The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 Java EE over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Rank 113 128 117
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Contract jobs citing Java EE 4 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.195% 0.365% 0.073%
As % of the Application Development category 0.828% 1.525% 0.322%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 0
Average daily rate £326 £444 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.60% -
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 - £41.50
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
483 787 621
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.50% 23.94% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 476 275
Average daily rate £325 £338 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +8.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 36
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £10.00 £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%
Java EE
England

Java EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West Java EE Daily 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Somerset - 2 £301 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Java EE
England

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 18 (94.74%) Java
2 14 (73.68%) Spring
3 10 (52.63%) Hibernate
3 10 (52.63%) Oracle
4 8 (42.11%) J2EE
5 6 (31.58%) HTML
5 6 (31.58%) CSS
5 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
5 6 (31.58%) JPA
6 5 (26.32%) Web Services
6 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
6 5 (26.32%) JBoss
6 5 (26.32%) IBM
7 4 (21.05%) XSD
7 4 (21.05%) JAXB
7 4 (21.05%) WebSphere
7 4 (21.05%) JAX-WS
8 3 (15.79%) System Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (15.79%) Web Application Development
8 3 (15.79%) Finance
8 3 (15.79%) Cryptography
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (15.79%) Apache
8 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
8 3 (15.79%) Eclipse
8 3 (15.79%) JSP

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 14 (73.68%) Spring
2 10 (52.63%) Hibernate
3 8 (42.11%) J2EE
4 6 (31.58%) CSS
4 6 (31.58%) HTML
4 6 (31.58%) JPA
5 5 (26.32%) Web Services
6 4 (21.05%) XSD
6 4 (21.05%) JAXB
6 4 (21.05%) WebSphere
6 4 (21.05%) JAX-WS
7 3 (15.79%) JSP
8 2 (10.53%) XSLT
8 2 (10.53%) XML
8 2 (10.53%) Ajax
8 2 (10.53%) jQuery
8 2 (10.53%) Spring MVC
8 2 (10.53%) RESTful
8 2 (10.53%) REST
8 2 (10.53%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
1 3 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) Liferay
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Ant
1 3 (15.79%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.263%) JUnit
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Back Office
3 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (89.47%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) Java Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 6 (31.58%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Server Administrator
6 1 (5.263%) Java Web Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cryptography
2 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.263%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.263%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) UNIX
1 1 (5.263%) Linux
1 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Unit Testing
2 3 (15.79%) System Testing
2 3 (15.79%) Web Application Development
2 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
2 3 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.53%) MVC
3 2 (10.53%) Web Development
4 1 (5.263%) High Availability
4 1 (5.263%) Scrum
4 1 (5.263%) TDD
4 1 (5.263%) SOA
4 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.263%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.263%) Perl
3 1 (5.263%) PHP
3 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.263%) SQL
3 1 (5.263%) Python
3 1 (5.263%) Ruby
3 1 (5.263%) Groovy
3 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
3 1 (5.263%) C
3 1 (5.263%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) JBoss
2 5 (26.32%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.263%) webMethods