England J2EE Applications Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the J2EE Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the 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 Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Application Developer
Location Berkshire City of London England Farnborough Hampshire London Reading Slough South East South West UK Wiltshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	550	630
Rank change on same period last year	+80
Matching contract IT job ads	10	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.016 %	0.009 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£300
Average daily rate	£467	£300
% change on same period last year	+55.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£300
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£42.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	62639	85738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.49 %	85.53 %
Daily rates quoted	21406	26624
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£391
Average daily rate	£406	£416
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£441
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	5411	7254
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.25
Average hourly rate	£24.18	£25.80
% change on same period last year	-6.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.78	£27.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
J2EE Applications Developer UK

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 Applications Developer
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE Applications Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Applications Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

J2EE Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

J2EE Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Applications Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Applications Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
South East	+54	5	£400	+33.33 %
South West	-	3	-	-
London	+63	2	£500	-

J2EE Applications Developer UK

J2EE Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited J2EE Applications 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 J2EE Applications Developer in their job title.

1 14 (100.00 %) Java 1 14 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 10 (71.43 %) Struts 3 9 (64.29 %) Spring 4 8 (57.14 %) Hibernate 5 5 (35.71 %) JSP 6 4 (28.57 %) Servlets 6 4 (28.57 %) SQL 6 4 (28.57 %) WebLogic 6 4 (28.57 %) JDBC 7 3 (21.43 %) AJAX 7 3 (21.43 %) IBM 7 3 (21.43 %) IIS 7 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 3 (21.43 %) EJB

7 3 (21.43 %) DB2 7 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 7 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 7 3 (21.43 %) XML 7 3 (21.43 %) Windows 7 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 7 3 (21.43 %) DB2 UDB 7 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere 8 2 (14.29 %) Derivative 8 2 (14.29 %) Degree 8 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 8 2 (14.29 %) OOA/OOD 8 2 (14.29 %) C# 8 2 (14.29 %) HTML 8 2 (14.29 %) .NET

J2EE Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited J2EE Applications 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 J2EE Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 10 (71.43 %) Struts 3 9 (64.29 %) Spring 4 8 (57.14 %) Hibernate 5 5 (35.71 %) JSP 6 4 (28.57 %) Servlets 6 4 (28.57 %) JDBC 7 3 (21.43 %) AJAX 7 3 (21.43 %) EJB 7 3 (21.43 %) XML 7 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere 8 2 (14.29 %) WebServices 8 2 (14.29 %) HTML 8 2 (14.29 %) .NET 9 1 (7.143 %) WebWork 9 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 9 1 (7.143 %) Swing 9 1 (7.143 %) JMS 9 1 (7.143 %) WSDL 9 1 (7.143 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 4 (28.57 %) WebLogic 2 3 (21.43 %) IIS 2 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (7.143 %) CMS 3 1 (7.143 %) JBoss
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (21.43 %) DB2 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 1 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 1 3 (21.43 %) DB2 UDB 2 1 (7.143 %) GIS 2 1 (7.143 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Ant 1 1 (7.143 %) ClearCase 1 1 (7.143 %) Eclipse	General 1 2 (14.29 %) Banking 1 2 (14.29 %) Investment Banking 2 1 (7.143 %) Back Office 2 1 (7.143 %) Finance 2 1 (7.143 %) Automotive 2 1 (7.143 %) Government 2 1 (7.143 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) Derivative 2 1 (7.143 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (7.143 %) Fixed Income 2 1 (7.143 %) Equities 2 1 (7.143 %) Interest Rate Derivative	Operating Systems 1 3 (21.43 %) Windows 2 1 (7.143 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) OOA/OOD 2 1 (7.143 %) Content Management 2 1 (7.143 %) OO 2 1 (7.143 %) OOD 2 1 (7.143 %) SOA 2 1 (7.143 %) UML 2 1 (7.143 %) OOP 2 1 (7.143 %) Use Case 2 1 (7.143 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (7.143 %) System Testing 2 1 (7.143 %) Web Development 2 1 (7.143 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 14 (100.00 %) Java 2 4 (28.57 %) SQL 3 2 (14.29 %) C# 4 1 (7.143 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (21.43 %) IBM 1 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.143 %) BEA 2 1 (7.143 %) Thunderhead 2 1 (7.143 %) Sybase