Lancashire J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Ives Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	33
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	3	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	3.488 %	10.48 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£363
Average daily rate	-	£382
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.38	£38.17
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	86	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.125 %
Daily rates quoted	5	22
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£322
Average daily rate	£291	£352
% change on same period last year	-17.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.23	£22.47
Average hourly rate	£29.14	£26.84
% change on same period last year	+8.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.04	£31.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
J2EE North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Lancashire region.

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Lancashire region.

J2EE
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newton-le-Willows	-	3	-	-

J2EE North West

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 11 (100.00 %) Java 2 5 (45.45 %) Eclipse 2 5 (45.45 %) Hibernate 3 4 (36.36 %) Internet 3 4 (36.36 %) HTML 3 4 (36.36 %) Tomcat 4 3 (27.27 %) AIX 4 3 (27.27 %) UML 4 3 (27.27 %) OO 4 3 (27.27 %) JBoss 4 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 3 (27.27 %) CSS 4 3 (27.27 %) JDBC 4 3 (27.27 %) JSP 4 3 (27.27 %) Servlets

4 3 (27.27 %) WPS 4 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere 4 3 (27.27 %) Degree 4 3 (27.27 %) Unit Testing 5 2 (18.18 %) QA 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL 5 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 5 2 (18.18 %) XML 6 1 (9.091 %) XSL 6 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (9.091 %) Apache 6 1 (9.091 %) Ant 6 1 (9.091 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (9.091 %) WebServices

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 5 (45.45 %) Hibernate 2 4 (36.36 %) HTML 3 3 (27.27 %) CSS 3 3 (27.27 %) JDBC 3 3 (27.27 %) JSP 3 3 (27.27 %) Servlets 3 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere 4 2 (18.18 %) XML 5 1 (9.091 %) XSL 5 1 (9.091 %) XML Schema 5 1 (9.091 %) AJAX 5 1 (9.091 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (36.36 %) Tomcat 2 3 (27.27 %) WPS 2 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 3 (27.27 %) JBoss 3 1 (9.091 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 4 (36.36 %) Internet 2 1 (9.091 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 5 (45.45 %) Eclipse 2 1 (9.091 %) Ant	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 7 (63.64 %) Developer 2 5 (45.45 %) Java Developer 3 3 (27.27 %) Administrator 3 3 (27.27 %) WebSphere Administrator 4 2 (18.18 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Software Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) J2EE Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) Senior Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Analyst Programmer 5 1 (9.091 %) Programmer 5 1 (9.091 %) Java Analyst Programmer 5 1 (9.091 %) Java Programmer 5 1 (9.091 %) J2EE Analyst Programmer 5 1 (9.091 %) Java Software Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) AIX 2 1 (9.091 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) UML 1 3 (27.27 %) OO 1 3 (27.27 %) Unit Testing 2 1 (9.091 %) Scrum	Programming Languages 1 11 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) Jython 3 1 (9.091 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Oracle