The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE 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 Oxfordshire 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 Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 40 49 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Java EE 11 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.350% 0.696% -
As % of the Application Development category 10.58% 2.286% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 0
Average daily rate £320 £489 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.52% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £410
% change year-on-year
+0.76% -20.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - £42.50
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
104 175 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 22.22% 30.43% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 90 131
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Java EE Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java EE across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java EE across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Java EE Hourly Rate Trend

Java EE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Oxfordshire 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.

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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
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IT Job Ads
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Java EE
South East

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Java EE 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 Java EE.

1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Solaris
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (83.33%) Internet
2 10 (83.33%) SOA
2 10 (83.33%) HTTP
3 9 (75.00%) OC4J
4 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
4 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 8 (66.67%) Apache
5 6 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
5 6 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
5 6 (50.00%) LDAP
6 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (25.00%) UNIX
7 3 (25.00%) Finance
8 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
8 2 (16.67%) Scrum
8 2 (16.67%) E-business

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Java EE 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 Java EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) OC4J
2 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Ajax
2 2 (16.67%) jQuery
2 2 (16.67%) Struts2
2 2 (16.67%) JAXB
2 2 (16.67%) J2EE
2 2 (16.67%) HTML
2 2 (16.67%) EJB
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) JSP
2 2 (16.67%) Struts
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (83.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 8 (66.67%) Apache
4 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) Internet
1 10 (83.33%) HTTP
2 6 (50.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 6 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (16.67%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.333%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Administrator
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Solaris
2 10 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (83.33%) SOA
2 5 (41.67%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) E-business
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Change Control
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.333%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
1 2 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) HP