Bristol J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	43
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	10	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	4.808 %	13.64 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£319
Average daily rate	-	£340
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£373
% change on same period last year	+7.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.07	£36.94
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Application Development Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	208	154
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.267 %	0.173 %
Daily rates quoted	62	43
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£290
Average daily rate	£301	£299
% change on same period last year	+0.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£326	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.10	£32.20
Average hourly rate	£33.92	£34.89
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.74	£37.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
J2EE South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing J2EE across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing J2EE across the Bristol region.

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol region citing J2EE also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing J2EE.

1 29 (87.88 %) Java 2 18 (54.55 %) Oracle 3 13 (39.39 %) JSP 4 11 (33.33 %) Spring 5 10 (30.30 %) Struts 5 10 (30.30 %) WebLogic 6 8 (24.24 %) XML 6 8 (24.24 %) BEA 7 7 (21.21 %) Unix 7 7 (21.21 %) WebServices 7 7 (21.21 %) Hibernate 8 5 (15.15 %) UML 8 5 (15.15 %) EJB 8 5 (15.15 %) JavaScript 8 5 (15.15 %) SOA

8 5 (15.15 %) WebLogic Portal 9 4 (12.12 %) Eclipse 9 4 (12.12 %) C++ 9 4 (12.12 %) DB2 9 4 (12.12 %) OO 9 4 (12.12 %) Subversion 10 3 (9.091 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 3 (9.091 %) Retail Banking 10 3 (9.091 %) EDA 10 3 (9.091 %) ESB 10 3 (9.091 %) Banking 10 3 (9.091 %) Retail 10 3 (9.091 %) Servlets 10 3 (9.091 %) JDBC 10 3 (9.091 %) C

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Bristol region citing J2EE also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (39.39 %) JSP 2 11 (33.33 %) Spring 3 10 (30.30 %) Struts 4 8 (24.24 %) XML 5 7 (21.21 %) Hibernate 5 7 (21.21 %) WebServices 6 5 (15.15 %) EJB 7 3 (9.091 %) JDBC 7 3 (9.091 %) .NET 7 3 (9.091 %) Servlets 8 2 (6.061 %) WebSphere 8 2 (6.061 %) JSF 9 1 (3.030 %) AJAX 9 1 (3.030 %) JMS 9 1 (3.030 %) Middleware 9 1 (3.030 %) Oracle ADF 9 1 (3.030 %) SOAP 9 1 (3.030 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 10 (30.30 %) WebLogic 2 5 (15.15 %) WebLogic Portal 3 3 (9.091 %) ESB 4 2 (6.061 %) Oracle Application Server 4 2 (6.061 %) MQSeries 5 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Visio 1 1 (3.030 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) FTP 1 1 (3.030 %) SAN 1 1 (3.030 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (12.12 %) DB2 2 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (3.030 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Eclipse 1 4 (12.12 %) Subversion 2 2 (6.061 %) OptimalJ 2 2 (6.061 %) Ant 3 1 (3.030 %) JUnit 3 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (3.030 %) Flash	General 1 3 (9.091 %) Finance 1 3 (9.091 %) Banking 1 3 (9.091 %) Retail 1 3 (9.091 %) Retail Banking 2 2 (6.061 %) Insurance 2 2 (6.061 %) Aerospace 3 1 (3.030 %) Government 3 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 25 (75.76 %) Developer 2 19 (57.58 %) Java Developer 3 9 (27.27 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 7 (21.21 %) J2EE Developer 5 5 (15.15 %) Architect 6 3 (9.091 %) Project Manager 6 3 (9.091 %) Solutions Architect 6 3 (9.091 %) WebLogic Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Java Applications Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 1 (3.030 %) Senior Java Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Technical Lead 7 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Test Manager 7 1 (3.030 %) Technical Architect 7 1 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) N-Tier 1 1 (3.030 %) AS400 1 1 (3.030 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 7 (21.21 %) Unix 2 1 (3.030 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (15.15 %) UML 1 5 (15.15 %) SOA 2 4 (12.12 %) OO 3 3 (9.091 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 3 (9.091 %) EDA 4 1 (3.030 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.030 %) Test Management 4 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (3.030 %) CRM 4 1 (3.030 %) OOD 4 1 (3.030 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.030 %) Process Management 4 1 (3.030 %) BPM 4 1 (3.030 %) Workflow 4 1 (3.030 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (3.030 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 29 (87.88 %) Java 2 5 (15.15 %) JavaScript 3 4 (12.12 %) C++ 4 3 (9.091 %) C 4 3 (9.091 %) C# 5 2 (6.061 %) SQL 5 2 (6.061 %) Ada 6 1 (3.030 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (6.061 %) Degree 2 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 2 (6.061 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 18 (54.55 %) Oracle 2 8 (24.24 %) BEA 3 1 (3.030 %) Actuate 3 1 (3.030 %) FileNet 3 1 (3.030 %) Brio