The first table below looks at the demand for the Java Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 advertised for the Wales region.

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
Java Developer
Rank 39 50 47
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 5 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.174% 0.702% 2.121%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.256% 0.752% 2.303%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
Average daily rate £322 £250 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.81% -20.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £250 £337
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -8.53%
All Job Titles
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
398 532 608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 93.43% 93.33% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 257 279
Average daily rate £350 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 31
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -34.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £10.75 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £59.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Java Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java Developer across the Wales region.

Wales Java Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java Developer across the Wales region.

Wales Java Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Wales region 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
South Wales +5 4 £313 -
West Wales - 1 £322 -
Java Developer
UK

Java Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited 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 Java Developer in their job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (92.00%) Spring
3 19 (76.00%) SQL
4 18 (72.00%) Oracle
5 16 (64.00%) PL/SQL
5 16 (64.00%) J2EE
5 16 (64.00%) WebLogic
5 16 (64.00%) XML
5 16 (64.00%) XSLT
6 15 (60.00%) ClearCase
6 15 (60.00%) Eclipse
6 15 (60.00%) JSF
6 15 (60.00%) Hibernate
6 15 (60.00%) ClearQuest
7 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
8 13 (52.00%) XPath
8 13 (52.00%) SAX
8 13 (52.00%) XSD
8 13 (52.00%) DOM
8 13 (52.00%) UML
9 12 (48.00%) JAXP
9 12 (48.00%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (44.00%) Web Services
10 11 (44.00%) Liferay
10 11 (44.00%) CSS
11 10 (40.00%) WebLogic Portal
12 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
12 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
13 4 (16.00%) Maven
14 3 (12.00%) Scrum

Java Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 23 (92.00%) Spring
2 16 (64.00%) J2EE
2 16 (64.00%) XML
2 16 (64.00%) XSLT
3 15 (60.00%) JSF
3 15 (60.00%) Hibernate
4 13 (52.00%) SAX
4 13 (52.00%) XSD
4 13 (52.00%) DOM
5 12 (48.00%) JAXP
6 11 (44.00%) Web Services
6 11 (44.00%) CSS
7 3 (12.00%) Java EE
7 3 (12.00%) RESTful
7 3 (12.00%) JPA
7 3 (12.00%) EJB
7 3 (12.00%) Spring Batch
8 2 (8.000%) JDBC
8 2 (8.000%) JSP
8 2 (8.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 16 (64.00%) WebLogic
2 11 (44.00%) Liferay
3 10 (40.00%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.000%) MySQL
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 15 (60.00%) ClearCase
1 15 (60.00%) Eclipse
1 15 (60.00%) ClearQuest
2 4 (16.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.000%) TestNG
3 1 (4.000%) Mockito
3 1 (4.000%) Ant
3 1 (4.000%) JUnit
General
1 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.000%) Retail
2 1 (4.000%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.000%) UNIX
1 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) UML
2 12 (48.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (12.00%) Scrum
4 2 (8.000%) Unit Testing
4 2 (8.000%) TDD
5 1 (4.000%) MVC
5 1 (4.000%) Web Development
5 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (4.000%) SOA
5 1 (4.000%) OO
5 1 (4.000%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (76.00%) SQL
3 16 (64.00%) PL/SQL
4 13 (52.00%) XPath
5 2 (8.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 18 (72.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.000%) Business Objects
2 1 (4.000%) Cognos