The first table below looks at the demand for Java EE 5 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Java EE 5 over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java EE5 (JEE5)
Rank 527 575 557
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -18
Contract jobs citing Java EE 5 2 9 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.015% 0.044%
As % of the Application Development category 0.016% 0.061% 0.161%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
Average daily rate - £308 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £310 £350
% change year-on-year
- -11.42%
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
12670 14829 16814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.43% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7931 8681 9832
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 364 388 570
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 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Java EE 5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Java EE 5 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Java EE 5 Jobs Demand Trend

Java EE 5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Java EE 5 within the UK.

Java EE 5 Daily Rate Trend

Java EE 5
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE 5 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +38 1 - -
London +38 1 - -

Java EE 5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Java EE 5 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 Java EE 5.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Java EE
2 3 (60.00%) JSF
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) EJB
3 2 (40.00%) Servlets
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) J2SE
3 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
3 2 (40.00%) EJB 3.0
3 2 (40.00%) JSTL
3 2 (40.00%) JTA
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) JMX
4 1 (20.00%) Subversion
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (20.00%) SAP EP
4 1 (20.00%) JNDI
4 1 (20.00%) JNI
4 1 (20.00%) Tapestry
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Java SE
4 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing

Java EE 5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Java EE 5 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 Java EE 5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) Java EE
2 3 (60.00%) JSF
2 3 (60.00%) JPA
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) EJB
3 2 (40.00%) Servlets
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) J2SE
3 2 (40.00%) EJB 3.0
3 2 (40.00%) JSTL
3 2 (40.00%) JTA
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) JMX
4 1 (20.00%) Spring
4 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (20.00%) JNDI
4 1 (20.00%) JNI
4 1 (20.00%) Tapestry
4 1 (20.00%) Ajax
4 1 (20.00%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SAP EP
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Portal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCenter
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (20.00%) TestNG
2 1 (20.00%) NWDI
2 1 (20.00%) NWDS
2 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) C
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Talend
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
2 1 (20.00%) SAP