The first table below looks at the demand for J2EE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE over the 3 months to 21 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 Stirling 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
Rank 21 9 16
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +7
Contract jobs citing J2EE 4 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 3.448% 11.11% 4.167%
As % of the Application Development category 6.557% 40.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £375 £250 £613
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.10% -59.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £250 £603
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £250 £623
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £365 £361
% change year-on-year
-4.10% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.52%
All Application Development
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
61 10 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 52.59% 27.78% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 16
Average daily rate £401 £250 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.20% -44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £618
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
J2EE
Scotland

J2EE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling J2EE Daily Rate Trend

J2EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
3 5 (71.43%) JDBC
3 5 (71.43%) Ajax
4 4 (57.14%) Finance
4 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
4 4 (57.14%) Banking
4 4 (57.14%) JSP
4 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (57.14%) CSS
5 3 (42.86%) HTML
5 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) Servlets
5 3 (42.86%) XML
5 3 (42.86%) UNIX
5 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
6 2 (28.57%) JMS
6 2 (28.57%) XSLT
6 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
6 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
6 2 (28.57%) TOAD
6 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
7 1 (14.29%) IBM
7 1 (14.29%) JAXB
7 1 (14.29%) Citrix
7 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
7 1 (14.29%) ClearCase

J2EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) JDBC
2 5 (71.43%) Ajax
3 4 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 4 (57.14%) JSP
3 4 (57.14%) CSS
4 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 3 (42.86%) Servlets
4 3 (42.86%) XML
4 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
5 2 (28.57%) JMS
5 2 (28.57%) XSLT
6 1 (14.29%) JAXB
6 1 (14.29%) .NET
6 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 1 (14.29%) JSTL
6 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
6 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Fireworks
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) TOAD
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Firebug
2 1 (14.29%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) MVC
1 1 (14.29%) UML
1 1 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (14.29%) OO
1 1 (14.29%) RAD
1 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (14.29%) TDD
1 1 (14.29%) OOD
1 1 (14.29%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) MKS
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase