The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE 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 Bristol 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 Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank - 56 -
Contract jobs citing Java EE 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol - 0.598% -
As % of the Application Development category - 2.525% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £380 -
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 - £42.50
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
108 198 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 20.30% 23.68% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 136 34
Average daily rate £309 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.92% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £405 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE
South West

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (33.33%) Grails

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cryptography
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Groovy
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle