The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank - - 44
Contract jobs citing Java EE 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.200%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.781%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £300
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
102 173 128
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.29% 28.22% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 108 74
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 £450 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% +143.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE
West Midlands

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) JMX
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) SAP EP
4 1 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) EJB
4 1 (25.00%) Servlets
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (25.00%) LDAP
4 1 (25.00%) Selenium
4 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
4 1 (25.00%) JSTL

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 4 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) JSTL
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (25.00%) EJB
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) JMX
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) JTA
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Portal
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (25.00%) JBehave
2 1 (25.00%) NWDI
2 1 (25.00%) NWDS
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Extreme Programming
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) C
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP