The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Reading 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank - - 76
Contract jobs citing Java EE 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - - 0.387%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
- -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - £41.50
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
216 158 241
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.56% 14.82% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 60 116
Average daily rate £369 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £228 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £473 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Java EE
Berkshire

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Jython
2 2 (66.67%) StarTeam
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Ant
1 2 (66.67%) StarTeam
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Jython
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle