J2EE Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the J2EE Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited J2EE Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
J2EE Developer
Rank 473 417 321
Rank change year-on-year
-56 -96
Contract jobs requiring a J2EE Developer 57 161 304
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.123% 0.276% 0.496%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.133% 0.298% 0.535%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 95 200
Average daily rate £398 £338 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.92% -17.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £500 £573
UK excluding London average daily rate £317 £330 £345
% change year-on-year
-3.86% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 16
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
- -11.11%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

J2EE Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

J2EE Developer Jobs Demand Trend

J2EE Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

J2EE Developer Daily Rate Histogram

J2EE Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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
Top 23 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 -48 54 £400 +16.64%
London +4 37 £410 +2.50%
City of London +3 8 £400 -33.33%
East of England +11 4 £233 -38.00%
Hertfordshire +4 4 £233 -38.00%
South East -15 4 £315 -6.11%
Hampshire -9 3 £315 -4.69%
Rickmansworth - 3 £233 -
South West +17 2 £301 -23.79%
East Midlands +1 2 £320 +33.33%
North West -3 2 £325 -
Yorkshire -7 2 - -
Somerset - 2 £301 -
North Yorkshire - 2 - -
York - 2 - -
Winchester - 2 £315 -
Edinburgh +9 1 £300 -
Buckinghamshire +5 1 - -
Scotland -17 1 £300 +41.17%
West Wales - 1 £322 -
Wales - 1 £322 -
Swansea - 1 £322 -
Bridgwater - 1 £301 -

J2EE Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 145 (100.00%) J2EE
2 139 (95.86%) Java
3 85 (58.62%) Spring
4 55 (37.93%) Hibernate
5 54 (37.24%) Oracle
6 53 (36.55%) JavaScript
7 50 (34.48%) JUnit
8 48 (33.10%) HTML
9 47 (32.41%) Web Services
10 41 (28.28%) JSP
10 41 (28.28%) SQL
10 41 (28.28%) JMS
11 40 (27.59%) XML
12 39 (26.90%) Finance
13 37 (25.52%) E-Commerce
14 34 (23.45%) Maven
15 32 (22.07%) WebSphere
16 31 (21.38%) JDBC
17 30 (20.69%) CSS
17 30 (20.69%) Retail
18 29 (20.00%) MVC
19 28 (19.31%) OO
20 27 (18.62%) UML
20 27 (18.62%) Ant
20 27 (18.62%) Struts
21 26 (17.93%) Eclipse
21 26 (17.93%) Spring MVC
22 25 (17.24%) Ajax
22 25 (17.24%) UNIX
22 25 (17.24%) Servlets

J2EE Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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
1 145 (100.00%) J2EE
2 85 (58.62%) Spring
3 55 (37.93%) Hibernate
4 48 (33.10%) HTML
5 47 (32.41%) Web Services
6 41 (28.28%) JSP
6 41 (28.28%) JMS
7 40 (27.59%) XML
8 32 (22.07%) WebSphere
9 31 (21.38%) JDBC
10 30 (20.69%) CSS
11 27 (18.62%) Struts
12 26 (17.93%) Spring MVC
13 25 (17.24%) Ajax
13 25 (17.24%) Servlets
14 24 (16.55%) EJB
15 21 (14.48%) XSLT
16 20 (13.79%) JSTL
17 18 (12.41%) jQuery
18 16 (11.03%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 17 (11.72%) WebLogic
2 15 (10.34%) WebSphere Application Server
3 13 (8.966%) MQSeries
4 10 (6.897%) CMS
5 9 (6.207%) Tomcat
6 8 (5.517%) Apache
7 5 (3.448%) ESB
7 5 (3.448%) Adobe CQ
8 4 (2.759%) Liferay
9 2 (1.379%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (1.379%) Jetty
10 1 (0.690%) Alfresco
10 1 (0.690%) Mule
10 1 (0.690%) GlassFish
10 1 (0.690%) Amazon AWS
10 1 (0.690%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.690%) WebSphere Process Server
10 1 (0.690%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.690%) WebLogic Integration
Applications
1 4 (2.759%) MS Excel
1 4 (2.759%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (8.966%) Tridion
2 1 (0.690%) BASE24
2 1 (0.690%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.72%) Internet
2 2 (1.379%) HTTP
2 2 (1.379%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.690%) LDAP
3 1 (0.690%) FTP
3 1 (0.690%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.10%) RDBMS
2 16 (11.03%) DB2
3 14 (9.655%) MySQL
4 13 (8.966%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.207%) Oracle 10g
6 6 (4.138%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (1.379%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 50 (34.48%) JUnit
2 34 (23.45%) Maven
3 27 (18.62%) Ant
4 26 (17.93%) Eclipse
5 18 (12.41%) Subversion
6 13 (8.966%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 13 (8.966%) Log4j
7 10 (6.897%) Hudson
8 9 (6.207%) TeamCity
9 8 (5.517%) CruiseControl
9 8 (5.517%) jMock
10 5 (3.448%) Checkstyle
11 4 (2.759%) JIRA
11 4 (2.759%) Cucumber
12 3 (2.069%) Jenkins
12 3 (2.069%) FindBugs
12 3 (2.069%) WebDriver
12 3 (2.069%) TestNG
12 3 (2.069%) AppScan
13 2 (1.379%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 39 (26.90%) Finance
2 30 (20.69%) Retail
3 16 (11.03%) Banking
4 15 (10.34%) Games
5 10 (6.897%) Investment Banking
6 8 (5.517%) Publishing
7 4 (2.759%) Back Office
7 4 (2.759%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.069%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.379%) Front Office
10 1 (0.690%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.690%) Japanese Language
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.655%) Web 2.0
2 8 (5.517%) Credit Risk
2 8 (5.517%) Market Risk
3 7 (4.828%) Fixed Income
4 4 (2.759%) Mathematics
5 3 (2.069%) Open Source
5 3 (2.069%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.069%) Equities
6 2 (1.379%) Cryptography
6 2 (1.379%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.690%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.690%) EPoS
7 1 (0.690%) EMV
7 1 (0.690%) EFT
7 1 (0.690%) EFTPOS
7 1 (0.690%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.24%) UNIX
2 19 (13.10%) Linux
3 16 (11.03%) Solaris
4 14 (9.655%) HPUX
5 4 (2.759%) Windows
6 3 (2.069%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.379%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.379%) AIX
8 1 (0.690%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.52%) E-Commerce
2 29 (20.00%) MVC
3 28 (19.31%) OO
4 27 (18.62%) UML
5 19 (13.10%) Content Management
6 18 (12.41%) TDD
6 18 (12.41%) Unit Testing
7 17 (11.72%) Agile Software Development
8 16 (11.03%) RAD
9 13 (8.966%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (7.586%) Multithreading
11 9 (6.207%) SOA
12 8 (5.517%) Business Analysis
13 7 (4.828%) BDD
14 6 (4.138%) Web Development
14 6 (4.138%) Regression Testing
14 6 (4.138%) OOD
15 5 (3.448%) Web Application Development
16 4 (2.759%) Risk Management
17 3 (2.069%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 139 (95.86%) Java
2 53 (36.55%) JavaScript
3 41 (28.28%) SQL
4 20 (13.79%) Perl
5 14 (9.655%) XPath
5 14 (9.655%) Bash shell
6 11 (7.586%) Groovy
7 8 (5.517%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.448%) XQuery
8 5 (3.448%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.069%) C++
10 2 (1.379%) C#
10 2 (1.379%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.379%) Scala
11 1 (0.690%) Ruby
11 1 (0.690%) C
11 1 (0.690%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (8.966%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.517%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.448%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.759%) Basel II
1 4 (2.759%) Basel III
2 1 (0.690%) ISO 8583
2 1 (0.690%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.690%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.379%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.690%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 2 (1.379%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.690%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 54 (37.24%) Oracle
2 22 (15.17%) IBM
3 14 (9.655%) ATG
3 14 (9.655%) JBoss
3 14 (9.655%) Blue Martini
4 13 (8.966%) Elastic Path
4 13 (8.966%) Interwoven
5 4 (2.759%) Google
5 4 (2.759%) Alterian
6 3 (2.069%) Adobe
7 2 (1.379%) HP
7 2 (1.379%) Sybase
7 2 (1.379%) BEA
7 2 (1.379%) Informatica
7 2 (1.379%) Sencha
8 1 (0.690%) Facebook
8 1 (0.690%) Talend
8 1 (0.690%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.690%) Perforce
8 1 (0.690%) FatWire
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