The first table below looks at the demand for Java ME 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 Java ME 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
Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)
Rank 202 214 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Java ME 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.051% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.055% 0.198% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £416 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £39.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
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%
Java ME
London

Java ME
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Java ME Jobs Demand Trend

Java ME
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Java ME Daily Rate Trend

Java ME
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Ant
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) SQLite
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) XHTML
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) WML
3 3 (60.00%) Flash
3 3 (60.00%) Flash Lite
3 3 (60.00%) BREW
3 3 (60.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Mercurial
4 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) NFC
4 2 (40.00%) Java Card

Java ME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) JSON
1 4 (80.00%) XHTML
1 4 (80.00%) WML
2 3 (60.00%) Flash
2 3 (60.00%) BREW
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Google Maps API
3 2 (40.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Ant
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (40.00%) Mercurial
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Android Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 5 (100.00%) iPhone
1 5 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (60.00%) Flash Lite
3 2 (40.00%) Java Card
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (40.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google