The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB 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 North West 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
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 106 121 117
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -4
Contract jobs citing EJB 12 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.515% 0.354% 0.295%
As % of the Application Development category 1.881% 1.237% 1.203%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
Average daily rate £338 £338 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £245 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £378 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
EJB
England

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EJB across the North West region.

North West EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EJB across the North West region.

North West EJB Hourly Rate Trend

EJB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Lancashire +16 9 £338 +23.85%
Cheshire -2 2 - -
Manchester +5 1 - -
EJB
England

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing EJB 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 EJB.

1 26 (100.00%) Java
1 26 (100.00%) J2EE
2 23 (88.46%) JMS
2 23 (88.46%) SQL
2 23 (88.46%) DB2
3 22 (84.62%) XML
4 18 (69.23%) RDBMS
4 18 (69.23%) OO
4 18 (69.23%) HTML
5 16 (61.54%) JSP
5 16 (61.54%) WebSphere
6 15 (57.69%) Servlets
6 15 (57.69%) JavaScript
7 14 (53.85%) Oracle
7 14 (53.85%) Web Services
8 13 (50.00%) Struts
8 13 (50.00%) Subversion
8 13 (50.00%) Ajax
9 12 (46.15%) WSDL
9 12 (46.15%) Finance
10 11 (42.31%) E-Commerce
11 10 (38.46%) Eclipse
11 10 (38.46%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
11 10 (38.46%) XHTML
11 10 (38.46%) IBM
11 10 (38.46%) RAD
11 10 (38.46%) UML
11 10 (38.46%) JDBC
11 10 (38.46%) WebSphere Application Server
12 9 (34.62%) Bash shell

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing EJB 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 EJB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (100.00%) J2EE
2 23 (88.46%) JMS
3 22 (84.62%) XML
4 18 (69.23%) HTML
5 16 (61.54%) JSP
5 16 (61.54%) WebSphere
6 15 (57.69%) Servlets
7 14 (53.85%) Web Services
8 13 (50.00%) Struts
8 13 (50.00%) Ajax
9 12 (46.15%) WSDL
10 10 (38.46%) XHTML
10 10 (38.46%) JDBC
11 8 (30.77%) JAAS
11 8 (30.77%) XSL
11 8 (30.77%) XSLT
11 8 (30.77%) JNDI
11 8 (30.77%) XMLBeans
11 8 (30.77%) JSTL
12 7 (26.92%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 10 (38.46%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (30.77%) MQSeries
3 5 (19.23%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Process Server
4 1 (3.846%) Apache Solr
Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (88.46%) DB2
2 18 (69.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (50.00%) Subversion
2 10 (38.46%) Eclipse
2 10 (38.46%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 9 (34.62%) JUnit
4 8 (30.77%) Log4j
4 8 (30.77%) Ant
5 5 (19.23%) ClearCase
6 3 (11.54%) Git (software)
6 3 (11.54%) Gradle
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 8 (30.77%) Retail
3 7 (26.92%) Games
4 5 (19.23%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (96.15%) Developer
2 19 (73.08%) Java Developer
3 10 (38.46%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 9 (34.62%) J2EE Developer
5 7 (26.92%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (26.92%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Senior Java/J2EE Architect
6 2 (7.692%) Java/J2EE Architect
6 2 (7.692%) Senior Architect
6 2 (7.692%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Java Architect
6 2 (7.692%) Senior Java Architect
6 2 (7.692%) Architect
6 2 (7.692%) J2EE Architect
6 2 (7.692%) Senior J2EE Developer
6 2 (7.692%) Senior J2EE Architect
7 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) Administrator
7 1 (3.846%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Web 2.0
2 5 (19.23%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) UNIX
2 8 (30.77%) HPUX
2 8 (30.77%) Solaris
2 8 (30.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) OO
2 11 (42.31%) E-Commerce
3 10 (38.46%) RAD
3 10 (38.46%) UML
4 9 (34.62%) Content Management
5 8 (30.77%) OOA/OOD
5 8 (30.77%) Use Case
6 5 (19.23%) Waterfall
6 5 (19.23%) BDD
6 5 (19.23%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (19.23%) CMMI
6 5 (19.23%) Project Management
6 5 (19.23%) PRINCE
6 5 (19.23%) PRINCE2
6 5 (19.23%) RUP
7 2 (7.692%) SOA
7 2 (7.692%) MVC
8 1 (3.846%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (88.46%) SQL
3 15 (57.69%) JavaScript
4 9 (34.62%) Bash shell
4 9 (34.62%) Perl
5 8 (30.77%) XPath
6 3 (11.54%) Groovy
7 2 (7.692%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) PMI Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.692%) BC Cleared
4 1 (3.846%) Sun Certification
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Oracle
2 10 (38.46%) IBM
3 8 (30.77%) ATG
3 8 (30.77%) Interwoven
3 8 (30.77%) Curam
3 8 (30.77%) Elastic Path
3 8 (30.77%) Blue Martini
4 5 (19.23%) Chordiant
4 5 (19.23%) JBoss
5 1 (3.846%) Sun
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