Leeds J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Leeds 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	36	26
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	42	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	13.42 %	17.39 %
Daily rates quoted	4	18
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£375
Average daily rate	£363	£387
% change on same period last year	-6.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.38	£38.17
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	313	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	54	44
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£331
Average daily rate	£297	£354
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.55	£23.78
Average hourly rate	£32.51	£25.08
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.47	£26.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
J2EE West Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 54 (87.10 %) Java 2 28 (45.16 %) Oracle 3 27 (43.55 %) Hibernate 4 25 (40.32 %) Agile Software Development 5 24 (38.71 %) Spring 6 21 (33.87 %) JSP 7 20 (32.26 %) WebSphere 8 19 (30.65 %) XML 9 16 (25.81 %) UML 10 15 (24.19 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 15 (24.19 %) Computer Science 10 15 (24.19 %) Degree 11 12 (19.35 %) .NET 12 10 (16.13 %) Ant 12 10 (16.13 %) SQL

12 10 (16.13 %) ATG 13 9 (14.52 %) Finance 13 9 (14.52 %) Solaris 14 8 (12.90 %) OO 14 8 (12.90 %) ATG Dynamo 15 6 (9.677 %) UNIX 15 6 (9.677 %) Struts 15 6 (9.677 %) HTML 15 6 (9.677 %) JUnit 15 6 (9.677 %) E-Commerce 15 6 (9.677 %) HTTP 15 6 (9.677 %) RDBMS 15 6 (9.677 %) Internet 15 6 (9.677 %) Shell Script 16 5 (8.065 %) Extranet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 27 (43.55 %) Hibernate 2 24 (38.71 %) Spring 3 21 (33.87 %) JSP 4 20 (32.26 %) WebSphere 5 19 (30.65 %) XML 6 12 (19.35 %) .NET 7 6 (9.677 %) HTML 7 6 (9.677 %) Struts 8 4 (6.452 %) JSF 8 4 (6.452 %) EJB 9 2 (3.226 %) JDBC 9 2 (3.226 %) Servlets 9 2 (3.226 %) WebServices 10 1 (1.613 %) Spring MVC 10 1 (1.613 %) XSLT 10 1 (1.613 %) CORBA 10 1 (1.613 %) JMS 10 1 (1.613 %) Middleware 10 1 (1.613 %) MVC 10 1 (1.613 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 8 (12.90 %) ATG Dynamo 2 3 (4.839 %) WebLogic 3 2 (3.226 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 2 (3.226 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (1.613 %) Oracle 10gAS 4 1 (1.613 %) Apache 4 1 (1.613 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.613 %) Tuxedo
Communications & Networking 1 6 (9.677 %) HTTP 1 6 (9.677 %) Internet 2 5 (8.065 %) Extranet 3 1 (1.613 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (24.19 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 6 (9.677 %) RDBMS 3 5 (8.065 %) SQL Server 4 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.613 %) SAP BW 5 1 (1.613 %) SAP BI 5 1 (1.613 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 10 (16.13 %) Ant 2 6 (9.677 %) JUnit 3 1 (1.613 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.613 %) Eclipse	General 1 9 (14.52 %) Finance 2 3 (4.839 %) Government 2 3 (4.839 %) Telecoms 2 3 (4.839 %) Retail 3 2 (3.226 %) Banking 3 2 (3.226 %) Auditing 4 1 (1.613 %) Billing 4 1 (1.613 %) Pensions 4 1 (1.613 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.613 %) Health
Job Titles 1 50 (80.65 %) Developer 2 32 (51.61 %) Java Developer 3 31 (50.00 %) J2EE Developer 4 24 (38.71 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 10 (16.13 %) Architect 6 6 (9.677 %) Lead Developer 7 4 (6.452 %) Senior Developer 7 4 (6.452 %) Project Manager 7 4 (6.452 %) Web Developer 8 3 (4.839 %) Solutions Architect 9 2 (3.226 %) Systems Engineer 9 2 (3.226 %) .NET Developer 9 2 (3.226 %) C# Developer 9 2 (3.226 %) Consultant 9 2 (3.226 %) Technical Project Manager 9 2 (3.226 %) Software Engineer 9 2 (3.226 %) C# Software Engineer 9 2 (3.226 %) Java Software Engineer 9 2 (3.226 %) Technical Manager 9 2 (3.226 %) Senior Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 15 (24.19 %) Computer Science 2 2 (3.226 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.613 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 9 (14.52 %) Solaris 2 6 (9.677 %) UNIX 3 3 (4.839 %) Windows 4 1 (1.613 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (40.32 %) Agile Software Development 2 16 (25.81 %) UML 3 8 (12.90 %) OO 4 6 (9.677 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (6.452 %) SOA 5 4 (6.452 %) RUP 6 3 (4.839 %) Scrum 6 3 (4.839 %) Unit Testing 6 3 (4.839 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (4.839 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (3.226 %) Technical Architecture 7 2 (3.226 %) RAD 7 2 (3.226 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (3.226 %) EAI 7 2 (3.226 %) Service Management 7 2 (3.226 %) Zachman Framework 7 2 (3.226 %) TOGAF 7 2 (3.226 %) Information Management 8 1 (1.613 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 1 (1.613 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 54 (87.10 %) Java 2 10 (16.13 %) SQL 3 6 (9.677 %) Shell Script 4 2 (3.226 %) C 4 2 (3.226 %) C# 4 2 (3.226 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (1.613 %) JavaScript 5 1 (1.613 %) PHP 5 1 (1.613 %) VB6 5 1 (1.613 %) VB	Qualifications 1 15 (24.19 %) Degree 2 5 (8.065 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (1.613 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Vendors 1 28 (45.16 %) Oracle 2 10 (16.13 %) ATG 3 5 (8.065 %) Sun 4 3 (4.839 %) BEA 4 3 (4.839 %) webMethods 5 2 (3.226 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.613 %) IBM 6 1 (1.613 %) Microsoft 6 1 (1.613 %) Vignette 6 1 (1.613 %) SAP