The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 20 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 Edinburgh 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 41 52 47
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing J2EE 17 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.117% 1.000% 1.377%
As % of the Application Development category 9.714% 8.527% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 11
Average daily rate £413 £325 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -27.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £190 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £470 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+0.76% -23.52%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
175 129 134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.79% 11.73% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 59 59
Average daily rate £313 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.80% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Scotland

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Edinburgh J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Edinburgh J2EE Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

1 19 (79.17%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) Spring
3 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
3 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 7 (29.17%) Oracle
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
4 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (25.00%) JSF
5 5 (20.83%) Maven
5 5 (20.83%) Eclipse
5 5 (20.83%) IBM
5 5 (20.83%) Struts
6 4 (16.67%) UML
6 4 (16.67%) XML
6 4 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.67%) Subversion
6 4 (16.67%) jQuery
7 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Portal
7 3 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Manager
7 3 (12.50%) Unified Communications
7 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
7 3 (12.50%) MVC
7 3 (12.50%) Finance
7 3 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (12.50%) IBM Certification
7 3 (12.50%) OO
7 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
7 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 3 (12.50%) CSS

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (33.33%) Spring
2 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
3 6 (25.00%) JSF
3 6 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (20.83%) Struts
5 4 (16.67%) XML
5 4 (16.67%) jQuery
6 3 (12.50%) CSS
6 3 (12.50%) JDBC
6 3 (12.50%) JSP
6 3 (12.50%) Servlets
7 2 (8.333%) Web Services
7 2 (8.333%) .NET
7 2 (8.333%) Dojo
7 2 (8.333%) Spring MVC
8 1 (4.167%) WCF
8 1 (4.167%) Java EE
8 1 (4.167%) JSON
8 1 (4.167%) HTML
8 1 (4.167%) JAX-WS
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Portal
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.167%) SAS
3 1 (4.167%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (4.167%) CMS
3 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (4.167%) GlassFish
3 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.167%) SAN
2 1 (4.167%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (8.333%) MySQL
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Eclipse
1 5 (20.83%) Maven
2 4 (16.67%) Subversion
3 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (8.333%) TortoiseSVN
4 2 (8.333%) Rational Application Developer
4 2 (8.333%) JUnit
4 2 (8.333%) JIRA
5 1 (4.167%) Selenium
5 1 (4.167%) FitNesse
5 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.167%) Git (software)
5 1 (4.167%) Ant
General
1 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Retail
3 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Access Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.333%) WebSphere Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (8.333%) WebSphere Portal Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Portal Developer
5 2 (8.333%) J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Designer
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Java Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Mainframe
1 2 (8.333%) Web 2.0
1 2 (8.333%) Graphic Design
1 2 (8.333%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (8.333%) Open Source
2 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) UML
1 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (12.50%) MVC
2 3 (12.50%) OO
2 3 (12.50%) RAD
3 2 (8.333%) Migration
3 2 (8.333%) Web Design
3 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.333%) Content Management
4 1 (4.167%) Business Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Release Management
4 1 (4.167%) Build Automation
4 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.167%) OOP
4 1 (4.167%) CRM
4 1 (4.167%) SOA
4 1 (4.167%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.167%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.333%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.167%) C#
5 1 (4.167%) Perl
5 1 (4.167%) PHP
5 1 (4.167%) Ruby
5 1 (4.167%) Groovy
5 1 (4.167%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.167%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.333%) JBoss
4 1 (4.167%) Alterian
Edinburgh, Midlothian
JSF 1.2... JSP... Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as DOJO and jQuery. Knowledge of WebSphere Portal Administration (preferably candidates will be IBM certified). Experience of IBM Web...
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013