City of London Java EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE) skills within the City of London 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 Java EE over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Location Ascot Berkshire Bootle Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland South Coast South East South West Southampton Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	214	197
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	9	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.424 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£542	£550
Average daily rate	£575	£650
% change on same period last year	-11.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£608	£750
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£270
% change on same period last year	+43.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2125	1679
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.822 %	1.723 %
Daily rates quoted	1233	741
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£455
Average daily rate	£436	£491
% change on same period last year	-11.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£473	£526
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.51	£25.73
Average hourly rate	£32.70	£29.12
% change on same period last year	+12.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.88	£32.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£33.11
% change on same period last year	-1.56 %
Java EE London

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.

Java EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java EE across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 15 (71.43 %) Finance 2 14 (66.67 %) Java 3 13 (61.90 %) J2EE 4 11 (52.38 %) Oracle 5 10 (47.62 %) WebLogic 6 9 (42.86 %) Hibernate 6 9 (42.86 %) Spring 6 9 (42.86 %) BEA 7 8 (38.10 %) Banking 7 8 (38.10 %) Fixed Income 7 8 (38.10 %) WebServices 8 7 (33.33 %) UML 8 7 (33.33 %) OO 8 7 (33.33 %) Equities 9 6 (28.57 %) SOA

9 6 (28.57 %) EJB 9 6 (28.57 %) Investment Banking 9 6 (28.57 %) Derivative 10 5 (23.81 %) EJB 3.0 10 5 (23.81 %) AquaLogic 10 5 (23.81 %) RUP 10 5 (23.81 %) LDAP 10 5 (23.81 %) WebLogic Portal 10 5 (23.81 %) N-Tier 11 4 (19.05 %) Reuters 11 4 (19.05 %) JBoss 11 4 (19.05 %) Windows 11 4 (19.05 %) SQL Server 12 3 (14.29 %) SQL 12 3 (14.29 %) MySQL

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 13 (61.90 %) J2EE 2 9 (42.86 %) Hibernate 2 9 (42.86 %) Spring 3 8 (38.10 %) WebServices 4 6 (28.57 %) EJB 5 5 (23.81 %) EJB 3.0 6 3 (14.29 %) Struts 6 3 (14.29 %) JSF 7 2 (9.524 %) XML 7 2 (9.524 %) JPA 8 1 (4.762 %) .NET 8 1 (4.762 %) JMS 8 1 (4.762 %) Middleware 8 1 (4.762 %) MVC 8 1 (4.762 %) JSP 8 1 (4.762 %) Servlets 8 1 (4.762 %) SOAP 8 1 (4.762 %) AJAX 8 1 (4.762 %) Ruby on Rails 8 1 (4.762 %) jBPM	Application Platforms 1 10 (47.62 %) WebLogic 2 5 (23.81 %) WebLogic Portal 3 4 (19.05 %) JBoss 4 3 (14.29 %) Apache 5 2 (9.524 %) Tomcat 5 2 (9.524 %) Alfresco 6 1 (4.762 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 1 (4.762 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (23.81 %) LDAP 2 1 (4.762 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (19.05 %) SQL Server 2 3 (14.29 %) MySQL 3 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) Eclipse 1 2 (9.524 %) Subversion 1 2 (9.524 %) Selenium 1 2 (9.524 %) FitNesse 2 1 (4.762 %) JUnit 2 1 (4.762 %) JIRA 2 1 (4.762 %) IntelliJ 2 1 (4.762 %) TestDirector
General 1 15 (71.43 %) Finance 2 8 (38.10 %) Banking 3 6 (28.57 %) Investment Banking 4 3 (14.29 %) Insurance 4 3 (14.29 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (4.762 %) Government	Job Titles 1 10 (47.62 %) Developer 1 10 (47.62 %) Java Developer 2 8 (38.10 %) Architect 3 6 (28.57 %) Solutions Architect 4 4 (19.05 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 3 (14.29 %) J2EE Solutions Architect 5 3 (14.29 %) J2EE Developer 5 3 (14.29 %) J2EE Architect 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Java Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 1 (4.762 %) Java Architect 6 1 (4.762 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (4.762 %) Administrator 6 1 (4.762 %) Systems Tester 6 1 (4.762 %) Tester 6 1 (4.762 %) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous 1 8 (38.10 %) Fixed Income 2 7 (33.33 %) Equities 3 6 (28.57 %) Derivative 4 5 (23.81 %) N-Tier 5 2 (9.524 %) Clustering 6 1 (4.762 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 4 (19.05 %) Windows 2 2 (9.524 %) Linux 3 1 (4.762 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (33.33 %) UML 1 7 (33.33 %) OO 2 6 (28.57 %) SOA 3 5 (23.81 %) RUP 4 3 (14.29 %) Workflow 4 3 (14.29 %) Agile Software Development 5 2 (9.524 %) Electronic Trading 5 2 (9.524 %) B2B 5 2 (9.524 %) CRM 6 1 (4.762 %) RAD 6 1 (4.762 %) Scrum 6 1 (4.762 %) TDD 6 1 (4.762 %) BPEL 6 1 (4.762 %) Software Engineering 6 1 (4.762 %) Software Testing 6 1 (4.762 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (4.762 %) Continuous Integration	Programming Languages 1 14 (66.67 %) Java 2 3 (14.29 %) SQL 3 1 (4.762 %) Ruby 3 1 (4.762 %) JavaScript 3 1 (4.762 %) C#
Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) Degree 2 1 (4.762 %) Sun Certification	System Software 1 5 (23.81 %) AquaLogic 2 1 (4.762 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (52.38 %) Oracle 2 9 (42.86 %) BEA 3 4 (19.05 %) Reuters 4 1 (4.762 %) Bloomberg 4 1 (4.762 %) Sybase 4 1 (4.762 %) IBM 4 1 (4.762 %) Sun