Middlesex J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Middlesex 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 J2EE over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Amersham Atherstone Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bootle Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Neots Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	37
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	26	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	27.66 %	8.730 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£368
Average daily rate	£363	£368
% change on same period last year	-1.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
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	£38.99	£37.13
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Application Development Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	94	126
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.132 %
Daily rates quoted	26	45
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£303
Average daily rate	£383	£306
% change on same period last year	+25.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.67	£27.91
Average hourly rate	£34.89	£29.09
% change on same period last year	+19.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.11	£30.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
J2EE South East

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

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

1 47 (88.68 %) Java 2 35 (66.04 %) Oracle 3 21 (39.62 %) JavaScript 3 21 (39.62 %) HTML 3 21 (39.62 %) Security Cleared 4 19 (35.85 %) AJAX 5 16 (30.19 %) WebLogic 6 13 (24.53 %) Internet 6 13 (24.53 %) Struts 6 13 (24.53 %) SC Cleared 7 12 (22.64 %) SQL 8 11 (20.75 %) Perl 9 10 (18.87 %) XML 9 10 (18.87 %) Windows 9 10 (18.87 %) Government

9 10 (18.87 %) Hibernate 9 10 (18.87 %) Spring 10 8 (15.09 %) MVC 10 8 (15.09 %) JMS 10 8 (15.09 %) Unix 10 8 (15.09 %) JUnit 11 7 (13.21 %) Linux 11 7 (13.21 %) Degree 11 7 (13.21 %) Web Development 12 6 (11.32 %) DoDAF 12 6 (11.32 %) MODAF 12 6 (11.32 %) NEC 12 6 (11.32 %) Apache 12 6 (11.32 %) Unit Testing 13 5 (9.434 %) UML

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Application Development 1 21 (39.62 %) HTML 2 19 (35.85 %) AJAX 3 13 (24.53 %) Struts 4 10 (18.87 %) XML 4 10 (18.87 %) Hibernate 4 10 (18.87 %) Spring 5 8 (15.09 %) MVC 5 8 (15.09 %) JMS 6 5 (9.434 %) WebServices 6 5 (9.434 %) JSP 7 4 (7.547 %) Middleware 7 4 (7.547 %) SOAP 7 4 (7.547 %) EJB 7 4 (7.547 %) CSS 7 4 (7.547 %) XHTML 8 3 (5.660 %) XSLT 9 2 (3.774 %) JSON 9 2 (3.774 %) Spring MVC 9 2 (3.774 %) SAP Basis 9 2 (3.774 %) JRules	Application Platforms 1 16 (30.19 %) WebLogic 2 6 (11.32 %) Apache 3 2 (3.774 %) NetWeaver 3 2 (3.774 %) WebLogic Portal 3 2 (3.774 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.887 %) MQSeries 4 1 (1.887 %) WebLogic Integration 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Application Server
Communications & Networking 1 13 (24.53 %) Internet 2 2 (3.774 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.887 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.887 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (9.434 %) RDBMS 1 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (7.547 %) SQL Server 2 4 (7.547 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (5.660 %) MySQL 4 2 (3.774 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (3.774 %) DB2 5 1 (1.887 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (1.887 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 8 (15.09 %) JUnit 2 4 (7.547 %) Oracle Forms 3 3 (5.660 %) Eclipse 4 2 (3.774 %) Log4j 4 2 (3.774 %) Ant 5 1 (1.887 %) ClearCase 5 1 (1.887 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (1.887 %) Rational Rose 5 1 (1.887 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (1.887 %) ERwin 5 1 (1.887 %) WebLogic Workshop 5 1 (1.887 %) Subversion	General 1 10 (18.87 %) Government 2 3 (5.660 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.774 %) Games 3 2 (3.774 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 32 (60.38 %) Developer 2 15 (28.30 %) Web Developer 3 13 (24.53 %) Java Developer 4 8 (15.09 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 8 (15.09 %) Architect 5 6 (11.32 %) J2EE Architect 6 4 (7.547 %) Web Analyst 6 4 (7.547 %) Business Analyst 6 4 (7.547 %) Analyst 6 4 (7.547 %) Consultant 6 4 (7.547 %) DBA 7 3 (5.660 %) Oracle DBA 7 3 (5.660 %) J2EE Developer 8 2 (3.774 %) SAP Basis Consultant 8 2 (3.774 %) SAP Consultant 8 2 (3.774 %) Senior Technical Consultant 8 2 (3.774 %) J2EE Consultant 8 2 (3.774 %) Senior J2EE Consultant 8 2 (3.774 %) Software Developer 8 2 (3.774 %) Technical Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 5 (9.434 %) Blackberry 2 3 (5.660 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (3.774 %) W3C 4 1 (1.887 %) Wiki
Operating Systems 1 10 (18.87 %) Windows 2 8 (15.09 %) Unix 3 7 (13.21 %) Linux 4 5 (9.434 %) Solaris 4 5 (9.434 %) Windows Mobile 5 2 (3.774 %) AIX 6 1 (1.887 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.887 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (39.62 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (24.53 %) SC Cleared 3 7 (13.21 %) Web Development 4 6 (11.32 %) DoDAF 4 6 (11.32 %) MODAF 4 6 (11.32 %) Unit Testing 5 5 (9.434 %) UML 6 3 (5.660 %) BC Cleared 6 3 (5.660 %) OOA/OOD 6 3 (5.660 %) OO 6 3 (5.660 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (3.774 %) ITIL 7 2 (3.774 %) OOD 7 2 (3.774 %) DV Cleared 8 1 (1.887 %) Use Case 8 1 (1.887 %) CTC Cleared 8 1 (1.887 %) OOP 8 1 (1.887 %) SOA 8 1 (1.887 %) Data Modelling 8 1 (1.887 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 47 (88.68 %) Java 2 21 (39.62 %) JavaScript 3 12 (22.64 %) SQL 4 11 (20.75 %) Perl 5 4 (7.547 %) C++ 6 3 (5.660 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (3.774 %) C 7 2 (3.774 %) ActionScript 8 1 (1.887 %) VC++ 8 1 (1.887 %) Assembly Language 8 1 (1.887 %) VB 8 1 (1.887 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 7 (13.21 %) Degree
System Software 1 4 (7.547 %) Oracle RAC 2 3 (5.660 %) Oracle RMAN 3 2 (3.774 %) NetBackup 3 2 (3.774 %) AquaLogic	Systems Management 1 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 35 (66.04 %) Oracle 2 6 (11.32 %) NEC 3 5 (9.434 %) Symbian 4 4 (7.547 %) BEA 5 2 (3.774 %) Sun 5 2 (3.774 %) VERITAS 5 2 (3.774 %) SAP 5 2 (3.774 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.887 %) IBM 6 1 (1.887 %) BMC