The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 21 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 Birmingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 45 36 39
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Contract jobs citing J2EE 4 18 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.889% 2.894% 0.818%
As % of the Application Development category 3.810% 10.40% 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 3
Average daily rate - £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £361
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.52%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 173 124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.33% 27.81% 25.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 107 72
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% -8.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
West Midlands

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

1 15 (60.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) Shell Script
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle
2 9 (36.00%) UNIX
2 9 (36.00%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (32.00%) C
3 8 (32.00%) Hibernate
3 8 (32.00%) Spring
4 7 (28.00%) C++
5 6 (24.00%) E-Commerce
5 6 (24.00%) Retail
6 5 (20.00%) ProC
6 5 (20.00%) CGI
6 5 (20.00%) RDBMS
6 5 (20.00%) AIX
6 5 (20.00%) Solaris
7 4 (16.00%) SQL
7 4 (16.00%) UML
7 4 (16.00%) OOA/OOD
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Java EE
7 4 (16.00%) QA
7 4 (16.00%) System Testing
7 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (12.00%) SAP Portal
8 3 (12.00%) Kanban

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (32.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (32.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) CGI
3 4 (16.00%) Java EE
4 3 (12.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.000%) Java EE 5
5 1 (4.000%) JPA
5 1 (4.000%) EJB 3.0
5 1 (4.000%) RESTful
5 1 (4.000%) JSTL
5 1 (4.000%) Spring MVC
5 1 (4.000%) Grails
5 1 (4.000%) JSF
5 1 (4.000%) JTA
5 1 (4.000%) JMX
5 1 (4.000%) .NET
5 1 (4.000%) JMS
5 1 (4.000%) WSDL
5 1 (4.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) SAP Portal
1 3 (12.00%) SAP EP
2 1 (4.000%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (4.000%) ESB
2 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (4.000%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (4.000%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (4.000%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) Internet
2 1 (4.000%) LDAP
2 1 (4.000%) IPv6
2 1 (4.000%) FTP
2 1 (4.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (20.00%) ProC
3 3 (12.00%) NWDI
3 3 (12.00%) NWDS
4 2 (8.000%) TeamCity
4 2 (8.000%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.000%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.000%) JBehave
5 1 (4.000%) Selenium
5 1 (4.000%) FitNesse
5 1 (4.000%) Maven
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (68.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (24.00%) J2EE Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 5 (20.00%) C Developer
4 5 (20.00%) UNIX Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Tester
5 4 (16.00%) Consultant
5 4 (16.00%) Systems Tester
6 3 (12.00%) Agile Java Developer
6 3 (12.00%) QA Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (8.000%) J2EE Consultant
7 2 (8.000%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (8.000%) SAP Portals Consultant
8 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Architect
8 1 (4.000%) Java Consultant
8 1 (4.000%) WebSphere Consultant
8 1 (4.000%) SAP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) UNIX
2 5 (20.00%) AIX
2 5 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) E-Commerce
2 4 (16.00%) UML
2 4 (16.00%) OOA/OOD
2 4 (16.00%) Scrum
2 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (16.00%) System Testing
2 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (12.00%) Kanban
3 3 (12.00%) BDD
3 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (12.00%) TDD
3 3 (12.00%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (8.000%) Pair Programming
4 2 (8.000%) Refactoring
5 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (4.000%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.000%) BPEL
5 1 (4.000%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) Shell Script
3 8 (32.00%) C
4 7 (28.00%) C++
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.000%) Groovy
6 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.000%) IBM
3 1 (4.000%) Adobe
3 1 (4.000%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.000%) Business Objects
Birmingham, West Midlands
The developer will use agile practises including pair programming, estimating, planning, design and TDD... The technical requirements of the Developer should possess a minimum of 5 years; Java,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + DOE
Posted: 21 May 2013