The first table below looks at the demand for EJB 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 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.

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
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
Rank 356 433 357
Rank change year-on-year
+77 -76
Contract jobs citing EJB 185 153 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.393% 0.258% 0.405%
As % of the Application Development category 1.442% 1.010% 1.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 72 134
Average daily rate £380 £381 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.32% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £250 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £543 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £361 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.11% +3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
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 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

EJB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

EJB Jobs Demand Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Trend

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

EJB Daily Rate Trend

EJB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EJB within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

EJB Daily Rate Histogram

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

EJB Hourly Rate Trend

EJB
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +85 170 £400 +1.91%
London +61 78 £413 -22.82%
South East +11 56 £350 -2.77%
Berkshire +37 24 £425 +11.11%
Hampshire +13 22 £350 -
City of London +22 19 £413 -4.34%
Basingstoke - 19 £350 -
Bracknell - 13 £425 -
North West +9 12 £338 -3.57%
East Midlands +9 11 £290 -3.33%
Scotland -14 10 £319 +25.59%
Lancashire +20 9 £338 +23.85%
Glasgow -12 8 £319 +35.74%
Blackpool - 5 £315 -
South West +26 4 £425 +5.59%
East of England +12 4 £400 -12.56%
Surrey -20 4 - -
Crawley - 4 £363 -
West Sussex - 4 £363 -
Lytham St Annes - 3 £350 -
Cheshire +1 2 - -
Oxfordshire 0 2 - -
West Yorkshire 0 2 - -
Yorkshire 0 2 - -
Dorset - 2 £350 -
Bournemouth - 2 £350 -
Staines - 2 - -
Manchester +10 1 - -
Hertfordshire +5 1 - -
Edinburgh 0 1 £275 -21.42%

EJB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EJB 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.

1 332 (95.40%) Java
2 204 (58.62%) J2EE
3 189 (54.31%) JavaScript
4 185 (53.16%) HTML
4 185 (53.16%) JMS
5 176 (50.57%) SQL
6 173 (49.71%) JSP
7 164 (47.13%) JUnit
7 164 (47.13%) XML
8 137 (39.37%) Spring
9 127 (36.49%) CSS
10 126 (36.21%) Oracle
11 120 (34.48%) Web Services
12 118 (33.91%) UML
13 117 (33.62%) Hibernate
14 109 (31.32%) REST
15 102 (29.31%) MVC
15 102 (29.31%) SOAP
16 101 (29.02%) JBoss
17 99 (28.45%) WebSphere
18 98 (28.16%) JPA
19 94 (27.01%) Maven
20 88 (25.29%) Servlets
21 83 (23.85%) OO
21 83 (23.85%) jQuery
22 82 (23.56%) IBM
23 80 (22.99%) UNIX
23 80 (22.99%) Java EE
24 78 (22.41%) Struts
25 77 (22.13%) E-Commerce

EJB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EJB 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 204 (58.62%) J2EE
2 185 (53.16%) HTML
2 185 (53.16%) JMS
3 173 (49.71%) JSP
4 164 (47.13%) XML
5 137 (39.37%) Spring
6 127 (36.49%) CSS
7 120 (34.48%) Web Services
8 117 (33.62%) Hibernate
9 109 (31.32%) REST
10 102 (29.31%) SOAP
11 99 (28.45%) WebSphere
12 98 (28.16%) JPA
13 88 (25.29%) Servlets
14 83 (23.85%) jQuery
15 80 (22.99%) Java EE
16 78 (22.41%) Struts
17 72 (20.69%) JSON
18 68 (19.54%) Spring MVC
19 66 (18.97%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 50 (14.37%) WebLogic
2 38 (10.92%) WebSphere Application Server
3 36 (10.34%) Apache
4 32 (9.195%) Tomcat
5 24 (6.897%) BizTalk Server
6 18 (5.172%) FileNet
7 17 (4.885%) GlassFish
8 15 (4.310%) MQSeries
9 12 (3.448%) ESB
10 11 (3.161%) Mule
11 9 (2.586%) Confluence
12 7 (2.011%) Commerce Server
13 5 (1.437%) Oracle Service Bus
14 3 (0.862%) WebSphere Process Server
14 3 (0.862%) JCAPS
14 3 (0.862%) TIBCO EMS
15 2 (0.575%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.575%) SAP EP
15 2 (0.575%) CMS
16 1 (0.287%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 10 (2.874%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.287%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.287%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 14 (4.023%) Tridion
2 4 (1.149%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.287%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 40 (11.49%) Internet
2 8 (2.299%) HTTP
3 5 (1.437%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.437%) LDAP
4 2 (0.575%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.575%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (0.575%) SSL
5 1 (0.287%) FTP
5 1 (0.287%) Firewall
5 1 (0.287%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (20.69%) RDBMS
2 64 (18.39%) SQL Server
3 57 (16.38%) DB2
4 36 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 36 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 26 (7.471%) MySQL
6 23 (6.609%) NoSQL
7 13 (3.736%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.299%) Oracle 11g
8 8 (2.299%) SQL Server 2008
9 5 (1.437%) Oracle 10g
9 5 (1.437%) TOAD
10 4 (1.149%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.862%) Oracle 8/8i
11 3 (0.862%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.862%) MarkLogic
11 3 (0.862%) Big Data
12 2 (0.575%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.575%) BusinessObjects XI
12 2 (0.575%) Informix
Development Applications
1 164 (47.13%) JUnit
2 94 (27.01%) Maven
3 64 (18.39%) Eclipse
4 52 (14.94%) Git (software)
5 46 (13.22%) Subversion
6 44 (12.64%) Mockito
7 30 (8.621%) Ant
8 27 (7.759%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
9 19 (5.460%) Selenium
10 15 (4.310%) Log4j
11 14 (4.023%) JBehave
12 12 (3.448%) JIRA
13 11 (3.161%) JDeveloper
14 8 (2.299%) Spring Roo
14 8 (2.299%) ClearCase
15 7 (2.011%) EasyMock
15 7 (2.011%) jMock
15 7 (2.011%) Jenkins
16 5 (1.437%) Rational Rose
17 4 (1.149%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 75 (21.55%) Finance
2 45 (12.93%) Retail
3 39 (11.21%) Banking
4 17 (4.885%) Investment Banking
5 12 (3.448%) Games
5 12 (3.448%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.437%) Marketing
7 3 (0.862%) Publishing
7 3 (0.862%) Billing
8 2 (0.575%) Retail Banking
8 2 (0.575%) Back Office
9 1 (0.287%) Automotive
9 1 (0.287%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.287%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 281 (80.75%) Developer
2 200 (57.47%) Java Developer
3 45 (12.93%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 39 (11.21%) Senior Developer
5 36 (10.34%) WebSphere Developer
6 35 (10.06%) Architect
7 26 (7.471%) Senior Java Developer
8 24 (6.897%) J2EE Developer
9 18 (5.172%) Analyst
10 16 (4.598%) Technical Leader
11 13 (3.736%) Programmer
11 13 (3.736%) Java Programmer
12 12 (3.448%) Java Analyst Programmer
12 12 (3.448%) Analyst Programmer
13 10 (2.874%) Java Architect
13 10 (2.874%) Software Architect
14 9 (2.586%) Developer Analyst
14 9 (2.586%) Designer
15 8 (2.299%) Solutions Architect
15 8 (2.299%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.034%) N-Tier
2 15 (4.310%) RIA
2 15 (4.310%) Web 2.0
3 10 (2.874%) Kindle
4 8 (2.299%) PMI
5 5 (1.437%) Computer Science
5 5 (1.437%) Open Source
6 4 (1.149%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.149%) Mathematics
6 4 (1.149%) Physics
7 3 (0.862%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (0.862%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.575%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.575%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.575%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.575%) Clustering
8 2 (0.575%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.575%) W3C
9 1 (0.287%) EPoS
9 1 (0.287%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 80 (22.99%) UNIX
2 67 (19.25%) Linux
3 22 (6.322%) Solaris
4 15 (4.310%) HPUX
5 11 (3.161%) Windows
6 3 (0.862%) AIX
6 3 (0.862%) Android
7 2 (0.575%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.575%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.575%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.287%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.91%) UML
2 102 (29.31%) MVC
3 83 (23.85%) OO
4 77 (22.13%) E-Commerce
5 74 (21.26%) Agile Software Development
6 68 (19.54%) BDD
7 57 (16.38%) TDD
8 56 (16.09%) Web Development
9 45 (12.93%) Continuous Integration
9 45 (12.93%) Software Architecture
10 39 (11.21%) Unit Testing
11 38 (10.92%) Pair Programming
11 38 (10.92%) RAD
12 35 (10.06%) OOD
13 31 (8.908%) OOA/OOD
14 30 (8.621%) SOA
15 29 (8.333%) Use Case
15 29 (8.333%) Multithreading
16 26 (7.471%) Content Management
17 23 (6.609%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 332 (95.40%) Java
2 189 (54.31%) JavaScript
3 176 (50.57%) SQL
4 30 (8.621%) C
5 29 (8.333%) PL/SQL
6 27 (7.759%) Perl
7 26 (7.471%) Bash shell
8 23 (6.609%) XPath
9 13 (3.736%) Groovy
10 12 (3.448%) C#
11 9 (2.586%) T-SQL
12 8 (2.299%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.437%) XQuery
14 3 (0.862%) C++
15 2 (0.575%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
16 1 (0.287%) PHP
16 1 (0.287%) VB
16 1 (0.287%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.287%) ABAP
16 1 (0.287%) Python
Qualifications
1 29 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 22 (6.322%) DV Cleared
3 21 (6.034%) Sun Certification
4 10 (2.874%) Degree
5 8 (2.299%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.862%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.575%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.575%) RHCT
7 2 (0.575%) RHCE
8 1 (0.287%) ISEB
8 1 (0.287%) SCJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.736%) QA
2 2 (0.575%) Basel III
2 2 (0.575%) WCAG
2 2 (0.575%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (0.575%) SLA
3 1 (0.287%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (0.862%) OpenSSO
2 1 (0.287%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.287%) Shibboleth
2 1 (0.287%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (0.862%) Tivoli
2 2 (0.575%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.575%) YUM
2 2 (0.575%) SCOM
3 1 (0.287%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 126 (36.21%) Oracle
2 101 (29.02%) JBoss
3 82 (23.56%) IBM
4 23 (6.609%) ATG
5 21 (6.034%) Sun
6 15 (4.310%) Blue Martini
7 14 (4.023%) Elastic Path
7 14 (4.023%) Interwoven
8 13 (3.736%) Sybase
8 13 (3.736%) Twitter
9 11 (3.161%) Intershop
10 10 (2.874%) Sony
11 9 (2.586%) Adobe
12 8 (2.299%) Curam
13 7 (2.011%) Chordiant
14 6 (1.724%) hybris
14 6 (1.724%) Microsoft
14 6 (1.724%) BEA
15 5 (1.437%) SAP
16 4 (1.149%) TIBCO
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