The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scottish Borders region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 21 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 Scottish Borders 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing J2EE 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £361
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.52%
All Application Development
Scottish Borders
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders 60.00% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £250 - £175
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Scotland

J2EE
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) CommVault
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (100.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Solaris
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) CommVault
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle