The first table below looks at the demand for EJB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 110 102 106
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +4
Contract jobs citing EJB 8 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.328% 0.301% 0.181%
As % of the Application Development category 1.000% 1.942% 0.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
Average daily rate £319 £254 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.59% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £355 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
800 412 556
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 32.80% 15.49% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 177 288
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.51% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
EJB
UK

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland EJB Hourly Rate Trend

EJB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Glasgow -12 5 £319 +35.74%
Edinburgh +4 2 £275 -21.42%
EJB
UK

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing EJB 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 EJB.

1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (83.33%) JSF
2 20 (83.33%) HTML
3 19 (79.17%) JSP
4 18 (75.00%) Oracle
4 18 (75.00%) Hibernate
5 17 (70.83%) XML
6 16 (66.67%) J2EE
6 16 (66.67%) Spring
7 15 (62.50%) Servlets
8 14 (58.33%) Maven
9 13 (54.17%) Finance
10 12 (50.00%) RDBMS
10 12 (50.00%) Struts
10 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
11 11 (45.83%) Eclipse
12 9 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
12 9 (37.50%) JDeveloper
12 9 (37.50%) JSTL
13 8 (33.33%) Sun
13 8 (33.33%) Sun Certification
13 8 (33.33%) PL/SQL
13 8 (33.33%) SQL
14 7 (29.17%) Web Services
14 7 (29.17%) CSS
14 7 (29.17%) UML
14 7 (29.17%) JPA
15 6 (25.00%) TopLink
16 5 (20.83%) Scrum
16 5 (20.83%) MVC

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing EJB 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 EJB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (83.33%) JSF
1 20 (83.33%) HTML
2 19 (79.17%) JSP
3 18 (75.00%) Hibernate
4 17 (70.83%) XML
5 16 (66.67%) J2EE
5 16 (66.67%) Spring
6 15 (62.50%) Servlets
7 12 (50.00%) Struts
8 9 (37.50%) JSTL
9 7 (29.17%) Web Services
9 7 (29.17%) CSS
9 7 (29.17%) JPA
10 6 (25.00%) TopLink
11 5 (20.83%) JMS
12 4 (16.67%) XMLBeans
12 4 (16.67%) JDBC
12 4 (16.67%) SOAP
13 3 (12.50%) JavaBeans
13 3 (12.50%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) GlassFish
2 1 (4.167%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (4.167%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.167%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.167%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.167%) GemFire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.333%) MySQL
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.167%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Maven
2 11 (45.83%) Eclipse
3 9 (37.50%) JDeveloper
4 3 (12.50%) Subversion
4 3 (12.50%) JUnit
5 2 (8.333%) Selenium
5 2 (8.333%) Ant
5 2 (8.333%) CruiseControl
6 1 (4.167%) PVCS
6 1 (4.167%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (4.167%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (54.17%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Retail
3 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Developer
2 20 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 10 (41.67%) Analyst
3 10 (41.67%) Analyst Programmer
3 10 (41.67%) Programmer
3 10 (41.67%) Java Analyst Programmer
3 10 (41.67%) Java Programmer
4 8 (33.33%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Designer
5 1 (4.167%) WebLogic Developer
5 1 (4.167%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
5 1 (4.167%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) N-Tier
2 2 (8.333%) W3C
3 1 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (29.17%) UML
3 5 (20.83%) Scrum
3 5 (20.83%) MVC
3 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (16.67%) BDD
4 4 (16.67%) OO
4 4 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.333%) Web Design
7 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.167%) Extreme Programming
7 1 (4.167%) SOA
7 1 (4.167%) CRM
7 1 (4.167%) Database Tuning
7 1 (4.167%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (4.167%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 8 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (8.333%) Groovy
5 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.167%) Scala
5 1 (4.167%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Oracle
2 8 (33.33%) Sun
3 5 (20.83%) JBoss
4 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.167%) IBM
5 1 (4.167%) BEA
5 1 (4.167%) HP
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