Essex J2EE Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Developer
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Atherstone Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	31
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	3	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	0.466 %	4.430 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£431
Average daily rate	£387	£486
% change on same period last year	-20.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£427	£541
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£348
% change on same period last year	+9.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	10
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.60
Average hourly rate	-	£29.05
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.86	£40.93
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	644	632
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	249	188
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£331
Average daily rate	£292	£356
% change on same period last year	-18.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
J2EE Developer East of England

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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

J2EE Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing J2EE Developer within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 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
Brentwood	-1	1	£260	-

J2EE Developer East of England

J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 11 (100.00 %) SQL 1 11 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 11 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 11 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 10 (90.91 %) Unix 3 9 (81.82 %) HTTP 3 9 (81.82 %) SOAP 3 9 (81.82 %) WebServices 3 9 (81.82 %) XML 4 8 (72.73 %) ILOG 5 7 (63.64 %) N-Tier 5 7 (63.64 %) Java 5 7 (63.64 %) JRules 6 6 (54.55 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 6 (54.55 %) Struts

6 6 (54.55 %) UML 6 6 (54.55 %) OO 7 5 (45.45 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 5 (45.45 %) XSLT 8 4 (36.36 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 4 (36.36 %) JDBC 8 4 (36.36 %) Shell Script 8 4 (36.36 %) RAD 8 4 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 9 3 (27.27 %) Korn 9 3 (27.27 %) Validation 9 3 (27.27 %) Log4j 9 3 (27.27 %) XML Schema 10 2 (18.18 %) OOD 10 2 (18.18 %) Marketing

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 11 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 11 (100.00 %) WebSphere 2 9 (81.82 %) SOAP 2 9 (81.82 %) WebServices 2 9 (81.82 %) XML 3 7 (63.64 %) JRules 4 6 (54.55 %) Struts 5 5 (45.45 %) XSLT 6 4 (36.36 %) JDBC 7 3 (27.27 %) XML Schema 8 1 (9.091 %) JavaBeans 8 1 (9.091 %) JSP 8 1 (9.091 %) Servlets 8 1 (9.091 %) ASP.NET 8 1 (9.091 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 9 (81.82 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 6 (54.55 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) Log4j	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Automotive 1 2 (18.18 %) Marketing 2 1 (9.091 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 7 (63.64 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 10 (90.91 %) Unix 2 1 (9.091 %) Linux 2 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (54.55 %) UML 1 6 (54.55 %) OO 2 4 (36.36 %) RAD 2 4 (36.36 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (27.27 %) Validation 4 2 (18.18 %) OOD 5 1 (9.091 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (9.091 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 11 (100.00 %) SQL 2 7 (63.64 %) Java 3 4 (36.36 %) Shell Script 4 3 (27.27 %) Korn 5 1 (9.091 %) VB6 5 1 (9.091 %) C# 5 1 (9.091 %) VB 5 1 (9.091 %) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (45.45 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 11 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 8 (72.73 %) ILOG