The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 Java EE 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
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 97 - 108
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Java EE 21 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.861% - 0.109%
As % of the Application Development category 2.625% - 0.540%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 3
Average daily rate £450 - £500
90% offered a daily rate of more than £415 - £480
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 - £536
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 - £42.50
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%
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 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 - 11 £450 -
Stirling - 4 £438 -
Edinburgh - 4 £438 -
Fife - 1 - -
West Lothian - 1 £445 -
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 25 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (68.00%) XML
3 11 (44.00%) SQL
4 9 (36.00%) Hibernate
4 9 (36.00%) Spring
4 9 (36.00%) Maven
4 9 (36.00%) Unit Testing
5 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (32.00%) J2SE
6 7 (28.00%) C
6 7 (28.00%) Oracle
6 7 (28.00%) J2ME
7 6 (24.00%) Ant
7 6 (24.00%) JUnit
7 6 (24.00%) C++
7 6 (24.00%) JMS
8 5 (20.00%) SOA
8 5 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (20.00%) HTML
8 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 5 (20.00%) JDBC
8 5 (20.00%) TDD
8 5 (20.00%) JAX-WS
8 5 (20.00%) Git (software)
8 5 (20.00%) soapUI
8 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
9 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (16.00%) JSF
9 4 (16.00%) Finance

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 17 (68.00%) XML
2 9 (36.00%) Hibernate
2 9 (36.00%) Spring
3 8 (32.00%) J2SE
4 7 (28.00%) J2ME
5 6 (24.00%) JMS
6 5 (20.00%) HTML
6 5 (20.00%) JDBC
6 5 (20.00%) JAX-WS
6 5 (20.00%) soapUI
7 4 (16.00%) JSF
7 4 (16.00%) JSP
7 4 (16.00%) Servlets
7 4 (16.00%) XSLT
7 4 (16.00%) Web Services
8 3 (12.00%) EJB
8 3 (12.00%) CSS
8 3 (12.00%) SOAP
8 3 (12.00%) TopLink
8 3 (12.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (8.000%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) SSL
1 1 (4.000%) LDAP
1 1 (4.000%) HTTP
1 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) GIS
2 2 (8.000%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Maven
2 6 (24.00%) Ant
2 6 (24.00%) JUnit
3 5 (20.00%) Git (software)
3 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.000%) PVCS
4 1 (4.000%) CruiseControl
4 1 (4.000%) FitNesse
4 1 (4.000%) Concordion
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.000%) Front Office
3 1 (4.000%) Retail
3 1 (4.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (80.00%) Developer
2 14 (56.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Administrator
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.000%) Java Technical Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Java Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (12.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (12.00%) PDA
4 2 (8.000%) W3C
5 1 (4.000%) Clustering
5 1 (4.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) UNIX
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.000%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Unit Testing
2 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (20.00%) SOA
3 5 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (16.00%) UML
4 4 (16.00%) OO
4 4 (16.00%) Scrum
4 4 (16.00%) MVC
5 3 (12.00%) BDD
6 2 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.000%) Web Design
7 1 (4.000%) CAD
7 1 (4.000%) Change Management
7 1 (4.000%) CRM
7 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.000%) Pair Programming
7 1 (4.000%) Software Engineering
7 1 (4.000%) Performance Testing
7 1 (4.000%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) C
4 6 (24.00%) C++
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.000%) AWK
7 1 (4.000%) VBScript
7 1 (4.000%) C#
7 1 (4.000%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) MOM
1 1 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) JBoss
2 4 (16.00%) Sybase
3 2 (8.000%) TIBCO
4 1 (4.000%) VMware
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.000%) Murex
4 1 (4.000%) HP
4 1 (4.000%) Red Hat