East of England Java/J2EE Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer 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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java/J2EE Developer
Location Basildon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Surrey UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	98	96
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	25	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.065 %
As % of the category below	0.822 %	1.438 %
Daily rates quoted	4	20
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£303
Average daily rate	£306	£312
% change on same period last year	-1.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£326
% change on same period last year	+7.37 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.94	£41.70
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3043	4243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.793 %	4.547 %
Daily rates quoted	839	1316
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£311
Average daily rate	£326	£329
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	491	689
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£25.29
Average hourly rate	£23.22	£26.74
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.61	£28.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Java/J2EE Developer 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.

Java/J2EE Developer
Demand Trend

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

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java/J2EE Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Cambridgeshire	+6	11	£318	+10.02 %
East Anglia	+5	6	-	-
Essex	+10	3	£270	-27.02 %
Hertfordshire	+9	3	-	-
Norfolk	-18	2	-	-

Java/J2EE Developer England

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Java/J2EE Developer 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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 55 (100.00 %) Java 1 55 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 23 (41.82 %) Hibernate 3 20 (36.36 %) Spring 4 19 (34.55 %) Oracle 5 15 (27.27 %) WebServices 6 14 (25.45 %) UML 7 13 (23.64 %) EJB 7 13 (23.64 %) SQL 8 12 (21.82 %) JBoss 9 11 (20.00 %) IBM 9 11 (20.00 %) Struts 9 11 (20.00 %) Finance 10 10 (18.18 %) WebSphere 10 10 (18.18 %) SQL Server

10 10 (18.18 %) JavaScript 11 9 (16.36 %) JSP 11 9 (16.36 %) XML 11 9 (16.36 %) SOA 11 9 (16.36 %) Agile Software Development 12 8 (14.55 %) Apache 13 7 (12.73 %) OOD 13 7 (12.73 %) C++ 13 7 (12.73 %) JUnit 14 6 (10.91 %) Servlets 14 6 (10.91 %) CSS 14 6 (10.91 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 6 (10.91 %) OO 14 6 (10.91 %) Content Management 14 6 (10.91 %) Telecoms

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Java/J2EE Developer 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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 55 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 23 (41.82 %) Hibernate 3 20 (36.36 %) Spring 4 15 (27.27 %) WebServices 5 13 (23.64 %) EJB 6 11 (20.00 %) Struts 7 10 (18.18 %) WebSphere 8 9 (16.36 %) JSP 8 9 (16.36 %) XML 9 6 (10.91 %) Servlets 9 6 (10.91 %) CSS 10 5 (9.091 %) SOAP 10 5 (9.091 %) HTML 10 5 (9.091 %) AJAX 10 5 (9.091 %) WPF 11 4 (7.273 %) Spring MVC 11 4 (7.273 %) MVC 11 4 (7.273 %) .NET 11 4 (7.273 %) XSLT 11 4 (7.273 %) Swing	Application Platforms 1 12 (21.82 %) JBoss 2 8 (14.55 %) Apache 3 4 (7.273 %) Tomcat 3 4 (7.273 %) MQSeries 3 4 (7.273 %) Lotus Domino 4 3 (5.455 %) CMS 5 2 (3.636 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.818 %) IBM HTTP Server 6 1 (1.818 %) WPS 6 1 (1.818 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 4 (7.273 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.636 %) InDesign	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.455 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.818 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 6 (10.91 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.818 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.818 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (1.818 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (1.818 %) Text Mining 3 1 (1.818 %) JasperReports 3 1 (1.818 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 7 (12.73 %) JUnit 2 4 (7.273 %) Subversion 3 3 (5.455 %) Ant 4 2 (3.636 %) Flash 5 1 (1.818 %) Eclipse 5 1 (1.818 %) IntelliJ 5 1 (1.818 %) XDoclet 5 1 (1.818 %) JIRA
General 1 11 (20.00 %) Finance 2 6 (10.91 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.636 %) Health 4 1 (1.818 %) Retail 4 1 (1.818 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.818 %) Construction 4 1 (1.818 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.273 %) Data Integration 2 1 (1.818 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.818 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (1.818 %) Life Science 2 1 (1.818 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (1.818 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.636 %) UNIX 1 2 (3.636 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.818 %) Linux 2 1 (1.818 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (25.45 %) UML 2 9 (16.36 %) SOA 2 9 (16.36 %) Agile Software Development 3 7 (12.73 %) OOD 4 6 (10.91 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (10.91 %) Content Management 4 6 (10.91 %) OO 5 5 (9.091 %) TDD 6 4 (7.273 %) Workflow 6 4 (7.273 %) DSDM 6 4 (7.273 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (5.455 %) RAD 7 3 (5.455 %) Scrum 8 2 (3.636 %) RUP 8 2 (3.636 %) OOA/OOD 8 2 (3.636 %) System Testing 8 2 (3.636 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.818 %) Unit Testing 9 1 (1.818 %) EAI 9 1 (1.818 %) SEO
Programming Languages 1 55 (100.00 %) Java 2 13 (23.64 %) SQL 3 10 (18.18 %) JavaScript 4 7 (12.73 %) C++ 5 5 (9.091 %) C 6 2 (3.636 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.818 %) Perl 7 1 (1.818 %) PHP 7 1 (1.818 %) VB 7 1 (1.818 %) VB.NET 7 1 (1.818 %) Python 7 1 (1.818 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 2 (3.636 %) Degree 2 1 (1.818 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.636 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 19 (34.55 %) Oracle 2 11 (20.00 %) IBM 3 4 (7.273 %) Lotus 4 2 (3.636 %) Quark 4 2 (3.636 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.818 %) Sun 5 1 (1.818 %) ILOG 5 1 (1.818 %) Business Objects