The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE 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 Exeter 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, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 19 10 20
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +10
Contract jobs citing J2EE 4 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 3.604% 15.00% 1.316%
As % of the Application Development category 8.511% 34.62% 2.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.52%
All Application Development
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
47 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 42.34% 43.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 16
Average daily rate £325 £419 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.43% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £376
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Devon

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Exeter region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Exeter J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exeter J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exeter J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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.

1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 8 (66.67%) XSD
3 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
3 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (58.33%) GIS
3 7 (58.33%) ESRI
3 7 (58.33%) Dojo
3 7 (58.33%) jQuery
4 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 6 (50.00%) REST
4 6 (50.00%) Apache Flex
4 6 (50.00%) Silverlight
4 6 (50.00%) Ajax
4 6 (50.00%) ArcObjects
4 6 (50.00%) ArcSDE
4 6 (50.00%) Data Management
4 6 (50.00%) Information Management
4 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (50.00%) ArcGIS
4 6 (50.00%) Publishing
4 6 (50.00%) .NET
4 6 (50.00%) Visual Studio
4 6 (50.00%) CSS
4 6 (50.00%) Servlets
4 6 (50.00%) Web Services
4 6 (50.00%) XML
4 6 (50.00%) C#
4 6 (50.00%) HTML

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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.

Application Development
1 8 (66.67%) XSD
2 7 (58.33%) Dojo
2 7 (58.33%) jQuery
3 6 (50.00%) ArcObjects
3 6 (50.00%) REST
3 6 (50.00%) Apache Flex
3 6 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 6 (50.00%) Ajax
3 6 (50.00%) HTML
3 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 6 (50.00%) CSS
3 6 (50.00%) Servlets
3 6 (50.00%) Web Services
3 6 (50.00%) XML
4 5 (41.67%) WebSphere
5 2 (16.67%) Java EE
5 2 (16.67%) JAX-WS
5 2 (16.67%) JPA
5 2 (16.67%) JAXB
5 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) ArcGIS
1 6 (50.00%) ArcSDE
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) GIS Developer
3 3 (25.00%) WebSphere Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 2 (16.67%) J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Data Management
2 6 (50.00%) Information Management
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.333%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Java
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) ESRI
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (41.67%) IBM