Java Workers: Top-end Java Contracts in City Finance

This is a summary of some UK/London-based agencies for senior-level UK contracts (architect/engineer/developer) in finance (eg fixed-income/derivatives investment banking in the City or Canary Wharf) where the primary implemention language is Java or C++ (ie cross-platform), and which strongly feature scalability/distribution/parallelism/security, eg Web-facing, threading, J2EE, task-farming, P&L, scenarios. UNIX (eg Linux/Solaris) is often needed for back-end projects.

This selection is based on my interactions with the agencies recently, and, where relevant, back as far as about Y2K.

Preferred (responsive, personal, etc)
Agency / URL / Phone	Contacts (email)	Last update
Client Server Client-Server.com +44 (0)20 8390 8390	David Bulmer (dbulmer)	2008/07
Harvey Nash HarveyNash.com +44 (0)20 7333 0033	Paul Conaghan (paul.conaghan) Will Excel (william.excell)	2008/05
Hudson Hudson.com +44 (0)20 7187 6000	Katharine Wolf (katharine.wolf) Anthony Besant (anthony.besant)	2009/05
ITRS ITRSLtd.com +44 (0)845 058 1088	Curtis Miall (curtis)	2009/03
Jenrick:cpi JenrickCPI.co.uk +44 (0)1932 245 500	Jane Stevens (jane.stevens) Matt Hancock (matt.hancock)	2008/05
McGregor-Boyall McGregor-Boyall.com +44 (0)20 7422 9000	Ken Williams (kwilliams) Edward Ekins (eekins) Risha Karia (rkaria)	2009/05
Madison Maclean MadisonMaclean.com +44 (0)20 7489 2040	Peter Sham (peter)	2009/07
Morgan Kim Milligan MKM-Partnership.com +44 (0)20 7269 7960	David Chatterjee (david.chatterjee)	2008/07
MorningGroup MorningGroup.com +44 (0)20 7073 0440	Mike Swindale (employment)	2009/02
Optimum IT Optimum-IT.com +44 (0)20 8315 2300	Daniel Smith (DSmith)	2009/07
OTC Computing OTCComp.com +44 (0)20 7220 7963	Waheed Kahn (waheed)	2008/05
Project Partners ProjPartners.com +44 (0)20 7929 1800	Daniel Fox (danielfox) Julia Bosworth (juliabosworth) Jamie Berstein (jamieberstein) Matt Challis (mattchallis) Sandy Stuart (sandystuart)	2009/05
Real Resourcing IT RealIT.com 0800 587 7646 (UK) +44 (0)20 7758 7333	Richard Leat (r.leat)	2009/05

Less Preferred / Untested (eg no personal contact/history, less specialist)
Agency / URL / Phone	Contacts (email)	Last update
AstonCarter AstonCarter.co.uk +44 (0)20 7997 1000	Anthony Mendel (amendel) Stuart Hurwitz (shurwitz)	2007/06
Certes Computing Certes.co.uk +44 (0)1675 468 968	Hayley Kells (hayley.kells)	2007/05
Connect Group Consulting CGC-Ltd.co.uk +44 (0)20 8973 3333	Stefano Buonassisi (stefanon.buonassisi)	2007/05
Dart Resourcing Dart-resourcing.com +44 (0)870 870 0290	Matt	2007/04
eFinancialCareers eFinancialCareers.co.uk +44 (0)20 7749 0271	Nathan Salisbury (sales)	2007/04
Elan IT ElanIT.co.uk +44 (0)20 7830 1557	Seamus Breslin (Seamus.Breslin)	2007/04
FDM Group (graduate-jobs) graduate-jobs.com +44 (0)20 7609 5400	(jobseeker)	2007/04
Global Resourcing Global-Resourcing.com +44 (0)20 8290 7200	Lee Duncan (leed)	2007/04
Gumtree (London computing/IT jobs) Gumtree.com	-	2008/06
Huxley Assoociates Huxley.com +44 (0)20 7469 5100	Robert Thorp (r.thorp)	2007/04
IT Job Board ITJobBoard.com +44 (0)20 7307 6300	(contact)	2007/04
JobServe JobServe.com +44 (0)1621 817335	-	2007/04
JobSite JobSite.co.uk +44 (0)870 774 8811	-	2007/05
J People JPeople.co.uk +44 (0)20 7868 5079	-	2007/04
JRecruit JRecruit.com +44 (0)870 752 4077	Elmer van den Heuvel (elmer)	2007/05
Madison Black MadisonBlack.com +44 (0)20 7469 5655	Pex Patel (u.patel)	2007/10
Parity Resources Parity.net +44 (0)20 8543 5353	Danny Lo (d.lo)	2007/04
Progressive Progressive.co.uk +44 (0)20 8971 8888	(contract)	2008/08
Pathway Resourcing PathwayResourcing.com +44 (0)20 7292 6888	(london)	2009/07
Strategic Resource Group StratRG.com +44 (0)20 7292 6161	(contract)	2007/04
Techno Jobs TechnoJobs.co.uk +44 (0)207 152 4024	-	2007/04
Vivamex Vivamex.co.uk +44 (0)20 8868 8979	John	2007/04

Key Java/Tech Resources

Sun's Java site, PlanetJDK Java-related blogs, JavaLobby discussion.
The Register IT news, Contractor UK, UK Java contract rates (eg: mean daily/hourly rate £458/£37 for 3M to 20070816).