The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB over the 3 months to 20 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 Lancashire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 23 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -
Contract jobs citing EJB 9 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 4.478% 0.232% -
As % of the Application Development category 14.06% 0.637% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £338 £273 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £349
% change year-on-year
- +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 157 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 31.84% 36.43% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 90 17
Average daily rate £314 £373 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.77% +29.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £500 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
EJB
North West

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Blackpool - 5 £315 -
Lytham St Annes - 3 £350 -
EJB
North West

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) J2EE
2 10 (90.91%) JMS
3 9 (81.82%) RDBMS
3 9 (81.82%) OO
3 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 9 (81.82%) Web Services
3 9 (81.82%) HTML
3 9 (81.82%) DB2
4 8 (72.73%) XML
4 8 (72.73%) XSL
4 8 (72.73%) Oracle
4 8 (72.73%) OOA/OOD
4 8 (72.73%) JAAS
4 8 (72.73%) JNDI
4 8 (72.73%) Curam
4 8 (72.73%) Use Case
5 7 (63.64%) WSDL
5 7 (63.64%) SOAP
6 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
7 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
7 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
7 2 (18.18%) JPA
7 2 (18.18%) BC Cleared
7 2 (18.18%) C
7 2 (18.18%) SOA
8 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
8 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
8 1 (9.091%) RAD
8 1 (9.091%) XHTML

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (100.00%) J2EE
2 10 (90.91%) JMS
3 9 (81.82%) HTML
3 9 (81.82%) Web Services
4 8 (72.73%) XML
4 8 (72.73%) XSL
4 8 (72.73%) JAAS
4 8 (72.73%) JNDI
5 7 (63.64%) SOAP
5 7 (63.64%) WSDL
6 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
6 2 (18.18%) JPA
6 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
7 1 (9.091%) XHTML
7 1 (9.091%) CSS
7 1 (9.091%) JDBC
7 1 (9.091%) JSP
7 1 (9.091%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Process Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) DB2
1 9 (81.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java/J2EE Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Java/J2EE Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) J2EE Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) J2EE Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior J2EE Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior J2EE Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Java Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) OO
2 8 (72.73%) OOA/OOD
2 8 (72.73%) Use Case
3 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 1 (9.091%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) UML
4 1 (9.091%) RAD
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) BC Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
1 8 (72.73%) Curam
2 1 (9.091%) IBM