The first table below looks at the demand for J2ME 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 J2ME over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)
Rank 494 476 437
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -39
Contract jobs citing J2ME 16 82 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.038% 0.154% 0.241%
As % of the Application Development category 0.141% 0.585% 0.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 52 71
Average daily rate £375 £345 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% +9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £424 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+45.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
Average hourly rate - £42.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +21.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11360 14029 15876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.33% 26.29% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7272 8431 9356
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 353 555
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2ME
UK

J2ME
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2ME across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England J2ME Jobs Demand Trend

J2ME
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2ME across the England region.

England J2ME Daily Rate Trend

J2ME
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2ME across the England region.

England J2ME Hourly Rate Trend

J2ME
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2ME within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
London -18 11 £375 -
North West +16 2 £400 -
South East +11 1 £375 +36.36%
West Midlands +7 1 £425 +70.00%
North East - 1 £350 -
J2ME
UK

J2ME
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing J2ME 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 J2ME.

1 48 (90.57%) Android
2 32 (60.38%) Java
3 22 (41.51%) Blackberry
4 20 (37.74%) OOP
5 16 (30.19%) Windows
5 16 (30.19%) HTML5
5 16 (30.19%) iPhone
6 15 (28.30%) PhoneGap
6 15 (28.30%) Appcelerator Titanium
6 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
7 13 (24.53%) Apple iOS
7 13 (24.53%) Agile Software Development
7 13 (24.53%) Windows Mobile
8 10 (18.87%) Social Network
8 10 (18.87%) New Media
8 10 (18.87%) Handset
9 8 (15.09%) XML
9 8 (15.09%) Mobile App
10 7 (13.21%) OO
10 7 (13.21%) MySQL
10 7 (13.21%) MVC
10 7 (13.21%) Google
10 7 (13.21%) JSON
11 6 (11.32%) Git (software)
11 6 (11.32%) J2EE
12 5 (9.434%) jQuery
13 4 (7.547%) SQLite
13 4 (7.547%) BlackBerry OS
13 4 (7.547%) REST
13 4 (7.547%) Spring

J2ME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing J2ME 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 J2ME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (30.19%) HTML5
2 8 (15.09%) XML
3 7 (13.21%) JSON
4 6 (11.32%) J2EE
5 5 (9.434%) jQuery
6 4 (7.547%) Web Services
6 4 (7.547%) REST
6 4 (7.547%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.547%) Spring
7 3 (5.660%) HTML
7 3 (5.660%) SOAP
7 3 (5.660%) RESTful
8 2 (3.774%) JPA
8 2 (3.774%) iOS SDK
8 2 (3.774%) CSS
8 2 (3.774%) Flash
8 2 (3.774%) JMS
9 1 (1.887%) WAP
9 1 (1.887%) SyncML
9 1 (1.887%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.774%) Apache
1 2 (3.774%) GlassFish
2 1 (1.887%) Mule
2 1 (1.887%) ESB
2 1 (1.887%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.887%) GSM
1 1 (1.887%) SMS
1 1 (1.887%) RTCP
1 1 (1.887%) RTP
1 1 (1.887%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) MySQL
2 4 (7.547%) SQLite
3 2 (3.774%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.887%) GIS
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) PhoneGap
1 15 (28.30%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 6 (11.32%) Git (software)
3 3 (5.660%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.660%) Xcode
4 2 (3.774%) CruiseControl
4 2 (3.774%) Subversion
4 2 (3.774%) Maven
4 2 (3.774%) JIRA
4 2 (3.774%) WATIR
4 2 (3.774%) Selenium
4 2 (3.774%) RSpec
4 2 (3.774%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.774%) Hudson
4 2 (3.774%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.887%) JUnit
General
1 3 (5.660%) Banking
2 2 (3.774%) Finance
2 2 (3.774%) Games
3 1 (1.887%) Automotive
3 1 (1.887%) Electronics
3 1 (1.887%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.887%) Retail
3 1 (1.887%) Retail Banking
3 1 (1.887%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (88.68%) Developer
2 23 (43.40%) Android Developer
3 14 (26.42%) Mobile Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Blackberry Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Programmer
6 4 (7.547%) Applications Developer
7 3 (5.660%) Architect
7 3 (5.660%) Front-End Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Build Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.774%) Java Developer
9 1 (1.887%) Team Leader
9 1 (1.887%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (1.887%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.887%) Technical Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.887%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.887%) JavaScript Developer
9 1 (1.887%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (41.51%) Blackberry
2 16 (30.19%) iPhone
3 10 (18.87%) New Media
3 10 (18.87%) Social Network
3 10 (18.87%) Handset
4 8 (15.09%) Mobile App
5 3 (5.660%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.660%) Digital Media
6 2 (3.774%) Social Media
6 2 (3.774%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (3.774%) Mobile Games
6 2 (3.774%) Online Games
7 1 (1.887%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.887%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.887%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.887%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.887%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 48 (90.57%) Android
2 16 (30.19%) Windows
3 13 (24.53%) Windows Mobile
3 13 (24.53%) Apple iOS
4 4 (7.547%) BlackBerry OS
5 2 (3.774%) UNIX
6 1 (1.887%) Linux
6 1 (1.887%) Windows CE
6 1 (1.887%) Windows Phone
6 1 (1.887%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) OOP
2 13 (24.53%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (13.21%) MVC
3 7 (13.21%) OO
4 3 (5.660%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (5.660%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (3.774%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (3.774%) DSDM
5 2 (3.774%) SOA
5 2 (3.774%) Mobile Commerce
5 2 (3.774%) Workflow
5 2 (3.774%) Scrum
5 2 (3.774%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (3.774%) TDD
5 2 (3.774%) Software Engineering
6 1 (1.887%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (1.887%) Web Development
6 1 (1.887%) Use Case
6 1 (1.887%) Unit Testing
6 1 (1.887%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Java
2 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.774%) PHP
3 2 (3.774%) SQL
3 2 (3.774%) Ruby
4 1 (1.887%) C
4 1 (1.887%) C++
4 1 (1.887%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (1.887%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.887%) JTAG
Systems Management
1 2 (3.774%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Google
2 2 (3.774%) Oracle
2 2 (3.774%) JBoss
2 2 (3.774%) Symbian
2 2 (3.774%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.887%) Mapinfo
3 1 (1.887%) ESRI
3 1 (1.887%) Perforce
Leeds, West Yorkshire
The ideal candidate will have experience of: - Developing iOS and Android apps - Strong OO design and programming skills - Objective C and Java (J2EE/J2ME) or C and C++.
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 14 May 2013
Yorkshire and the Humber
Contract Java Mobile Developer, Yorkshire £300-£350 Per day. Java: J2EE, J2MEMobile: Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, iOS, BlackberryThis is a 6 month contract opportunity with a good possibility...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
South Yorkshire
Key Skills: -Java -J2ME -Eclipse -Strong MVC and object oriented skills -Ant/Maven -Experience in REST based application development -Agile development This is a 5 month contract opportunity...
Real Staffing
Rate: £300 - £301 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013