The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 - 28 19
Contract jobs citing J2EE 0 1 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough - 0.493% 7.143%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.222% 22.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
Average daily rate - - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £361
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.52%
All Application Development
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
82 45 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 32.93% 22.17% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 45
Average daily rate £325 £350 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +14.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £288 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 1 34
Average hourly rate £35.00 £14.40 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+143.05% -66.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Berkshire

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SWT
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) SWT
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) EJB 3.0
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss