Cheshire J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	37
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	43	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	12.95 %	11.79 %
Daily rates quoted	21	8
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£348
Average daily rate	£330	£401
% change on same period last year	-17.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£454
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£371
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	-
Average hourly rate	£39.38	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.75	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.36	£37.52
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	332	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.441 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	98	36
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£334
Average daily rate	£382	£360
% change on same period last year	+6.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.22	£26.86
Average hourly rate	£36.74	£28.25
% change on same period last year	+30.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.25	£29.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
J2EE North 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Cheshire 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 IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Cheshire region.

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

J2EE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing J2EE within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	+8	14	£293	-10.43 %
Crewe	-	6	£425	-
Alderley Edge	-	5	£333	-
Chester	-	5	£375	-
Macclesfield	-	1	£325	-

J2EE North West

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 74 (91.36 %) Java 2 43 (53.09 %) XML 3 42 (51.85 %) Oracle 4 30 (37.04 %) HTML 4 30 (37.04 %) CSS 5 28 (34.57 %) WebServices 6 24 (29.63 %) Hibernate 7 22 (27.16 %) JSP 8 21 (25.93 %) UML 9 20 (24.69 %) JDBC 10 18 (22.22 %) UNIX 10 18 (22.22 %) Finance 11 15 (18.52 %) WebSphere 11 15 (18.52 %) OO 11 15 (18.52 %) EJB

11 15 (18.52 %) JavaScript 12 14 (17.28 %) Servlets 12 14 (17.28 %) SOAP 12 14 (17.28 %) E-Commerce 13 13 (16.05 %) WSDL 13 13 (16.05 %) Struts 13 13 (16.05 %) SQL 13 13 (16.05 %) JAX-RPC 14 12 (14.81 %) Spring 15 11 (13.58 %) Oracle 10g 15 11 (13.58 %) Eclipse 16 10 (12.35 %) HTTP 16 10 (12.35 %) XSL 16 10 (12.35 %) AJAX 17 9 (11.11 %) PL/SQL

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 43 (53.09 %) XML 2 30 (37.04 %) CSS 2 30 (37.04 %) HTML 3 28 (34.57 %) WebServices 4 24 (29.63 %) Hibernate 5 22 (27.16 %) JSP 6 20 (24.69 %) JDBC 7 15 (18.52 %) EJB 7 15 (18.52 %) WebSphere 8 14 (17.28 %) Servlets 8 14 (17.28 %) SOAP 9 13 (16.05 %) Struts 9 13 (16.05 %) WSDL 9 13 (16.05 %) JAX-RPC 10 12 (14.81 %) Spring 11 10 (12.35 %) AJAX 11 10 (12.35 %) XSL 12 8 (9.877 %) .NET 13 5 (6.173 %) Swing 14 4 (4.938 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (8.642 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (7.407 %) Tomcat 3 5 (6.173 %) WebLogic 4 4 (4.938 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 3 (3.704 %) WebLogic Portal 5 3 (3.704 %) Jetty 6 2 (2.469 %) JBoss 7 1 (1.235 %) Apache 7 1 (1.235 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (8.642 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.235 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (12.35 %) HTTP 2 3 (3.704 %) Intranet 2 3 (3.704 %) Internet 2 3 (3.704 %) BIG-IP 2 3 (3.704 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (13.58 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (8.642 %) RDBMS 3 4 (4.938 %) SQL Server 4 3 (3.704 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (3.704 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (1.235 %) ETL 5 1 (1.235 %) MySQL 5 1 (1.235 %) SAP BW 5 1 (1.235 %) SQLPlus	Development Applications 1 11 (13.58 %) Eclipse 2 7 (8.642 %) Ant 3 3 (3.704 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (3.704 %) Subversion 4 2 (2.469 %) JUnit 4 2 (2.469 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (1.235 %) JIRA 5 1 (1.235 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 18 (22.22 %) Finance 2 7 (8.642 %) Government 2 7 (8.642 %) Banking 3 5 (6.173 %) Retail 4 4 (4.938 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (3.704 %) Advertising 5 3 (3.704 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (2.469 %) Online Banking 6 2 (2.469 %) Education 7 1 (1.235 %) Health 7 1 (1.235 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.235 %) Local Government 7 1 (1.235 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 51 (62.96 %) Developer 2 41 (50.62 %) Java Developer 3 24 (29.63 %) J2EE Developer 4 23 (28.40 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 13 (16.05 %) Software Engineer 6 7 (8.642 %) Programmer 7 6 (7.407 %) Java Programmer 8 4 (4.938 %) Analyst 9 3 (3.704 %) Test Analyst 9 3 (3.704 %) Web Developer 9 3 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 9 3 (3.704 %) C++ Developer 10 2 (2.469 %) Technical Support Engineer 10 2 (2.469 %) Technical Support 10 2 (2.469 %) Senior Developer 10 2 (2.469 %) Java Software Engineer 10 2 (2.469 %) Technical Engineer 10 2 (2.469 %) Technical Test Analyst 10 2 (2.469 %) Technical Analyst 10 2 (2.469 %) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.469 %) Client/Server 1 2 (2.469 %) Replication 2 1 (1.235 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 18 (22.22 %) UNIX 2 9 (11.11 %) Windows 3 1 (1.235 %) AIX 3 1 (1.235 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (25.93 %) UML 2 15 (18.52 %) OO 3 14 (17.28 %) E-Commerce 4 9 (11.11 %) OOD 4 9 (11.11 %) SOA 5 8 (9.877 %) Agile Software Development 5 8 (9.877 %) Integration Testing 6 5 (6.173 %) e-GIF 7 4 (4.938 %) TDD 8 3 (3.704 %) Content Management 8 3 (3.704 %) Performance Testing 8 3 (3.704 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (3.704 %) Web Development 9 2 (2.469 %) Use Case 9 2 (2.469 %) Migration 9 2 (2.469 %) Software Testing 9 2 (2.469 %) RUP 9 2 (2.469 %) CRM 9 2 (2.469 %) OOA/OOD 10 1 (1.235 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 74 (91.36 %) Java 2 15 (18.52 %) JavaScript 3 13 (16.05 %) SQL 4 9 (11.11 %) PL/SQL 5 7 (8.642 %) C++ 6 6 (7.407 %) C# 7 3 (3.704 %) VB.NET 8 2 (2.469 %) VB6 8 2 (2.469 %) VB 8 2 (2.469 %) COBOL 9 1 (1.235 %) PHP 9 1 (1.235 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 3 (3.704 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.469 %) ISTQB 3 1 (1.235 %) Degree 3 1 (1.235 %) SAP Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.704 %) WCAG 1 3 (3.704 %) WAI 1 3 (3.704 %) QA
Vendors 1 42 (51.85 %) Oracle 2 7 (8.642 %) Microsoft 3 3 (3.704 %) Sun 3 3 (3.704 %) BEA 3 3 (3.704 %) Vignette 3 3 (3.704 %) SAP 4 2 (2.469 %) IBM 5 1 (1.235 %) Quark 5 1 (1.235 %) Endeca 5 1 (1.235 %) Interwoven