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This section looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT contracts across the UK 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
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank205142
Rank change on same period last yearDown-63
Matching contract IT job ads5691047
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.750 %1.111 %
As % of the category below0.830 %1.212 %
Daily rates quoted156337
Average minimum daily rate£372£384
Average daily rate£399£407
% change on same period last year-1.90 %
Average maximum daily rate£426£430
UK excluding London average daily rate£381£348
% change on same period last year+9.40 %
Hourly rates quoted629
Average minimum hourly rate£32.14£40.93
Average hourly rate£35.86£42.21
% change on same period last year-15.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate£39.57£43.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.86£40.93
% change on same period last year-12.40 %
Job Titles UKJob Titles
UK
Matching contract IT job ads6855486361
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled90.40 %91.61 %
Daily rates quoted2195424993
Average minimum daily rate£378£392
Average daily rate£405£417
% change on same period last year-3.05 %
Average maximum daily rate£431£443
UK excluding London average daily rate£361£352
% change on same period last year+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted58706957
Average minimum hourly rate£21.98£24.55
Average hourly rate£23.60£26.06
% change on same period last year-9.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.22£27.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.28£26.07
% change on same period last year-10.69 %

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.

J2EE Developer
Demand Trend

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

J2EE Developer Demand Trend

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

J2EE Developer Daily Rate Trend

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

J2EE Developer Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing J2EE Developer within the UK.

J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Trend

J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

J2EE Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

J2EE Developer
Top 30 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 UK 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.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-50547£398-2.56 %
LondonDown-74222£416-3.07 %
South EastDown-5103£430+26.03 %
East of EnglandDown-2148£361-9.21 %
North WestUp+640£330-15.95 %
East MidlandsUp+1838£253-40.54 %
City of LondonDown-5637£453-10.19 %
YorkshireDown-2735£344+17.49 %
SurreyUp+1033£458+33.21 %
West MidlandsDown-423£327-5.31 %
West YorkshireDown-521£300-9.09 %
BerkshireUp+2020£325-4.57 %
MidlandsDown-1619--
HertfordshireDown-1118--
LeedsDown-218£300-28.57 %
ManchesterDown-916£350-
CheshireDown-616£322-
HampshireUp+1615£352-
LeatherheadUp+715£429+29.91 %
South WestDown-1012£375+32.50 %
WalesUp+111£430-
CambridgeshireDown-111£353+21.55 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1411£395+15.60 %
NottinghamshireDown-211--
South YorkshireUp+310£352+16.88 %
NorwichUp+149--
NottinghamDown-39--
WarringtonNew entry-9£306-
NorfolkUp+129--
SwanseaUp+108£430-

J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11425 (100.00 %)J2EE
21267 (88.91 %)Java
3666 (46.74 %)Hibernate
4662 (46.46 %)Spring
5531 (37.26 %)Oracle
6423 (29.68 %)Struts
7383 (26.88 %)XML
8370 (25.96 %)JSP
9331 (23.23 %)SQL
10309 (21.68 %)WebSphere
11296 (20.77 %)EJB
12294 (20.63 %)Finance
13279 (19.58 %)UML
14277 (19.44 %)WebLogic
15259 (18.18 %)OO
15259 (18.18 %)Eclipse
16212 (14.88 %)WebServices
17202 (14.18 %)JUnit
18187 (13.12 %)Banking
19182 (12.77 %)Agile Software Development
20177 (12.42 %)HTML
21144 (10.11 %)Servlets
22142 (9.965 %)JavaScript
23131 (9.193 %)JBoss
24130 (9.123 %)Unix
25119 (8.351 %)Ant
26116 (8.140 %)Security Cleared
27108 (7.579 %)AJAX
27108 (7.579 %)JMS
28106 (7.439 %)SOA

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
11425 (100.00 %)J2EE
2666 (46.74 %)Hibernate
3662 (46.46 %)Spring
4423 (29.68 %)Struts
5383 (26.88 %)XML
6370 (25.96 %)JSP
7309 (21.68 %)WebSphere
8296 (20.77 %)EJB
9212 (14.88 %)WebServices
10177 (12.42 %)HTML
11144 (10.11 %)Servlets
12108 (7.579 %)JMS
12108 (7.579 %)AJAX
13102 (7.158 %)JDBC
1485 (5.965 %)CSS
1579 (5.544 %)SOAP
1671 (4.982 %)Swing
1671 (4.982 %)JSF
1754 (3.789 %)XSLT
1850 (3.509 %)Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1277 (19.44 %)WebLogic
2131 (9.193 %)JBoss
398 (6.877 %)WebSphere Application Server
398 (6.877 %)Tomcat
465 (4.561 %)Apache
540 (2.807 %)ESB
637 (2.596 %)WebLogic Portal
727 (1.895 %)Oracle Application Server
825 (1.754 %)MQSeries
920 (1.404 %)CMS
1016 (1.123 %)ATG Dynamo
1112 (0.842 %)Oracle 10gAS
1211 (0.772 %)WebSphere MQ
139 (0.632 %)Oracle 9iAS
139 (0.632 %)IIS
148 (0.561 %)WPS
157 (0.491 %)WebLogic Integration
166 (0.421 %)Mule
175 (0.351 %)Documentum
184 (0.281 %)TeamSite
Applications
119 (1.333 %)MS Excel
218 (1.263 %)MS Office
37 (0.491 %)Photoshop
43 (0.211 %)MS Project
Business Applications
11 (0.070 %)Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
138 (2.667 %)HTTP
234 (2.386 %)Internet
322 (1.544 %)Extranet
420 (1.404 %)LDAP
57 (0.491 %)GPRS
64 (0.281 %)TCP/IP
64 (0.281 %)WINS
72 (0.140 %)SMS
72 (0.140 %)Wireless
81 (0.070 %)3G
81 (0.070 %)FTP
81 (0.070 %)Broadband
81 (0.070 %)Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
174 (5.193 %)DB2
174 (5.193 %)RDBMS
260 (4.211 %)SQL Server
352 (3.649 %)Oracle 10g
446 (3.228 %)MySQL
539 (2.737 %)Oracle 8/8i
638 (2.667 %)Oracle 9i
75 (0.351 %)SQL Server 2005
84 (0.281 %)MS Access
84 (0.281 %)GIS
93 (0.211 %)BusinessObjects
93 (0.211 %)OLAP
93 (0.211 %)JasperReports
93 (0.211 %)Reference Data
102 (0.140 %)Oracle OWB
102 (0.140 %)DB2 UDB
102 (0.140 %)SQL Server 2000
102 (0.140 %)Informix
111 (0.070 %)Oracle Reports
111 (0.070 %)InterBase
Development Applications
1259 (18.18 %)Eclipse
2202 (14.18 %)JUnit
3119 (8.351 %)Ant
436 (2.526 %)JDeveloper
528 (1.965 %)ClearCase
625 (1.754 %)Selenium
625 (1.754 %)FitNesse
721 (1.474 %)CruiseControl
721 (1.474 %)Subversion
820 (1.404 %)ClearQuest
917 (1.193 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
917 (1.193 %)Log4j
1015 (1.053 %)Rational Rose
119 (0.632 %)Atlassian Bamboo
127 (0.491 %)IntelliJ
136 (0.421 %)JIRA
136 (0.421 %)WebLogic Workshop
145 (0.351 %)HttpUnit
145 (0.351 %)jMock
145 (0.351 %)Oracle Forms
General
1294 (20.63 %)Finance
2187 (13.12 %)Banking
393 (6.526 %)Retail
480 (5.614 %)Telecoms
569 (4.842 %)Government
666 (4.632 %)Investment Banking
666 (4.632 %)Insurance
750 (3.509 %)Retail Banking
832 (2.246 %)Back Office
931 (2.175 %)Front Office
1026 (1.825 %)Financial Institution
1120 (1.404 %)Games
1213 (0.912 %)Manufacturing
1311 (0.772 %)Publishing
1410 (0.702 %)Online Games
157 (0.491 %)Construction
166 (0.421 %)Automotive
166 (0.421 %)Marketing
175 (0.351 %)Pensions
175 (0.351 %)Education
Miscellaneous
139 (2.737 %)Derivative
231 (2.175 %)N-Tier
321 (1.474 %)Computer Science
321 (1.474 %)Multithreading
420 (1.404 %)Fixed Income
420 (1.404 %)Equities
514 (0.982 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
613 (0.912 %)Equity Derivative
79 (0.632 %)Spread Betting
79 (0.632 %)Handset
88 (0.561 %)Client/Server
88 (0.561 %)Contract for Difference
88 (0.561 %)Credit Risk
97 (0.491 %)Web 2.0
97 (0.491 %)PDA
97 (0.491 %)Grid Computing
105 (0.351 %)E-Learning
105 (0.351 %)Interest Rate Derivative
105 (0.351 %)Asset Management
114 (0.281 %)SCORM
Operating Systems
1130 (9.123 %)Unix
279 (5.544 %)Linux
332 (2.246 %)Solaris
421 (1.474 %)Windows
59 (0.632 %)HPUX
62 (0.140 %)Windows NT
71 (0.070 %)Windows XP
71 (0.070 %)zOS
71 (0.070 %)Windows 2000
71 (0.070 %)AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1279 (19.58 %)UML
2259 (18.18 %)OO
3182 (12.77 %)Agile Software Development
4116 (8.140 %)Security Cleared
5106 (7.439 %)SOA
698 (6.877 %)E-Commerce
774 (5.193 %)MVC
866 (4.632 %)SC Cleared
965 (4.561 %)TDD
1063 (4.421 %)Web Development
1063 (4.421 %)RUP
1149 (3.439 %)OOD
1149 (3.439 %)Unit Testing
1247 (3.298 %)RAD
1345 (3.158 %)Scrum
1433 (2.316 %)OOA/OOD
1528 (1.965 %)Content Management
1624 (1.684 %)CRM
1719 (1.333 %)Pair Programming
1818 (1.263 %)Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
11267 (88.91 %)Java
2331 (23.23 %)SQL
3142 (9.965 %)JavaScript
488 (6.175 %)PL/SQL
530 (2.105 %)C#
624 (1.684 %)C++
718 (1.263 %)Perl
816 (1.123 %)Shell Script
915 (1.053 %)DHTML
1011 (0.772 %)VBA
1110 (0.702 %)C
1110 (0.702 %)Delphi
129 (0.632 %)VB
136 (0.421 %)Transact-SQL
136 (0.421 %)VB6
136 (0.421 %)XQuery
144 (0.281 %)Korn
144 (0.281 %)Python
153 (0.211 %)PHP
153 (0.211 %)Groovy
Qualifications
189 (6.246 %)Degree
224 (1.684 %)Sun Certification
34 (0.281 %)SCJP
42 (0.140 %)SCJD
42 (0.140 %)SCJA
51 (0.070 %)SCWCD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
113 (0.912 %)QA
210 (0.702 %)WAI
36 (0.421 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
122 (1.544 %)AquaLogic
22 (0.140 %)Active Directory
Systems Management
14 (0.281 %)MOM
Vendors
1531 (37.26 %)Oracle
284 (5.895 %)BEA
358 (4.070 %)Sybase
448 (3.368 %)IBM
530 (2.105 %)ATG
628 (1.965 %)Sun
727 (1.895 %)ILOG
817 (1.193 %)Microsoft
817 (1.193 %)Siebel
916 (1.123 %)Mercator
1010 (0.702 %)TIBCO
119 (0.632 %)webMethods
119 (0.632 %)Google
128 (0.561 %)Vignette
136 (0.421 %)Macromedia
136 (0.421 %)SeeBeyond
136 (0.421 %)Lotus
144 (0.281 %)IONA
144 (0.281 %)ESRI
144 (0.281 %)Stellent
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