The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 Java EE 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 Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank - 75 69
Contract jobs citing Java EE 0 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.619% 0.288%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.105% 1.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 2
Average daily rate - £331 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
- -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - £42.50
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%
Java EE
North West

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
3 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) J2SE
3 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Groovy
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
4 1 (25.00%) JSF
4 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) DB2
4 1 (25.00%) JUnit
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Eclipse

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 2 (50.00%) J2SE
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
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
3 1 (25.00%) Guice
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle