The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 71 59 59
Rank change year-on-year
-12 0
Contract jobs citing EJB 5 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.536% 0.381% 0.720%
As % of the Application Development category 1.157% 1.579% 1.916%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
Average daily rate £319 £235 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.74% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
432 190 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.30% 24.14% 37.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 80 150
Average daily rate £338 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
EJB
Scotland

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow EJB Hourly Rate Trend

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing EJB 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 EJB.

1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (94.44%) HTML
2 17 (94.44%) JSP
2 17 (94.44%) XML
2 17 (94.44%) JSF
3 15 (83.33%) Spring
3 15 (83.33%) Oracle
4 14 (77.78%) J2EE
4 14 (77.78%) Hibernate
5 13 (72.22%) Finance
5 13 (72.22%) Maven
5 13 (72.22%) Servlets
6 12 (66.67%) Struts
6 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
7 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
8 9 (50.00%) JDeveloper
8 9 (50.00%) Eclipse
8 9 (50.00%) JSTL
9 8 (44.44%) Sun
9 8 (44.44%) Sun Certification
9 8 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (27.78%) MVC
10 5 (27.78%) JMS
10 5 (27.78%) N-Tier
10 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
10 5 (27.78%) SQL
10 5 (27.78%) Web Services
10 5 (27.78%) CSS
10 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (22.22%) JPA

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing EJB 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 EJB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (94.44%) HTML
1 17 (94.44%) JSP
1 17 (94.44%) XML
1 17 (94.44%) JSF
2 15 (83.33%) Spring
3 14 (77.78%) J2EE
3 14 (77.78%) Hibernate
4 13 (72.22%) Servlets
5 12 (66.67%) Struts
6 9 (50.00%) JSTL
7 5 (27.78%) JMS
7 5 (27.78%) Web Services
7 5 (27.78%) CSS
8 4 (22.22%) JPA
8 4 (22.22%) JDBC
8 4 (22.22%) SOAP
8 4 (22.22%) XMLBeans
8 4 (22.22%) TopLink
9 3 (16.67%) Java EE
9 3 (16.67%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.556%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (5.556%) GemFire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Maven
2 9 (50.00%) JDeveloper
2 9 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.556%) CruiseControl
3 1 (5.556%) Ant
3 1 (5.556%) PVCS
General
1 13 (72.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 14 (77.78%) Java Developer
3 10 (55.56%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 10 (55.56%) Java Programmer
3 10 (55.56%) Analyst
3 10 (55.56%) Analyst Programmer
3 10 (55.56%) Programmer
4 8 (44.44%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) WebLogic Developer
5 1 (5.556%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.11%) W3C
3 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (27.78%) MVC
2 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (22.22%) BDD
3 4 (22.22%) UML
3 4 (22.22%) OO
3 4 (22.22%) TDD
3 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (11.11%) Web Design
6 1 (5.556%) CRM
6 1 (5.556%) Database Tuning
6 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) XPath
4 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle
2 8 (44.44%) Sun
3 2 (11.11%) JBoss
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.556%) BEA
4 1 (5.556%) HP
4 1 (5.556%) IBM