Oxfordshire J2ME Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) 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 J2ME over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME)
Location Bath Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East Midlands East of England England Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Shropshire Somerset South East South West Southampton Surrey Telford Thames Valley UK West Midlands	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	50
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.488 %	0.503 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£317
% change on same period last year	+23.94 %
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	£41.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
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 %
J2ME 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.

J2ME
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing J2ME across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2ME
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2ME 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	-	1	-	-

J2ME South East

J2ME
Top 2 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing J2ME 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 J2ME.

1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft

J2ME
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing J2ME 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 J2ME. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft