North West J2EE Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Developer
Location Ascot Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	99
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	16	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	0.478 %	1.187 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£326
Average daily rate	£400	£333
% change on same period last year	+20.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£342
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
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	£44.13	£38.09
% change on same period last year	+15.84 %
Job Titles North West
Matching contract IT job ads	3344	4045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.708 %	4.088 %
Daily rates quoted	783	827
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£320
Average daily rate	£341	£338
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	467	456
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.62	£20.30
Average hourly rate	£23.40	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
J2EE Developer 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 Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Developer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Manchester	-10	10	-	-
Cheshire	+3	5	-	-

J2EE Developer England

J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 48 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 42 (87.50 %) Java 3 19 (39.58 %) Oracle 4 18 (37.50 %) Spring 4 18 (37.50 %) Hibernate 5 16 (33.33 %) XML 6 15 (31.25 %) JSP 6 15 (31.25 %) WebSphere 7 13 (27.08 %) Struts 7 13 (27.08 %) HTML 8 10 (20.83 %) WebServices 9 8 (16.67 %) OO 10 7 (14.58 %) Finance 10 7 (14.58 %) Tomcat 11 6 (12.50 %) Servlets

11 6 (12.50 %) SQL 12 5 (10.42 %) CSS 12 5 (10.42 %) JDBC 12 5 (10.42 %) UML 12 5 (10.42 %) ILOG 12 5 (10.42 %) Banking 13 4 (8.333 %) Java EE 13 4 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 13 4 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 13 4 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 13 4 (8.333 %) Eclipse 13 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 13 4 (8.333 %) EJB 13 4 (8.333 %) UNIX 13 4 (8.333 %) JBoss

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 48 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 18 (37.50 %) Hibernate 2 18 (37.50 %) Spring 3 16 (33.33 %) XML 4 15 (31.25 %) JSP 4 15 (31.25 %) WebSphere 5 13 (27.08 %) HTML 5 13 (27.08 %) Struts 6 10 (20.83 %) WebServices 7 6 (12.50 %) Servlets 8 5 (10.42 %) CSS 8 5 (10.42 %) JDBC 9 4 (8.333 %) EJB 9 4 (8.333 %) Java EE 10 3 (6.250 %) JRules 10 3 (6.250 %) SOAP 11 2 (4.167 %) Swing 11 2 (4.167 %) JMS 11 2 (4.167 %) WSDL 11 2 (4.167 %) JAX-RPC	Application Platforms 1 7 (14.58 %) Tomcat 2 4 (8.333 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (8.333 %) JBoss 3 3 (6.250 %) Jetty 3 3 (6.250 %) WebLogic 4 1 (2.083 %) JRun
Applications 1 3 (6.250 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.167 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.250 %) RDBMS 1 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (2.083 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 4 (8.333 %) Eclipse 2 3 (6.250 %) JUnit 3 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (4.167 %) Log4j 4 1 (2.083 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 7 (14.58 %) Finance 2 5 (10.42 %) Banking 3 3 (6.250 %) Retail 3 3 (6.250 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (4.167 %) Auditing 4 2 (4.167 %) Insurance 4 2 (4.167 %) Back Office 4 2 (4.167 %) Telecoms 4 2 (4.167 %) Military 5 1 (2.083 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (2.083 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (2.083 %) Publishing 5 1 (2.083 %) Games 5 1 (2.083 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.083 %) Online Games
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.167 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 4 (8.333 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (16.67 %) OO 2 5 (10.42 %) UML 3 4 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 3 4 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 3 4 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (6.250 %) OOD 4 3 (6.250 %) SOA 4 3 (6.250 %) Validation 5 2 (4.167 %) Migration 5 2 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (4.167 %) CRM 5 2 (4.167 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) Integration Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (2.083 %) Scrum 6 1 (2.083 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (2.083 %) RUP	Programming Languages 1 42 (87.50 %) Java 2 6 (12.50 %) SQL 3 4 (8.333 %) JavaScript 4 3 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 5 2 (4.167 %) C++ 6 1 (2.083 %) Perl 6 1 (2.083 %) C 6 1 (2.083 %) C#
Qualifications 1 2 (4.167 %) Degree	Vendors 1 19 (39.58 %) Oracle 2 5 (10.42 %) ILOG 3 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.083 %) Interwoven 4 1 (2.083 %) BEA 4 1 (2.083 %) SAP 4 1 (2.083 %) Chordiant 4 1 (2.083 %) IBM