Java ME Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Java ME 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 Java ME over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME)
Rank 516 543 561
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +18
Contract jobs citing Java ME 2 19 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.036% 0.021%
As % of the Application Development category 0.018% 0.136% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
Average daily rate £375 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
Average hourly rate - £39.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +11.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £39.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 11298 13988 16114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.21% 26.19% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7248 8388 9560
Average daily rate £375 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -11.25%
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 340 367 558
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -6.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java ME
UK

Java ME
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Java ME Jobs Demand Trend

Java ME
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Java ME Daily Rate Trend

Java ME
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Java ME Hourly Rate Trend

Java ME
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java ME within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +26 1 - -
South East +9 1 £375 +15.38%
Java ME
UK

Java ME
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Java ME 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 Java ME.

1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Mobile
2 6 (85.71%) SQLite
2 6 (85.71%) iPhone
2 6 (85.71%) Git (software)
2 6 (85.71%) Blackberry
2 6 (85.71%) Maven
2 6 (85.71%) Ant
2 6 (85.71%) JUnit
2 6 (85.71%) OOP
2 6 (85.71%) OO
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) Eclipse
3 5 (71.43%) MVC
3 5 (71.43%) JSON
4 4 (57.14%) XML
4 4 (57.14%) Android
4 4 (57.14%) REST
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (57.14%) Flash
4 4 (57.14%) XHTML
4 4 (57.14%) WML
5 3 (42.86%) Subversion
5 3 (42.86%) Google
5 3 (42.86%) BREW
5 3 (42.86%) Finance
5 3 (42.86%) Google Maps API

Java ME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Java ME 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 Java ME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) JSON
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) Flash
2 4 (57.14%) XHTML
2 4 (57.14%) WML
3 3 (42.86%) BREW
3 3 (42.86%) Google Maps API
4 1 (14.29%) JNI
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) J2ME
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQLite
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git (software)
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
1 6 (85.71%) Ant
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
2 5 (71.43%) Eclipse
3 3 (42.86%) Subversion
3 3 (42.86%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Android Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Blackberry Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mobile App
2 6 (85.71%) iPhone
2 6 (85.71%) Blackberry
3 3 (42.86%) Flash Lite
4 2 (28.57%) Java Card
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Smartphone
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Mobile
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Android
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) OOP
1 6 (85.71%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (42.86%) Multithreading
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
5 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Perforce
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