The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 32 25 20
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -5
Contract jobs citing J2EE 1 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.388% 3.584% 5.944%
As % of the Application Development category 1.667% 11.76% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 12
Average daily rate £355 £500 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.00% +51.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £360 £350
% change year-on-year
+1.38% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -23.52%
All Application Development
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
60 85 123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 23.26% 30.47% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 82
Average daily rate £288 £293 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.70% -2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £135 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
J2EE
Yorkshire

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
Doncaster - - - -
Sheffield - - - - 3
J2EE
Yorkshire

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 13 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (76.92%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (76.92%) Spring
3 9 (69.23%) Hibernate
4 8 (61.54%) TDD
4 8 (61.54%) Struts
5 3 (23.08%) HTML
5 3 (23.08%) XML
5 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle
5 3 (23.08%) CSS
5 3 (23.08%) JDBC
5 3 (23.08%) JSP
5 3 (23.08%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
5 3 (23.08%) Spring MVC
5 3 (23.08%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) Workflow
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) NetBeans
6 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
6 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (15.38%) Sun Identity Manager
6 2 (15.38%) GlassFish
6 2 (15.38%) SLA
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (15.38%) Sun
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 10 (76.92%) Spring
2 9 (69.23%) Hibernate
3 8 (61.54%) Struts
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) JDBC
4 3 (23.08%) JSP
4 3 (23.08%) XML
4 3 (23.08%) Spring MVC
5 2 (15.38%) SPML
6 1 (7.692%) HTML5
6 1 (7.692%) Symfony
6 1 (7.692%) Spring Web Flow
6 1 (7.692%) YUI
6 1 (7.692%) JPA
6 1 (7.692%) Apache CXF
6 1 (7.692%) Facelets
6 1 (7.692%) Ehcache
6 1 (7.692%) J2SE
6 1 (7.692%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (15.38%) GlassFish
2 1 (7.692%) Jetty
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (7.692%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
2 2 (15.38%) NetBeans
3 1 (7.692%) Subversion
3 1 (7.692%) Maven
3 1 (7.692%) PHPUnit
3 1 (7.692%) Ant
3 1 (7.692%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (92.31%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Java Web Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (61.54%) TDD
3 3 (23.08%) OO
3 3 (23.08%) MVC
4 2 (15.38%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Software Architecture
4 2 (15.38%) OOP
5 1 (7.692%) Web Application Development
5 1 (7.692%) Automated Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (7.692%) UML
5 1 (7.692%) B2B
5 1 (7.692%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) PHP
3 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.692%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Sun
3 1 (7.692%) JBoss
South Yorkshire
A large part of the job will involve testing of the code written.Ideally they are seeking candidates with the following must haves: - 3 years Java experience - J2EE -...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
South Yorkshire
You need to have additional experience in the following technologies: - Spring MVC - Hibernate - RESTful Web Services - Maven, Ant - Agile SCRUM & TDD - JavaScript Additional exposure to Play Framework and...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £375 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013