Merseyside Java EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Java EE over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Location Berkshire Bootle Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Slough South Coast South East South West Southampton St Neots Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.695 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£250
% change on same period last year	+55.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	118	55
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.058 %
Daily rates quoted	33	10
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£255
Average daily rate	£376	£272
% change on same period last year	+38.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.21	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£21.39	£24.92
% change on same period last year	-14.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.57	£27.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
Java EE North West

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.

Java EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java EE across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Java EE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Java EE within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 8 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.

Location	Rank 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
Bootle	-	2	-	-

Java EE North West

Java EE
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 2 (100.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Tomcat 1 2 (100.00 %) Validation 1 2 (100.00 %) Migration 1 2 (100.00 %) Log4j 1 2 (100.00 %) WebSphere

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00 %) J2EE 1 2 (100.00 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Tomcat
Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Log4j	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) Lead Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Validation 1 2 (100.00 %) Migration