Java EE Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Java EE 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 over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank388315360
Rank change year-on-year
Down-73Up+45
Matching contract IT job ads191297181
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.323 %0.484 %0.329 %
As % of the Application Development category1.259 %1.757 %1.173 %
Number of daily rates quoted11417688
Average daily rate£378£450£380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.11 %+18.42 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£325£304
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£575£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£450£350
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+28.57 %
Number of hourly rates quoted062
Average hourly rate-£42.50£26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+63.46 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£41.50£26.00
% change year-on-year
-+59.61 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		151651690115437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.62 %27.54 %28.04 %
Number of daily rates quoted891698148183
Average daily rate£350£400£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50 %+9.58 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted380573441
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

Java EE
Demand Trend

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

Java EE Demand Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Java EE Daily Rate Trend

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Java EE within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Java EE Daily Rate Histogram

Java EE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Java EE Hourly Rate Trend

Java EE
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 Java EE within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-76176£375-16.66 %
LondonDown-5487£400-13.51 %
City of LondonUp+1917£450-12.19 %
North WestUp+517£350-14.63 %
South EastDown-3416£445-1.11 %
North EastUp+413£250-23.07 %
Tyne and WearUp+313£250-23.07 %
Newcastle upon TyneDown-213£250-23.07 %
South WestDown-1112£444-
MidlandsUp+910£350-30.00 %
BerkshireDown-109--
West MidlandsDown-189£325-31.57 %
ManchesterDown-128£331-26.38 %
County AntrimUp+227£400-
Northern IrelandUp+217£400-
BelfastUp+187£400-
East MidlandsDown-57£240-52.00 %
LancashireNew entry-6£423-
DevonNew entry-5£450-
BristolNew entry-5£380-
ExeterNew entry-5£450-
SwanseaNew entry-5£552-
WalesNew entry-5£552-
West WalesNew entry-5£552-
WarwickshireDown-64£400-15.78 %
OxfordshireDown-73£489+58.94 %
SurreyDown-113£371+3.12 %
YorkshireDown-133£375+33.92 %
NorthamptonshireNew entry-3£240-
PrestonNew entry-3£423-

Java EE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Java EE 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.

1401 (90.32 %)Java
2201 (45.27 %)Spring
3163 (36.71 %)Oracle
4162 (36.49 %)Hibernate
5151 (34.01 %)J2EE
6109 (24.55 %)Finance
7107 (24.10 %)WebLogic
8106 (23.87 %)SQL
9103 (23.20 %)XML
10102 (22.97 %)Linux
1198 (22.07 %)JavaScript
1295 (21.40 %)Web Services
1295 (21.40 %)Maven
1393 (20.95 %)WebSphere
1486 (19.37 %)OO
1581 (18.24 %)JMS
1680 (18.02 %)JUnit
1779 (17.79 %)Agile Software Development
1877 (17.34 %)WebSphere MQ
1973 (16.44 %)SQL Server
2071 (15.99 %)UNIX
2169 (15.54 %)Tomcat
2268 (15.32 %)HTML
2268 (15.32 %)SOA
2367 (15.09 %)Struts
2465 (14.64 %)Apache
2465 (14.64 %).NET
2564 (14.41 %)JSP
2564 (14.41 %)Middleware
2661 (13.74 %)Servlets

Java EE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Java EE 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1201 (45.27 %)Spring
2162 (36.49 %)Hibernate
3151 (34.01 %)J2EE
4103 (23.20 %)XML
595 (21.40 %)Web Services
693 (20.95 %)WebSphere
781 (18.24 %)JMS
868 (15.32 %)HTML
967 (15.09 %)Struts
1065 (14.64 %).NET
1164 (14.41 %)JSP
1164 (14.41 %)Middleware
1261 (13.74 %)Servlets
1357 (12.84 %)CSS
1453 (11.94 %)Spring MVC
1550 (11.26 %)Ajax
1638 (8.559 %)XSLT
1736 (8.108 %)jQuery
1835 (7.883 %)JPA
1929 (6.532 %)JSON
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1107 (24.10 %)WebLogic
277 (17.34 %)WebSphere MQ
369 (15.54 %)Tomcat
465 (14.64 %)Apache
548 (10.81 %)ESB
639 (8.784 %)WebSphere Application Server
738 (8.559 %)IIS
738 (8.559 %)Mule
837 (8.333 %)WebSphere Message Broker
927 (6.081 %)IBM HTTP Server
1021 (4.730 %)GlassFish
1120 (4.505 %)CMS
1219 (4.279 %)Apache Solr
1315 (3.378 %)Oracle Service Bus
1414 (3.153 %)Oracle Application Server
1414 (3.153 %)AquaLogic
1512 (2.703 %)WebLogic Portal
1610 (2.252 %)Jetty
1610 (2.252 %)Oracle SOA Suite
176 (1.351 %)Progress Apama
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17 (1.577 %)Mingle
17 (1.577 %)MS Excel
25 (1.126 %)MS Visio
34 (0.901 %)MS PowerPoint
34 (0.901 %)MS Project
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
115 (3.378 %)Oracle BPM
213 (2.928 %)Tridion
34 (0.901 %)BusinessWorks
34 (0.901 %)WebTrends
43 (0.676 %)Summit
52 (0.450 %)Oracle Financials
52 (0.450 %)Oracle Applications
61 (0.225 %)Teamcenter
61 (0.225 %)Hyperion Planning
61 (0.225 %)Dynamics CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
124 (5.405 %)Internet
223 (5.180 %)BIG-IP
315 (3.378 %)TCP/IP
413 (2.928 %)HTTP
510 (2.252 %)SSL
510 (2.252 %)Intranet
69 (2.027 %)LDAP
76 (1.351 %)Firewall
84 (0.901 %)iSCSI
84 (0.901 %)SAN
92 (0.450 %)NAS
92 (0.450 %)DNS
101 (0.225 %)ATM
101 (0.225 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
173 (16.44 %)SQL Server
240 (9.009 %)MySQL
323 (5.180 %)RDBMS
419 (4.279 %)Oracle 11g
514 (3.153 %)Oracle 10g
610 (2.252 %)ETL
78 (1.802 %)Oracle 8/8i
86 (1.351 %)TOAD
95 (1.126 %)Crystal Reports
95 (1.126 %)Oracle Reports
104 (0.901 %)Apache Cassandra
104 (0.901 %)NoSQL
104 (0.901 %)Hadoop
104 (0.901 %)PostgreSQL
113 (0.676 %)Oracle BI EE
113 (0.676 %)SQL Server Integration Services
113 (0.676 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
122 (0.450 %)MongoDB
122 (0.450 %)SQL Server 2008
122 (0.450 %)BusinessObjects XI
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
195 (21.40 %)Maven
280 (18.02 %)JUnit
360 (13.51 %)Ant
457 (12.84 %)Eclipse
534 (7.658 %)JIRA
629 (6.532 %)Subversion
726 (5.856 %)Hudson
825 (5.631 %)jMock
924 (5.405 %)Introscope
1023 (5.180 %)LoadRunner
1119 (4.279 %)Git (software)
1218 (4.054 %)Atlassian Bamboo
1316 (3.604 %)CruiseControl
1411 (2.477 %)JDeveloper
158 (1.802 %)Selenium
166 (1.351 %)EasyMock
175 (1.126 %)NetBeans
175 (1.126 %)Flash Builder
184 (0.901 %)FishEye
193 (0.676 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1109 (24.55 %)Finance
256 (12.61 %)Banking
333 (7.432 %)Investment Banking
425 (5.631 %)Telecoms
514 (3.153 %)Retail
613 (2.928 %)Marketing
77 (1.577 %)Publishing
85 (1.126 %)Games
85 (1.126 %)Back Office
94 (0.901 %)Front Office
102 (0.450 %)Music
102 (0.450 %)Financial Institution
102 (0.450 %)Legal
111 (0.225 %)Pharmaceutical
111 (0.225 %)Dutch Language
111 (0.225 %)Japanese Language
111 (0.225 %)Polish Language
111 (0.225 %)Music Industry
111 (0.225 %)Billing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1250 (56.31 %)Developer
2195 (43.92 %)Java Developer
382 (18.47 %)Architect
437 (8.333 %)Senior Developer
535 (7.883 %)Java/J2EE Developer
628 (6.306 %)Senior Java Developer
628 (6.306 %)Solutions Architect
726 (5.856 %)J2EE Developer
825 (5.631 %)Web Developer
920 (4.505 %)Java Web Developer
1018 (4.054 %)Designer
1117 (3.829 %)Technical Architect
1215 (3.378 %)Consultant
1312 (2.703 %)Analyst
1411 (2.477 %)Agile Java Developer
1510 (2.252 %)Applications Developer
1510 (2.252 %)Applications Support
1510 (2.252 %)Solutions Designer
169 (2.027 %)Support Analyst
169 (2.027 %)Software Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
120 (4.505 %)Open Source
212 (2.703 %)Social Media
311 (2.477 %)Digital Media
410 (2.252 %)Derivative
410 (2.252 %)N-Tier
410 (2.252 %)Fixed Income
59 (2.027 %)Cloud Computing
59 (2.027 %)Statistics
68 (1.802 %)Client/Server
68 (1.802 %)Clustering
68 (1.802 %)Equities
76 (1.351 %)Computer Science
76 (1.351 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
85 (1.126 %)SaaS
94 (0.901 %)PaaS
94 (0.901 %)CESG
94 (0.901 %)Cryptography
94 (0.901 %)Social Network
94 (0.901 %)W3C
103 (0.676 %)Streaming Video
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1102 (22.97 %)Linux
271 (15.99 %)UNIX
355 (12.39 %)Windows
432 (7.207 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
525 (5.631 %)Solaris
611 (2.477 %)Windows XP
79 (2.027 %)Windows Server 2003
85 (1.126 %)Windows Server 2008
92 (0.450 %)Oracle Linux
92 (0.450 %)Apple iOS
92 (0.450 %)Android
101 (0.225 %)Mac OS X
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
186 (19.37 %)OO
279 (17.79 %)Agile Software Development
368 (15.32 %)SOA
460 (13.51 %)TDD
552 (11.71 %)Continuous Integration
649 (11.04 %)MVC
747 (10.59 %)UML
839 (8.784 %)Scrum
937 (8.333 %)E-Commerce
1035 (7.883 %)Performance Testing
1134 (7.658 %)ITIL
1228 (6.306 %)Content Management
1228 (6.306 %)Problem Management
1327 (6.081 %)Extreme Programming
1425 (5.631 %)Release Management
1524 (5.405 %)Load Balancing
1620 (4.505 %)Requirements Management
1718 (4.054 %)Unit Testing
1718 (4.054 %)OOD
1718 (4.054 %)Workflow
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1401 (90.32 %)Java
2106 (23.87 %)SQL
398 (22.07 %)JavaScript
432 (7.207 %)PL/SQL
528 (6.306 %)C#
618 (4.054 %)Perl
717 (3.829 %)Scala
812 (2.703 %)VBScript
911 (2.477 %)PHP
911 (2.477 %)XPath
1010 (2.252 %)T-SQL
1010 (2.252 %)Shell Script
119 (2.027 %)Bash shell
127 (1.577 %)C++
127 (1.577 %)Groovy
136 (1.351 %)Ruby
136 (1.351 %)Python
145 (1.126 %)Jython
145 (1.126 %)C
154 (0.901 %)C-shell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
137 (8.333 %)Security Cleared
223 (5.180 %)Degree
322 (4.955 %)SC Cleared
49 (2.027 %)DV Cleared
56 (1.351 %)BC Cleared
64 (0.901 %)Microsoft Certification
73 (0.676 %)ISEB
81 (0.225 %)GIAC
81 (0.225 %)PhD
81 (0.225 %)RHCE
81 (0.225 %)Sun Certification
81 (0.225 %)IBM Certification
81 (0.225 %)GWAPT
81 (0.225 %)GPEN
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (3.153 %)QA
27 (1.577 %)ISO 9001
32 (0.450 %)HL7
32 (0.450 %)SLA
32 (0.450 %)BS7799
32 (0.450 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.225 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.225 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.676 %)Active Directory
22 (0.450 %)Oracle RAC
31 (0.225 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (1.126 %)Tivoli
15 (1.126 %)OpenView
23 (0.676 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
31 (0.225 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
31 (0.225 %)MOM
31 (0.225 %)CA Wily
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1163 (36.71 %)Oracle
243 (9.685 %)JBoss
333 (7.432 %)Red Hat
430 (6.757 %)Microsoft
519 (4.279 %)HP
617 (3.829 %)Atlassian
716 (3.604 %)Adobe
812 (2.703 %)BEA
910 (2.252 %)TIBCO
108 (1.802 %)IBM
117 (1.577 %)Business Objects
126 (1.351 %)Mercator
135 (1.126 %)CA
144 (0.901 %)Alterian
144 (0.901 %)Intel
144 (0.901 %)Remedy
153 (0.676 %)ILOG
153 (0.676 %)Siebel
153 (0.676 %)Sun
153 (0.676 %)Google
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