The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 22 19 17
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Contract jobs citing J2EE 3 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.158% 1.709% 4.294%
As % of the Application Development category 21.43% 12.50% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
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
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
14 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 10.07% 13.68% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Cheshire

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
3 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) SOAP
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
4 3 (50.00%) Flash
4 3 (50.00%) HTML
4 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
4 3 (50.00%) SNMP
4 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (50.00%) Adobe
4 3 (50.00%) TELNET
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
4 3 (50.00%) Apache Flex
4 3 (50.00%) Selenium
4 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Android
4 3 (50.00%) TestNG
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) Mobile App

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 5 (83.33%) Hibernate
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) Flash
3 3 (50.00%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) Apache Flex
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Apache Axis
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 2 (33.33%) JAX-RPC
4 2 (33.33%) WSDL
4 2 (33.33%) XHTML
4 2 (33.33%) DOM
4 2 (33.33%) XSLT
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) JSP
4 2 (33.33%) Servlets
5 1 (16.67%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) ESB
2 1 (16.67%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) SNMP
1 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (50.00%) TELNET
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JUnit
2 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) TestNG
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) MyEclipse
4 2 (33.33%) Mercurial
5 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (33.33%) Web 2.0
3 1 (16.67%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Android
1 3 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) XPath
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle
2 3 (50.00%) Adobe
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Perforce
Chester, North West
To be suitable for this role you should have; * Minimum 5yrs commercial Java/J2EE experience incorporating the Spring Framework * Comprehensive experience in Web Service development using Spring-WS,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013