The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 Java EE 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
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 65 - 63
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Java EE 11 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.179% - 0.144%
As % of the Application Development category 2.546% - 0.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
- -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - £42.50
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%
Java EE
Scotland

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (73.33%) XML
3 8 (53.33%) Unit Testing
4 7 (46.67%) J2ME
4 7 (46.67%) J2SE
4 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 7 (46.67%) C
4 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (40.00%) C++
6 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 5 (33.33%) Oracle
7 4 (26.67%) GIS
7 4 (26.67%) Spring
7 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
7 4 (26.67%) MVC
7 4 (26.67%) JDBC
7 4 (26.67%) JMS
7 4 (26.67%) Maven
8 3 (20.00%) XMLBeans
8 3 (20.00%) PDA
8 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (20.00%) JPA
8 3 (20.00%) BDD
8 3 (20.00%) Finance
8 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
8 3 (20.00%) EJB
8 3 (20.00%) CSS
8 3 (20.00%) UML
8 3 (20.00%) OO
8 3 (20.00%) JBoss

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (73.33%) XML
2 7 (46.67%) J2ME
2 7 (46.67%) J2SE
3 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
3 4 (26.67%) JDBC
3 4 (26.67%) JMS
4 3 (20.00%) XMLBeans
4 3 (20.00%) JPA
4 3 (20.00%) EJB
4 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) JSP
4 3 (20.00%) Servlets
4 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) TopLink
4 3 (20.00%) JSF
5 1 (6.667%) WebSphere
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) GIS
2 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.667%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.667%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.667%) CruiseControl
2 1 (6.667%) Ant
2 1 (6.667%) JUnit
2 1 (6.667%) PVCS
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.667%) Administrator
4 1 (6.667%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) PDA
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (13.33%) W3C
3 1 (6.667%) Open Source
3 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Unit Testing
2 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (26.67%) MVC
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) BDD
4 3 (20.00%) UML
4 3 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Web Design
5 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.667%) Performance Testing
6 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (6.667%) Performance Management
6 1 (6.667%) Build Automation
6 1 (6.667%) CAD
6 1 (6.667%) Change Management
6 1 (6.667%) SOA
6 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.667%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) C
3 6 (40.00%) C++
4 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.667%) C#
6 1 (6.667%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (6.667%) MOM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) JBoss
3 1 (6.667%) TIBCO
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) HP
3 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.667%) VMware
3 1 (6.667%) Sybase