (3.722%) CruiseControl
8 13 (3.226%) jMock
9 9 (2.233%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.737%) JIRA
10 7 (1.737%) Gradle
11 6 (1.489%) ClearCase
11 6 (1.489%) EasyMock
11 6 (1.489%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.489%) Selenium
12 5 (1.241%) GitHub
12 5 (1.241%) Mockito
12 5 (1.241%) JDeveloper
13 4 (0.993%) Spring Roo
General
1 126 (31.27%) Banking
2 94 (23.33%) Finance
3 64 (15.88%) Front Office
4 61 (15.14%) Investment Banking
5 15 (3.722%) Publishing
6 13 (3.226%) Games
7 6 (1.489%) Retail
8 5 (1.241%) Back Office
8 5 (1.241%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.993%) Marketing
10 2 (0.496%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.496%) Billing
10 2 (0.496%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.248%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.248%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 66 (16.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 40 (9.926%) Derivative
3 36 (8.933%) Open Source
4 26 (6.452%) Fixed Income
5 17 (4.218%) Computer Science
6 16 (3.970%) Equity Derivative
7 14 (3.474%) Mathematics
8 12 (2.978%) Market Risk
9 11 (2.730%) Equities
10 9 (2.233%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.985%) N-Tier
12 5 (1.241%) Equity Risk
12 5 (1.241%) Blog
12 5 (1.241%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.241%) iPhone
12 5 (1.241%) Digital Media
12 5 (1.241%) IaaS
12 5 (1.241%) PaaS
12 5 (1.241%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.241%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.90%) UNIX
2 50 (12.41%) Linux
3 10 (2.481%) Android
4 9 (2.233%) Windows
5 8 (1.985%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.241%) Solaris
7 2 (0.496%) SUSE
8 1 (0.248%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.04%) Multithreading
2 110 (27.30%) TDD
3 92 (22.83%) Agile Software Development
4 72 (17.87%) E-Commerce
5 53 (13.15%) MVC
6 52 (12.90%) BDD
7 49 (12.16%) Scrum
8 48 (11.91%) Continuous Integration
9 43 (10.67%) OO
10 30 (7.444%) Pair Programming
11 26 (6.452%) Unit Testing
12 25 (6.203%) UML
13 22 (5.459%) Risk Management
14 12 (2.978%) SOA
14 12 (2.978%) RUP
14 12 (2.978%) Extreme Programming
14 12 (2.978%) Enterprise Architecture
15 11 (2.730%) Business Analysis
16 10 (2.481%) Migration
16 10 (2.481%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 403 (100.00%) Java
2 122 (30.27%) SQL
3 69 (17.12%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.181%) C#
5 36 (8.933%) Groovy
6 27 (6.700%) Scala
7 19 (4.715%) PL/SQL
7 19 (4.715%) Shell Script
8 17 (4.218%) Python
8 17 (4.218%) C++
9 16 (3.970%) Ruby
10 11 (2.730%) Perl
11 5 (1.241%) Haskell
11 5 (1.241%) Erlang
11 5 (1.241%) Clojure
12 2 (0.496%) Bash shell
12 2 (0.496%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.248%) XPath
13 1 (0.248%) C-shell
13 1 (0.248%) Korn
Qualifications
1 17 (4.218%) Degree
2 10 (2.481%) Security Cleared
3 8 (1.985%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.241%) PMI Certification
5 4 (0.993%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (0.496%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.496%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.737%) QA
2 4 (0.993%) Basel II
2 4 (0.993%) Basel III
3 1 (0.248%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (0.248%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (0.248%) Shibboleth
1 1 (0.248%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.241%) MOM
2 3 (0.744%) Splunk
2 3 (0.744%) Puppet
3 1 (0.248%) Control-M
Vendors
1 96 (23.82%) Oracle
2 21 (5.211%) JBoss
3 20 (4.963%) Sybase
4 13 (3.226%) TIBCO
5 10 (2.481%) Google
6 6 (1.489%) Reuters
6 6 (1.489%) ION Trading
6 6 (1.489%) 29West
7 5 (1.241%) Informatica
7 5 (1.241%) Chordiant
7 5 (1.241%) Adobe
8 3 (0.744%) MarketAxess
8 3 (0.744%) Tradeweb
8 3 (0.744%) eSpeed
8 3 (0.744%) Symantec
8 3 (0.744%) Murex
8 3 (0.744%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.496%) IBM
9 2 (0.496%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.496%) Apple
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