The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE 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 J2EE over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 74 51 35
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -16
Contract jobs citing J2EE 49 58 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.928% 2.199% 3.363%
As % of the Application Development category 6.525% 13.30% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 58
Average daily rate £375 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £250 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £393 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.68% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.30% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -23.52%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
751 436 592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 29.54% 16.53% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 179 333
Average daily rate £350 £315 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 6
Average hourly rate £31.00 £31.00 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +15.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £32.50 £32.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Scotland J2EE Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing J2EE across the Scotland region.

Scotland J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Scotland J2EE Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the Scotland region.

Scotland J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -10 25 £375 +31.57% 9
Edinburgh -2 12 £325 - 4
West Lothian -1 4 £375 -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing J2EE 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 J2EE.

1 97 (88.18%) Java
2 56 (50.91%) Spring
2 56 (50.91%) Oracle
3 41 (37.27%) XML
4 37 (33.64%) SQL
5 33 (30.00%) JSP
6 32 (29.09%) JavaScript
6 32 (29.09%) Banking
7 31 (28.18%) WebSphere
7 31 (28.18%) Finance
8 29 (26.36%) Struts
8 29 (26.36%) CSS
9 28 (25.45%) Hibernate
10 27 (24.55%) OO
11 26 (23.64%) JMS
12 25 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
13 24 (21.82%) JSF
13 24 (21.82%) Ajax
13 24 (21.82%) Eclipse
13 24 (21.82%) UNIX
13 24 (21.82%) MVC
14 23 (20.91%) JDBC
14 23 (20.91%) PL/SQL
15 22 (20.00%) Maven
16 21 (19.09%) Shell Script
17 20 (18.18%) Unit Testing
18 19 (17.27%) Spring MVC
18 19 (17.27%) CruiseControl
18 19 (17.27%) HTML
18 19 (17.27%) Tomcat

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing J2EE 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 J2EE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 56 (50.91%) Spring
2 41 (37.27%) XML
3 33 (30.00%) JSP
4 31 (28.18%) WebSphere
5 29 (26.36%) Struts
5 29 (26.36%) CSS
6 28 (25.45%) Hibernate
7 26 (23.64%) JMS
8 24 (21.82%) JSF
8 24 (21.82%) Ajax
9 23 (20.91%) JDBC
10 19 (17.27%) Spring MVC
10 19 (17.27%) HTML
11 16 (14.55%) Servlets
12 14 (12.73%) XSLT
12 14 (12.73%) Spring Web Flow
12 14 (12.73%) iBATIS
13 13 (11.82%) GWT
13 13 (11.82%) jQuery
14 11 (10.00%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 19 (17.27%) Tomcat
2 7 (6.364%) GlassFish
3 6 (5.455%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (4.545%) WebSphere Portal
4 5 (4.545%) Apache
5 4 (3.636%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.818%) Lightstreamer
7 1 (0.909%) WebSphere Process Server
7 1 (0.909%) CMS
7 1 (0.909%) IIS
7 1 (0.909%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.455%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.727%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.909%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.909%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.727%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.818%) FTP
2 2 (1.818%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.818%) SAN
3 1 (0.909%) NAS
3 1 (0.909%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.45%) RDBMS
2 5 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.545%) MySQL
3 4 (3.636%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.636%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.818%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.909%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.909%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.909%) TOAD
5 1 (0.909%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (21.82%) Eclipse
2 22 (20.00%) Maven
3 19 (17.27%) CruiseControl
4 18 (16.36%) Selenium
5 13 (11.82%) JUnit
6 10 (9.091%) JIRA
6 10 (9.091%) Jenkins
7 9 (8.182%) Subversion
7 9 (8.182%) JDeveloper
8 7 (6.364%) Hudson
9 6 (5.455%) Ant
10 4 (3.636%) Rational Application Developer
11 3 (2.727%) Firebug
11 3 (2.727%) WATIR
11 3 (2.727%) RSpec
11 3 (2.727%) Bugzilla
11 3 (2.727%) Trac
11 3 (2.727%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.818%) ClearCase
12 2 (1.818%) Git (software)
General
1 32 (29.09%) Banking
2 31 (28.18%) Finance
3 2 (1.818%) Retail
3 2 (1.818%) Investment Banking
4 1 (0.909%) Retail Banking
4 1 (0.909%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.909%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 72 (65.45%) Developer
2 58 (52.73%) Java Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Analyst
4 10 (9.091%) Programmer
4 10 (9.091%) Java Programmer
5 9 (8.182%) Software Development Manager
5 9 (8.182%) Java Analyst Programmer
5 9 (8.182%) Software Manager
5 9 (8.182%) Development Manager
5 9 (8.182%) Analyst Programmer
6 8 (7.273%) ICT Manager
7 7 (6.364%) Architect
8 6 (5.455%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.545%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.545%) Developer Analyst
9 5 (4.545%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.636%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.636%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.636%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 3 (2.727%) WebSphere Portal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.636%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (3.636%) Graphic Design
2 3 (2.727%) Computer Science
2 3 (2.727%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (2.727%) Open Source
2 3 (2.727%) Web 2.0
2 3 (2.727%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.818%) iPad
3 2 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.818%) N-Tier
3 2 (1.818%) Blackberry
3 2 (1.818%) Derivative
3 2 (1.818%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (1.818%) Data Integration
4 1 (0.909%) iPhone
4 1 (0.909%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.909%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.82%) UNIX
2 13 (11.82%) Linux
3 11 (10.00%) Windows
4 3 (2.727%) Windows Vista
4 3 (2.727%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.909%) Android
5 1 (0.909%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.55%) OO
2 25 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
3 24 (21.82%) MVC
4 20 (18.18%) Unit Testing
5 17 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (12.73%) PRINCE2
7 13 (11.82%) Web Application Development
8 12 (10.91%) Waterfall
8 12 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (10.00%) Resource Management
10 10 (9.091%) Scrum
11 9 (8.182%) TDD
11 9 (8.182%) UML
12 7 (6.364%) SOA
13 5 (4.545%) Software Engineering
13 5 (4.545%) Workflow
14 4 (3.636%) Continuous Improvement
14 4 (3.636%) RAD
14 4 (3.636%) Content Management
15 3 (2.727%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (88.18%) Java
2 37 (33.64%) SQL
3 32 (29.09%) JavaScript
4 23 (20.91%) PL/SQL
5 21 (19.09%) Shell Script
6 17 (15.45%) Perl
7 5 (4.545%) C#
8 4 (3.636%) Bash shell
8 4 (3.636%) Python
8 4 (3.636%) PHP
8 4 (3.636%) Jython
8 4 (3.636%) Ruby
9 3 (2.727%) Korn
9 3 (2.727%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.909%) Groovy
10 1 (0.909%) Scala
10 1 (0.909%) XPath
10 1 (0.909%) VBA
10 1 (0.909%) C++
10 1 (0.909%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (5.455%) Sun Certification
2 4 (3.636%) IBM Certification
2 4 (3.636%) Degree
3 2 (1.818%) ISEB
3 2 (1.818%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.818%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.909%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.364%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.727%) MetaFrame
2 2 (1.818%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.727%) Oracle Identity Manager
1 3 (2.727%) Puppet
2 1 (0.909%) Control-M
Vendors
1 56 (50.91%) Oracle
2 11 (10.00%) IBM
3 9 (8.182%) Sybase
4 8 (7.273%) Sun
5 6 (5.455%) JBoss
6 3 (2.727%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.727%) Citrix
7 2 (1.818%) Sencha
7 2 (1.818%) VMware
7 2 (1.818%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.818%) HP
7 2 (1.818%) Intel
8 1 (0.909%) Advent
8 1 (0.909%) Alterian
8 1 (0.909%) MKS
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will be assisting large-scale system change projects for a specific corporate web-based system, which is used by many different stakeholders in the business. Applicants should...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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