Milton Keynes J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Milton Keynes 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	46
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	26	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	13.47 %	10.53 %
Daily rates quoted	14	4
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£481
Average daily rate	£393	£559
% change on same period last year	-29.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£638
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£373
% change on same period last year	+7.13 %
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	£36.07	£36.94
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Application Development Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	193	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.248 %	0.171 %
Daily rates quoted	59	34
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£332
Average daily rate	£324	£354
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.30	£26.09
Average hourly rate	£26.65	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.00	£27.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
J2EE Buckinghamshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing J2EE across the Milton Keynes 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 contract IT jobs ads citing J2EE across the Milton Keynes region.

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Milton Keynes region over the past 3 months.

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing J2EE also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing J2EE.

1 29 (69.05 %) Java 2 20 (47.62 %) WebSphere 3 12 (28.57 %) Banking 3 12 (28.57 %) IBM 3 12 (28.57 %) Mainframe 4 11 (26.19 %) HTML 4 11 (26.19 %) SAP 4 11 (26.19 %) JSP 4 11 (26.19 %) Retail 4 11 (26.19 %) Finance 5 10 (23.81 %) Internet 6 9 (21.43 %) XML 7 8 (19.05 %) Government 8 7 (16.67 %) FatWire 8 7 (16.67 %) CSS

8 7 (16.67 %) UML 8 7 (16.67 %) PHP 9 6 (14.29 %) Oracle 9 6 (14.29 %) EJB 9 6 (14.29 %) Microsoft 9 6 (14.29 %) Eclipse 9 6 (14.29 %) Hibernate 9 6 (14.29 %) Content Management 9 6 (14.29 %) Spring 9 6 (14.29 %) Degree 10 5 (11.90 %) Automotive 10 5 (11.90 %) Struts 10 5 (11.90 %) Intranet 10 5 (11.90 %) BEA 10 5 (11.90 %) RUP

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing J2EE also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 20 (47.62 %) WebSphere 2 11 (26.19 %) HTML 2 11 (26.19 %) JSP 3 9 (21.43 %) XML 4 7 (16.67 %) CSS 5 6 (14.29 %) EJB 5 6 (14.29 %) Spring 5 6 (14.29 %) Hibernate 6 5 (11.90 %) Struts 7 4 (9.524 %) .NET 8 3 (7.143 %) JRules 9 2 (4.762 %) SAP XI 9 2 (4.762 %) AJAX 10 1 (2.381 %) Tapestry 10 1 (2.381 %) XSLT 10 1 (2.381 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.90 %) WebLogic 2 2 (4.762 %) CICS 2 2 (4.762 %) ESB 2 2 (4.762 %) Oracle 10gAS
Applications 1 5 (11.90 %) MS Office 2 4 (9.524 %) ImageReady 2 4 (9.524 %) Photoshop 3 3 (7.143 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (7.143 %) MS Excel 3 3 (7.143 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Retail-J
Communications & Networking 1 10 (23.81 %) Internet 2 5 (11.90 %) Intranet 3 2 (4.762 %) HTTP 4 1 (2.381 %) DNS 4 1 (2.381 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (4.762 %) DB2 3 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (2.381 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (2.381 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 6 (14.29 %) Eclipse 2 3 (7.143 %) Ant 2 3 (7.143 %) JUnit 3 2 (4.762 %) ClearCase 3 2 (4.762 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (2.381 %) JDeveloper 4 1 (2.381 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (2.381 %) JMeter	General 1 12 (28.57 %) Banking 2 11 (26.19 %) Retail 2 11 (26.19 %) Finance 3 8 (19.05 %) Government 4 5 (11.90 %) Automotive 5 4 (9.524 %) Financial Institution 6 3 (7.143 %) Education 7 2 (4.762 %) Games 8 1 (2.381 %) Telecoms 8 1 (2.381 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (2.381 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 23 (54.76 %) Developer 2 12 (28.57 %) Architect 2 12 (28.57 %) Java Developer 3 10 (23.81 %) J2EE Developer 4 8 (19.05 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 6 (14.29 %) Applications Architect 6 4 (9.524 %) WebSphere Developer 7 3 (7.143 %) Web Architect 7 3 (7.143 %) Tester 7 3 (7.143 %) Analyst 8 2 (4.762 %) Solutions Architect 8 2 (4.762 %) Technical Support 8 2 (4.762 %) Systems Tester 8 2 (4.762 %) Integration Tester 8 2 (4.762 %) Analyst Developer 9 1 (2.381 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.381 %) Senior Programmer 9 1 (2.381 %) Senior Java Programmer 9 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Developer 9 1 (2.381 %) Java Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (28.57 %) Mainframe 2 2 (4.762 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (7.143 %) Unix 2 2 (4.762 %) Windows 2 2 (4.762 %) AIX 2 2 (4.762 %) Solaris 2 2 (4.762 %) zOS 3 1 (2.381 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (16.67 %) UML 2 6 (14.29 %) Content Management 3 5 (11.90 %) RUP 4 4 (9.524 %) E-Commerce 4 4 (9.524 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (7.143 %) MVC 6 2 (4.762 %) TOGAF 6 2 (4.762 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 2 (4.762 %) SOA 7 1 (2.381 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (2.381 %) B2C 7 1 (2.381 %) CMMI 7 1 (2.381 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 29 (69.05 %) Java 2 7 (16.67 %) PHP 3 5 (11.90 %) SQL 4 3 (7.143 %) JavaScript 4 3 (7.143 %) C# 4 3 (7.143 %) C++ 5 2 (4.762 %) COBOL 6 1 (2.381 %) Shell Script 6 1 (2.381 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (2.381 %) C	Qualifications 1 6 (14.29 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (4.762 %) RACF
Vendors 1 12 (28.57 %) IBM 2 11 (26.19 %) SAP 3 7 (16.67 %) FatWire 4 6 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 6 (14.29 %) Microsoft 5 5 (11.90 %) BEA 6 3 (7.143 %) Adobe