The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 22 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 Southampton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 32 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Contract jobs citing J2EE 5 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.661% 1.695% 2.174%
As % of the Application Development category 7.463% 7.407% 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
Average daily rate £320 £388 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.41% -20.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £318 £357
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £518 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £360
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -23.52%
All Application Development
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
67 54 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 22.26% 22.88% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 26 12
Average daily rate £338 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 6
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Hampshire

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton J2EE Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Spring
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) EJB
4 1 (20.00%) XML
4 1 (20.00%) XSD
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) JMS
4 1 (20.00%) TeamSite
4 1 (20.00%) Intranet
4 1 (20.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Billing
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Magento

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSD
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (20.00%) TeamSite
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intranet
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle