The first table below looks at the demand for J2ME skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2ME over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Application Development category for the Berkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)
Rank - 132 129
Contract jobs citing J2ME 0 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - 0.190% 0.198%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.103% 0.811%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 6
Average daily rate - £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+45.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
527 544 740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.95% 17.26% 24.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 248 313
Average daily rate £388 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 11 65
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2ME
South East

J2ME
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2ME across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire J2ME Jobs Demand Trend

J2ME
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2ME across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire J2ME Daily Rate Trend

J2ME
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2ME across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire J2ME Hourly Rate Trend

J2ME
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing J2ME also 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 that cited J2ME.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) WAP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows CE
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) SyncML
1 1 (100.00%) RFID
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) KML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG

J2ME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing J2ME also 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 that cited J2ME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) WAP
1 1 (100.00%) SyncML
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) KML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) GSM
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) RTCP
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-business
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JTAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Mapinfo
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI