The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 Java EE over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 122 130 116
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -14
Contract jobs citing Java EE 1 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.041% 0.295% 0.303%
As % of the Application Development category 0.178% 1.667% 1.252%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £525 - £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
- -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - £41.50
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
561 540 719
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 23.18% 17.71% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 244 291
Average daily rate £375 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 11 64
Average hourly rate £35.00 £23.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.93% -44.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Java EE Hourly Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Java EE 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 Java EE.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Jython
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) StarTeam
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) Ant
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Middleware
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) DB2

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Java EE 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 Java EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) StarTeam
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Jython
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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