Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

 Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank595336
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Down-17
Matching contract IT job ads11989522880
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England2.692 %2.597 %3.753 %
As % of the Application Development category9.881 %11.63 %15.30 %
Daily rates quoted5843071055
Average daily rate£438£400£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.370 %-5.880 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£290£290
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£370
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-5.400 %
Hourly rates quoted261371
Average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£35.00
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£21.25£31.70£20.40
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.75£52.50£47.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£33.00£33.50
% change year-on-year
-24.24 %-1.490 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12124818718828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England27.24 %22.33 %24.53 %
Daily rates quoted629329026221
Average daily rate£388£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4064621223
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.00£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-8.330 %-7.690 %
J2EE UKJ2EE
UK

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.

J2EE
Demand Trend

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

England J2EE Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

England J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the England region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

England J2EE Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the England region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

England J2EE Hourly Rate Histogram

J2EE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the England region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-16796£475+15.15 %
South EastUp+5136£325-13.33 %
South WestUp+3060£313-10.71 %
North WestUp+948£306-23.43 %
East of EnglandUp+539£293-26.41 %
East MidlandsUp+2235£450+52.54 %
West MidlandsUp+232£275-1.78 %
YorkshireUp+2831£300-
MidlandsUp+914£294-16.07 %
North EastUp+11£324+29.60 %
South CoastNew entry-1--
J2EE UKJ2EE
UK

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11875 (83.37 %)Java
2871 (38.73 %)Oracle
3698 (31.04 %)Spring
4661 (29.39 %)SQL
5607 (26.99 %)XML
6578 (25.70 %)Hibernate
7568 (25.26 %)Banking
8526 (23.39 %)UNIX
9442 (19.65 %)Investment Banking
10355 (15.78 %)Linux
11347 (15.43 %)WebLogic
12345 (15.34 %)WebSphere
13337 (14.98 %)JSP
14316 (14.05 %)Web Services
15315 (14.01 %)Finance
16297 (13.21 %)JavaScript
17287 (12.76 %)Struts
18257 (11.43 %)HTML
19245 (10.89 %)UML
20230 (10.23 %)EJB
21227 (10.09 %)Security Cleared
22226 (10.05 %)OO
23204 (9.071 %)JUnit
24195 (8.671 %)JMS
25193 (8.582 %)AJAX
26190 (8.448 %)SOA
27186 (8.270 %)Sybase
27186 (8.270 %)Derivative
28185 (8.226 %)E-Commerce
29177 (7.870 %)Maven

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1698 (31.04 %)Spring
2607 (26.99 %)XML
3578 (25.70 %)Hibernate
4345 (15.34 %)WebSphere
5337 (14.98 %)JSP
6316 (14.05 %)Web Services
7287 (12.76 %)Struts
8257 (11.43 %)HTML
9230 (10.23 %)EJB
10195 (8.671 %)JMS
11193 (8.582 %)AJAX
12175 (7.781 %)CSS
13171 (7.603 %)Servlets
14167 (7.426 %).NET
15152 (6.759 %)JDBC
16126 (5.602 %)XSLT
17124 (5.514 %)Middleware
18120 (5.336 %)JSF
1993 (4.135 %)Swing
2085 (3.779 %)SOAP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1347 (15.43 %)WebLogic
2164 (7.292 %)Tomcat
3155 (6.892 %)Apache
469 (3.068 %)WebLogic Portal
566 (2.935 %)WebSphere Application Server
657 (2.534 %)WebSphere MQ
755 (2.446 %)ESB
854 (2.401 %)Oracle Application Server
950 (2.223 %)MQSeries
1044 (1.956 %)AquaLogic
1141 (1.823 %)CMS
1238 (1.690 %)IIS
1334 (1.512 %)Rendezvous
1433 (1.467 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1532 (1.423 %)Liferay
1624 (1.067 %)JCAPS
1723 (1.023 %)WebSphere Portal
1820 (0.889 %)TIBCO EMS
1919 (0.845 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
2018 (0.800 %)GlassFish
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
120 (0.889 %)MS Excel
215 (0.667 %)MS Office
38 (0.356 %)MS Project
47 (0.311 %)MS Visio
55 (0.222 %)Photoshop
64 (0.178 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (0.133 %)Adobe Illustrator
73 (0.133 %)Fireworks
82 (0.089 %)Windchill
82 (0.089 %)Spreadsheet
91 (0.044 %)CA Clarity
91 (0.044 %)CorelDRAW
91 (0.044 %)PageMaker
91 (0.044 %)MATLAB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
134 (1.512 %)Oracle BPM
216 (0.711 %)BusinessWorks
315 (0.667 %)RMDS
413 (0.578 %)Oracle Applications
56 (0.267 %)Oracle 11i
56 (0.267 %)ION MarketView
64 (0.178 %)TIBCO iProcess
64 (0.178 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
64 (0.178 %)AquaLogic BPM
73 (0.133 %)Loan IQ
73 (0.133 %)Exstream
73 (0.133 %)SAP CRM
73 (0.133 %)Staffware
73 (0.133 %)Endur
82 (0.089 %)Oracle EBS
82 (0.089 %)Summit
82 (0.089 %)SunGard Martini
82 (0.089 %)SAP GRC
91 (0.044 %)Bloomberg TOMS
91 (0.044 %)SAP SRM
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
190 (4.002 %)HTTP
287 (3.868 %)Internet
342 (1.867 %)TCP/IP
426 (1.156 %)LDAP
520 (0.889 %)SAN
612 (0.534 %)Firewall
79 (0.400 %)Intranet
87 (0.311 %)SSL
95 (0.222 %)Extranet
95 (0.222 %)DNS
104 (0.178 %)Wireshark
113 (0.133 %)NAS
113 (0.133 %)BSS
113 (0.133 %)3G
113 (0.133 %)DAB
113 (0.133 %)WAN
113 (0.133 %)DHCP
122 (0.089 %)Ethernet
122 (0.089 %)Kerberos
122 (0.089 %)SNMP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1166 (7.381 %)SQL Server
2127 (5.647 %)RDBMS
3125 (5.558 %)Oracle 10g
478 (3.468 %)MySQL
564 (2.846 %)DB2
645 (2.001 %)Oracle Reports
735 (1.556 %)SQL Server 2005
832 (1.423 %)Datawarehouse
927 (1.201 %)Oracle 8/8i
927 (1.201 %)Oracle 11g
1023 (1.023 %)Oracle 9i
1122 (0.978 %)BusinessObjects
1218 (0.800 %)ETL
1315 (0.667 %)Informix
1411 (0.489 %)TOAD
1510 (0.445 %)Oracle Discoverer
1510 (0.445 %)GIS
168 (0.356 %)SQL Server 2000
177 (0.311 %)Reference Data
177 (0.311 %)DTS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1204 (9.071 %)JUnit
2177 (7.870 %)Maven
3173 (7.692 %)Eclipse
4148 (6.581 %)Ant
5111 (4.936 %)Subversion
682 (3.646 %)ClearCase
741 (1.823 %)Oracle Forms
834 (1.512 %)jMock
925 (1.112 %)JDeveloper
1022 (0.978 %)FitNesse
1121 (0.934 %)CruiseControl
1121 (0.934 %)Selenium
1121 (0.934 %)Rational Rose
1219 (0.845 %)ClearQuest
1219 (0.845 %)LoadRunner
1317 (0.756 %)QuickTest Pro
1416 (0.711 %)JIRA
1515 (0.667 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1614 (0.622 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1712 (0.534 %)IntelliJ
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1568 (25.26 %)Banking
2442 (19.65 %)Investment Banking
3315 (14.01 %)Finance
4154 (6.847 %)Front Office
5129 (5.736 %)Government
677 (3.424 %)Back Office
760 (2.668 %)Retail
847 (2.090 %)Telecoms
931 (1.378 %)Insurance
1016 (0.711 %)Automotive
1114 (0.622 %)Financial Institution
1212 (0.534 %)Games
1212 (0.534 %)Marketing
1311 (0.489 %)Law
149 (0.400 %)Retail Banking
149 (0.400 %)Education
149 (0.400 %)Home Office
158 (0.356 %)Pharmaceutical
158 (0.356 %)Publishing
167 (0.311 %)Health
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11451 (64.52 %)Developer
21040 (46.24 %)Java Developer
3366 (16.27 %)J2EE Developer
4326 (14.50 %)Java/J2EE Developer
5267 (11.87 %)Architect
6178 (7.915 %)Senior Developer
7140 (6.225 %)Senior Java Developer
8123 (5.469 %)Analyst
983 (3.691 %)Solutions Architect
983 (3.691 %)Designer
1074 (3.290 %)Oracle Developer
1172 (3.201 %)Consultant
1254 (2.401 %)Technical Architect
1349 (2.179 %)Software Engineer
1445 (2.001 %)Senior J2EE Developer
1544 (1.956 %)WebSphere Developer
1640 (1.779 %)J2EE Architect
1738 (1.690 %)Web Developer
1738 (1.690 %)Software Developer
1834 (1.512 %)Project Manager
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1186 (8.270 %)Derivative
285 (3.779 %)Fixed Income
383 (3.691 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
473 (3.246 %)Multithreading
567 (2.979 %)Market Risk
665 (2.890 %)Credit Derivative
757 (2.534 %)Equities
851 (2.268 %)Credit Risk
950 (2.223 %)Open Source
1047 (2.090 %)Equity Derivative
1142 (1.867 %)N-Tier
1223 (1.023 %)Client/Server
1322 (0.978 %)Mainframe
1421 (0.934 %)Web 2.0
1520 (0.889 %)Computer Science
1619 (0.845 %)Grid Computing
1714 (0.622 %)Data Integration
189 (0.400 %)Fat Client
189 (0.400 %)Clustering
189 (0.400 %)HACMP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1526 (23.39 %)UNIX
2355 (15.78 %)Linux
3146 (6.492 %)Windows
4127 (5.647 %)Solaris
549 (2.179 %)Red Hat Linux
648 (2.134 %)AIX
736 (1.601 %)Windows Server 2003
820 (0.889 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
820 (0.889 %)CentOS
911 (0.489 %)Windows XP
911 (0.489 %)Windows 2000
106 (0.267 %)HPUX
106 (0.267 %)Windows Mobile
115 (0.222 %)Android
115 (0.222 %)Windows NT
122 (0.089 %)zOS
122 (0.089 %)Embedded Linux
122 (0.089 %)Ubuntu
122 (0.089 %)Oracle Enterprise Linux
131 (0.044 %)MVS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1245 (10.89 %)UML
2226 (10.05 %)OO
3190 (8.448 %)SOA
4185 (8.226 %)E-Commerce
5166 (7.381 %)Agile Software Development
6125 (5.558 %)MVC
7108 (4.802 %)Unit Testing
8101 (4.491 %)TDD
990 (4.002 %)Scrum
1079 (3.513 %)RUP
1173 (3.246 %)Continuous Integration
1252 (2.312 %)OOD
1350 (2.223 %)Web Development
1444 (1.956 %)Risk Management
1543 (1.912 %)Electronic Trading
1543 (1.912 %)Technical Architecture
1543 (1.912 %)Migration
1641 (1.823 %)RAD
1641 (1.823 %)Software Engineering
1740 (1.779 %)BPEL
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11875 (83.37 %)Java
2661 (29.39 %)SQL
3297 (13.21 %)JavaScript
4173 (7.692 %)PL/SQL
5133 (5.914 %)Perl
6125 (5.558 %)Shell Script
7122 (5.425 %)C++
8102 (4.535 %)C
993 (4.135 %)C#
1027 (1.201 %)VBA
1123 (1.023 %)PHP
1123 (1.023 %)T-SQL
1220 (0.889 %)Groovy
1316 (0.711 %)Python
1415 (0.667 %)VB
1512 (0.534 %)Bash shell
169 (0.400 %)Korn
169 (0.400 %)VB6
169 (0.400 %)Jython
178 (0.356 %)XQuery
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1227 (10.09 %)Security Cleared
2175 (7.781 %)SC Cleared
373 (3.246 %)Degree
448 (2.134 %)DV Cleared
520 (0.889 %)BC Cleared
615 (0.667 %)Sun Certification
714 (0.622 %)ISEB
714 (0.622 %)Oracle Certification
86 (0.267 %)OCP
86 (0.267 %)CTC Cleared
95 (0.222 %)OCA
104 (0.178 %)PMI Certification
104 (0.178 %)SCJP
113 (0.133 %)SCJA
113 (0.133 %)HP APS
113 (0.133 %)Microsoft Certification
113 (0.133 %)MCP
113 (0.133 %)MCSE
113 (0.133 %)MCSA
122 (0.089 %)CISSP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
133 (1.467 %)QA
27 (0.311 %)WCAG
35 (0.222 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
35 (0.222 %)Basel II
35 (0.222 %)SLA
43 (0.133 %)ISO27001
52 (0.089 %)PCI DSS
52 (0.089 %)MiFID
52 (0.089 %)WAI
61 (0.044 %)HL7
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
119 (0.845 %)VMware ESX
216 (0.711 %)VMware Infrastructure
315 (0.667 %)OpenSSO
49 (0.400 %)Oracle RAC
57 (0.311 %)Active Directory
64 (0.178 %)MSMQ
72 (0.089 %)ISA Server
81 (0.044 %)Hadoop
81 (0.044 %)Sendmail
81 (0.044 %)Veritas Cluster Server
81 (0.044 %)Squid
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
114 (0.622 %)Nagios
211 (0.489 %)AutoSys
36 (0.267 %)CONTROL-M
45 (0.222 %)NetBackup
54 (0.178 %)Netcool
63 (0.133 %)OVSD
63 (0.133 %)Legato
63 (0.133 %)OpenView
72 (0.089 %)MOM
72 (0.089 %)Tivoli
72 (0.089 %)CA SiteMinder
72 (0.089 %)TIBCO InConcert
72 (0.089 %)TIBCO Hawk
72 (0.089 %)HP Quality Center
72 (0.089 %)CA Wily
81 (0.044 %)Sun Identity Manager
81 (0.044 %)Data Guard
81 (0.044 %)SCOM
81 (0.044 %)Novell Identity Manager
81 (0.044 %)Tivoli Monitoring
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1871 (38.73 %)Oracle
2186 (8.270 %)Sybase
3133 (5.914 %)JBoss
4112 (4.980 %)TIBCO
5110 (4.891 %)IBM
657 (2.534 %)BEA
751 (2.268 %)SAP
847 (2.090 %)Microsoft
847 (2.090 %)Sun
944 (1.956 %)VMware
1035 (1.556 %)Red Hat
1131 (1.378 %)ATG
1131 (1.378 %)ILOG
1222 (0.978 %)Business Objects
1222 (0.978 %)HP
1320 (0.889 %)Calypso
1320 (0.889 %)Adobe
1320 (0.889 %)SeeBeyond
1320 (0.889 %)Fujitsu
1415 (0.667 %)DataSynapse