The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridge 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank - 45 28
Contract jobs citing J2EE 0 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - 0.708% 2.344%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.875% 6.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 5
Average daily rate - £390 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £370 £355
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -23.52%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 160 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.49% 37.74% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 81 52
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £201 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.70 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Cambridgeshire

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Subversion
2 4 (57.14%) Information Management
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (57.14%) Git (software)
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) JSON
2 4 (57.14%) Informatics
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Apache
2 4 (57.14%) Swing

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (57.14%) JSON
2 4 (57.14%) Swing
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) JSP
3 3 (42.86%) SOAP
3 3 (42.86%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Subversion
1 4 (57.14%) Git (software)
1 4 (57.14%) Maven
General
1 3 (42.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
1 4 (57.14%) Informatics
2 2 (28.57%) Biology
2 2 (28.57%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Information Management
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Lisp
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) VMware