Surrey J2EE Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT contracts within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

J2EE Developer
Location Alderley Edge Altrincham Atherstone Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Neots Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	79
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	33	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	1.707 %	1.190 %
Daily rates quoted	15	12
Average minimum daily rate	£432	£319
Average daily rate	£458	£344
% change on same period last year	+33.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£484	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£348
% change on same period last year	+9.40 %
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	£35.86	£40.93
% change on same period last year	-12.40 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1933	2185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.549 %	2.318 %
Daily rates quoted	549	538
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£331
Average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	270	266
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£22.84
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
J2EE Developer South East

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Developer across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Developer across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Developer across the Surrey 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 job ads citing J2EE Developer within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 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
Leatherhead	+7	15	£429	+29.91 %
Dorking	-	2	£375	-
Redhill	+9	1	-	-

J2EE Developer South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with J2EE Developer in their job title.

1 63 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 52 (82.54 %) Java 3 27 (42.86 %) Security Cleared 3 27 (42.86 %) Hibernate 4 25 (39.68 %) Oracle 5 23 (36.51 %) SC Cleared 6 20 (31.75 %) UML 6 20 (31.75 %) SOA 6 20 (31.75 %) Spring 7 18 (28.57 %) Struts 8 17 (26.98 %) WebServices 8 17 (26.98 %) SOAP 8 17 (26.98 %) ESB 9 14 (22.22 %) JDeveloper 10 13 (20.63 %) JSP

11 12 (19.05 %) Siebel 11 12 (19.05 %) Eclipse 12 11 (17.46 %) ClearQuest 12 11 (17.46 %) ClearCase 13 10 (15.87 %) XML 13 10 (15.87 %) SQL 13 10 (15.87 %) WebLogic 14 9 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 15 8 (12.70 %) EJB 15 8 (12.70 %) Finance 16 6 (9.524 %) Government 16 6 (9.524 %) MVC 16 6 (9.524 %) JUnit 16 6 (9.524 %) Spring MVC 17 5 (7.937 %) JDBC

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited J2EE Developer in their job title 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 with J2EE Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 63 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 27 (42.86 %) Hibernate 3 20 (31.75 %) Spring 4 18 (28.57 %) Struts 5 17 (26.98 %) WebServices 5 17 (26.98 %) SOAP 6 13 (20.63 %) JSP 7 10 (15.87 %) XML 8 8 (12.70 %) EJB 9 6 (9.524 %) Spring MVC 10 5 (7.937 %) JDBC 11 2 (3.175 %) WebSphere 11 2 (3.175 %) NetBeans 12 1 (1.587 %) JSF 12 1 (1.587 %) Tapestry 12 1 (1.587 %) JSTL 12 1 (1.587 %) iBATIS 12 1 (1.587 %) GWT 12 1 (1.587 %) Java RMI 12 1 (1.587 %) VXML	Application Platforms 1 17 (26.98 %) ESB 2 10 (15.87 %) WebLogic 3 2 (3.175 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.587 %) MQSeries 4 1 (1.587 %) JBoss
Communications & Networking 1 4 (6.349 %) HTTP 2 2 (3.175 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.587 %) FTP 3 1 (1.587 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.762 %) DB2 2 1 (1.587 %) RDBMS 2 1 (1.587 %) DB2 UDB 2 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 14 (22.22 %) JDeveloper 2 12 (19.05 %) Eclipse 3 11 (17.46 %) ClearQuest 3 11 (17.46 %) ClearCase 4 6 (9.524 %) JUnit	General 1 8 (12.70 %) Finance 2 6 (9.524 %) Government 3 5 (7.937 %) Insurance 4 3 (4.762 %) Banking 5 1 (1.587 %) Retail 5 1 (1.587 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (1.587 %) Front Office
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.175 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (42.86 %) Security Cleared 2 23 (36.51 %) SC Cleared 3 20 (31.75 %) UML 3 20 (31.75 %) SOA 4 9 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 5 6 (9.524 %) MVC 6 5 (7.937 %) OO 7 3 (4.762 %) BPEL 8 2 (3.175 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (3.175 %) OOA/OOD 9 1 (1.587 %) Scrum 9 1 (1.587 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.587 %) Stress Testing
Programming Languages 1 52 (82.54 %) Java 2 10 (15.87 %) SQL 3 3 (4.762 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (4.762 %) Degree 2 1 (1.587 %) Sun Certification
System Software 1 2 (3.175 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 25 (39.68 %) Oracle 2 12 (19.05 %) Siebel 3 1 (1.587 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.587 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.587 %) BEA