The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 58 65 66
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +1
Contract jobs citing Java EE 4 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.547% 0.125% 0.606%
As % of the Application Development category 2.424% 0.424% 2.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £375 - £351
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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
165 236 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.57% 29.57% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 127 176
Average daily rate £350 £336 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.32% -4.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £273 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE
North West

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington -1 3 - -
Java EE
North West

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Maximo
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Feature Driven Development

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) WCF
1 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft