The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Java J2EE Developer
Rank 531 561 568
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java/J2EE Developer 10 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.020% 0.031% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.034% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 19
Average daily rate £403 £450 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.55% +10.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £350 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £323
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +16.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2142 2525 2941
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 £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Senior Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer within the UK.

Senior Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Senior Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Java/J2EE Developer within the UK.

Senior Java/J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +23 10 £403 -10.55% 3
London +19 7 £415 -12.63% 1
East of England +16 1 £380 +1.33%
West Midlands - 1 £325 -
Leeds - 1 £260 -
Birmingham - 1 £325 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £260 -
Yorkshire - 1 £260 -
City of London - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
North West - - - - 1
South East - - - - 1
South West - - - -
Bristol - - - -
Chester - - - -
Leamington Spa - - - -
Leicester - - - -
Ealing - - - -
Manchester - - - - 1
Northampton - - - -
Poole - - - -
Reading - - - -
Southampton - - - -
Stockport - - - - 1
Winchester - - - -
York - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
Dorset - - - -
Hampshire - - - -

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
1 20 (100.00%) J2EE
2 12 (60.00%) Spring
3 8 (40.00%) MVC
3 8 (40.00%) JUnit
3 8 (40.00%) Web Services
3 8 (40.00%) TDD
3 8 (40.00%) Maven
4 7 (35.00%) Spring MVC
4 7 (35.00%) XML
4 7 (35.00%) SQL
4 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (30.00%) Finance
5 6 (30.00%) JMS
5 6 (30.00%) EJB
5 6 (30.00%) Oracle
5 6 (30.00%) JSP
5 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (25.00%) Servlets
6 5 (25.00%) UML
6 5 (25.00%) Tomcat
7 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 4 (20.00%) JDBC
7 4 (20.00%) Apache
7 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
7 4 (20.00%) SOA
7 4 (20.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 4 (20.00%) Multithreading

Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Java/J2EE 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/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) J2EE
2 12 (60.00%) Spring
3 8 (40.00%) Web Services
4 7 (35.00%) Spring MVC
4 7 (35.00%) XML
4 7 (35.00%) Hibernate
5 6 (30.00%) JMS
5 6 (30.00%) EJB
5 6 (30.00%) JSP
6 5 (25.00%) Servlets
7 4 (20.00%) JDBC
7 4 (20.00%) jQuery
8 3 (15.00%) JSON
8 3 (15.00%) JPA
8 3 (15.00%) REST
8 3 (15.00%) SOAP
9 2 (10.00%) CSS
9 2 (10.00%) J2SE
9 2 (10.00%) GWT
9 2 (10.00%) XML-RPC
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (20.00%) Apache
3 3 (15.00%) ESB
3 3 (15.00%) Mule
4 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (5.000%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
1 8 (40.00%) Maven
2 4 (20.00%) jMock
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (20.00%) CruiseControl
3 3 (15.00%) Git (software)
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 2 (10.00%) Spring Roo
5 1 (5.000%) Subversion
5 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 4 (20.00%) Market Risk
2 3 (15.00%) Open Source
3 1 (5.000%) Derivative
3 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.000%) UNIX
2 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) MVC
1 8 (40.00%) TDD
2 6 (30.00%) Unit Testing
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (25.00%) UML
4 4 (20.00%) SOA
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) Web Development
5 3 (15.00%) BDD
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
6 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (5.000%) Ethical Hacking
7 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Security Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (5.000%) Degree
3 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.000%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.000%) JBoss