The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE 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 J2EE over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 26 31 17
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Contract jobs citing J2EE 5 11 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.262% 2.607% 5.858%
As % of the Application Development category 7.042% 8.462% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
Average daily rate £336 £380 £435
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.64% -12.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £375 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £550 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.68% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -23.52%
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
71 130 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 32.13% 30.81% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 70 25
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £288 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £550 £464
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
J2EE
North West

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Blackpool - 2 £338 -
Preston - - - - 1
Blackburn - - - - 3
J2EE
North West

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 13 (81.25%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) HTML
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) DB2
2 11 (68.75%) EJB
2 11 (68.75%) Web Services
2 11 (68.75%) JMS
3 10 (62.50%) XML
3 10 (62.50%) OO
3 10 (62.50%) Oracle
3 10 (62.50%) RDBMS
4 9 (56.25%) Curam
4 9 (56.25%) JNDI
4 9 (56.25%) XSL
4 9 (56.25%) OOA/OOD
5 8 (50.00%) WSDL
5 8 (50.00%) SOAP
5 8 (50.00%) JAAS
5 8 (50.00%) Use Case
6 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
7 4 (25.00%) BC Cleared
8 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
8 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
9 2 (12.50%) MVC
9 2 (12.50%) IBM
9 2 (12.50%) Servlets
9 2 (12.50%) SOA
9 2 (12.50%) C
9 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
9 2 (12.50%) CSS

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (68.75%) HTML
1 11 (68.75%) EJB
1 11 (68.75%) Web Services
1 11 (68.75%) JMS
2 10 (62.50%) XML
3 9 (56.25%) JNDI
3 9 (56.25%) XSL
4 8 (50.00%) WSDL
4 8 (50.00%) SOAP
4 8 (50.00%) JAAS
5 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
6 2 (12.50%) Servlets
6 2 (12.50%) CSS
6 2 (12.50%) JPA
7 1 (6.250%) Stripes Framework
7 1 (6.250%) jQuery
7 1 (6.250%) JDBC
7 1 (6.250%) JSP
7 1 (6.250%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (6.250%) Apache
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Process Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) DB2
2 10 (62.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (6.250%) Hudson
2 1 (6.250%) FindBugs
2 1 (6.250%) Ant
2 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 1 (6.250%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.250%) Maven
2 1 (6.250%) Checkstyle
2 1 (6.250%) AppScan
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 3 (18.75%) J2EE Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior J2EE Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior J2EE Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Architect
5 2 (12.50%) J2EE Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java/J2EE Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Architect
6 1 (6.250%) J2EE Applications Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Administrator
6 1 (6.250%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
1 1 (6.250%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) OO
2 9 (56.25%) OOA/OOD
3 8 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (12.50%) MVC
4 2 (12.50%) SOA
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.250%) Refactoring
5 1 (6.250%) UML
5 1 (6.250%) RAD
5 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.250%) Code Coverage
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) TDD
5 1 (6.250%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (6.250%) Degree
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Oracle
2 9 (56.25%) Curam
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (6.250%) Sybase
4 1 (6.250%) JBoss