The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB 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 City of London 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
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 184 212 204
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -8
Contract jobs citing EJB 19 6 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.298% 0.076% 0.419%
As % of the Application Development category 1.043% 0.298% 1.496%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 30
Average daily rate £413 £413 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £303 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £536 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
EJB
London

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EJB across the City of London region.

City of London EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EJB across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London EJB Daily Rate Histogram

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EJB across the City of London region.

City of London EJB Hourly Rate Trend

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing EJB 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 EJB.

1 31 (96.88%) Java
2 26 (81.25%) J2EE
3 23 (71.88%) JMS
4 19 (59.38%) Spring
5 18 (56.25%) Finance
6 17 (53.13%) Multithreading
7 15 (46.88%) Struts
7 15 (46.88%) UNIX
8 13 (40.63%) JBoss
9 12 (37.50%) WebLogic
9 12 (37.50%) Linux
10 11 (34.38%) JUnit
11 10 (31.25%) MySQL
11 10 (31.25%) Oracle
11 10 (31.25%) Apache
11 10 (31.25%) N-Tier
11 10 (31.25%) SOAP
11 10 (31.25%) MVC
11 10 (31.25%) Apache CXF
11 10 (31.25%) Apache Axis
11 10 (31.25%) Spring MVC
12 9 (28.13%) JIRA
12 9 (28.13%) Subversion
12 9 (28.13%) Banking
13 8 (25.00%) Web Services
14 7 (21.88%) SQL
14 7 (21.88%) UML
14 7 (21.88%) Eclipse
14 7 (21.88%) RESTful
15 6 (18.75%) Java EE

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing EJB 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 EJB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (81.25%) J2EE
2 23 (71.88%) JMS
3 19 (59.38%) Spring
4 15 (46.88%) Struts
5 10 (31.25%) SOAP
5 10 (31.25%) Apache CXF
5 10 (31.25%) Apache Axis
5 10 (31.25%) Spring MVC
6 8 (25.00%) Web Services
7 7 (21.88%) RESTful
8 6 (18.75%) Java EE
8 6 (18.75%) JDBC
8 6 (18.75%) Servlets
8 6 (18.75%) Swing
9 5 (15.63%) .NET
9 5 (15.63%) CSS
9 5 (15.63%) HTML
9 5 (15.63%) JPA
9 5 (15.63%) EJB 3.0
10 4 (12.50%) REST
Application Platforms
1 12 (37.50%) WebLogic
2 10 (31.25%) Apache
3 5 (15.63%) Tomcat
3 5 (15.63%) Confluence
4 1 (3.125%) GlassFish
4 1 (3.125%) AquaLogic
4 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.125%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.125%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) JUnit
2 9 (28.13%) JIRA
2 9 (28.13%) Subversion
3 7 (21.88%) Eclipse
4 5 (15.63%) Maven
5 2 (6.250%) Ant
6 1 (3.125%) Git (software)
6 1 (3.125%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (3.125%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (3.125%) Introscope
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.250%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.125%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Developer
2 21 (65.63%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Solutions Designer
4 5 (15.63%) Designer
5 2 (6.250%) Architect
5 2 (6.250%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Functional Architect
5 2 (6.250%) Java Swing Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) J2EE Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) N-Tier
2 2 (6.250%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.125%) Data Extraction
3 1 (3.125%) SWIFT
3 1 (3.125%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.125%) Physics
3 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.125%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (46.88%) UNIX
2 12 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (3.125%) Android
3 1 (3.125%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.125%) Windows
3 1 (3.125%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Multithreading
2 10 (31.25%) MVC
3 7 (21.88%) UML
4 5 (15.63%) OO
5 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (6.250%) Scrum
6 2 (6.250%) TDD
6 2 (6.250%) Asset Management
6 2 (6.250%) Web Development
6 2 (6.250%) Fund Management
6 2 (6.250%) Analytics
6 2 (6.250%) Unit Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Cash Management
7 1 (3.125%) Waterfall
7 1 (3.125%) Straight-Through Processing
7 1 (3.125%) Workflow Management
7 1 (3.125%) CRM
7 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.125%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 3 (9.375%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.125%) XPath
6 1 (3.125%) Korn
6 1 (3.125%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.125%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) JBoss
2 10 (31.25%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Sybase
4 1 (3.125%) hybris
4 1 (3.125%) Pega
4 1 (3.125%) Cordys
4 1 (3.125%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.125%) BEA
4 1 (3.125%) Apple
4 1 (3.125%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.125%) Chordiant
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