Midlands J2EE Contracts

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

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich 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 Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Ives Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	18
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	50	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.091 %
As % of the category below	16.72 %	24.26 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£150
Average daily rate	£333	£200
% change on same period last year	+66.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.67
Average hourly rate	-	£28.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.38	£38.17
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Application Development Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	299	371
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.399 %	0.375 %
Daily rates quoted	61	33
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£340
Average daily rate	£380	£365
% change on same period last year	+4.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£391
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.14	£36.96
Average hourly rate	£27.36	£37.78
% change on same period last year	-27.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.57	£38.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
J2EE 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 79 (81.44 %) Java 2 48 (49.48 %) Oracle 3 41 (42.27 %) WebSphere 4 33 (34.02 %) Spring 5 29 (29.90 %) Hibernate 6 28 (28.87 %) EJB 7 24 (24.74 %) XML 8 23 (23.71 %) JSP 9 22 (22.68 %) SQL 10 21 (21.65 %) IBM 11 20 (20.62 %) Linux 11 20 (20.62 %) Servlets 12 19 (19.59 %) DB2 12 19 (19.59 %) Microsoft 12 19 (19.59 %) Finance

13 18 (18.56 %) WebSphere Application Server 14 15 (15.46 %) JMS 14 15 (15.46 %) Swing 15 14 (14.43 %) Eclipse 15 14 (14.43 %) JDBC 15 14 (14.43 %) WebServices 15 14 (14.43 %) Retail 16 13 (13.40 %) Tomcat 17 12 (12.37 %) LDAP 17 12 (12.37 %) OO 17 12 (12.37 %) MS Visio 17 12 (12.37 %) Struts 17 12 (12.37 %) WebLogic 17 12 (12.37 %) MS Office 17 12 (12.37 %) Chip and PIN

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 41 (42.27 %) WebSphere 2 33 (34.02 %) Spring 3 29 (29.90 %) Hibernate 4 28 (28.87 %) EJB 5 24 (24.74 %) XML 6 23 (23.71 %) JSP 7 20 (20.62 %) Servlets 8 15 (15.46 %) Swing 8 15 (15.46 %) JMS 9 14 (14.43 %) WebServices 9 14 (14.43 %) JDBC 10 12 (12.37 %) Struts 10 12 (12.37 %) JNDI 11 10 (10.31 %) .NET 12 6 (6.186 %) HTML 13 5 (5.155 %) MVC 13 5 (5.155 %) JSF 14 4 (4.124 %) J2SE 15 3 (3.093 %) Java EE 15 3 (3.093 %) JSR 168	Application Platforms 1 18 (18.56 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 13 (13.40 %) Tomcat 3 12 (12.37 %) WebLogic 4 9 (9.278 %) Apache 5 7 (7.216 %) CICS 6 4 (4.124 %) MQSeries 7 2 (2.062 %) Tuxedo 7 2 (2.062 %) JBoss 8 1 (1.031 %) IIS 8 1 (1.031 %) Oracle HTTP Server 8 1 (1.031 %) WebLogic Portal 8 1 (1.031 %) ESB 8 1 (1.031 %) Mule
Applications 1 12 (12.37 %) MS Office 1 12 (12.37 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 12 (12.37 %) LDAP 2 2 (2.062 %) Internet 3 1 (1.031 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.031 %) HTTPS 3 1 (1.031 %) SSL 3 1 (1.031 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (19.59 %) DB2 2 5 (5.155 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (3.093 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (3.093 %) SQL Server 3 3 (3.093 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.031 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.031 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (1.031 %) PostgreSQL 4 1 (1.031 %) Oracle 11g	Development Applications 1 14 (14.43 %) Eclipse 2 9 (9.278 %) Ant 3 8 (8.247 %) JUnit 4 2 (2.062 %) QuickTest Pro 4 2 (2.062 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (2.062 %) Log4j 4 2 (2.062 %) Subversion 5 1 (1.031 %) NUnit 5 1 (1.031 %) XMLSpy 5 1 (1.031 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (1.031 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (1.031 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (1.031 %) TestDirector
General 1 19 (19.59 %) Finance 2 14 (14.43 %) Retail 3 5 (5.155 %) Insurance 4 4 (4.124 %) Banking 5 3 (3.093 %) Back Office 6 2 (2.062 %) Telecoms 6 2 (2.062 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (2.062 %) Construction 6 2 (2.062 %) Government 7 1 (1.031 %) Advertising 7 1 (1.031 %) Front Office 7 1 (1.031 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 60 (61.86 %) Developer 2 46 (47.42 %) Java Developer 3 33 (34.02 %) J2EE Developer 4 28 (28.87 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 14 (14.43 %) Architect 6 8 (8.247 %) Senior Developer 7 7 (7.216 %) Analyst 7 7 (7.216 %) Senior J2EE Developer 8 6 (6.186 %) WebSphere Developer 9 5 (5.155 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 9 5 (5.155 %) Senior Java Developer 9 5 (5.155 %) Technical Architect 10 4 (4.124 %) Technical Analyst 10 4 (4.124 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 11 3 (3.093 %) Technical Designer 11 3 (3.093 %) J2EE Architect 11 3 (3.093 %) Junior WebSphere Developer 11 3 (3.093 %) Junior Developer 11 3 (3.093 %) Junior 12 2 (2.062 %) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 12 (12.37 %) Chip and PIN 2 7 (7.216 %) Mainframe 2 7 (7.216 %) IBM Mainframe 3 6 (6.186 %) AS400 4 3 (3.093 %) N-Tier 5 1 (1.031 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 20 (20.62 %) Linux 2 11 (11.34 %) UNIX 3 6 (6.186 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (12.37 %) OO 2 9 (9.278 %) UML 3 5 (5.155 %) RUP 3 5 (5.155 %) Unit Testing 4 4 (4.124 %) SOA 5 3 (3.093 %) Logistics 5 3 (3.093 %) TDD 5 3 (3.093 %) Performance Testing 6 2 (2.062 %) Content Management 6 2 (2.062 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (2.062 %) CRM 6 2 (2.062 %) OOA/OOD 6 2 (2.062 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (1.031 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.031 %) RAD 7 1 (1.031 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (1.031 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.031 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (1.031 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.031 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 79 (81.44 %) Java 2 22 (22.68 %) SQL 3 9 (9.278 %) VB 4 8 (8.247 %) C++ 5 7 (7.216 %) COBOL 6 6 (6.186 %) PL/1 6 6 (6.186 %) JCL 7 4 (4.124 %) JavaScript 8 2 (2.062 %) Perl 9 1 (1.031 %) DHTML 9 1 (1.031 %) ABAP 9 1 (1.031 %) VBA 9 1 (1.031 %) C# 9 1 (1.031 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 5 (5.155 %) Degree 2 1 (1.031 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 48 (49.48 %) Oracle 2 21 (21.65 %) IBM 3 19 (19.59 %) Microsoft 4 8 (8.247 %) SAP 5 4 (4.124 %) BEA 6 2 (2.062 %) Adobe 6 2 (2.062 %) Sun 7 1 (1.031 %) Red Hat 7 1 (1.031 %) Sybase 7 1 (1.031 %) Business Objects