South East Java/J2EE Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Java/J2EE Developer role in IT contracts within the South East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java/J2EE Developer
Location Ascot Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton St Albans Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	179	203
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	77	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.099 %
As % of the category below	0.651 %	0.607 %
Daily rates quoted	17	22
Average minimum daily rate	£407	£321
Average daily rate	£431	£345
% change on same period last year	+25.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£454	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£344
% change on same period last year	+12.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£48.50
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£48.50
% change on same period last year	-7.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.00	£42.05
% change on same period last year	+7.02 %
Job Titles South East
Matching contract IT job ads	11819	16303
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	15.60 %	16.24 %
Daily rates quoted	3042	4108
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£338
Average daily rate	£356	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	1424	2031
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.18	£25.81
Average hourly rate	£23.67	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-12.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.16	£28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Java/J2EE Developer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Java/J2EE Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the South East region.

Java/J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the South East region.

Java/J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Java/J2EE Developer
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java/J2EE Developer within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+38	29	£392	+19.28 %
Surrey	-5	17	£406	+19.48 %
Buckinghamshire	+9	12	£475	+38.18 %
Oxfordshire	+7	8	-	-
Hampshire	+9	5	-	-
East Sussex	-	2	-	-
Middlesex	+10	2	-	-
M4 Corridor	+5	1	-	-
West Sussex	+6	1	£325	-22.61 %

Java/J2EE Developer England

Java/J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 216 (100.00 %) Java 1 216 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 103 (47.69 %) Hibernate 3 85 (39.35 %) Oracle 4 84 (38.89 %) Spring 5 64 (29.63 %) Struts 5 64 (29.63 %) XML 6 61 (28.24 %) JSP 6 61 (28.24 %) SQL 7 60 (27.78 %) Eclipse 8 59 (27.31 %) Security Cleared 9 50 (23.15 %) WebLogic 10 42 (19.44 %) HTML 11 40 (18.52 %) EJB 11 40 (18.52 %) UML

12 38 (17.59 %) JUnit 13 36 (16.67 %) Finance 14 33 (15.28 %) SC Cleared 14 33 (15.28 %) WebSphere 15 29 (13.43 %) Servlets 16 24 (11.11 %) DV Cleared 17 23 (10.65 %) JavaScript 17 23 (10.65 %) BEA 18 22 (10.19 %) RUP 19 21 (9.722 %) E-Commerce 19 21 (9.722 %) Oracle 10g 20 19 (8.796 %) Ant 20 19 (8.796 %) Linux 21 17 (7.870 %) Agile Software Development 21 17 (7.870 %) Retail

Java/J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Java/J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with Java/J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 216 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 103 (47.69 %) Hibernate 3 84 (38.89 %) Spring 4 64 (29.63 %) Struts 4 64 (29.63 %) XML 5 61 (28.24 %) JSP 6 42 (19.44 %) HTML 7 40 (18.52 %) EJB 8 33 (15.28 %) WebSphere 9 29 (13.43 %) Servlets 10 15 (6.944 %) MVC 10 15 (6.944 %) WebServices 11 14 (6.481 %) .NET 11 14 (6.481 %) Swing 12 13 (6.019 %) JDBC 13 12 (5.556 %) CSS 14 11 (5.093 %) JSF 15 10 (4.630 %) SOAP 15 10 (4.630 %) Spring MVC 16 9 (4.167 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 50 (23.15 %) WebLogic 2 12 (5.556 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 12 (5.556 %) JBoss 3 9 (4.167 %) Tomcat 4 8 (3.704 %) ESB 5 5 (2.315 %) MQSeries 6 4 (1.852 %) Apache 7 2 (0.926 %) Oracle Application Server 7 2 (0.926 %) WebLogic Portal 7 2 (0.926 %) WebLogic Integration 7 2 (0.926 %) CMS 8 1 (0.463 %) Oracle 10gAS 8 1 (0.463 %) ATG Dynamo 8 1 (0.463 %) SAS
Applications 1 4 (1.852 %) MS Excel 1 4 (1.852 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (3.704 %) Internet 2 7 (3.241 %) Extranet 3 5 (2.315 %) LDAP 4 1 (0.463 %) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (9.722 %) Oracle 10g 2 16 (7.407 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 13 (6.019 %) DB2 4 8 (3.704 %) RDBMS 5 7 (3.241 %) SQL Server 6 4 (1.852 %) Oracle 9i 7 2 (0.926 %) DB2 UDB 8 1 (0.463 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (0.463 %) SQL Server 2005 8 1 (0.463 %) GIS 8 1 (0.463 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 60 (27.78 %) Eclipse 2 38 (17.59 %) JUnit 3 19 (8.796 %) Ant 4 16 (7.407 %) Rational Rose 5 10 (4.630 %) ClearCase 6 9 (4.167 %) JDeveloper 7 8 (3.704 %) ClearQuest 8 5 (2.315 %) MSI 9 4 (1.852 %) Log4j 10 2 (0.926 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 2 (0.926 %) Bugzilla 11 1 (0.463 %) Subversion 11 1 (0.463 %) JBuilder
General 1 36 (16.67 %) Finance 2 17 (7.870 %) Retail 3 16 (7.407 %) Government 4 15 (6.944 %) Insurance 5 12 (5.556 %) Banking 6 6 (2.778 %) Manufacturing 6 6 (2.778 %) Retail Banking 7 5 (2.315 %) Games 8 4 (1.852 %) Financial Institution 8 4 (1.852 %) Pensions 9 2 (0.926 %) Telecoms 9 2 (0.926 %) Legal 10 1 (0.463 %) Online Games 10 1 (0.463 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.463 %) Back Office 10 1 (0.463 %) Pharmaceutical	Miscellaneous 1 1 (0.463 %) Computer Science 1 1 (0.463 %) Credit Risk 1 1 (0.463 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 19 (8.796 %) Linux 2 15 (6.944 %) Windows 3 4 (1.852 %) UNIX 4 1 (0.463 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 59 (27.31 %) Security Cleared 2 40 (18.52 %) UML 3 33 (15.28 %) SC Cleared 4 24 (11.11 %) DV Cleared 5 22 (10.19 %) RUP 6 21 (9.722 %) E-Commerce 7 17 (7.870 %) Agile Software Development 8 15 (6.944 %) SOA 9 14 (6.481 %) Unit Testing 10 12 (5.556 %) OO 11 7 (3.241 %) Web Development 12 4 (1.852 %) Scrum 12 4 (1.852 %) Extreme Programming 12 4 (1.852 %) Continuous Integration 13 3 (1.389 %) OOA/OOD 14 2 (0.926 %) OOD 14 2 (0.926 %) TDD 15 1 (0.463 %) Problem Management 15 1 (0.463 %) Performance Testing 15 1 (0.463 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 216 (100.00 %) Java 2 61 (28.24 %) SQL 3 23 (10.65 %) JavaScript 4 17 (7.870 %) C++ 5 16 (7.407 %) C 5 16 (7.407 %) PL/SQL 6 8 (3.704 %) Perl 7 5 (2.315 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 10 (4.630 %) Degree 2 2 (0.926 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.315 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (0.926 %) Active Directory 1 2 (0.926 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 85 (39.35 %) Oracle 2 23 (10.65 %) BEA 3 14 (6.481 %) Microsoft 4 11 (5.093 %) IBM 5 8 (3.704 %) Siebel 6 7 (3.241 %) ATG 7 3 (1.389 %) ILOG 8 1 (0.463 %) webMethods 8 1 (0.463 %) Sun