The first table below looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
J2EE Developer
Rank 343 359 278
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -81
Contract jobs requiring a J2EE Developer 34 56 170
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.157% 0.208% 0.547%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.170% 0.225% 0.591%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 131
Average daily rate £431 £400 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.81% -17.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £303 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £328 £349
% change year-on-year
-3.96% -6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -11.11%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
J2EE Developer
England

J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London J2EE Developer Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +6 7 £400 -23.80%
J2EE Developer
England

J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 54 (100.00%) J2EE
2 51 (94.44%) Java
3 39 (72.22%) Spring
4 26 (48.15%) Oracle
5 22 (40.74%) Maven
6 20 (37.04%) JavaScript
7 19 (35.19%) JUnit
8 18 (33.33%) Hibernate
9 17 (31.48%) Web Services
9 17 (31.48%) HTML
10 16 (29.63%) JMS
11 15 (27.78%) MVC
11 15 (27.78%) Finance
11 15 (27.78%) Spring MVC
12 14 (25.93%) CSS
13 11 (20.37%) MySQL
13 11 (20.37%) E-Commerce
13 11 (20.37%) TDD
13 11 (20.37%) Banking
14 10 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (16.67%) JDBC
16 8 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
16 8 (14.81%) Publishing
16 8 (14.81%) Investment Banking
16 8 (14.81%) jQuery
16 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
16 8 (14.81%) TeamCity
16 8 (14.81%) JSP
17 7 (12.96%) SQL
17 7 (12.96%) Multithreading

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 54 (100.00%) J2EE
2 39 (72.22%) Spring
3 18 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 17 (31.48%) Web Services
4 17 (31.48%) HTML
5 16 (29.63%) JMS
6 15 (27.78%) Spring MVC
7 14 (25.93%) CSS
8 9 (16.67%) JDBC
9 8 (14.81%) jQuery
9 8 (14.81%) JSP
10 6 (11.11%) RESTful
11 5 (9.259%) XML
11 5 (9.259%) GWT
11 5 (9.259%) WebSphere
11 5 (9.259%) JSTL
11 5 (9.259%) Ajax
12 4 (7.407%) JSF
12 4 (7.407%) JSON
12 4 (7.407%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.259%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.556%) Apache
2 3 (5.556%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.704%) CMS
3 2 (3.704%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (3.704%) ESB
4 1 (1.852%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (1.852%) WebLogic Integration
4 1 (1.852%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.852%) Mule
4 1 (1.852%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (7.407%) MS Excel
1 4 (7.407%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.556%) Internet
2 1 (1.852%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.852%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.37%) MySQL
2 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.852%) DB2
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) Maven
2 19 (35.19%) JUnit
3 8 (14.81%) TeamCity
4 7 (12.96%) jMock
4 7 (12.96%) CruiseControl
5 4 (7.407%) JIRA
5 4 (7.407%) Hudson
6 2 (3.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.704%) Selenium
6 2 (3.704%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.704%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.704%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.852%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.852%) JBehave
7 1 (1.852%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.852%) Mockito
7 1 (1.852%) Ant
7 1 (1.852%) Subversion
General
1 15 (27.78%) Finance
2 11 (20.37%) Banking
3 8 (14.81%) Publishing
3 8 (14.81%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.407%) Financial Institution
5 3 (5.556%) Retail
6 2 (3.704%) Games
7 1 (1.852%) Front Office
7 1 (1.852%) Back Office
7 1 (1.852%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Credit Risk
1 7 (12.96%) Market Risk
1 7 (12.96%) Fixed Income
2 3 (5.556%) Mathematics
2 3 (5.556%) Equities
3 1 (1.852%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.852%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.704%) Linux
2 1 (1.852%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.852%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) MVC
2 11 (20.37%) E-Commerce
2 11 (20.37%) TDD
3 10 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
5 7 (12.96%) Multithreading
5 7 (12.96%) Business Analysis
6 4 (7.407%) Risk Management
6 4 (7.407%) UML
7 3 (5.556%) Web Application Development
7 3 (5.556%) RAD
8 2 (3.704%) Scrum
8 2 (3.704%) Pair Programming
8 2 (3.704%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.704%) Web Development
8 2 (3.704%) SOA
8 2 (3.704%) Workflow
8 2 (3.704%) OO
8 2 (3.704%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 51 (94.44%) Java
2 20 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 7 (12.96%) SQL
4 5 (9.259%) XQuery
4 5 (9.259%) Groovy
5 2 (3.704%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.852%) PHP
6 1 (1.852%) C
6 1 (1.852%) C++
6 1 (1.852%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.852%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.556%) Basel III
1 3 (5.556%) Basel II
2 1 (1.852%) QA
2 1 (1.852%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.852%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 26 (48.15%) Oracle
2 4 (7.407%) IBM
2 4 (7.407%) JBoss
3 2 (3.704%) Google
3 2 (3.704%) Sybase
3 2 (3.704%) Sencha
4 1 (1.852%) Adobe
4 1 (1.852%) Perforce
London
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