The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE 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 South West 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 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 68 40 63
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +23
Contract jobs citing J2EE 41 124 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 2.033% 3.833% 2.261%
As % of the Application Development category 8.524% 16.12% 9.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 71 22
Average daily rate £413 £420 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% +8.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £305 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £370 £355
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £54.50 - £33.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -23.52%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
481 769 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.85% 23.77% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 460 301
Average daily rate £325 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 37
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -25.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £15.10 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
England

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West 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
Gloucestershire -2 19 £440 -2.22%
Somerset - 8 £323 -
Devon -3 5 £290 -35.55%
Bristol -4 4 £425 +30.76%
Wiltshire -2 2 £425 +26.86%
Dorset -10 2 £350 -6.66%
J2EE
England

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 82 (86.32%) Java
2 42 (44.21%) Web Services
3 34 (35.79%) XML
3 34 (35.79%) Security Cleared
4 33 (34.74%) DV Cleared
5 32 (33.68%) SQL
5 32 (33.68%) Hibernate
6 31 (32.63%) HTML
7 30 (31.58%) Spring
8 25 (26.32%) Oracle
9 22 (23.16%) JavaScript
9 22 (23.16%) UML
10 21 (22.11%) CSS
10 21 (22.11%) Maven
11 20 (21.05%) JSP
12 19 (20.00%) JBoss
13 16 (16.84%) Swing
13 16 (16.84%) Scrum
13 16 (16.84%) jQuery
14 15 (15.79%) J2SE
14 15 (15.79%) C
15 14 (14.74%) .NET
16 13 (13.68%) C#
16 13 (13.68%) Apache
16 13 (13.68%) RESTful
17 12 (12.63%) Ajax
17 12 (12.63%) XSD
17 12 (12.63%) Agile Software Development
18 11 (11.58%) GIS
18 11 (11.58%) ESRI

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 42 (44.21%) Web Services
2 34 (35.79%) XML
3 32 (33.68%) Hibernate
4 31 (32.63%) HTML
5 30 (31.58%) Spring
6 21 (22.11%) CSS
7 20 (21.05%) JSP
8 16 (16.84%) Swing
8 16 (16.84%) jQuery
9 15 (15.79%) J2SE
10 14 (14.74%) .NET
11 13 (13.68%) RESTful
12 12 (12.63%) Ajax
12 12 (12.63%) XSD
13 11 (11.58%) Servlets
13 11 (11.58%) Dojo
13 11 (11.58%) Apache Flex
13 11 (11.58%) JPA
14 8 (8.421%) WebSphere
14 8 (8.421%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 13 (13.68%) Apache
2 6 (6.316%) ArcGIS
2 6 (6.316%) ArcSDE
3 5 (5.263%) Tomcat
3 5 (5.263%) GlassFish
4 4 (4.211%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (4.211%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (4.211%) SharePoint
5 3 (3.158%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (2.105%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (2.105%) WebLogic
7 1 (1.053%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (1.053%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.211%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (4.211%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (3.158%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.105%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.053%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.053%) Firewall
1 1 (1.053%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.58%) GIS
2 4 (4.211%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (4.211%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (4.211%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.158%) DB2
3 3 (3.158%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.105%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (2.105%) MySQL
4 2 (2.105%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (2.105%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.053%) Informix
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) Maven
2 11 (11.58%) Git (software)
3 10 (10.53%) Ant
4 8 (8.421%) Hudson
5 7 (7.368%) Eclipse
6 6 (6.316%) Visual Studio
7 4 (4.211%) Spring Roo
7 4 (4.211%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (4.211%) JUnit
8 3 (3.158%) Selenium
9 2 (2.105%) jMock
9 2 (2.105%) Mockito
9 2 (2.105%) Subversion
10 1 (1.053%) ClearCase
10 1 (1.053%) QuickTest Pro
10 1 (1.053%) ClearQuest
10 1 (1.053%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (11.58%) Finance
2 6 (6.316%) Publishing
3 5 (5.263%) Retail
4 2 (2.105%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 79 (83.16%) Developer
2 51 (53.68%) Java Developer
3 15 (15.79%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 11 (11.58%) GIS Developer
5 9 (9.474%) HTML Developer
5 9 (9.474%) J2EE Developer
6 4 (4.211%) Oracle Developer
6 4 (4.211%) Consultant
7 3 (3.158%) Technical Consultant
7 3 (3.158%) Technical Architect
7 3 (3.158%) Architect
7 3 (3.158%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.158%) ScrumMaster
7 3 (3.158%) WebSphere Developer
8 2 (2.105%) TIBCO Consultant
8 2 (2.105%) Java Team Leader
8 2 (2.105%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (2.105%) Team Leader
8 2 (2.105%) Web Developer
9 1 (1.053%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.105%) Mobile App
1 2 (2.105%) Replication
1 2 (2.105%) Cryptography
1 2 (2.105%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.053%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.053%) Clustering
2 1 (1.053%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) UNIX
2 9 (9.474%) Linux
3 8 (8.421%) Windows
4 7 (7.368%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (7.368%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.316%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.053%) Solaris
6 1 (1.053%) CentOS
6 1 (1.053%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (23.16%) UML
2 16 (16.84%) Scrum
3 12 (12.63%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (11.58%) E-Commerce
5 9 (9.474%) Data Modelling
5 9 (9.474%) SOA
5 9 (9.474%) MVC
5 9 (9.474%) Software Engineering
6 8 (8.421%) OO
7 6 (6.316%) Information Management
7 6 (6.316%) TDD
7 6 (6.316%) Data Management
7 6 (6.316%) OOD
8 5 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (5.263%) Software Architecture
8 5 (5.263%) Web Development
8 5 (5.263%) Content Management
9 4 (4.211%) Unit Testing
9 4 (4.211%) Workflow
9 4 (4.211%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 82 (86.32%) Java
2 32 (33.68%) SQL
3 22 (23.16%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.79%) C
5 13 (13.68%) C#
6 11 (11.58%) PL/SQL
7 8 (8.421%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.316%) Python
9 3 (3.158%) VB
9 3 (3.158%) Groovy
10 2 (2.105%) XPath
10 2 (2.105%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.053%) PHP
11 1 (1.053%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.74%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.158%) OCP
3 3 (3.158%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.053%) Degree
4 1 (1.053%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (2.105%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.053%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.158%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.105%) SCOM
3 1 (1.053%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.053%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (26.32%) Oracle
2 19 (20.00%) JBoss
3 11 (11.58%) ESRI
4 7 (7.368%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.263%) IBM
6 3 (3.158%) Hyperion
6 3 (3.158%) Stellent
7 2 (2.105%) ATG
7 2 (2.105%) TIBCO
7 2 (2.105%) CA
7 2 (2.105%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.053%) Cisco
8 1 (1.053%) Sun
8 1 (1.053%) HP
8 1 (1.053%) Dell
8 1 (1.053%) Sybase
8 1 (1.053%) webMethods
8 1 (1.053%) Symantec
8 1 (1.053%) VMware
8 1 (1.053%) Perforce
Bristol, Avon
Essential core skills: - Java development - TDD - Web development (ASP.NET/Classic ASP/C#/PHP) The role itself is two-fold... java developer j2ee programmer c#.net asp.net...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Rate: Market rate paid weekly
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, South West
The Architect must have a proven background in J2EE development moving into a Technical Architect role... Experience working with ATG will be highly desirable. J2EE ARCHITECT - JAVA ARCHITECT -...
Montash Associates
Rate: £400 - £450 per day + negotiable
Posted: 11 May 2013
Bournemouth
Experience of any of the following would also be an advantage: Java Swing, J2EE, JSP, Oracle, PL/SQL, .NET or C#.About usAgeas 50 is the name behind...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £30,000 plus relocation assistance & benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
You should have experience working with SQL Server, and understand the principles of data warehouses... Experience of any of the following would also be an advantage: Java Swing,...
Ageas 50
Rate: Up to £30,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bridgwater, Somerset
Technologies used will include TDD, Test Driven Development .NET (C# and/or VB), ASP.NET, Classic ASP, Web Services, SQL, HTML, JavaScript & CSS Junit as well as Java (...
Emponics Ltd
Rate: £ negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013