The first table below looks at the demand for J2SE 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 J2SE over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
Rank 116 129 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing J2SE 1 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.165% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.156% 0.562% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £448 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
+27.85% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 - £40.00
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
642 890 753
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.90% 29.30% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 482 428
Average daily rate £313 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £217
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 24 33 32
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -41.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £121.65 £33.30 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
J2SE
England

J2SE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West J2SE Jobs Demand Trend

J2SE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2SE across the North West region.

North West J2SE Daily Rate Trend

J2SE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2SE across the North West region.

North West J2SE Hourly Rate Trend

J2SE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2SE within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Manchester - 1 - - 4
J2SE
England

J2SE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing J2SE 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 J2SE.

1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Java EE
2 2 (50.00%) Android
2 2 (50.00%) iPhone
3 1 (25.00%) Guice
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax

J2SE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing J2SE 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 J2SE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Guice
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss Seam
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Wicket
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE 5
3 1 (25.00%) JPA
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) JSF
3 1 (25.00%) Tapestry
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) DHTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
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