The first table below looks at the demand for EJB 3.0 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EJB 3.0 over the 3 months to 19 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (EJB 3.0)
Rank 512 529 572
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +43
Contract jobs citing EJB 3.0 29 41 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.071% 0.047%
As % of the Application Development category 0.217% 0.274% 0.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 17
Average daily rate £413 £350 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% +40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £306 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £409 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £324 £350 £200
% change year-on-year
-7.56% +75.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

EJB 3.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing EJB 3.0 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

EJB 3.0 Jobs Demand Trend

EJB 3.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EJB 3.0 within the UK.

EJB 3.0 Daily Rate Trend

EJB 3.0
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EJB 3.0 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

EJB 3.0 Daily Rate Histogram

EJB 3.0
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EJB 3.0 within the UK.

EJB 3.0 Hourly Rate Trend

EJB 3.0
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB 3.0 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +3 28 £413 +17.85% 17
London +40 17 £413 -2.94% 10
South East +6 6 - - 3
City of London +4 5 £413 -2.94% 3
Surrey +1 2 - - 1
Hampshire -6 1 - -
Wales - 1 £322 -
West Midlands - 1 £325 - 1
Cardiff - - - -
Guildford - - - - 1
Warwickshire - - - -
South Wales - - - -

EJB 3.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EJB 3.0 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 EJB 3.0.

1 47 (100.00%) EJB
2 44 (93.62%) Java
3 30 (63.83%) JPA
4 29 (61.70%) JMS
5 27 (57.45%) Maven
6 26 (55.32%) JBoss
7 25 (53.19%) SQL
7 25 (53.19%) Agile Software Development
8 24 (51.06%) Oracle
9 22 (46.81%) UML
10 20 (42.55%) Web Services
10 20 (42.55%) Hibernate
11 18 (38.30%) Subversion
11 18 (38.30%) JSF
11 18 (38.30%) XML
12 17 (36.17%) J2EE
12 17 (36.17%) Java EE
13 16 (34.04%) OO
14 15 (31.91%) Linux
15 14 (29.79%) JavaScript
15 14 (29.79%) Finance
16 13 (27.66%) Scrum
16 13 (27.66%) RDBMS
17 12 (25.53%) JUnit
18 11 (23.40%) HTML
18 11 (23.40%) Eclipse
18 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
18 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
18 11 (23.40%) Spring
18 11 (23.40%) jQuery

EJB 3.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EJB 3.0 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 EJB 3.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 47 (100.00%) EJB
2 30 (63.83%) JPA
3 29 (61.70%) JMS
4 20 (42.55%) Web Services
4 20 (42.55%) Hibernate
5 18 (38.30%) JSF
5 18 (38.30%) XML
6 17 (36.17%) J2EE
6 17 (36.17%) Java EE
7 11 (23.40%) HTML
7 11 (23.40%) Spring
7 11 (23.40%) jQuery
8 10 (21.28%) Ajax
8 10 (21.28%) JSP
9 9 (19.15%) CSS
9 9 (19.15%) SOAP
10 8 (17.02%) JAXB
10 8 (17.02%) Servlets
10 8 (17.02%) GWT
10 8 (17.02%) HornetQ
Application Platforms
1 9 (19.15%) WebLogic
2 8 (17.02%) Apache
3 5 (10.64%) Confluence
3 5 (10.64%) Tomcat
4 3 (6.383%) Oracle Service Bus
4 3 (6.383%) GlassFish
5 2 (4.255%) WebSphere Process Server
6 1 (2.128%) IIS
6 1 (2.128%) Tuxedo
6 1 (2.128%) SAP EP
6 1 (2.128%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (2.128%) Force.com
6 1 (2.128%) SAP Portal
Business Applications
1 2 (4.255%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) Internet
2 3 (6.383%) HTTP
2 3 (6.383%) Kerberos
3 2 (4.255%) LDAP
4 1 (2.128%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) RDBMS
2 7 (14.89%) MySQL
3 3 (6.383%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.383%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (4.255%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (4.255%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (4.255%) SAP Data Services
4 2 (4.255%) DB2
5 1 (2.128%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (57.45%) Maven
2 18 (38.30%) Subversion
3 12 (25.53%) JUnit
4 11 (23.40%) Eclipse
5 7 (14.89%) JIRA
6 5 (10.64%) Hudson
7 3 (6.383%) Apache Continuum
7 3 (6.383%) Mockito
7 3 (6.383%) TestNG
7 3 (6.383%) HttpUnit
7 3 (6.383%) FitNesse
8 2 (4.255%) Git (software)
8 2 (4.255%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.255%) CruiseControl
8 2 (4.255%) Rational Rose
9 1 (2.128%) PVCS
9 1 (2.128%) Ant
9 1 (2.128%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
9 1 (2.128%) NWDI
9 1 (2.128%) NWDS
General
1 14 (29.79%) Finance
2 5 (10.64%) Banking
2 5 (10.64%) Back Office
3 4 (8.511%) Telecoms
3 4 (8.511%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.128%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.128%) Retail
4 1 (2.128%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 38 (80.85%) Developer
2 33 (70.21%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Architect
4 4 (8.511%) Senior Developer
4 4 (8.511%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (6.383%) Technical Leader
5 3 (6.383%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.383%) Software Architect
6 2 (4.255%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Technical Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.255%) Java Architect
7 1 (2.128%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.128%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.128%) SAP Developer
7 1 (2.128%) J2EE Developer
7 1 (2.128%) Applications Architect
7 1 (2.128%) Oracle SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) RIA
2 3 (6.383%) N-Tier
2 3 (6.383%) PKI
2 3 (6.383%) Open Source
2 3 (6.383%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.128%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Linux
2 2 (4.255%) UNIX
3 1 (2.128%) Solaris
3 1 (2.128%) Android
3 1 (2.128%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (53.19%) Agile Software Development
2 22 (46.81%) UML
3 16 (34.04%) OO
4 13 (27.66%) Scrum
5 11 (23.40%) Configuration Management
6 10 (21.28%) Unit Testing
6 10 (21.28%) Multithreading
6 10 (21.28%) OOA/OOD
7 8 (17.02%) TDD
7 8 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (17.02%) Customer Engagement
8 6 (12.77%) SOA
8 6 (12.77%) Software Architecture
9 5 (10.64%) Workflow
10 3 (6.383%) Data Modelling
10 3 (6.383%) OOP
10 3 (6.383%) RUP
10 3 (6.383%) Software Engineering
10 3 (6.383%) Asset Management
10 3 (6.383%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 44 (93.62%) Java
2 25 (53.19%) SQL
3 14 (29.79%) JavaScript
4 10 (21.28%) C
4 10 (21.28%) T-SQL
5 6 (12.77%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.255%) Groovy
6 2 (4.255%) Perl
6 2 (4.255%) PHP
7 1 (2.128%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.128%) Python
7 1 (2.128%) XPath
7 1 (2.128%) Korn
7 1 (2.128%) XQuery
7 1 (2.128%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (23.40%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.511%) Degree
4 3 (6.383%) Sun Certification
5 2 (4.255%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.128%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.255%) QA
Vendors
1 26 (55.32%) JBoss
2 24 (51.06%) Oracle
3 10 (21.28%) Sybase
4 3 (6.383%) SAP
4 3 (6.383%) Sun
5 2 (4.255%) Zend
6 1 (2.128%) Adobe
6 1 (2.128%) BEA
6 1 (2.128%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (2.128%) Fujitsu
London
Essentials: SOA, EJB3, EJB3.1, REST, SOAP, Java EE6 stack including Hibernate, JPA, JTA, JAX-WS. Understanding of MVC architecture. Previous experience of working with Web Services. SQL...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £2300 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
London
The Essentials: SOA, EJB3, EJB3.1, REST, SOAP, Java EE6 stack including Hibernate, JPA, JTA, JAX-WS. Understanding of MVC architecture. Previous experience of working with Web Services...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
London
The client is in search of a experienced Java Developer to help them in there transition away from the existing LAMP/ Perl architecture moving over to Java. Essentials:...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
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