The first table below looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 J2EE Developer
Rank 62 64 63
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Java/J2EE Developer 1 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.156% 0.413% 0.346%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.163% 0.439% 0.362%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -27.77%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
613 911 828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.33% 94.11% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 401 346
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 87 106
Average hourly rate £17.47 £31.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.64% +91.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £37.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Java/J2EE Developer
East of England

Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Java/J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Java/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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) J2EE
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) UML
2 9 (90.00%) OO
2 9 (90.00%) Ajax
3 8 (80.00%) WebSphere
3 8 (80.00%) Struts
3 8 (80.00%) XML
3 8 (80.00%) XSLT
3 8 (80.00%) XHTML
3 8 (80.00%) HTML
3 8 (80.00%) Eclipse
3 8 (80.00%) RDBMS
3 8 (80.00%) Subversion
4 7 (70.00%) Finance
5 6 (60.00%) ATG
5 6 (60.00%) Log4j
5 6 (60.00%) IBM
5 6 (60.00%) Interwoven
5 6 (60.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 6 (60.00%) Tridion
5 6 (60.00%) Internet
5 6 (60.00%) Content Management
5 6 (60.00%) JSTL
5 6 (60.00%) Perl
5 6 (60.00%) DB2
5 6 (60.00%) Ant

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Java/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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) J2EE
2 9 (90.00%) Ajax
3 8 (80.00%) WebSphere
3 8 (80.00%) Struts
3 8 (80.00%) XHTML
3 8 (80.00%) XML
3 8 (80.00%) XSLT
3 8 (80.00%) HTML
4 6 (60.00%) XMLBeans
4 6 (60.00%) JMS
4 6 (60.00%) EJB
4 6 (60.00%) JDBC
4 6 (60.00%) JSP
4 6 (60.00%) Servlets
4 6 (60.00%) JSTL
5 4 (40.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 4 (40.00%) Spring
6 3 (30.00%) Swing
7 2 (20.00%) JNI
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (60.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (10.00%) ESB
3 1 (10.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) RDBMS
2 6 (60.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) JUnit
2 8 (80.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (80.00%) Subversion
3 6 (60.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Ant
3 6 (60.00%) Log4j
4 2 (20.00%) Maven
5 1 (10.00%) Checkstyle
5 1 (10.00%) FitNesse
5 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (10.00%) JProfiler
5 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (10.00%) Gradle
5 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Retail
3 5 (50.00%) Games
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
1 6 (60.00%) HPUX
1 6 (60.00%) Solaris
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) UML
1 9 (90.00%) OO
2 6 (60.00%) RAD
2 6 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (60.00%) Content Management
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) XPath
3 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 6 (60.00%) Bash shell
4 2 (20.00%) C++
5 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
1 6 (60.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (60.00%) ATG
1 6 (60.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (60.00%) Elastic Path
2 3 (30.00%) JBoss
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle