East of England J2EE Architect Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the J2EE Architect role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE Architect in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Architect
Location Berkshire City of London East of England Edinburgh England Hertfordshire London Norfolk North Yorkshire Norwich Scotland Shropshire Slough South East Swansea Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Wales York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	131	143
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	3	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	0.093 %	0.309 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£470
Average daily rate	-	£470
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£470
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£477
% change on same period last year	-5.70 %
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	-	£70.00
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3242	4524
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.565 %	4.572 %
Daily rates quoted	976	1376
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£317
Average daily rate	£334	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	498	720
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.19	£26.14
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£27.51
% change on same period last year	-18.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.82	£28.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
J2EE Architect England

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.

J2EE Architect
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Architect across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

J2EE Architect
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE Architect across the East of England region.

J2EE Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Architect across the East of England region.

J2EE Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Architect within the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+15	2	-	-
Norfolk	-	1	-	-

J2EE Architect England

J2EE Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited J2EE Architect in their job title 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 with J2EE Architect in their job title.

1 11 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 10 (90.91 %) Java 3 8 (72.73 %) JBoss 3 8 (72.73 %) WebSphere 4 7 (63.64 %) Oracle 5 6 (54.55 %) SQL Server 5 6 (54.55 %) DB2 5 6 (54.55 %) SQL 5 6 (54.55 %) EJB 6 5 (45.45 %) MVC 6 5 (45.45 %) NetBeans 6 5 (45.45 %) IBM 6 5 (45.45 %) JDeveloper 6 5 (45.45 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 5 (45.45 %) Eclipse

6 5 (45.45 %) JBuilder 6 5 (45.45 %) JDBC 6 5 (45.45 %) Servlets 7 4 (36.36 %) WebServices 8 3 (27.27 %) SOAP 8 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic 8 3 (27.27 %) UNIX 8 3 (27.27 %) SOA 9 2 (18.18 %) RDBMS 9 2 (18.18 %) OO 9 2 (18.18 %) Zachman Framework 10 1 (9.091 %) TDD 10 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 10 1 (9.091 %) Finance 10 1 (9.091 %) Construction

J2EE Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited J2EE Architect in their job title 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 with J2EE Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 11 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 8 (72.73 %) WebSphere 3 6 (54.55 %) EJB 4 5 (45.45 %) JDBC 4 5 (45.45 %) Servlets 4 5 (45.45 %) MVC 4 5 (45.45 %) NetBeans 5 4 (36.36 %) WebServices 6 3 (27.27 %) SOAP 7 1 (9.091 %) XML 7 1 (9.091 %) XSD 7 1 (9.091 %) XSLT 7 1 (9.091 %) JMS 7 1 (9.091 %) WSDL	Application Platforms 1 8 (72.73 %) JBoss 2 3 (27.27 %) WebLogic 3 1 (9.091 %) Tomcat 3 1 (9.091 %) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (54.55 %) SQL Server 1 6 (54.55 %) DB2 2 2 (18.18 %) RDBMS 3 1 (9.091 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 5 (45.45 %) JBuilder 1 5 (45.45 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 1 5 (45.45 %) Eclipse 1 5 (45.45 %) JDeveloper
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 1 1 (9.091 %) Finance 1 1 (9.091 %) Construction	Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) SOA 2 2 (18.18 %) OO 2 2 (18.18 %) Zachman Framework 3 1 (9.091 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (9.091 %) EAI 3 1 (9.091 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 10 (90.91 %) Java 2 6 (54.55 %) SQL
Vendors 1 7 (63.64 %) Oracle 2 5 (45.45 %) IBM