The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 18 17 30
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +13
Contract jobs citing J2EE 20 62 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 7.273% 9.268% 4.460%
As % of the Application Development category 27.40% 36.05% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 9
Average daily rate £440 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -23.52%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
73 172 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 26.55% 25.71% 26.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 97 55
Average daily rate £388 £425 £296
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +43.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.90 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
South West

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Gloucester +6 10 £440 +3.52%
Cheltenham -5 3 £388 -18.42%
J2EE
South West

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 36 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 35 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 34 (80.95%) Java
4 26 (61.90%) Web Services
5 19 (45.24%) JBoss
5 19 (45.24%) Maven
6 17 (40.48%) C
7 16 (38.10%) SQL
8 15 (35.71%) JSP
8 15 (35.71%) Swing
8 15 (35.71%) XML
8 15 (35.71%) J2SE
8 15 (35.71%) UML
9 12 (28.57%) Hibernate
10 11 (26.19%) HTML
10 11 (26.19%) RESTful
10 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
10 11 (26.19%) JPA
11 10 (23.81%) Git (software)
12 8 (19.05%) Hudson
12 8 (19.05%) Ant
12 8 (19.05%) UNIX
12 8 (19.05%) Apache
12 8 (19.05%) Shell Script
13 4 (9.524%) Content Management
13 4 (9.524%) Scrum
14 3 (7.143%) Oracle
15 2 (4.762%) SCOM
16 1 (2.381%) WSUS
16 1 (2.381%) Cisco ASA

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 26 (61.90%) Web Services
2 15 (35.71%) JSP
2 15 (35.71%) Swing
2 15 (35.71%) XML
2 15 (35.71%) J2SE
3 12 (28.57%) Hibernate
4 11 (26.19%) HTML
4 11 (26.19%) RESTful
4 11 (26.19%) JPA
5 1 (2.381%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) Apache
2 1 (2.381%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.381%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (2.381%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (2.381%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.381%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (45.24%) Maven
2 10 (23.81%) Git (software)
3 8 (19.05%) Hudson
3 8 (19.05%) Ant
4 1 (2.381%) Subversion
4 1 (2.381%) ClearQuest
4 1 (2.381%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 37 (88.10%) Developer
2 28 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 11 (26.19%) HTML Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 3 (7.143%) ScrumMaster
6 1 (2.381%) Java Swing Developer
6 1 (2.381%) J2EE Team Leader
6 1 (2.381%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (2.381%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) Team Leader
6 1 (2.381%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.381%) Java Team Leader
6 1 (2.381%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.381%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) UNIX
2 1 (2.381%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.381%) CentOS
2 1 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.381%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.381%) Windows
2 1 (2.381%) Solaris
2 1 (2.381%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) UML
2 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
3 4 (9.524%) Content Management
3 4 (9.524%) Scrum
4 1 (2.381%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (80.95%) Java
2 17 (40.48%) C
3 16 (38.10%) SQL
4 8 (19.05%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.381%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 35 (83.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.381%) vSphere
1 1 (2.381%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (4.762%) SCOM
2 1 (2.381%) WSUS
2 1 (2.381%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) JBoss
2 3 (7.143%) Oracle
3 1 (2.381%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.381%) VMware
3 1 (2.381%) Symantec
3 1 (2.381%) Perforce
3 1 (2.381%) Cisco
3 1 (2.381%) Dell
3 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
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