I found the following link to be fairly useful in terms of getting information about what java related technologies are popular and the market trend as far as java jobs are concerned. It does seem to indicate that java jobs have reduced by more than 50 % since last year. http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk...

Hi Pyke, are you in the UK or did you make contact with the recruitment agent sitting here in India?
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Thanks Kenfrapin dude, for sharing the knowledge. Your posts are really a ton of help.

Hi kenfrapin, you seem to know the insides of the UK market. Are you already in UK on a project? I am a Java/JEE architect with close to 10 years of experience. - 5 years of them spent in the USA. It looks to me that contracting in the UK on a Tier 1 visa is much better than contracting in the USA o...

I had a chance to face a few interviews from Citigroup for Java and I would say the pattern is quite similar to what we find in India or the US. In one of the cases, it was actually Indians working for Citigroup who were interviewing me. I would say it was fairly technical. You definitely need to be...