Oxfordshire J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Altrincham 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	35
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	10	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	4.878 %	8.040 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£333
Average daily rate	£338	£358
% change on same period last year	-5.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£401	£372
% change on same period last year	+7.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.68	£36.73
% change on same period last year	-2.86 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	205	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.224 %
Daily rates quoted	46	32
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£290
Average daily rate	£309	£310
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.03	£28.40
Average hourly rate	£21.44	£30.53
% change on same period last year	-29.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.85	£32.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
J2EE South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing J2EE across the Oxfordshire region.

J2EE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Oxfordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Oxford	-8	5	£338	-20.39 %

J2EE South East

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 12 (100.00 %) Java 2 6 (50.00 %) Spring 3 5 (41.67 %) Hibernate 3 5 (41.67 %) Struts 4 4 (33.33 %) XML 4 4 (33.33 %) EJB 4 4 (33.33 %) WebSphere 5 3 (25.00 %) Finance 5 3 (25.00 %) Oracle 5 3 (25.00 %) WebLogic 5 3 (25.00 %) JBoss 5 3 (25.00 %) SOA 6 2 (16.67 %) Middleware 6 2 (16.67 %) Mercator 6 2 (16.67 %) WebServices

6 2 (16.67 %) Unix 6 2 (16.67 %) Perl 6 2 (16.67 %) JDBC 6 2 (16.67 %) JSP 6 2 (16.67 %) Clustering 6 2 (16.67 %) Load Balancing 7 1 (8.333 %) Servlets 7 1 (8.333 %) OOA/OOD 7 1 (8.333 %) OO 7 1 (8.333 %) OOD 7 1 (8.333 %) Eclipse 7 1 (8.333 %) RDBMS 7 1 (8.333 %) BEA 7 1 (8.333 %) DataStage 7 1 (8.333 %) Banking

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 6 (50.00 %) Spring 2 5 (41.67 %) Hibernate 2 5 (41.67 %) Struts 3 4 (33.33 %) XML 3 4 (33.33 %) EJB 3 4 (33.33 %) WebSphere 4 2 (16.67 %) JDBC 4 2 (16.67 %) JSP 4 2 (16.67 %) Middleware 4 2 (16.67 %) WebServices 5 1 (8.333 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 3 (25.00 %) WebLogic 1 3 (25.00 %) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) RDBMS 1 1 (8.333 %) DataStage	Development Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Eclipse
General 1 3 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (8.333 %) Banking 2 1 (8.333 %) Retail 2 1 (8.333 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 10 (83.33 %) Developer 2 8 (66.67 %) Java Developer 3 6 (50.00 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 5 (41.67 %) J2EE Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) DataStage Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) Java Applications Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) J2EE Applications Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (16.67 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (25.00 %) SOA 2 2 (16.67 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (8.333 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (8.333 %) OO 3 1 (8.333 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 12 (100.00 %) Java 2 2 (16.67 %) Perl
System Software 1 1 (8.333 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 3 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (16.67 %) Mercator 3 1 (8.333 %) BEA