The first table below looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role 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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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 J2EE Developer
Rank 112 114 106
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Java/J2EE Developer 5 20 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.209% 0.658% 0.629%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.224% 0.718% 0.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 15
Average daily rate £350 £325 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -5.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £32.50 £42.75
% change year-on-year
- -23.97%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2232 2786 2784
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.51% 91.71% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1055 1409 1431
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 169 209
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.42 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.88% +4.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Java/J2EE Developer
England

Java/J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Java/J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Java/J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Java/J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Java/J2EE Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester -8 3 £350 +7.69% 2
Cheshire - 1 - - 3
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
Java/J2EE Developer
England

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Java/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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Java
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 9 (52.94%) OO
3 9 (52.94%) Spring
3 9 (52.94%) Ajax
4 8 (47.06%) HTML
5 7 (41.18%) SQL
5 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
5 7 (41.18%) WebSphere
6 6 (35.29%) EJB
6 6 (35.29%) DB2
6 6 (35.29%) JSP
6 6 (35.29%) Servlets
6 6 (35.29%) JMS
6 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
6 6 (35.29%) IBM
7 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
7 5 (29.41%) Finance
7 5 (29.41%) XML
7 5 (29.41%) Oracle
8 4 (23.53%) Perl
8 4 (23.53%) JUnit
8 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Application Server
8 4 (23.53%) JDBC
8 4 (23.53%) XHTML
8 4 (23.53%) Struts
8 4 (23.53%) Web Services
8 4 (23.53%) XSLT
8 4 (23.53%) UNIX

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Java/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 Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (100.00%) J2EE
2 9 (52.94%) Spring
2 9 (52.94%) Ajax
3 8 (47.06%) HTML
4 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
4 7 (41.18%) WebSphere
5 6 (35.29%) EJB
5 6 (35.29%) JSP
5 6 (35.29%) Servlets
5 6 (35.29%) JMS
6 5 (29.41%) XML
7 4 (23.53%) JDBC
7 4 (23.53%) XHTML
7 4 (23.53%) Struts
7 4 (23.53%) Web Services
7 4 (23.53%) XSLT
8 3 (17.65%) XMLBeans
8 3 (17.65%) JSTL
8 3 (17.65%) jQuery
8 3 (17.65%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (17.65%) MQSeries
3 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
4 1 (5.882%) ESB
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Process Server
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) DB2
2 5 (29.41%) RDBMS
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Eclipse
2 4 (23.53%) JUnit
3 3 (17.65%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Subversion
3 3 (17.65%) Log4j
3 3 (17.65%) Ant
4 1 (5.882%) TestNG
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 3 (17.65%) Games
4 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.882%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Web 2.0
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
3 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) UNIX
1 4 (23.53%) HPUX
1 4 (23.53%) Solaris
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) OO
2 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
3 3 (17.65%) Web Application Development
3 3 (17.65%) Content Management
3 3 (17.65%) UML
3 3 (17.65%) RAD
4 2 (11.76%) Code Coverage
4 2 (11.76%) OOD
4 2 (11.76%) SOA
4 2 (11.76%) Time Management
4 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (5.882%) Wealth Management
5 1 (5.882%) Use Case
5 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.882%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (64.71%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Perl
4 4 (23.53%) Bash shell
5 3 (17.65%) XPath
6 2 (11.76%) Python
7 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) BC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) ATG
3 4 (23.53%) Blue Martini
4 3 (17.65%) Elastic Path
4 3 (17.65%) Interwoven
5 2 (11.76%) JBoss
5 2 (11.76%) Informatica
6 1 (5.882%) Curam
Cheshire, North West
Essential Skills: Good positive team attitude Background in Java Web Development J2EE Spring Hibernate Eclipse Tomcat Weblogic Oracle This is an initial 12 month contract with excellent possibility...
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Rate: £270 - £271 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
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