England J2EE Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the J2EE 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Developer
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glamorgan Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	208	139
Rank change on same period last year	-69
Matching contract IT job ads	502	1086
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.669 %	1.099 %
As % of the category below	0.797 %	1.287 %
Daily rates quoted	133	375
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£388
Average daily rate	£399	£414
% change on same period last year	-3.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£428	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£348
% change on same period last year	+8.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.25	£39.85
Average hourly rate	£38.33	£41.44
% change on same period last year	-7.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.42	£43.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.33	£40.18
% change on same period last year	-4.59 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	62967	84384
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.93 %	85.37 %
Daily rates quoted	21223	25739
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£392
Average daily rate	£406	£417
% change on same period last year	-2.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	5392	6927
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.06	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£23.68	£26.20
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£27.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
J2EE 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 Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE 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 Developer across the England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
London	-82	210	£415	-4.18 %
South East	+23	99	£411	+18.34 %
East of England	-18	40	£373	-7.96 %
Yorkshire	-44	37	£344	+10.86 %
West Midlands	-11	28	£397	+16.30 %
North West	-13	27	£336	-3.47 %
East Midlands	+2	18	£253	-40.54 %
Midlands	-7	18	-	-
South West	+3	15	£388	+22.04 %
North East	+13	3	£386	-12.71 %

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J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited 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 J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 1291 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 1154 (89.39 %) Java 3 619 (47.95 %) Hibernate 4 601 (46.55 %) Spring 5 474 (36.72 %) Oracle 6 391 (30.29 %) Struts 7 338 (26.18 %) JSP 8 335 (25.95 %) XML 9 284 (22.00 %) SQL 10 283 (21.92 %) WebSphere 11 278 (21.53 %) Finance 12 259 (20.06 %) EJB 13 250 (19.36 %) UML 14 237 (18.36 %) Eclipse 15 231 (17.89 %) WebLogic

16 228 (17.66 %) OO 17 199 (15.41 %) WebServices 18 183 (14.18 %) JUnit 19 166 (12.86 %) HTML 20 159 (12.32 %) Agile Software Development 21 151 (11.70 %) Banking 22 145 (11.23 %) Servlets 23 130 (10.07 %) JavaScript 24 128 (9.915 %) JBoss 25 109 (8.443 %) Ant 26 105 (8.133 %) UNIX 27 104 (8.056 %) Security Cleared 28 100 (7.746 %) Tomcat 29 97 (7.514 %) E-Commerce 30 95 (7.359 %) AJAX

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited 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 J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1291 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 619 (47.95 %) Hibernate 3 601 (46.55 %) Spring 4 391 (30.29 %) Struts 5 338 (26.18 %) JSP 6 335 (25.95 %) XML 7 283 (21.92 %) WebSphere 8 259 (20.06 %) EJB 9 199 (15.41 %) WebServices 10 166 (12.86 %) HTML 11 145 (11.23 %) Servlets 12 95 (7.359 %) AJAX 13 89 (6.894 %) JDBC 13 89 (6.894 %) JMS 14 86 (6.662 %) CSS 15 82 (6.352 %) SOAP 16 70 (5.422 %) JSF 17 67 (5.190 %) MVC 18 57 (4.415 %) Swing 19 47 (3.641 %) Spring MVC	Application Platforms 1 231 (17.89 %) WebLogic 2 128 (9.915 %) JBoss 3 100 (7.746 %) Tomcat 4 93 (7.204 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 61 (4.725 %) Apache 6 41 (3.176 %) ESB 7 28 (2.169 %) WebLogic Portal 8 23 (1.782 %) ATG Dynamo 9 21 (1.627 %) Oracle Application Server 10 20 (1.549 %) MQSeries 11 15 (1.162 %) CMS 12 10 (0.775 %) Oracle 9iAS 13 9 (0.697 %) IIS 14 8 (0.620 %) WebSphere MQ 14 8 (0.620 %) WPS 15 7 (0.542 %) Oracle 10gAS 16 6 (0.465 %) Mule 17 4 (0.310 %) Jetty 17 4 (0.310 %) WebLogic Integration 17 4 (0.310 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 18 (1.394 %) MS Excel 2 16 (1.239 %) MS Office 3 8 (0.620 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.077 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.077 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 41 (3.176 %) HTTP 2 27 (2.091 %) Extranet 3 26 (2.014 %) Internet 4 15 (1.162 %) LDAP 5 7 (0.542 %) GPRS 6 3 (0.232 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (0.155 %) SMS 7 2 (0.155 %) Wireless 8 1 (0.077 %) FTP 8 1 (0.077 %) Broadband 8 1 (0.077 %) Intranet 8 1 (0.077 %) 3G 8 1 (0.077 %) RFID	Database & Business Intelligence 1 71 (5.500 %) RDBMS 2 67 (5.190 %) DB2 3 57 (4.415 %) SQL Server 4 47 (3.641 %) Oracle 10g 5 42 (3.253 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 39 (3.021 %) Oracle 9i 7 33 (2.556 %) MySQL 8 8 (0.620 %) SQL Server 2005 9 6 (0.465 %) DB2 UDB 10 3 (0.232 %) BusinessObjects 10 3 (0.232 %) OLAP 11 2 (0.155 %) Crystal Reports 11 2 (0.155 %) Informix 11 2 (0.155 %) MS Access 11 2 (0.155 %) SQL Server 7 11 2 (0.155 %) SQL Server 2000 11 2 (0.155 %) Reference Data 11 2 (0.155 %) JasperReports 12 1 (0.077 %) SQLPlus 12 1 (0.077 %) InterBase
Development Applications 1 237 (18.36 %) Eclipse 2 183 (14.18 %) JUnit 3 109 (8.443 %) Ant 4 32 (2.479 %) JDeveloper 5 24 (1.859 %) ClearCase 6 23 (1.782 %) FitNesse 7 22 (1.704 %) Selenium 8 20 (1.549 %) Subversion 8 20 (1.549 %) ClearQuest 9 16 (1.239 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 9 16 (1.239 %) Log4j 10 12 (0.930 %) CruiseControl 11 11 (0.852 %) Rational Rose 12 7 (0.542 %) JIRA 13 5 (0.387 %) HttpUnit 13 5 (0.387 %) jMock 13 5 (0.387 %) MSI 14 4 (0.310 %) WebLogic Workshop 14 4 (0.310 %) JBuilder 14 4 (0.310 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 278 (21.53 %) Finance 2 151 (11.70 %) Banking 3 78 (6.042 %) Retail 4 72 (5.577 %) Telecoms 5 61 (4.725 %) Government 6 58 (4.493 %) Insurance 7 49 (3.796 %) Investment Banking 8 37 (2.866 %) Retail Banking 9 29 (2.246 %) Back Office 10 25 (1.936 %) Financial Institution 11 23 (1.782 %) Front Office 12 21 (1.627 %) Games 13 13 (1.007 %) Manufacturing 14 11 (0.852 %) Online Games 15 10 (0.775 %) Publishing 16 8 (0.620 %) Automotive 17 6 (0.465 %) Pensions 18 5 (0.387 %) Marketing 18 5 (0.387 %) Advertising 18 5 (0.387 %) Education
Miscellaneous 1 34 (2.634 %) Derivative 2 28 (2.169 %) N-Tier 3 23 (1.782 %) Multithreading 4 21 (1.627 %) Computer Science 5 19 (1.472 %) Fixed Income 6 17 (1.317 %) Equities 7 13 (1.007 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 10 (0.775 %) Spread Betting 9 9 (0.697 %) Equity Derivative 9 9 (0.697 %) Client/Server 9 9 (0.697 %) Handset 10 8 (0.620 %) Contract for Difference 11 7 (0.542 %) Web 2.0 11 7 (0.542 %) PDA 12 6 (0.465 %) Credit Risk 13 5 (0.387 %) Interest Rate Derivative 13 5 (0.387 %) Grid Computing 13 5 (0.387 %) E-Learning 14 4 (0.310 %) SCORM 14 4 (0.310 %) Data Integration	Operating Systems 1 105 (8.133 %) UNIX 2 67 (5.190 %) Linux 3 36 (2.789 %) Solaris 4 22 (1.704 %) Windows 5 5 (0.387 %) HPUX 5 5 (0.387 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.077 %) Windows XP 6 1 (0.077 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.077 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 250 (19.36 %) UML 2 228 (17.66 %) OO 3 159 (12.32 %) Agile Software Development 4 104 (8.056 %) Security Cleared 5 97 (7.514 %) E-Commerce 6 85 (6.584 %) SOA 7 63 (4.880 %) SC Cleared 8 62 (4.802 %) RUP 9 57 (4.415 %) TDD 10 52 (4.028 %) Web Development 11 48 (3.718 %) Scrum 12 45 (3.486 %) RAD 12 45 (3.486 %) Unit Testing 13 40 (3.098 %) OOD 14 36 (2.789 %) OOA/OOD 15 24 (1.859 %) Content Management 16 19 (1.472 %) Pair Programming 17 18 (1.394 %) CRM 18 16 (1.239 %) DV Cleared 19 15 (1.162 %) Continuous Integration	Programming Languages 1 1154 (89.39 %) Java 2 284 (22.00 %) SQL 3 130 (10.07 %) JavaScript 4 81 (6.274 %) PL/SQL 5 27 (2.091 %) C++ 6 23 (1.782 %) C# 6 23 (1.782 %) Shell Script 7 17 (1.317 %) Perl 8 13 (1.007 %) C 9 12 (0.930 %) DHTML 10 8 (0.620 %) Delphi 11 6 (0.465 %) VBA 12 5 (0.387 %) VB 12 5 (0.387 %) XQuery 12 5 (0.387 %) XPath 13 4 (0.310 %) Korn 13 4 (0.310 %) VB6 13 4 (0.310 %) Transact-SQL 14 3 (0.232 %) Python 14 3 (0.232 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 88 (6.816 %) Degree 2 29 (2.246 %) Sun Certification 3 5 (0.387 %) SCJP 4 3 (0.232 %) SCJA 5 2 (0.155 %) SCJD 6 1 (0.077 %) SCWCD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (0.930 %) QA 2 10 (0.775 %) WAI 3 7 (0.542 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 21 (1.627 %) AquaLogic 2 2 (0.155 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (0.077 %) MOM
Vendors 1 474 (36.72 %) Oracle 2 74 (5.732 %) BEA 3 48 (3.718 %) IBM 4 43 (3.331 %) Sybase 5 33 (2.556 %) Sun 5 33 (2.556 %) ATG 6 27 (2.091 %) ILOG 7 17 (1.317 %) Mercator 8 16 (1.239 %) Siebel 9 13 (1.007 %) Microsoft 10 9 (0.697 %) webMethods 10 9 (0.697 %) TIBCO 10 9 (0.697 %) Google 11 6 (0.465 %) Lotus 12 5 (0.387 %) Vignette 13 4 (0.310 %) Macromedia 13 4 (0.310 %) Cisco 13 4 (0.310 %) SeeBeyond 13 4 (0.310 %) IONA 14 3 (0.232 %) Genesys