The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2SE 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 of the Application Development category for the Manchester 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
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing J2SE 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.338% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £448 £338 £275
% change year-on-year
+32.59% +22.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2SE
North West

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2SE across the Manchester region.

Manchester J2SE Daily Rate Trend

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Java EE
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) iPhone
3 1 (25.00%) Guice
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Guice
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) DHTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle