The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 56 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Java EE 16 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.114% 0.112% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.038% 0.417% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
Average daily rate £250 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
- -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - £42.50
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
265 240 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.01% 26.97% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 158 78
Average daily rate £290 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.33% -57.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE
West Yorkshire

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java EE across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds Java EE Daily Rate Histogram

Java EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Java EE Hourly Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Java EE 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 Java EE.

1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (84.21%) Oracle
3 13 (68.42%) SOAP
3 13 (68.42%) REST
4 11 (57.89%) SOA
5 10 (52.63%) J2EE
6 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
6 9 (47.37%) Web Services
6 9 (47.37%) jQuery
7 8 (42.11%) XML
7 8 (42.11%) .NET
7 8 (42.11%) Spring
7 8 (42.11%) Maven
7 8 (42.11%) Hibernate
8 7 (36.84%) LAMP
8 7 (36.84%) HTTP
9 6 (31.58%) Scrum
9 6 (31.58%) Adobe
9 6 (31.58%) Amazon AWS
9 6 (31.58%) Adobe CQ
10 5 (26.32%) Route 53
10 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
10 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (26.32%) Redis
10 5 (26.32%) Percona
10 5 (26.32%) HTML5
10 5 (26.32%) hybris
10 5 (26.32%) BDD
10 5 (26.32%) MongoDB

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Java EE 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 Java EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (68.42%) SOAP
1 13 (68.42%) REST
2 10 (52.63%) J2EE
3 9 (47.37%) Web Services
3 9 (47.37%) jQuery
4 8 (42.11%) XML
4 8 (42.11%) .NET
4 8 (42.11%) Spring
4 8 (42.11%) Hibernate
5 7 (36.84%) LAMP
6 5 (26.32%) HTML5
7 4 (21.05%) Ajax
8 3 (15.79%) Struts2
8 3 (15.79%) Struts
9 2 (10.53%) JMS
9 2 (10.53%) HTML
9 2 (10.53%) CSS
9 2 (10.53%) JSP
9 2 (10.53%) RESTful
10 1 (5.263%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (31.58%) Adobe CQ
2 5 (26.32%) Route 53
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (26.32%) Amazon S3
2 5 (26.32%) ESB
3 4 (21.05%) WebLogic
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (5.263%) Magento
6 1 (5.263%) Confluence
6 1 (5.263%) Tomcat
6 1 (5.263%) Apache
6 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (5.263%) CMS
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.263%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) HTTP
2 5 (26.32%) Internet
3 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.263%) DNS
3 1 (5.263%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (26.32%) Redis
1 5 (26.32%) MongoDB
1 5 (26.32%) MySQL
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Maven
2 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 5 (26.32%) Git (software)
3 3 (15.79%) Subversion
3 3 (15.79%) Hudson
3 3 (15.79%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (15.79%) JUnit
4 1 (5.263%) JIRA
4 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.263%) Introscope
General
1 2 (10.53%) Retail
2 1 (5.263%) Marketing
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Java Developer
3 5 (26.32%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (26.32%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (10.53%) Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) ScrumMaster
6 1 (5.263%) CMS Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (26.32%) Client/Server
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) UNIX
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 3 (15.79%) Windows
4 1 (5.263%) HPUX
4 1 (5.263%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) SOA
2 6 (31.58%) Scrum
3 5 (26.32%) BDD
3 5 (26.32%) Security Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Unified Process
3 5 (26.32%) TDD
4 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) UML
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.53%) RUP
5 1 (5.263%) Web Development
5 1 (5.263%) Change Control
5 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.263%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.53%) PHP
6 1 (5.263%) C#
6 1 (5.263%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) CA Wily
2 2 (10.53%) OpenView
3 1 (5.263%) Splunk
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Adobe
3 5 (26.32%) Percona
3 5 (26.32%) hybris
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) JBoss
5 1 (5.263%) Omniture
5 1 (5.263%) Red Hat