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This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the London 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.

LinkJava 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank4631
Rank change on same period last yearDown-15
Matching contract IT job ads10942026
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.458 %2.050 %
As % of the category below12.99 %17.24 %
Daily rates quoted487853
Average minimum daily rate£425£421
Average daily rate£460£452
% change on same period last year+1.75 %
Average maximum daily rate£494£482
UK excluding London average daily rate£379£369
% change on same period last year+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted225
Average minimum hourly rate£29.50£45.52
Average hourly rate£31.25£50.54
% change on same period last year-38.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate£33.00£55.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate£39.38£38.17
% change on same period last year+3.17 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
London
Matching contract IT job ads842311752
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled11.23 %11.89 %
Daily rates quoted37584669
Average minimum daily rate£371£402
Average daily rate£400£431
% change on same period last year-7.20 %
Average maximum daily rate£429£460
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£336
% change on same period last year+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted235387
Average minimum hourly rate£29.98£31.11
Average hourly rate£32.18£33.97
% change on same period last year-5.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate£34.37£36.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.78£33.23
% change on same period last year-1.32 %
J2EE EnglandJ2EE
England

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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London J2EE Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

London J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London J2EE Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

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 London 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.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-9299£506-0.16 %
Docklands, LondonUp+442£454-8.25 %
Canary WharfDown-1211£529-7.49 %
CroydonUp+108£433+11.11 %
UxbridgeNew entry-6£325-
SouthwarkNew entry-2£320-
HendonUp+52--
WimbledonDown-11£450+28.57 %
LewishamUp+41£400-
J2EE EnglandJ2EE
England

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

11880 (77.59 %)Java
2872 (35.99 %)Oracle
3718 (29.63 %)Spring
4701 (28.93 %)XML
5670 (27.65 %)Hibernate
6612 (25.26 %)SQL
7546 (22.53 %)Finance
8537 (22.16 %)Banking
9486 (20.06 %)WebLogic
10418 (17.25 %)UNIX
11393 (16.22 %)JSP
12382 (15.77 %)OO
13375 (15.48 %)WebServices
14370 (15.27 %)WebSphere
15363 (14.98 %)Investment Banking
16355 (14.65 %)Struts
17337 (13.91 %)UML
18303 (12.51 %)EJB
19297 (12.26 %)HTML
20274 (11.31 %)Sybase
21259 (10.69 %)JBoss
22255 (10.52 %)Linux
23253 (10.44 %).NET
24251 (10.36 %)JavaScript
25250 (10.32 %)Eclipse
26249 (10.28 %)Derivative
27227 (9.369 %)Tomcat
28222 (9.162 %)AJAX
29211 (8.708 %)Servlets
30208 (8.584 %)Agile Software Development

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1718 (29.63 %)Spring
2701 (28.93 %)XML
3670 (27.65 %)Hibernate
4393 (16.22 %)JSP
5375 (15.48 %)WebServices
6370 (15.27 %)WebSphere
7355 (14.65 %)Struts
8303 (12.51 %)EJB
9297 (12.26 %)HTML
10253 (10.44 %).NET
11222 (9.162 %)AJAX
12211 (8.708 %)Servlets
13203 (8.378 %)CSS
14181 (7.470 %)JDBC
15179 (7.388 %)JMS
16117 (4.829 %)Middleware
17111 (4.581 %)SOAP
18104 (4.292 %)Swing
19101 (4.168 %)XSLT
2084 (3.467 %)JSF
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1486 (20.06 %)WebLogic
2259 (10.69 %)JBoss
3227 (9.369 %)Tomcat
4171 (7.057 %)Apache
583 (3.426 %)WebSphere Application Server
670 (2.889 %)IIS
761 (2.518 %)CMS
860 (2.476 %)ESB
951 (2.105 %)WebLogic Portal
1050 (2.064 %)MQSeries
1144 (1.816 %)Oracle Application Server
1241 (1.692 %)TIBCO EMS
1330 (1.238 %)TeamSite
1426 (1.073 %)ATG Dynamo
1516 (0.660 %)Oracle 9iAS
1615 (0.619 %)Oracle Workflow
1714 (0.578 %)iPlanet
1812 (0.495 %)WebLogic Integration
1812 (0.495 %)Documentum
1812 (0.495 %)JRun
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
156 (2.311 %)Photoshop
224 (0.991 %)MS Office
317 (0.702 %)MS Project
416 (0.660 %)MS Excel
57 (0.289 %)Spreadsheet
66 (0.248 %)DOC1
75 (0.206 %)MS Visio
82 (0.083 %)MS PowerPoint
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
110 (0.413 %)Oracle Applications
29 (0.371 %)WebTrends
38 (0.330 %)BusinessWorks
38 (0.330 %)Adaptiv
46 (0.248 %)TIBCO iProcess
55 (0.206 %)Global One
63 (0.124 %)Misys Midas
72 (0.083 %)Staffware
72 (0.083 %)Endur
81 (0.041 %)Oracle EBS
81 (0.041 %)SAP HR
81 (0.041 %)MAXIMO
81 (0.041 %)Cognos Planning
81 (0.041 %)FRONT ARENA
81 (0.041 %)assyst
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
169 (2.848 %)Internet
246 (1.898 %)TCP/IP
336 (1.486 %)LDAP
336 (1.486 %)HTTP
434 (1.403 %)Firewall
521 (0.867 %)BIG-IP
618 (0.743 %)SAN
713 (0.537 %)SSL
812 (0.495 %)WAN
911 (0.454 %)LAN
109 (0.371 %)SNMP
117 (0.289 %)IIOP
117 (0.289 %)Intranet
117 (0.289 %)Wireless
126 (0.248 %)FTP
135 (0.206 %)SMS
135 (0.206 %)Broadband
135 (0.206 %)TELNET
135 (0.206 %)SSH
144 (0.165 %)DNS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1164 (6.768 %)RDBMS
2158 (6.521 %)SQL Server
3133 (5.489 %)MySQL
4113 (4.664 %)Oracle 10g
552 (2.146 %)Oracle 9i
647 (1.940 %)DB2
738 (1.568 %)Oracle 8/8i
831 (1.279 %)Oracle Reports
930 (1.238 %)TOAD
1024 (0.991 %)SQL Server 2005
1122 (0.908 %)Datawarehouse
1212 (0.495 %)BusinessObjects
139 (0.371 %)MS Access
148 (0.330 %)GIS
157 (0.289 %)ETL
166 (0.248 %)Reference Data
175 (0.206 %)Oracle OWB
175 (0.206 %)PostgreSQL
183 (0.124 %)OLAP
192 (0.083 %)Adabas
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1250 (10.32 %)Eclipse
2170 (7.016 %)Ant
3164 (6.768 %)JUnit
485 (3.508 %)Subversion
541 (1.692 %)ClearCase
634 (1.403 %)FitNesse
732 (1.321 %)Oracle Forms
831 (1.279 %)Selenium
929 (1.197 %)JDeveloper
1027 (1.114 %)LoadRunner
1125 (1.032 %)Rational Rose
1223 (0.949 %)Flash
1320 (0.825 %)CruiseControl
1418 (0.743 %)Visual Studio
1418 (0.743 %)ClearQuest
1516 (0.660 %)RequisitePro
1615 (0.619 %)NUnit
1712 (0.495 %)Log4j
1811 (0.454 %)JIRA
1910 (0.413 %)PowerBuilder
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1546 (22.53 %)Finance
2537 (22.16 %)Banking
3363 (14.98 %)Investment Banking
4157 (6.480 %)Front Office
5137 (5.654 %)Government
677 (3.178 %)Telecoms
770 (2.889 %)Retail
859 (2.435 %)Back Office
952 (2.146 %)Insurance
1040 (1.651 %)Financial Institution
1137 (1.527 %)Publishing
1236 (1.486 %)Games
1321 (0.867 %)Criminal Justice
1418 (0.743 %)Retail Banking
1517 (0.702 %)Online Games
1615 (0.619 %)Marketing
1714 (0.578 %)Police
1813 (0.537 %)Construction
1911 (0.454 %)Education
209 (0.371 %)Pharmaceutical
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11623 (66.98 %)Developer
21026 (42.34 %)Java Developer
3557 (22.99 %)J2EE Developer
4469 (19.36 %)Java/J2EE Developer
5242 (9.988 %)Senior Developer
6218 (8.997 %)Architect
7179 (7.388 %)Analyst
8152 (6.273 %)Web Developer
9150 (6.191 %)Senior Java Developer
1085 (3.508 %)Programmer
1176 (3.137 %)Senior J2EE Developer
1275 (3.095 %)Consultant
1369 (2.848 %)Project Manager
1467 (2.765 %)Analyst Programmer
1562 (2.559 %)Oracle Developer
1660 (2.476 %)Technical Architect
1759 (2.435 %)Solutions Architect
1849 (2.022 %)Senior Java/J2EE Developer
1946 (1.898 %)Administrator
2044 (1.816 %)Analyst Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1249 (10.28 %)Derivative
2101 (4.168 %)Equities
398 (4.045 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
489 (3.673 %)Credit Risk
588 (3.632 %)N-Tier
678 (3.219 %)Fixed Income
767 (2.765 %)Equity Derivative
855 (2.270 %)Credit Derivative
931 (1.279 %)Mathematics
931 (1.279 %)Computer Science
1027 (1.114 %)Client/Server
1125 (1.032 %)Thin Client
1125 (1.032 %)Biometrics
1125 (1.032 %)Contract for Difference
1125 (1.032 %)Fat Client
1223 (0.949 %)Multithreading
1223 (0.949 %)Web 2.0
1321 (0.867 %)Grid Computing
1321 (0.867 %)Market Risk
1414 (0.578 %)W3C
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1418 (17.25 %)UNIX
2255 (10.52 %)Linux
3148 (6.108 %)Windows
4136 (5.613 %)Solaris
522 (0.908 %)Windows 2000
621 (0.867 %)Windows NT
716 (0.660 %)AIX
815 (0.619 %)HPUX
98 (0.330 %)Windows Server 2003
103 (0.124 %)VMS
112 (0.083 %)MVS
112 (0.083 %)Windows XP
121 (0.041 %)Debian
121 (0.041 %)Windows Mobile
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1382 (15.77 %)OO
2337 (13.91 %)UML
3208 (8.584 %)Agile Software Development
4195 (8.048 %)Security Cleared
5161 (6.645 %)SOA
6128 (5.283 %)SC Cleared
7101 (4.168 %)TDD
899 (4.086 %)E-Commerce
997 (4.003 %)RUP
1095 (3.921 %)Web Development
1190 (3.714 %)Scrum
1284 (3.467 %)Content Management
1368 (2.806 %)Data Modelling
1466 (2.724 %)OOA/OOD
1561 (2.518 %)Unit Testing
1658 (2.394 %)Workflow
1755 (2.270 %)OOD
1853 (2.187 %)Project Management
1853 (2.187 %)EAI
1951 (2.105 %)RAD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11880 (77.59 %)Java
2612 (25.26 %)SQL
3251 (10.36 %)JavaScript
4155 (6.397 %)PL/SQL
5146 (6.026 %)C#
6134 (5.530 %)Perl
7122 (5.035 %)C++
863 (2.600 %)Shell Script
961 (2.518 %)C
1042 (1.733 %)DHTML
1128 (1.156 %)VB
1226 (1.073 %)PHP
1325 (1.032 %)Python
1423 (0.949 %)Korn
1521 (0.867 %)VBScript
1619 (0.784 %)XQuery
1714 (0.578 %)VBA
1714 (0.578 %)Transact-SQL
1811 (0.454 %)ActionScript
1910 (0.413 %)VB6
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1115 (4.746 %)Degree
227 (1.114 %)Sun Certification
314 (0.578 %)PRINCE2 Certification
46 (0.248 %)ISEB
46 (0.248 %)Oracle Certification
52 (0.083 %)SCBCD
52 (0.083 %)SCDJWS
52 (0.083 %)SCJP
52 (0.083 %)SCJD
52 (0.083 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
61 (0.041 %)PMI Certification
61 (0.041 %)SCWCD
61 (0.041 %)ISTQB
61 (0.041 %)HND
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
132 (1.321 %)QA
29 (0.371 %)SLA
37 (0.289 %)ISO9001
41 (0.041 %)IAS 39
41 (0.041 %)MiFID
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
170 (2.889 %)AquaLogic
218 (0.743 %)VMware ESX
310 (0.413 %)Squid
43 (0.124 %)VMware Infrastructure
52 (0.083 %)Oracle RAC
52 (0.083 %)Active Directory
52 (0.083 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
61 (0.041 %)MSMQ
61 (0.041 %)NFS
61 (0.041 %)NetBackup
61 (0.041 %)Oracle RMAN
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
121 (0.867 %)CA SiteMinder
210 (0.413 %)MOM
38 (0.330 %)Tivoli
45 (0.206 %)AutoSys
51 (0.041 %)BMC PATROL
51 (0.041 %)TIBCO Hawk
51 (0.041 %)BMC Performance Manager
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1872 (35.99 %)Oracle
2274 (11.31 %)Sybase
3159 (6.562 %)BEA
4106 (4.375 %)IBM
5103 (4.251 %)TIBCO
649 (2.022 %)Microsoft
748 (1.981 %)Sun
845 (1.857 %)Calypso
943 (1.775 %)Red Hat
1029 (1.197 %)ATG
1128 (1.156 %)SeeBeyond
1226 (1.073 %)HP
1324 (0.991 %)Chordiant
1423 (0.949 %)VMware
1423 (0.949 %)Google
1521 (0.867 %)Citrix
1620 (0.825 %)SAP
1719 (0.784 %)Vignette
1814 (0.578 %)Mercator
1913 (0.537 %)Siebel
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