South Yorkshire J2EE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Ives Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	39
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	16	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	18.82 %	2.740 %
Daily rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£301
Average daily rate	£372	£301
% change on same period last year	+23.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£301
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.38	£38.17
% change on same period last year	+3.17 %
Application Development South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	85	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.113 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	24	8
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£292
Average daily rate	£347	£315
% change on same period last year	+9.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.04	£15.53
Average hourly rate	£33.56	£16.71
% change on same period last year	+100.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.08	£17.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
J2EE Yorkshire

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.

J2EE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE across the South Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Sheffield	-	10	£364	-

J2EE Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 30 (68.18 %) Java 2 25 (56.82 %) Struts 3 24 (54.55 %) Spring 4 22 (50.00 %) Hibernate 5 19 (43.18 %) XML 6 17 (38.64 %) JUnit 7 15 (34.09 %) JSP 7 15 (34.09 %) UML 8 14 (31.82 %) Internet 9 12 (27.27 %) JSTL 10 11 (25.00 %) JBoss 10 11 (25.00 %) RSS 10 11 (25.00 %) CSS 11 10 (22.73 %) HTML 11 10 (22.73 %) Content Management

12 9 (20.45 %) Lucene 12 9 (20.45 %) HttpUnit 12 9 (20.45 %) Oracle 13 6 (13.64 %) Use Case 13 6 (13.64 %) E-Learning 14 5 (11.36 %) Identity Management 14 5 (11.36 %) Eclipse 15 4 (9.091 %) Tomcat 15 4 (9.091 %) OO 15 4 (9.091 %) SCORM 15 4 (9.091 %) AJAX 16 3 (6.818 %) Government 16 3 (6.818 %) Load Balancing 16 3 (6.818 %) Linux 16 3 (6.818 %) Apache

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 25 (56.82 %) Struts 2 24 (54.55 %) Spring 3 22 (50.00 %) Hibernate 4 19 (43.18 %) XML 5 15 (34.09 %) JSP 6 12 (27.27 %) JSTL 7 11 (25.00 %) CSS 7 11 (25.00 %) RSS 8 10 (22.73 %) HTML 9 9 (20.45 %) Lucene 10 4 (9.091 %) AJAX 11 2 (4.545 %) SOAP 11 2 (4.545 %) MVC 11 2 (4.545 %) XSLT 11 2 (4.545 %) EJB 11 2 (4.545 %) WebServices 12 1 (2.273 %) Servlets 12 1 (2.273 %) .NET 12 1 (2.273 %) XML Schema 12 1 (2.273 %) JMX	Application Platforms 1 11 (25.00 %) JBoss 2 4 (9.091 %) Tomcat 3 3 (6.818 %) Apache 4 2 (4.545 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (4.545 %) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking 1 14 (31.82 %) Internet 2 3 (6.818 %) LDAP 3 2 (4.545 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.545 %) MySQL 1 2 (4.545 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (4.545 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 17 (38.64 %) JUnit 2 9 (20.45 %) HttpUnit 3 5 (11.36 %) Eclipse 4 3 (6.818 %) Ant 5 1 (2.273 %) JIRA 5 1 (2.273 %) TestDirector 5 1 (2.273 %) CheckStyle	General 1 3 (6.818 %) Government 2 2 (4.545 %) Finance 2 2 (4.545 %) Education 3 1 (2.273 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 25 (56.82 %) Developer 2 13 (29.55 %) Java Developer 3 12 (27.27 %) J2EE Developer 4 7 (15.91 %) Software Designer 5 6 (13.64 %) Web Developer 6 4 (9.091 %) Software Developer 6 4 (9.091 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 4 (9.091 %) Java Web Developer 7 3 (6.818 %) Analyst 8 2 (4.545 %) Applications Specialist 8 2 (4.545 %) Support Analyst 8 2 (4.545 %) Applications Support 8 2 (4.545 %) Lead Developer 9 1 (2.273 %) Applications Support Analyst 9 1 (2.273 %) Support Specialist 9 1 (2.273 %) Consultant 9 1 (2.273 %) Solutions Architect 9 1 (2.273 %) Analyst Programmer 9 1 (2.273 %) Programmer 9 1 (2.273 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.64 %) E-Learning 2 4 (9.091 %) SCORM 3 2 (4.545 %) RIA
Operating Systems 1 3 (6.818 %) Linux 2 2 (4.545 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (34.09 %) UML 2 10 (22.73 %) Content Management 3 6 (13.64 %) Use Case 4 5 (11.36 %) Identity Management 5 4 (9.091 %) OO 6 3 (6.818 %) RUP 6 3 (6.818 %) Load Balancing 7 1 (2.273 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (2.273 %) TDD 7 1 (2.273 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 30 (68.18 %) Java 2 3 (6.818 %) JavaScript 3 2 (4.545 %) DHTML 4 1 (2.273 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (2.273 %) SQL	Vendors 1 9 (20.45 %) Oracle 2 2 (4.545 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.273 %) Red Hat